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For 7,772 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. Replicas
    The climax’s bizarre left turns culminate in a final image so bewildering that were the film not so relentlessly dour it might have clarified Replicas as an absurdist comedy.
  2. After Fall, Winter
    Taking the pedestrian and decidedly unsexy American male to Paris so he can become a sexual human being attuned to life's small pleasures is a tired device that perhaps only Woody Allen could possibly resurrect from the stinky pile of cinematic clichés.
  3. The Ultimate Life
    Its thinly veiled message of social conservatism and religious affirmations as the pathway to an ideal life is delivered with all the predigested sentimentality of a Hallmark card.
  4. The Strangers: Chapter 3
    It’s easy to imagine the nihilistic avenues that Renny Harlin’s trilogy capper could have gone down.
  5. Reasonable Doubt
    You may feel as if you're watching two or three abbreviated episodes of Law & Order in quick succession rather than a fully realized movie.
  6. Polar
    The film’s horniness and amorality, a slap in the face of fanatically cautious contemporary mores, might’ve been more shocking if it weren’t placed so firmly in quotation marks.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Stripped Down
    Stripped Down seems to prove, if other films hadn't already for you, that a director haunted by traumas and wrestling with demons doesn't necessarily produce artistically substantial films.
  8. The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall
    The seesaw of effect of oscillating between extolling Sidney’s genius and lingering on his anguish begins to feel like a child slowly burning an ant with a magnifying glass, occasionally taking breaks to truly savor the harm he or she is committing.
  9. Behaving Badly
    Falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place of genuine insight.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Darkest Hour
    In a year-end season stacked deep with worthwhile films, what possible incentive could there be for submitting to The Darkest Hour's utter pointlessness?
  11. The Devil Inside
    The film's contradictory and nullifying dilemma of wanting to be both scripted and vérité at once, a plight that affects so much contemporary TV, is temporarily quelled in heated scenes of curse-laden levitation and Linda Blair contortion, which dutifully deliver the scares.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Movie 43
    This is barely a movie at all, mostly due to its structural similarities to "SNL", but also because it acknowledges the fact that its own premises are inherently unfilmable.
  13. The Apparition
    The story is a worthy one, but the film lacks any daring expressive touches that might have made it, at the very least, noteworthy.
  14. Vice
    Vice takes the basic premise from 1973's Westworld and morphs it into an incoherent slog.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Best Night Ever
    The filmmakers make sure their female protagonists constantly look immature and irresponsible, and are intent on punishing them for wanting to have a good time.
  16. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    A moralistic ending is telegraphed from the beginning and routinely fulfilled by the end, rendering the rest of this trite, visually unappealing mess virtually worthless.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    The desire to eat someone's ass is almost always superficial; there's no thought of sustenance, and more sophisticated pleasures are usually imminent. Not so with The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence).
  18. Assholes
    It begins as a clever pseudo-mumblecore provocation with shades of Bruce LaBruce only to quickly turn into indefensible nonsense.
  19. Girls Against Boys
    Essentially a horror movie in which the source of the horror shifts from capital-M men to crazed lesbianism.
  20. All's Faire in Love
    All's Faire in Love's lackluster compositions and absence of rhythm are a perfect match for writer-director Scott Marshall's script (co-written with R.A. White and Jeffrey Ray Wine), which operates according to a Revenge of the Nerds-style us-versus-them template almost as stagnant as Ricci's phoned-in turn.
  21. The Last Face
    The Last Face's shameful exploitation of Africans doesn’t stop with the mere privileging of its two wealthy white doctors and their trivial personal struggles within the narrative.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
    Silent Hill: Revelation fundamentally misunderstands the appeal its source material.
  23. Authors Anonymous
    It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent thematic identity.
  24. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
    The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual; we’re even invited to check out a hot chick’s body after her face has been sliced in half by garden shears.
  25. Trick
    Patrick Lussier’s film is an incompetent, nihilistic exercise in gore and pseudophilosophy.
  26. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping.
  27. The Layover
    William H. Macy's The Layover was clearly conceived and written by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect.
  28. Eloise
    Robert Legato's film is lifelessly composed of the usual tropes of horror films set in mental asylums.
  29. America: Imagine a World Without Her
    Beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years.
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