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For 698 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 3.3 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: 436 out of 698
  2. Mixed: 219 out of 698
  3. Negative: 43 out of 698
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  1. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    Johnson’s franchise remains a sly and sure-footed delight, as well as demonstrates, with its religiously minded latest, that it’s capable of coloring its Christie-esque mysteries in a variety of shades.
  2. The Man in My Basement
    Rife with symbolic weight, the action is thematically jumbled, and worse, it takes so long establishing its scenario that it never develops a sense of urgency and madness.
  3. Steve
    A frenzied plea for compassion and a stirring tribute to the men and women who sacrifice their lives, and sanity, for those in need.
  4. Christy
    So rote that even an A.I. wouldn’t dare try to pass it off as original.
  5. Blue Heron
    Heartbreaking barely begins to describe it, although the terms masterful and transcendent also apply.
  6. The Baltimorons
    This funny and charming slice-of-life tale has the spirit of a low-fi ’70s romantic comedy, complete with characters who resonate as authentic inhabitants of their particular time and place.
  7. Dead Man's Wire
    In this age of Luigi Mangione, it’s a snapshot of violent anti-establishment resentment and fury that’s eerily timely—and smartly leaves its own perspective on its mayhem open for debate.
  8. Rose of Nevada
    A dreamy tale of loss and grief, death and resurrection, as well as a supernatural reverie about the mysterious relationship between the present and past—one in which the living are reborn as ghosts.
  9. Caught Stealing
    It doesn’t totally work, but it has a lot of fun trying.
  10. The Toxic Avenger
    Campy, corny, and carnage-laden goofiness, all of it spearheaded by Peter Dinklage as a working-class schlub who’s transformed into a deformed do-gooder.
  11. The Roses
    With very rare exceptions, it’s less entertaining than a year’s worth of marriage counseling.
  12. The Thursday Murder Club
    It won’t revolutionize the genre, and in fact would have benefited from considerable additional polish, but it’s just cute enough to warrant two hours of Netflix subscribers’ time.
  13. Splitsville
    A romantic comedy that tears down, and then builds back up, its intertwined characters to amusingly penetrating effect.
  14. Lurker
    Distinguishes itself by putting a distinctly 21st-century spin on its time-honored template, as well as via a black sense of humor.
  15. Honey Don't!
    Heed its title’s advice and just don’t.
  16. Ne Zha 2
    Despite attractive aesthetics, its fights grow wearisome, especially as the material crosses the two-hour mark and, in the process, zooms past multiple potential endings.
  17. Relay
    Like the best of its genre, it affords tantalizing entrée into a universe lurking just below society’s surface to which few are privy, and stages engrossing cloak-and-dagger games between players who know the rules and, more dangerously, how to break them.
  18. Nobody 2
    The amusing thrills intermittently appear, but the novelty is gone.
  19. Ebony & Ivory
    Surrealist absurdity of the highest (or is that lowest?) order, a comedy that’s so unabashedly out there that it practically dares audiences to reject it.
  20. Americana
    A sluggish and monotonous country-ified neo-noir that fails to innovate and, worse, to utilize its magnetic leading lady and her capable co-stars.
  21. Strange Harvest
    [Its] tale about a California serial killer with supernatural intentions is filtered through a persuasive verité lens that, however skin-deep, underscores the enduring effectiveness of its non-fiction devices.
  22. Weapons
    Escalating at a mad rate until it tips into outright lunacy, it’s a higher and more hellish brand of nightmare.
  23. Sketch
    No matter its title, it’s a full-bodied triumph bursting with humor, tenderness, and imagination.
  24. Freakier Friday
    It’s no novel reinvention, but it’s cute enough to at least partially overcome its strained and uneven structure and performances.
  25. 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.
  26. The Naked Gun
    A big, brash, laugh-out-loud crime spoof led by a great Liam Neeson performance.
  27. Happy Gilmore 2
    Arguably the least inspired film in the actor’s canon, if not all of movie history.
  28. 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.
  29. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    An aggressively fine intergalactic adventure whose earnest optimism and sweetness flirts—faithfully and dully—with hokiness.
  30. Eddington
    Eddington isn’t a movie that moralizes, but at the same time it doesn’t take the stance that both sides make some good points. Rather it’s a period piece about recent history that articulates why everything feels so doomed right now while still finding the space to be utterly ridiculous.
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