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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 5.3 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. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    Ouija: Origin of Evil is, somewhat unexpectedly, not that bad.
  2. Bleed for This
    The halfhearted attempt to tweak the boxing-movie formula is a diversionary tactic. No amount of feints will change one fact: Bleed for This has no new moves.
  3. London Road
    London Road comes across as no more than tabloid karaoke.
  4. Gold
    The most ironic thing about Gold is this: For all its efforts, the movie seems to know it’s sitting on a gold mine of a backstory, but it just can’t figure out how to get the stuff out of the ground.
  5. Split
    For all the outrageousness of Kevin’s alters, the movie falls oddly flat: less tantalizingly enigmatic “et cetera” than “blah blah blah.”
  6. Mr. Church
    Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn’t endow Mr. Church with any unexpected depths. But then neither does the script.
  7. Born in China
    With Born in China, Disneynature continues its tradition of ascribing human traits and emotions to wild creatures in ways that flirt with artificiality. Yet the documentary does manage to elicit a viewer’s awe and touch the heart.
  8. A Dog's Purpose
    The purpose of A Dog’s Purpose isn’t to solve philosophical riddles but to warm the cockles of dog lovers’ hearts. That, it does — as well as a wet kiss from a slobbery tongue can.
  9. Free Fire
    With his cultivated air of nonchalance, the trivialized, consequence-free violence and reverse-engineering of a plot threaded with convenient twists and unexpected arrivals, Wheatley seems intent upon lowering the stakes at every opportunity.
  10. The Journey
    Every element of the movie feels fabricated, from the stilted conversation to the ­all-too-convenient obstacles the movie keeps throwing in the path of progress.
  11. The Promise
    Attempting to make an atrocity palatable to a mainstream audience, The Promise delivers the history, but undercuts its impact.
  12. Wakefield
    Cranston is consistently watchable in the title role, although Howard’s journey into — and, at least potentially, out of — madness is a tough one to keep up with.
  13. Tommy's Honour
    Tommy’s Honour is never boring, but at best it invites a smattering of polite applause, not an upturned barrel of Gatorade.
  14. Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
    Epic in its ambitions and often visually and emotionally strong, the film nevertheless suffers from a confusing narrative and a style of computer animation that blurs the lines between the real and the animated in a way that evokes the discomfiting artifice of “The Polar Express” (2004).
  15. My Cousin Rachel
    What’s missing from this production is the darkness — the perversity, even — that informs du Maurier’s work, and that would elevate an attractively illustrated story into aesthetically and psychologically vivid cinema.
  16. Your Name.
    Your Name is still highly watchable, even when this mystical Young Adult love story cloys — or confounds.
  17. The Zookeeper's Wife
    It’s a story that promises major suspense, which only materializes occasionally.
  18. They Call Us Monsters
    Even if you agree with the film’s argument that teenagers shouldn’t be locked up for life when there are other ways to save them, “Monsters” doesn’t offer a convincing argument that a screenwriting class is that lifeline.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kedi
    Though pleasant to watch, Torun’s feature debut feels more like a meandering montage than a structured narrative, and it could easily be half as long.
  20. Despicable Me 3
    Despicable Me 3 disappoints, if only mildly, not because it’s bad, but because it only aspires to be good enough.
  21. Unforgettable
    Unforgettable borrows elements from film noir, Lifetime movies and slasher flicks and updates them for the Internet age. But this forgettable thriller will simply make you remember other, better films.
  22. A Bad Moms Christmas
    A good idea and a stellar cast lost inside a sloppy script that mostly retreads last year’s laughs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
    It’s a languorous look at the ups and downs of a career gone awry, and the mysteries and confused culinary disciples left in the wake of the chef’s abrupt disappearance to Mexico for several years.
  24. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    Every single sight gag in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul telegraphs its punchline for what seems like an eternity.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    Setting aside the puzzling marriage of source material and medium, “Paws” at least makes for a breezy summertime diversion. Contrived but cute, the movie deserves credit for its indictment of insularity, as well as a few hearty laughs.
  26. Red Sparrow
    What was a steamy battle of wits in the novel looks more like a chemistry-free charade onscreen. Instead of character development the audience gets torture galore, whether it’s Dominika being doused with freezing water while naked and tied to a chair or a particularly sadistic character flaying someone alive.
  27. Paris Can Wait
    Paris Can Wait is a modest, genteel piece of cinematic escapism, a silky testament to sensuality as impeccably tasteful as it is utterly undemanding.
  28. The Little Hours
    The Little Hours seldom rises above a clever but lightweight one-liner.
  29. The King's Choice
    The performances are fine and nuanced, but the stakes seem, for some reason, more theoretical than actual.
  30. Beach Rats
    This very thinly sliced character study of beautiful if benighted adolescence is more a pre-coming-of-age tale, one that takes us close to, but not through, the transformative acquisition of good judgment.
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