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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
    "Lyle” has a brisk, whimsical momentum that is utterly infectious in the early going. Then it stops dead.
  2. Harold and the Purple Crayon
    The movie plods around awkwardly, trying to leech whatever charm it can from the remaining elements of the original.
  3. Suzanna Andler
    It’s a test of patience to watch these glass figurines discuss their romantic entanglements, the doll house on the Riviera that they will maybe rent, the bourgeois marriages they will maybe leave. Even the camera seems bored, as if it might wander off.
  4. Needle in a Timestack
    [A] sluggish, blandly slick time-travel romance.
  5. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
    Absent formal rigor, the “Paranormal Activity” concept doesn’t offer much else.
  6. Snakehead
    Wu plays Dai Mah with a no-frills abandon that often makes her feel like the film’s protagonist, but even her performance can’t overcome the narrative missteps.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Duelle (1976)
    The mortal defect of Jacques Rivette's Duelle is not its slow pace or mannered style or even its obscurities. It is its failure—deliberate, apparently—to cross over to its audience at any point or to inveigle its audience across to it.
  8. How to Beat the High Cost of Living
    How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a feeble house-fly of a comedy that unsuccessfully attempts to make fun of one of the more dismaying problems of our time: inflation.
  9. Agnes
    There is a clear through line of faithlessness in the script by Reece and John Selvidge, but it is otherwise so aimless and underdeveloped as to turn this 93-minute film into a plodding slog.
  10. Sooryavanshi
    Sooryavanshi is both overstuffed and paper-thin.
  11. Mr. Saturday Night
    Maggio ends his story in the early 1980s, even though Stigwood lived until 2016. He is thinking small about a man who used to dream big.
  12. The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
    Of all the movie’s sins, [Scrat's] omission is unforgivable.
  13. Fortress
    As a distraction, Bressack and the screenwriter Alan Horsnail surround their indifferent lead with tinsel.
  14. Book of Love
    When, and in which picturesque city, Henry and María will acknowledge their mutual affection is the burning question of this romantic comedy trifle, which offers a few laughs and many more exasperated groans.
  15. Red Pill
    The main issue is the film’s trite commentary on America’s political and racial divides (see also: last year’s “The Hunt”), which is neither funny, frightening, nor provocative. Just numbing.
  16. The Royal Treatment
    The movie comes across as a deliberately, almost defensively, inane trifle; a cupcake whose icing reads, “Enjoy the tooth decay.”
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Watermelon Man
    Watermelon Man demands complete surrender and gives absolutely nothing in return except embarrassment.
  18. Alone with You
    Unfortunately, its lesbian representation is so shoddy that its scares also suffer.
  19. Last Looks
    Kirkby does keep up a jaunty pace. But he also seems preoccupied with impressing his inner hipster, as with an attitude toward race that dares you to call it cavalier. And his again edgy music choices.
  20. Tall Girl 2
    The plot is scattershot; the drama ant-size.
  21. Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
    The script has plot twists so cuckoo they make soap operas look cowardly.
  22. La Soga: Salvation
    Perez is a flimsy leading man, and the film around him — a modest production that doesn’t exactly hide its budgetary shortcomings — is at best a borderline campy B-movie with bursts of bloody action. At worst, it’s a completely self-serious slog.
  23. Big Gold Brick
    The title of this perfectly well-appointed production is apt: Big Gold Brick looks all right but it truly just sits there.
  24. Firestarter
    This movie brushes aside a lot of things — the most shocking thing about it is how soggily noncommittal it is.
  25. My Best Friend Anne Frank
    Clinging to Hannah’s naïve viewpoint and the cherished ideal of her friendship with Anne results in some hard truths being hidden away or oddly sanitized.
  26. Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York
    The movie’s prefab on-screen graphics are just one reason “Worst to First” has such a limp tone overall.
  27. Family Camp
    Dad humor abounds in Family Camp, a vanishingly mild comedy that resembles other films about parents and kids bumbling in the wilderness
  28. Barbarians
    “Antichrist” may have been chauvinistic in its own right, but at least was interesting to watch. Barbarians doesn’t provide much excitement at all.
  29. Gold
    The movie’s mood is unrelentingly miserable. Its cinematography, by Ross Giardina, is bleached-bone bright; its soundscape features more buzzing flies than music.
  30. Panama
    It’s mostly a lot of manic editing and caffeinated camerawork, each trying and failing to juice some excitement out of Hauser’s dull performance.
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