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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Dracula
    Dracula is one of the most confounding, and worst, movies I’ve seen in a long time.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Anaconda
    This “Anaconda” never stops winking. Its juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
  3. Ella McCay
    Brooks, whose storied career includes insightful gems such as “Terms of Endearment” and “Broadcast News,” turns in a halfhearted mess of a movie that spends its entire two-hour running time trying to figure out what it wants to be.
  4. Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    Although Fleischer pulls a few clever tricks, such as when his camera angles work to deceive viewers alongside the handful of French policemen chasing the Horsemen through Thaddeus’s eccentrically designed mansion, most of the film is underwhelming.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anemone
    This is a young filmmaker who so wants to make every shot freighted with import that he ends up robbing his film of importance.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Americana
    Tost can’t match the oddball inspiration of his influences, and the results simply feel forced.
  7. Eddington
    For a movie drenched in foreboding in menace, there’s very little narrative tension in “Eddington,” a problem Aster solves with an intrusive sound design and dissonant, clanging piano chords.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bride Hard
    There’s nothing wrong with a good, dumb comedy, but “Bride Hard” doesn’t even qualify as in-flight entertainment.
  9. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film has the whiff of easy paycheck. It looks glossy but is empty. It sheds light without gaining insight.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juliet & Romeo
    Shakespeare this ain’t. In the long, long history of “Romeo and Juliet” movie adaptations, “Juliet & Romeo” lands well below the 1996 Baz Luhrmann version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes and just above 2011’s “Gnomeo & Juliet,” in which the characters are portrayed as animated garden gnomes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Simple Favor
    To paraphrase the T-shirt, everyone here went to the Isle of Capri, and all we got was this lousy movie.
  12. The Accountant 2
    Brax’s knuckles may be perpetually bared, but his heart’s always in the right place, which “The Accountant 2” spares nothing to remind us, even while the mayhem escalates into sheer outlandishness.
  13. The Alto Knights
    The speculative ending is actually the most intriguing thing about “The Alto Knights,” more interesting even than De Niro times two. And yet the film’s climax nevertheless fails to raise much of a heartbeat in this boglike slog through a momentous moment in murderous mob history.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Opus
    It isn’t even a disaster; that, at least, might be interesting.
  15. Novocaine
    Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, “Novocaine” lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing.
  16. Parthenope
    If “Parthenope” is a love letter to his hometown and its subject an embodiment of the city’s idiosyncrasies and contradictions — beauty and decay, religion and hypocrisy — the whole thing comes across like a deranged mash note, more off-putting than seductive.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captain America: Brave New World
    If you’ve been committed to the MCU over all these years and iterations, you may find the new movie an acceptable entry in a never-ending saga. I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Love Hurts
    With Love Hurts, 87North has gone farther south than ever, churning out a muddled, mean-spirited action comedy that manages to feel slack and listless despite a flyweight run time of only 83 minutes.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Unstoppable
    Between its verisimilitude-killing caricatures and hand-waving montages, “Unstoppable” is all too easy to pin down as a by-the-numbers misfire.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gladiator II
    At nearly 2½ hours, the movie is fun to watch until it’s not, and then it becomes a chore.
  21. The Front Room
    Despite what the singer/actress says, there’s not much to scream, let alone clap, about here.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reagan
    For a movie about the Great Communicator, “Reagan” communicates surprisingly little.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Instigators
    If you’re already a subscriber to Apple TV Plus and have absolutely nothing else to do, “The Instigators” is worth a look.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is the cinematic equivalent of trying on your prom suit from 1984. Maybe it still fits, but not in the places it used to, and if you try to moonwalk, you’ll probably get a hernia.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Watchers
    Shyamalan the elder makes suspense-horror dramas that either give a half-baked idea a fully baked cinematic treatment or vice versa; Shyamalan the daughter’s first feature-length film is just half-baked all around.
  26. The Garfield Movie
    Made for an audience mostly too young to have held the funny pages of a newspaper, it’s a madcap heist flick that feels like someone grabbed a random screenplay and scrawled “Garfield” at the top.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Greatest Hits
    You know how a pop song from a moment in your past can bring that moment back to life in colors, smells, memories and emotions? “The Greatest Hits” takes that idea and literalizes it right into the ground.
  28. Road House
    If "Road House” were more fun, if it didn’t trot out its fight sequences with such workmanlike regularity, it might have attained the kitschy greatness of its predecessor. But it doesn’t aspire to much more than mining the intellectual property catalogue for a quick-and-dirty cash grab.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Arthur the King
    There are no gambles in this crossbreed of sports movie and doggy drama that dutifully — and lazily — stays on course from beginning to end. Heartstrings are tugged, dogs are adored and it’s all inoffensively inspirational.
  30. Drive-Away Dolls
    Curiously flimsy and forgettable.
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