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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. Reclaim
    Reclaim's highly mechanized plot ensures that the film is over before it even ends.
  2. Men, Women & Children
    Jason Reitman fails to take into account any of the positive endeavors enabled by social media, which will no doubt be used to promote and market his film.
  3. Taken 3
    Empowerment porn for those who long for the Cold War's clarity of purpose and American dominance in this murky age of terror.
  4. Jem and the Holograms
    It's the screenwriting equivalent of Ryan Adams sucking the pop vitality out of Taylor Swift's deliriously produced tunes.
  5. Dying of the Light
    Paul Schrader's personality reveals itself in the film's joylessness, which is meaningless without the director's accompanying and occasionally poignant existentialism.
  6. Trash
    Director Stephen Daldry, working from an exploitative script by Richard Curtis, opts for a full-on Slumdog Millionaire imitation.
  7. Vice
    Vice takes the basic premise from 1973's Westworld and morphs it into an incoherent slog.
  8. Strange Magic
    As juvenile and frivolous a wish-fulfillment fantasy as one might expect from the visionary behind the lightsaber and Princess Leia hogtied to Jabba the Hut, Strange Magic depicts war as a series of scarcely muddied binary oppositions: between good and evil, the beautiful and the ugly, and singing and death by karaoke.
  9. Old Fashioned
    Any masochistic joy that can be derived from watching the film owes to seeing it take its bullheaded conceit to its logical, artless extreme.
  10. I Am Michael
    Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.
  11. The Lovers
    A shamelessly derivative and preposterous would-be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.
  12. Catch Me Daddy
    The film plods from one gruesome moment to the next, as if its mere aversion to optimism constitutes a philosophy.
  13. The Walking Deceased
    This juvenile horror-comedy spoof is primarily, if unintentionally, a cautionary tale about the perils of allowing brahs to make movies.
  14. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    By the time the film limps toward its Marrakech-set epilogue epilogue, its experiment in social osmosis is as much a failure as its B-sitcom-grade yuks.
  15. Survivor
    This is the kind of filmmaking that gets touted as "workmanlike" when it's really straight-laced to the point of tepidness.
  16. Cas & Dylan
    The film simply mucks up its earnest take on the buddy movie with undercooked characters and on-the-nose writing.
  17. The 11th Hour
    Writer-director Anders Morgenthaler's film is practically an exercise in over-explication.
  18. Unfreedom
    The film's troubled aesthetics are exacerbated by a screenplay that contains the trappings of amateur toil, including dialogue that harps on innocuous moments and trifling exposition.
  19. Phantom Halo
    A genre mishmash cobbled together from the refuse of disparate visual and narrative modes.
  20. Bound to Vengeance
    It trivializes victim trauma by treating its main character's best-laid plans as punchline fodder.
  21. Dragon Blade
    Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value of two of the prominent performances.
  22. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    A hodgepodge of horny-old-man clichés writ large, staged as a gleeful affirmation of its male lead's ego and entitlement.
  23. Lucky Stiff
    Its irritatingly saccharine tone is such that it shuns grappling with certain characters' dubious and perverse behaviors.
  24. Staten Island Summer
    Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.
  25. Bad Boys for Life
    The film may leave you wondering what purpose this franchise serves if not to give expression to Michael Bay's nationalist, racist, and misogynistic instincts.
  26. Fathers and Daughters
    The film's weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.
  27. Leatherface
    Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's anonymous work here could've been overseen by any hipster looking to make a mark at Platinum Dunes.
  28. Front Cover
    The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
  29. Risen
    It's an episode of Without a Trace: Jerusalem presented with all the panache of a Trinity Broadcasting Network TV special.
  30. Jason and Shirley
    Stephen Winter's film doesn't earn the gall it evinces by pissing on Shirley Clarke's masterpiece.
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