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For 7,775 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Silent Night
    The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama.
  2. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    Promising but failing to deliver the colorful characters and winding, breakneck plot of a caper, Operation Fortune may itself be a ruse, but it’s not a convincing one.
  3. Dangerous
    Dangerous betrays the promise of its title by playing things extremely safe.
  4. Prey
    Prey proves to be an apropos title, as the film is cowed by John McTiernan’s original Predator.
  5. National Champions
    As a peek into the relationship between sports, media and capitalism, National Champions feels like a beginner’s playbook.
  6. Blacklight
    Instead of elaborating its plot, Blacklight offers up repetitious, dialogue-driven scenes that deliver only the shallowest of exposition, advancing the story at a sluggish pace.
  7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.
  8. The Bubble
    The film’s toothless showbiz satire mostly comes down to teasing its characters for their entitlement and self-importance.
  9. Father Stu
    The film is a Hollywood-approved show of Old Testament judgment that sees all people as sinners and thus deserving of all the punishment they receive.
  10. Orphan: First Kill
    William Brent Bell’s film proves that not every horror concept has the potential to be franchised.
  11. Kraven the Hunter
    Aaron Taylor-Johnson skulks and slays across a slew of gory insert shots that scream “reshoots” from the highest mountain, and while he certainly looks the part with his shirt off, there’s little here that Hugh Jackman hasn’t delivered multiple times over the years and with a deeper well of earned pathos to draw from.
  12. Spirited
    To say that the film grows tedious quickly would suggest that it wasn’t already trite from frame one.
  13. Marlowe
    Neil Jordan’s Marlowe is an homage so riddled with noir clichés that one may initially take it for a genre parody, except that the jokes never arrive.
  14. Paradise City
    If only everyone else had followed John Travolta’s lead, then the film might have lived up to its title.
  15. Luther: The Fallen Sun
    The film defaults to the most pedestrian narrative turns imaginable when it’s not just recycling bits from the series.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cocaine Bear
    Cocaine Bear starts running on fumes almost immediately and peters out before the second brick of cocaine is even devoured.
  17. Scrapper
    Charlotte Regan’s film is a baffling clash of two incompatible visions.
  18. Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    The relative grace of A Child of Fire’s action direction only underscores how disjointed and generic the rest of the film is.
  19. Perpetrator
    Perpetrator cycles through characters and settings at a considerable clip, never stopping long enough to flesh them out beyond an outline.
  20. The Miracle Club
    In the end, The Miracle Club is splintered at the seams between its desire to tell an uplifting story of forgiveness and a cheeky tale of patriarchal floundering, all the while doing both a tremendous disservice.
  21. Fool's Paradise
    The film sprints past its targets, dealing glancing blows to subjects that have already been obliterated by decades’ worth of Tinseltown parodies.
  22. The Beekeeper
    It’s not unlike a partially completed sketch whose occasional flashes of color only serve to remind us how incomplete and lazily constructed the rest of it is.
  23. Freelance
    By its conclusion, what we’re left with is a cinematic Frankenstein, whose disparate genre elements have been cobbled together without much consideration or fuss.
  24. High & Low: John Galliano
    The film shamelessly announces from the very start that it’s an attempt at atonement for disgraced designer John Galliano.
  25. Argylle
    And the more each new twist is revealed and summarily falls flat, the faster the next one is slotted into place to get ahead of the story’s anticlimax, leading to a spiral in which the plot becomes even more meaningless.
  26. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    The film is all table-setting, with the stories lacking in polish and dramatic momentum and the characters never developed beyond archetypes.
  27. Imaginary
    The film never thinks to lean into the blatant silliness that its premise invites.
  28. Night Swim
    There’s an elegiac beauty to many of Night Swim’s pool scenes, but everything that surrounds them is leaden, from Wyatt Russell’s comatose performance to the baseball metaphors that have been unsubtly shoehorned into the impossibly routine narrative.
  29. The Strangers: Chapter 2
    Mostly notable for its distracting resemblance to Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II, Chapter 2 suggests for a while a needlessly extended epilogue to the first film.
  30. The Strangers: Chapter 3
    It’s easy to imagine the nihilistic avenues that Renny Harlin’s trilogy capper could have gone down.
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