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For 699 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Sentimental Value
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 437 out of 699
  2. Mixed: 219 out of 699
  3. Negative: 43 out of 699
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  1. Maggie Moore(s)
    [Hamm’s] charm—and a reunion with his 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey—can’t salvage a middling caper that’s critically low on comedic or criminal verve.
  2. The Strangers: Chapter 1
    Whereas Bertino’s original was sleek, sinister and deft, this do-over is noisy, dull and dumb as a bag of rocks.
  3. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    This wannabe winsome fairy tale about confronting fears, atoning for sins, and forgiving oneself is a pile-up of preciousness.
  4. Unfrosted
    It's content to be childishly silly rather than legitimately weird, veering between gags concerning age-old products and Jan. 6 with a mildness that keeps things pleasantly pedestrian.
  5. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    If genre fans will always know what it’s up to, that’s just another way it pays faithful homage to its by-the-numbers precursors.
  6. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    It’s the safe and simplistic course correction that—neutered of the very absurdist immensity that was this franchise’s calling card, if not its sole reason for existing—lands with a crashing thud.
  7. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    A franchise farewell so underwhelming, nary a tear will be shed over its passing.
  8. Captain America: Brave New World
    [Ford’s] presence—along with a winning turn from Anthony Mackie as the patriotic title character—makes this adventure a sturdy return to franchise form.
  9. Fear Street: Prom Queen
    Cartoonishly gory and drearily unoriginal and predictable, it’s a collection of tired devices and shout-outs that plays like training wheels slasher cinema.
  10. Fountain of Youth
    Merely a cheeky pantomime rather than an actual adventure in which one might get swept up.
  11. Consecration
    The meager surprises it does contain aren’t particularly effective, considering that early clues suggest only one possible twist and the proceedings do little to mask it.
  12. Venom: The Last Dance
    If this truly is the pair’s big-screen goodbye, at least it ends on a fittingly wacko note of pure, unadulterated sentimentality.
  13. Marlowe
    While the star adequately acquits himself, Neil Jordan’s throwback noir is a cover song that knows all the notes but can’t capture its predecessor’s spirit.
  14. In the Lost Lands
    For sheer unadulterated geekiness, it’s got few contemporary equals.
  15. The Woman in Cabin 10
    A thriller in name only, it has all the grace and cunning of an anvil to the head.
  16. Shelby Oaks
    Save for a single sterling jolt, his compendium of clichés is a case study in knowing a genre’s tricks but doing absolutely nothing of interest with them.
  17. 65
    The proceedings resemble an impromptu game of make-believe concocted by a kid playing with his or her toys—a situation that renders it both inane and lighthearted.
  18. Meg 2: The Trench
    [Wheatley’s] chaos and madness is of a blandly cartoonish variety, neither serious enough to scare nor outlandish enough to elicit laughs.
  19. Without Blood
    By choosing to reside in abstraction, it imparts only generic and empty truths.
  20. White Men Can't Jump
    Director Calmatic sanitizes every aspect of his source material until the entire thing looks, sounds and feels like a Disney sitcom. Thus, it’s no surprise when things get self-help maudlin.
  21. The Family Plan
    Cheerfully dumb and dutifully formulaic, it’s “content” in the worst sense of the term.
  22. The Home
    The epitome of a knock-off B-movie—and one that’s only mildly entertaining when it shows its cards and goes full-on gonzo.
  23. Here
    Affected and artificial to the point of aggravation, it’s an interminably draggy endeavor that gives the lie to its oft-spoken phrase, “Time flies.”
  24. The Deliverance
    A subpar exorcism movie that’s all the more depressing for being directed by Lee Daniels, whose distinctive flair is only sporadically spied amidst its shopworn clichés.
  25. The Exorcist: Believer
    The Exorcist: Believer trots out Burstyn for continuity credibility and then treats her with stunning disrespect—the most brazen of many indications that the film is a soulless cash-in on an established name brand.
  26. Ella McCay
    Its phoniness epitomized by Emma Mackey’s lead turn, it’s the biggest dud of the artist’s career, and the holiday season’s most egregious misfire.
  27. Michael
    All “Thriller," no infamy, presenting an uplifting, crowd-pleasing version of events that, for all its expert impersonations, is simply the palatable half of this sordid tale.
  28. Him
    A B-movie of unholy bombast and absurdity.
  29. Bubble & Squeak
    No amount of narrative wackiness and star power can make [cabbages] or this Sundance Film Festival offering funny.
  30. The Pickup
    The legendary star spends the majority of this misfire looking alternately bored and really bored—an emotion that viewers will find all-too-relatable.
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