The Daily Beast's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 698 reviews, this publication has graded:
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59% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | Sentimental Value | |
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| Lowest review score: | Melania |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 436 out of 698
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Mixed: 219 out of 698
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Negative: 43 out of 698
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Nick Schager
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.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 16, 2025
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An odyssey that—weird characterizations notwithstanding—is tiresomely unexceptional.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 16, 2025
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Cloud is a portrait of merciless 21st-century commerce and social cruelty that’s filtered through various genre lenses.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 15, 2025
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Rife with Trump-era parallels that only augment its global relevance, it’s a warning about those who seek power by claiming holy authority.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 11, 2025
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A would-be franchise re-starter that resembles a Saturday morning cartoon come to overstuffed, helter-skelter life.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 8, 2025
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A globetrotting action comedy whose primary selling point is the chemistry of headliners (and The Suicide Squad castmates) Idris Elba and John Cena.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 2, 2025
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Even the least violent passages of this follow-up are a tedious drag, courtesy of a story that asks nothing of its lead Charlize Theron and her underwhelming co-stars except endless, enervating moping.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jul 2, 2025
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The underwhelming result is similar to its signature beasts: a handsome clone that serves no purpose except to line its creators’ pockets.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 30, 2025
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Switching genres in a futile effort to justify the series’ continued existence, this misbegotten creation is a leaden and aimless bit of cinematic malware—not to mention the most convoluted 2025 theatrical release to date.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 25, 2025
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A gripping, unnerving, and altogether thrilling saga that both continues its predecessors’ illustrious legacy and initiates what’s shaping up to be a promising new horror trilogy.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 18, 2025
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An old-school Jerry Bruckheimer-produced spectacular, albeit one that never deviates from a familiar summer blockbuster course and, consequently, fails to truly kick into adrenalized overdrive.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 17, 2025
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[Song’s] sophomore effort embraces a lighthearted rom-com template and then plays its material inaptly seriously—making it the cinematic equivalent of a sugary soda gone terribly flat.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 9, 2025
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It’s not improbability that dooms this Al Pacino-headlined genre throwaway but a crushing lack of originality and a form that makes its clichés even harder to swallow.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 5, 2025
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Sinister even when it’s slyly winking at its audience, it’s a satisfying meal of tasty horror cheese.- The Daily Beast
- Posted Jun 4, 2025
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With an unhinged Sally Hawkins spearheading its mayhem, this sinister saga firmly establishes the filmmakers’ place near the head of the contemporary horror class.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 28, 2025
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Prescient about the dangers posed by AI and, more pressingly, the cutthroat, avaricious, and egotistical madmen who wield it, the film is an incisive portrait of 21st-century villainy, if ultimately a satire that can’t quite locate the funny in the horror.”- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 23, 2025
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Cartoonishly gory and drearily unoriginal and predictable, it’s a collection of tired devices and shout-outs that plays like training wheels slasher cinema.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 23, 2025
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Merely a cheeky pantomime rather than an actual adventure in which one might get swept up.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 22, 2025
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It’s jovial, zany, and sweet, and it recreates its adorable title alien via CGI (and a Sanders voice performance) with pitch-perfect accuracy.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 20, 2025
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Esther Zuckerman
Threapleton is so good in part because you can see the conflict play out on her face, even as she delivers Anderson’s idiosyncratic dialogue with rhythmic perfection. She is also just fantastically cool, rocking a habit like a Met Gala look.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 19, 2025
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While you ponder the tragedy of what you just witnessed, you are left stunned by how talented Dickinson and Dillane are. It’s the kind of work that makes you excited to see what they do next.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 19, 2025
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A feature-length ego-stroke of monumental hubris that instantly assumes pole position in the race for year’s worst movie.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 16, 2025
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Lipovsky and Stein elicit not a single solid performance from their cast, and their tale’s twists are illogical even by the material’s established guidelines.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 16, 2025
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When it kicks into gear in its second half, it provides the over-the-top thrills that fans have come to expect, and which are guaranteed to leave their hearts in their throats.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 14, 2025
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A delightfully zonked marital satire that lurches in various demented directions.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 14, 2025
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Come for the healthy servings of capuzzelle, zeppole, and scungilli, but prepare to choke on the stale and squishy platitudes about family and tradition.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 8, 2025
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A mesmerizing film about the sweep and swirl of life, love, and the relationship between yesterday and today.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 8, 2025
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[Its] staginess is offset by their blistering investigation of morality, manipulation, individual and social responsibility, and masculine power.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 8, 2025
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If its fondness for stock formulas and scares means that it’s not shocking, it also knows how to play the hits—and, of course, to deliver on its promise of killer clowns in cornfields.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 7, 2025
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Amusing, energetic, and just clever enough to sustain its brief runtime, it serves up a boisterous and bruising brand of B-movie bedlam.- The Daily Beast
- Posted May 6, 2025
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