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For 7,768 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 6.2 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: 4,345 out of 7768
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7768
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7768
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  1. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come to the fore.
  2. Intruders
    The film ultimately boils down to people bludgeoning one another in unimaginative close-ups.
  3. Band of Robbers
    It places more focus on the childish fabulousness of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer than the racial reckoning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  4. Moonwalkers
    The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts, but the various detours coalesce into an amusing wannabe-cult curio.
  5. The Benefactor
    Writer-director Andrew Renzi treats unfettered wealth as a hyperbolic playground through which to explore masculine insecurity.
  6. A Perfect Day
    The film finally seems conspicuously at odds with itself, neither funny nor impassioned enough to pass as an accomplished vision of transnational welfare.
  7. The Forest
    The so-called suicide forest's cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies.
  8. Anesthesia
    Tim Blake Nelson's film immerses itself into as many pain-induced (and painful) subplots as it possibly can.
  9. Lamb
    Ross Partridge seems flatly fascinated by Lamb’s pathology without trying to understand its formation from environmental factors.
  10. No Home Movie
    By refusing to finitely define Natalia, or reduce her life to a series of biographical details, Akerman elides eulogizing of any sort, dignifying Natalia without personifying her as an idea made flesh.
  11. Sweaty Betty
    Sweaty Betty is a reminder that poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, and that art ultimately dictates its own terms.
  12. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
    The absence of a central narrator for the most part prevents the film from devolving into gratuitous pedagogy.
  13. Diablo
    It inelegantly attempts to infuse a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming-home odyssey.
  14. Only Yesterday (1991)
    It uses the trappings of the family melodrama to reveal the subtle social constraints that inhibit people, particularly women, from attaining full self-realization.
  15. Point Break
    In its philosophical and criminal investigations (largely imported from Kathryn Bigelow's original), the film moves in dozens of illogical directions, but not without achieving a patina of earnest credibility.
  16. Daddy's Home
    Though Will Ferrell has made a career out of his own debasement, the film quickly becomes too cruel to generate laughter for anyone who would empathize with him.
  17. Anomalisa
    The film's highpoint is one of the most remarkably moving sex scenes in all of American cinema, and the irony of it involving bland puppets is hardly lost on Kaufman and Johnson.
  18. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    In the film, Alvin and the Chipmunks proudly align themselves not with Dr. Demento, but with Kidz Bop.
  19. Sisters
    A regurgitation of Apatowian formula, wherein ostensibly edgy humor hides a core of conservative moralizing.
  20. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    It exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device.
  21. The Hateful Eight
    The premise of the film is simple, but it's a simplicity that can only attract complications, as simple plans are apt to do, in an atmosphere of foreboding and the macabre.
  22. Dreams Rewired
    The documentary isn't advancing an argument so much as simply restating a European socialistic breed of fact.
  23. Noma: My Perfect Storm
    Too much of Noma is composed of gorgeous pillow shots, which grow static and fussy, appearing to exist almost apart from the subject matter.
  24. The Emperor's New Clothes
    It's more about hyping Russell Brand as a constituent for the people than locating the means for sustained economic transformation.
  25. 45 Years
    It's the summative effect of the story's modest exchanges, unspooling one after another in long, tranquil shots, that lends the film its profound sense of loss.
  26. Son of Saul
    The film's meticulousness orchestration only calls attention to its dubious sense of purpose, which lies beyond human subjectivity.
  27. Body
    The filmmakers exhibit no interest in watching the story's central wolves wiggle out of the trap they've potentially set for themselves.
  28. In the Heart of the Sea
    The narrative is helplessly adrift, a yarn that extols vague grit and determination with no discernible through line.
  29. The Tainted Veil
    The filmmakers refuse to promote a political agenda of their own in order to let the varied convictions of others foster a necessary dialogue.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Big Short
    Its fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
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