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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
    The documentary maintains an uncritical and even hagiographic view of the program’s stated premise, barely interrogating its ethics or on-the-ground efficacy.
  2. Meteor
    As it is, the suspense is sludgy and the character development nil; even the inadvertent comedy is spotty.
  3. More American Graffiti
    More American Graffiti is grotesquely misconceived, so much so that it nearly eradicates fond memories of the original.
  4. A Little Romance
    A Little Romance is a movie that seems to have melted the minds of everyone of any stature connected with it.
  5. Unhinged
    While Derrick Borte’s filmmaking is bluntly efficient — and the vehicular stunt work impressive — the character is a windup toy, a dumb and dirty symbol of male grievance.
  6. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    More tribute than parody, this over-egged farce whips slapstick and cheese into an authentic soufflé of tastelessness.
  7. The Kissing Booth 2
    If The Kissing Booth, stacked with regressive relationship dynamics, is Victorian in its views, The Kissing Booth 2 progresses to the midcentury.
  8. Stage: The Culinary Internship
    Cooking that makes diners uncomfortable hasn’t inspired comparable creativity of cinematic form. “Stage” makes you want to eat, not watch.
  9. Run Sweetheart Run
    Bursts of experimental style feel at odds with the movie’s core: a simplistic parable of pervasive sexism.
  10. Wild Strawberries
    This one is so thoroughly mystifying that we wonder whether Mr. Bergman himself knew what he was trying to say.
  11. Man Bites Dog
    A grisly sick joke of a film that some will find funny, others simply appalling. On one level, it is an in-joke about movie making, since one reason given for Ben's rampage is the need to steal enough money to make the documentary. On another level, the film satirizes real-life television shows that purport to take viewers into the thick of the action. It suggests how profoundly the presence of the camera affects events, and thumbs its nose at the very notion of documentary objectivity.
  12. Parkland Rising
    Parkland Rising passes the low bar of not undermining the people it covers, but by avoiding both research and conflict, it fails to provide a reason for its own existence.
  13. Romance on the High Seas
    As a brash little night-club singer who is supposed to act like a swell, Miss Day is most plainly the victim of the writers' unutterable ennui. Furthermore, Michael Curtiz's direction of her and the rest of the cast is as slapdash and void of distinction as it can professionally be. Not only has he let the young lady spread noisiness all over the place, but he has wasted the few minor talents that he had in a most provoking way.
  14. Mikey and Nicky
    Miss May is a witty, gifted, very intelligent director. It took guts for her to attempt a film like this, but she failed.
  15. The Walrus and the Whistleblower
    Frustratingly, the documentary declines to probe Demers’s evolving relationship to his activism and newfound fame.
  16. Finch
    Finch is sweet, yet disappointingly uneventful.
  17. Scavenger Hunt
    A broad, low comedy full of speech defects and pratfalls.
  18. Retaliation
    Mostly, Retaliation accords Bloom a chance to deliver some impressive, anguished monologues, although the scenes focusing on those around him (particularly a late conversation between Montgomery and Ferns’s characters) hint at a more expansive, unrealized complexity.
  19. The Horn Blows at Midnight
    The script is neither satire nor good, fresh, fanciful corn. It is a batch of old-fashioned nonsense put together without distinct charm.
  20. Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
    It proceeds dryly and largely chronologically through her life, sometimes with an awkward sense of proportion.
  21. All I Can Say
    The movie will be most profitably consumed by fans — people who believe Hoon earned the tribute. While one does not want to be cruel, one is obliged to be frank.
  22. Rhapsody in Blue
    The performers are quite naturally restricted by the limitations of the script—and by the purely pedestrian direction that Irving Rapper has given them.
  23. Summerland
    A thumb to suck in troubled times, Summerland offers a digit of nostalgia that many viewers will latch onto with something approaching relief.
  24. Olympia
    At times, Mavromichalis himself seems starstuck, to the extent that he can’t distinguish the disarming from the banal.
  25. Never Too Late
    While it’s generally a pleasure to see stalwarts like Cromwell, Weaver and Jack Thompson (as one of the old gang) at work, one also wishes they had found, well, better work.
  26. A Girl Missing
    As he proved in his 2017 drama, “Harmonium,” Fukada excels at unfurling near-hysterical narratives in restrained, sometimes icily sterile scenes. But while the earlier film pulled us in, this one repels, its cloudy colors and depressing mood making us long for a single moment of joy.
  27. Tito
    Tito is a better achievement in sound and visuals than plot or character. The sheer strangeness of the film may be mesmerizing at first, but even the slim 70-minute run time eventually feels tedious when so little happens.
  28. Project Power
    The humanity of the leads fills up the hollowness, putting flesh, or at least charm and attitude, on their archetypes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Coffy
    Leaves a viewer with the happy thought that she now can get back to nursing and away from films like Coffy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Creature from the Black Lagoon
    It's a fishing expedition that is necessary only if a viewer has lost all of his comic books.
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