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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
    Roberto Faenza shoots his Manhattan-set action with a glossiness that's as bland as the soundtrack ballads.
  2. Smiley
    Michael J. Gallagher's half-cocked horror fiasco is filled with clichés, pitiful dialogue, and clumsy aesthetics.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
    Henry Jaglom applies what must by now qualify as a tradition of pointless agitation to the disruption of theater. Unsurprisingly, the results are disastrous.
  4. 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.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    A Haunted House
    If you're wondering why A Haunted House exists alongside the upcoming Scary Movie 5 rather than instead of it, you may already have given the subject more thought than Marlon Wayans had hoped.
  6. First Winter
    The film's interests are mainly relegated to wallowing in the frigid-starvation-suffering of its protagonists.
  7. Ex-Girlfriends
    The romantic quest that's meant to drive the film is meaningless because Alexander Poe has extended empathy to no one besides himself.
  8. King Kelly
    The film decides very early on, as part of its premise, to reduce Louisa Krause's King Kelly to a one-dimensional narcissist.
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Johnny Depp’s perfunctory gestures and flailing pratfalls befit a film that brings the franchise’s theme-park roots full circle.
  10. Hercules
    The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Mental
    Given the film's garrulous multitude of characters, one wishes they would all just shut up and sing.
  12. Annie
    2014: Annie's America makes director John Huston's elephantine, synthetically charismatic 1982 adaptation look like a Minnelliesque model of focus and concision.
  13. Language of a Broken Heart
    A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition.
  14. What Maisie Knew
    David Siegel and Scott McGehee's film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama.
  15. Desperate Acts of Magic
    Tammy Caplan and Joe Tyler Gold's film gives off the alienating feel of an inside joke that you miss in the off chance you're not part of the professional magic business.
  16. Tomorrow You're Gone
    Hardboiled noir play-acting doesn't get more sluggish than in this leaden tale that blurs the line between reality and delusion in a way that's less intriguing than simply confusing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Pieta
    Kim Ki-duk's film makes an exaggerated, undeserved show of its cruelty, indignity, and aspirations of importance.
  18. Generation Um...
    The levels of insight provided into the characters are exactly commensurate with any conceivable viewer's interest in learning more about these nonentities.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Hammer of the Gods
    An unbearably stupid exercise in gore that deserves to die the same cruel, soulless death that nearly every character does at some point in the film.
  20. Vehicle 19
    As one incoherent action scene follows another, one's left staring at a film with nothing to respond to, waiting for it all to be over.
  21. The Colony
    Greedily tries to cram every dystopian curse into one misbegotten plot, resulting in something wildly disjointed, even if its pieces arguably connect.
  22. Drift
    The obstacles that the Kelly brothers encounter are as uninspired as the film's treacly lessons about brotherhood and staying true to one's principles.
  23. Sex Tape
    By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz's backsides.
  24. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.
  25. The Best Man Holiday
    The sexism isn't quite as noxious as one might find in Tyler Perry's films, but that's as far as the compliments go when it comes to this overextended and deeply crude sermon.
  26. Assassin's Creed
    The film ends up with both blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
  27. Absence
    The tension almost immediately leaks out of the narrative once we realize we're watching a found-footage horror movie.
  28. Diana
    Are the micro-biopics that don't even bother to provide overviews of their famed subjects' entire lives, but instead lean on the spectacle of celebrity impersonation, the new camp?
  29. Some Girl(s)
    Like most of Neil LaBute's work in the field of "emotional terrorism," the film protests that bad behavior isn't only good, but also essential to art.
  30. Afternoon Delight
    Jill Soloway's film is dishonest in the way it attempts to mask self-pity as enlightened self-criticism.
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