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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. See You in Valhalla
    See You in Valhalla, which is being released simultaneously in select theaters and on demand, is as deadly as its funereal subject matter.
  2. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Mottola and LeSieur seem to have actively avoided the pursuit of wisdom, settling for broad gags — and the occasional explosion — instead.
  3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies delivers what its title promises: a little romance and some undead villains, plus a bit of comedy. But this overly busy riff on Austen’s winning formula doesn’t justify all the tinkering.
  4. Survivor
    Director James McTeigue frequently collaborates with the visionary Wachowski siblings, and he directed V for Vendetta. How the man who blew up Parliament in such memorably spectacular fashion can’t add some originality to Philip Shelby’s script is the movie’s only real mystery.
  5. Where Hope Grows
    The Christian-themed Where Hope Grows wears its heart on its sleeve, hawking its message of salvation through faith to anyone who’s in the market for cheesy uplift and saccharine sentiment. It’s a soft sell, to be sure, but it’s salesmanship all the same.
  6. Gemma Bovery
    The movie winks and nudges its way through a lighter, modernized variation of the classic, proud of its own cleverness every time Gemma’s life mirrors Madame B’s. But imitation for the sake of itself isn’t brilliant, especially when the elements most worthy of copying — Flaubert’s precise narration and telling details — don’t make the cut.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    We Are Your Friends
    By the end, though, the original bits fade as easily as one song bleeds into another.
  8. Freedom
    In the world of Freedom, slaves and the people who help them are Christians, and the bad guys don’t believe in God.
  9. By the Sea
    By the Sea is dazzlingly gorgeous, as are its stars. But peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments.
  10. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    "Valerian” is an expensive, handsome but dozy invalid of a movie.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    Unfortunately, darkness seems to have prevailed over love in a tale that falls flat.
  12. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    With so many warmed-over jokes, you’d think that the delivery would at least be on point. But everything, including the timing, feels off.
  13. Lila & Eve
    In the end, Davis ends up a wasted resource. She does her best to elevate the material, but the story fails to live up to her considerable talents.
  14. Call Me Lucky
    Ironically, Call Me Lucky, a worshipful new documentary profile of Crimmins by comic-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait, has a little too much reverence for its irreverent subject.
  15. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom finds another way to grow: by making its plot much, much bulkier. In doing so, it commits the worst possible sin: It makes dinosaurs boring.
  16. Freeheld
    A lugubrious cloud of mediocrity sets in early in Freeheld, a dreary dramatization of a pivotal gay rights case that paved the way for marriage equality.
  17. The Dressmaker
    Overplotted, undercooked and extremely well-dressed, The Dressmaker has style to burn, but it has a mean streak as wide as the Outback.
  18. I Saw the Light
    I Saw the Light isn’t just incohesive, but ultimately — and far more frustratingly — incoherent.
  19. Francofonia
    The director Alexander Sokurov is a visual virtuoso. So it’s odd, not to mention a bit disappointing, to find that the Russian filmmaker’s latest project, Francofonia, is so talky and, with rare exceptions, visually dull.
  20. Fist Fight
    The slapsticky, sight-gag-heavy yukfest, which is filled with the kind of phallic humor you may have sniggered at when you were 16, floats like a dead butterfly and stings like a B-movie.
  21. The Book of Henry
    It’s the filmmaking equivalent of a monkey with the head of a goat, the tail of a fish, wings and teeny-tiny rat claws.
  22. The Girl on the Train
    Even viewers who are mildly diverted by the whodunit angle are unlikely to find themselves emotionally engaged in the outcome.
  23. Alien: Covenant
    Presumably, Scott is giving the audience what it wants, but purists may wonder whether simply re-watching “Alien” would have provided scarier, more genuine jolts.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The Fencer
    Finnish Director Klaus Haro has a sharp eye, and his shots deftly juxtapose the delicate beauty of the Estonian lowlands with the harsh reality of life under Soviet rule. But the script, written by Anna Heinamaa, gives him little more than an aesthetic landscape to work with.
  25. The Bye Bye Man
    The Bye Bye Man had a relatively modest budget, and it shows in the special effects, which tend to be more funny than scary.
  26. Monster Hunt
    Monster Hunt has visual appeal to spare, but the allure ends there.
  27. War Dogs
    War Dogs stays at arm’s length from the subjects, afraid to implicate us in the pleasures and prosperity of their rise, thus making their fall seem distant, puny and unaffecting.
  28. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    Fans of Greenaway’s work — a mix of the brainy, the controversial and the grotesque — won’t necessarily be surprised by any of this. They may, however, be disappointed at how little of it actually works.
  29. The Invitation
    The filmmakers keep trying to make Will appear paranoid, but he’s not fooled for long — and most viewers won’t be, either.
  30. Miracles from Heaven
    Stretched across nearly two hours, it tells a story that would have been adequately laid out in a 30-second television spot.
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