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For 1,489 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Tootsie
Lowest review score: 0 The King's Daughter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,072 out of 1489
  2. Mixed: 240 out of 1489
  3. Negative: 177 out of 1489
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  1. Nobody 2
    Somebody, anybody, should drag Odenkirk away from this nobody franchise.
  2. My Mother's Wedding
    Knowing that the story comes from a real place is important for the experience. It gives “My Mother’s Wedding,” a perfectly average film that doesn’t quite land the way it should, an emotional depth that it’s otherwise lacking.
  3. Freakier Friday
    The chief weakness of “Freakier Friday” — which brings Curtis and Lohan back for an amiable, often joyful and certainly chaotic reunion — is that while it hews overly closely to the structure, storyline and even dialogue of the original, it tries too hard to up the ante.
  4. Weapons
    If “Barbarian” came out of left field three years ago and heralded an exciting new voice in filmmaking, “Weapons” doesn’t disappoint but it doesn’t have the advantage of surprise. It will, at the very least, make you feel a little dread when the clock hits 2:17 a.m.
  5. The Bad Guys 2
    The Bad Guys 2 has clearly lost its moorings.
  6. The Naked Gun
    It would be easy to hail The Naked Gun as something better than it is, since it simply existing is cause for celebration. But like most reboots, particularly comedy ones, the best thing about the new “Naked Gun” is that it might send you back to the original.
  7. Together
    It’s an impressive work of independent cinema that stays shockingly grounded thanks to its two leads and their fearless performances.
  8. Oh, Hi!
    It’s a kind of over-the-top, “Misery”-styled meditation on entrenched gender cliches in heterosexual dating.
  9. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    What it certainly is, though, is a very solid comic book movie. It’s a little surface over substance, and the time capsule feeling is pervasive. This is an earnest-enough superhero movie where even the angry mob protesting the superheroes turns quiet and pensive.
  10. Smurfs
    Rihanna voices Smurfette and supplies a new song, giving a half-hearted injection of star power to an otherwise uninspired, modestly scaled, kiddo-friendly cartoon feature.
  11. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Look, we hate to break it to you, it’s not going to end well for many of this privileged set, as they hunt whoever is hunting them. Coherence is also stabbed a lot because a clear motive for the mass murder is really hard to understand.
  12. Eddington
    Five years after we just went through (at least a lot of) this, “Eddington” somehow seems both too late and too soon, especially when it offers so little wisdom or insight beyond a vision of hopelessness.
  13. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
    Nobody’s perfect, though Bobo may think she is. But in Venter’s performance, Davidtz has found something pretty close: a child actor who can carry an entire film and never seem like she’s acting.
  14. Superman
    Not everything works in “Superman.” For those who like their Superman classically drawn, Gunn’s film will probably seem too irreverent and messy. But for anyone who found Zack Snyder’s previous administration painfully ponderous, this “Superman,” at least, has a pulse.
  15. The Old Guard 2
    Overall “The Old Guard 2” is fine, a bit of a background movie that’s probably easy enough to tune in and out of (though Schoenaerts, a standout, gives it some real pathos). Its greatest sin is the non-ending, which might have moviegoers engaging in their own rants about wasted time.
  16. Heads of State
    The vaguest hints of real-world intrigue only cast a pale light on the movie’s mostly lackluster comic chops and uninspired action sequences.
  17. Jurassic World Rebirth
    In many ways, the folks behind Jurassic World Rebirth are trying to do the same thing as their mercenaries: Going back to the source code to recapture the magic of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster original. They’ve thrillingly succeeded.
  18. Sorry, Baby
    In this remarkably fully formed debut, the moments that matter are the funny and tender ones that persist amid crueler experiences.
  19. M3GAN 2.0
    Two hours later, it’s not clear if this is really an upgrade.
  20. 28 Years Later
    This is an unusually soulful coming-of-age movie considering the number of spinal cords that get ripped right of bodies.
  21. Elio
    In playing it so safe and so familiar, “Elio” is missing a bit of that Pixar wonder, and mischief.
  22. F1: The Movie
    When “F1” does, finally, quiet down, for one blissful moment, the movie, almost literally, soars. It’s not quite enough to forget all the high-octane macho dramatics before it, but it’s enough to glimpse another road “F1” might have taken.
  23. Bride Hard
    Bride Hard — which combines thrusting male strippers dressed as Vikings as well as deadly automatic weapon fire — isn’t funny or thrilling. It has the kind of lazy pacing you’d usually find on the Hallmark Channel and a level of acting not much better than porn.
  24. Materialists
    A smart rom-com that tries to be honest about life and still leave us smiling — that math seems to add up just fine.
  25. How to Train Your Dragon
    Kids deserve movies that are made on the biggest possible canvas. “How to Train Your Dragon” is one that’s worth the trip to the theater. It might just spark some young imaginations, whether it’s to go back and read the books or dream up their own worlds.
  26. Ballerina
    The early scenes in this wacky place high in the mountains are the best part of “Ballerina” — they actually contain deft surprises and even a glimmer of humor, which is hardly something we expect in a John Wick film.
  27. Dangerous Animals
    The setting of a boat in the middle of the Coral Sea unlocks a delicious new home for terror.
  28. The Life of Chuck
    While I certainly enjoyed elements of this odyssey in reverse, I was ultimately left feeling very little — especially about Chuck and the questionable end-of-film explanation that ties it all together.
  29. Mountainhead
    Mountainhead adheres to the tradition of the HBO movie; it’s lean, topical and a fine platform for its actors.
  30. The Phoenician Scheme
    A vivid presence despite her dry-as-dust tone, Threapleton makes a splendid Andersonian debut here as half the father-daughter duo, along with Benicio Del Toro, that drives the director’s latest creation. Their emerging relationship is what stands out amid the familiar Andersonian details: the picture-book aesthetic.
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