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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. 211
    The film relegates Nicolas Cage to a supporting player and crowds him with considerably less charismatic performers.
  2. Reprisal
    Reprisal is at pains to profess its faith in the symbols of law and order, but it cannot fully repress its almost erotic longing for the unfettered violence of the terrorist.
  3. 22 July
    That a drop from John Williams’s Jaws score wouldn’t be out of place on this film’s soundtrack goes to show how tactlessly Paul Greengrass milks tragedy for titillation.
  4. Cats
    This adaptation gets straight to the heart of the material, which is basically two hours of stray cats introducing themselves.
  5. Miss Bala
    The Mexico of this film is merely a place of abject lawlessness, whose hellishness exists only to stoke our fascination for how the protagonist grows as a person by drawing on her inner strength.
  6. The Aspern Papers
    The words of Henry James have never sounded as leaden and preposterous as they do in Julien Landais’s The Aspern Papers.
  7. Coming 2 America
    Even by the woeful standards of decades-too-late comedy sequels, Coming 2 America is desperate, belabored, and thin.
  8. Papi Chulo
    A shrill and insipid spectacle of cross-cultural communion, but don’t call it stupid, as that would suggest that it doesn’t know exactly what it’s doing.
  9. 10 Minutes Gone
    Almost every element of the film has been seemingly engineered to be the ne plus ultra of slapdash ineptitude.
  10. Force of Nature
    The film presents its scattershot cop-movie tropes in earnest, as if, like hurricanes, they were natural, unavoidable phenomena.
  11. We Can Be Heroes
    Robert Rodriguez’s film, like The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, fundamentally lacks a sense of wonder.
  12. Joe Bell
    The tired, tasteless gimmick at the center of the film inadvertently reveals its entire problem of perspective.
  13. Cosmic Sin
    Every story beat is unimaginatively cribbed from better films and every tepid exchange of dialogue is unconvincingly performed.
  14. Awake
    It’s difficult to imagine a high-concept thriller that coalesces around its one-line conceit less convincingly than Awake.
  15. Jurassic World Dominion
    When Dominion isn’t suffocating itself with world-building, much of it frustratingly untapped, it’s wholly given over to corny fan service.
  16. Redeeming Love
    The film is too narrow-minded to explore the notion that a saint-like man may want to satisfy his normal carnal desires.
  17. The Desperate Hour
    The Desperate Hour’s broad, vague rendering of its characters is part and parcel of its troubling approach to its material.
  18. Fresh
    Fresh is pitched as a kind of genre corrective, except its tone-deaf cheekiness only results in a feeling of dreary regression.
  19. Alice
    Alice plays as an inadvertent parody of contemporary liberalism’s fascination with and fetishization of ‘70s black radicalism.
  20. The Takedown
    The Takedown’s supposedly inclusionary, pro-immigrant messaging is constantly undermined by puerile and dated humor.
  21. Madame Web
    Madame Web grinds to a halt as it gets bogged down in scene after scene of characters, both good and bad, standing around explaining their backgrounds, hang-ups, and desires.
  22. Hellraiser
    Any ambiguity over the veracity of the story’s events is quickly jettisoned to adhere to the demands of the leaden slasher-film plotting.
  23. Love Again
    The film is nothing but a chintzy promotional tool for Celine Dion.
  24. Foe
    At every turn, Garth Davis’s Foe not only fails to adequately redress or rework played-out tropes within its high-concept world, but its examination of marriage and identity is also hackneyed.
  25. The American Society of Magical Negroes
    There are versions of this premise relevant to a modern world, but the film’s point of view on the state of race relations feels stuck somewhere around 1954.
  26. The Ritual
    Like any number of Exorcist wannabes, David Midell’s film is a special kind of hell.
  27. City of Dreams
    The film resembles less a realistic peek into the modern slavery of immigrants in America as it does grist for the torture porn mill.
  28. The Electric State
    There's nothing behind its contemptible eyes, no spine to house the fading diode that once contained a soul.
  29. Locked
    Throughout, the filmmakers’ sympathies are lost in a confusing haze of cynicism.
  30. Night Patrol
    Ryan Prows’s film comes across as just straight-up exploitative.
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