USA Today's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
| Highest review score: | Fruitvale Station | |
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| Lowest review score: | Amos & Andrew |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,963 out of 4670
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Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
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Negative: 686 out of 4670
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Brian Truitt
The joyous gallows humor and horror-movie commentary of old are gone and some inspired working-in of new technology falls apart.- USA Today
- Posted Feb 27, 2026
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The film aims to be a Gen Z/millennial “This Is Spinal Tap” but with much less clever wit and way more vocal fry.- USA Today
- Posted Feb 5, 2026
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While it does offer an extremely flattering view of all things Melania, outside of a few candid glimpses, you're not really going to learn a lot about who she really is.- USA Today
- Posted Jan 30, 2026
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[Kidman's] Lifetime-esque potboiler centers on a bored working mom who discovers her husband might not be on the level, but while the locale is postcard idyllic, the narrative is a never-ending slog, only getting halfway interesting with a silly third-act twist and a suddenly bloody finale.- USA Today
- Posted Mar 27, 2025
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It’s a bizarrely off-kilter affair that’s forcibly heartfelt and sentimental in one scene and overly mean-spirited in the next, and not even a few choice moments and some enjoyable surrounding weirdos can help two A-listers in way over their heads.- USA Today
- Posted Jan 30, 2025
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If only a psychic could have warned us about these wretched Spider-Man spinoffs.- USA Today
- Posted Feb 13, 2024
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The follow-up fails in every way, as a retread of the beloved ‘90s vehicle and as a youth-centered setup for future installments.- USA Today
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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With Leto flying and jumping through New York City as a do-gooding bloodsucker with moral “Should I feast on my fellow man?” quandaries, “Morbius” is a lifeless slog with no real bite.- USA Today
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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Patrick Ryan
It's all mind-numbingly dull, and critics have exhausted every electrical pun known to man in saying that "Current War" "lacks spark."- USA Today
- Posted Oct 25, 2019
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Life Itself is a real downer when it comes to death: A few are so out-of-nowhere that it’s like the hipster version of the “Game of Thrones” Red Wedding.- USA Today
- Posted Sep 20, 2018
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Stuffed full of rampant badness, the scattershot comedy isn’t nearly as clever or subversive as it thinks it is.- USA Today
- Posted Aug 23, 2018
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Alicia Vikander worked herself into hardbody shape for Tomb Raider, which by contrast is a flabby, lazy mess.- USA Today
- Posted Mar 14, 2018
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Actually does manage to be the best of the BDSM bore-fests in the forgettable erotic saga based on E.L. James’ Fifty Shades novels.- USA Today
- Posted Feb 8, 2018
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The original Pitch Perfect worked so well because it was about the friendship of the Bellas amid the wonderfully weird world of singing dorks who didn't get the memo that they weren’t cool. That's now long gone, and what’s left is just way off-key.- USA Today
- Posted Dec 20, 2017
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The soundtrack for the P.T Barnum biopic musical The Greatest Showman is chock full of amazing and catchy tunes you’ll be humming after the credits roll...The actual movie? Send in the clowns.- USA Today
- Posted Dec 20, 2017
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This is a fantastical faceplant, and though Elba tries his hardest, what could have been the tale of an iconic gunslinger is a big miss.- USA Today
- Posted Aug 3, 2017
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'Burbs is a messy mix of Gremlins, Neighbors, Rear Window and Arsenic and Old Lace. [17 Feb 1989, p.6D]- USA Today
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Even if you love alien robots punching each other while tossing out insipid one-liners, it’s a painfully long two and a half hours where the biggest problem isn’t a lack of plot but way too many of them.- USA Today
- Posted Jun 20, 2017
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It fumbles because neither of the characters are particularly likable.- USA Today
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Despite the beautiful eye-popping world it creates, the sci-fi film Ghost in the Shell is a defective mess with lifeless characters, missed chances for thematic exploration and a minefield of political incorrectness.- USA Today
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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The Great Wall crumbles mainly because of its wholly predictable plot, wretched dialogue and dud of a filmgoing experience from noted director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers).- USA Today
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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There are a lot of negative things to be said about Fifty Shades Darker. But it does impress in one sense: The erotica lite sequel somehow manages to be worse than the stupefyingly bad "Fifty Shades of Grey."- USA Today
- Posted Feb 9, 2017
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There’s fish-out-of-water hijinks as the Martian boy looks for the dad he never knew, but the whole sci-fi narrative collapses into a mess of illogical story beats and groan-inducing quasi-tragic bits right out of "Love Story."- USA Today
- Posted Feb 2, 2017
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A disappointing effort from a master filmmaker, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk trips in all the wrong places.- USA Today
- Posted Nov 10, 2016
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The major whodunit here is who made a best-selling thriller so darn boring.- USA Today
- Posted Oct 5, 2016
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Ridiculousness needs to abound somewhat in a film like this — reality takes a seat early and often here — but Resurgence pushes everything to an egregiously over-the-top and often infuriating degree.- USA Today
- Posted Jun 24, 2016
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Looking Glass is instead a competition to see how goofy Johnny Depp can be as the Mad Hatter and how many scenes (and hearts) Helena Bonham Carter can steal as the ragingly high-maintenance Red Queen.- USA Today
- Posted May 26, 2016
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May boast a star-studded cast but it’s a spectacular dud on every other level with tonal whiplash, a little casual racism played for jokes and a script seemingly pulled from Hallmark cards rejected for being too hokey.- USA Today
- Posted Apr 28, 2016
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It’s a dunderheaded follow-up, for sure, but it’s at least buoyed by Chris Hemsworth’s charisma and the few times where Winter’s War embraces complete camp.- USA Today
- Posted Apr 21, 2016
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