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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. Granada Nights
    a hackneyed story of a tedious, lovelorn expatriate, pulling himself together and dragging us around with him.
  2. Vedette
    Vedette joins a recent roster of documentaries about the uses and abuses of farm animals (others include “Cow” and “Gunda”). It’s disappointing that Bories and Chagnard fail to add anything to this environmentally urgent topic beyond their own surprise that these animals are more than indistinguishable milk factories.
  3. Wedding Season
    Wedding Season is mostly flavorless, but its interest in capitalistic success inspires a pucker of bad taste.
  4. Look Both Ways
    Never mind that Look Both Ways seems to posit that, for women, child rearing and a career are in relative opposition — when Natalie comes to a fork in the road, the movie hardly lets her look both ways. It bulldozes her down one path, and then the other.
  5. Art of Love
    It’s a tired and male-serving narrative one wishes might be retired.
  6. Captain America: Brave New World
    The writing is stiff and the ensemble is mostly charmless, while the visuals are slapdash.
  7. The Immaculate Room
    The film focuses more on one character’s moral defects than the sketchy project overall, leading to a conclusion that feels unsatisfying at best and pompous at worst.
  8. If Lucy Fell
    There was more Allenesque potential in (Schaeffer's) earlier ``My Life's in Turnaround'' (directed with Donal Lardner Ward) than there is in this painfully cute concoction, which is about two old friends with a pact to leap off the Brooklyn Bridge. There are too many occasions when the viewer may wish they would just go ahead and jump.
  9. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    Mr. Brando's performance will be deemed interestingly audacious only by those who found "Apocalypse Now" too sane.
  10. Shalom Taiwan
    It’s hard to argue with that message, but one doesn’t have to accept the ho-hum experience of watching this movie.
  11. The Substitute
    The movie's mentality is su'med up in one cutaway shot. A split second before a man's face is about to be shoved into a boat propeller, the movie flashes to another man pushing half an orange onto the head of a squeezer.
  12. Two If by Sea
    How bad could it be? Not exactly awful. But not funny, sexy or romantic either, which doesn't leave anything for this inert and oddly confused movie to do.
  13. Meet Cute
    Of course, these logistical problems would be excusable if the romance at the center of the movie were remotely compelling or if the jokes were actually funny.
  14. Rosaline
    The engine of this movie is snark, and Dever, overtaxed with carrying the comedy, brings a dauntlessness to the role, even during more daft moments.
  15. Delia's Gone
    One watches this movie with a persistent “this is just … wrong” feeling. It’s not just the superficial depiction of Louis’s condition, or the facile depiction of racial dynamics, although those factors don’t help. Maybe it’s the pervasive self-seriousness in pursuit of what turns out to be nothing much at all.
  16. The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
    The centering of Abigail Disney’s voice — we also see her tweets calling out the outrageous salaries of Disney executives — makes the documentary a kind of personal reckoning and an attempt to get through to other wealthy individuals, though one wonders how a film that doubles as a “Capitalism for Dummies” video would make an impact. Instead, the documentary wants, above all, to make sure we know how one particular Disney feels.
  17. A Christmas Story Christmas
    Mostly it made me want to watch the original, which, as always, remains well worth revisiting.
  18. Adieu Godard
    It’s a film-school pastiche of the French director’s style, with none of the forward-thinking intellectual curiosity of his movies.
  19. The Bengali
    Despite an intriguing premise, what Kaul actually wants to say here is in need of a lot more fleshing out.
  20. The Little Mermaid
    The new, live-action The Little Mermaid is everything nobody should want in a movie: dutiful and defensive, yet desperate for approval. It reeks of obligation and noble intentions. Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Prisoner's Daughter
    Several moments within the director Catherine Hardwicke’s latest film Prisoner’s Daughter contain glimmers of promise, each one regrettably smothered by a pedestrian script from Mark Bacci.
  22. Pretty Problems
    An overlong, undercooked comedy of manners about how, yes, indeed the rich are different.
  23. Spirited
    The combination of this fine-tuned spectacle with the ineffectual vocals of the main duo — and distractingly uncanny visuals and special effects — transforms Spirited into a disjointed movie musical with all the superficial trappings of a Broadway flop.
  24. Your Place or Mine
    No one in this movie is playing anything near a human being, although Kutcher occasionally resembles one when he lowers his head, crinkles his eyes and chuckles.
  25. Rhinegold
    Mixing war movie, coming-of-age drama and gangster thriller, Akin and Hajabi’s screenplay is a dispiriting brew of repellent behavior and odious rap lyrics.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
    It’s the sort of bland, innocuous trifle that will swiftly recede into the oblivion of a streaming service menu — a comedy without laughs and a family movie without heart, lacking any of the wit or charm of Kinney’s original stories.
  27. Voodoo Macbeth
    With such a gross misinterpretation of the source material (why invent Welles onstage in blackface?) it’s fitting that the most engaging part of “Voodoo Macbeth” turns out to be the archival footage of the real-life production that plays alongside the credits.
  28. A Chance Encounter
    After Hal and Josie’s meet-cute, they see sights blandly, philosophize blandly, blandly tiptoe around the notion of romance, and criticize each other — yes, blandly, but with an occasional touch of “salty” language.
  29. The Lair
    Lively, noisy, dark and daft, this gloopy creature feature from the British director Neil Marshall plays like a loose, if vastly inferior callback to his two best films, “Dog Soldiers” (2002) and “The Descent” (2006).
  30. The First Noelle
    It’s hard to become immersed in this aspirational alternate reality because of the movie’s pun-filled and often unbelievable dialogue, as well as lackluster performances delivered by the lead actors.
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