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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. A Good Person
    In this wildly uneven melodrama by writer-director Zach Braff, no member of the talented ensemble cast is entirely able to navigate its messy plot. That a few actors do manage to stay afloat for occasional breaths of air seems like a divine miracle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Americana
    Tost can’t match the oddball inspiration of his influences, and the results simply feel forced.
  3. Napoleon
    We don't need another hero, but when it comes to the man at its center, Napoleon could have used a lot more oomph.
  4. Drive-Away Dolls
    Curiously flimsy and forgettable.
  5. The Beekeeper
    If the formulaic film ever finds its audience — and it’s all too clear that there’s a market for this kind of slickly produced, hindbrain pulp — the best that can be said for it is that the ending (devised by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer) is perfectly poised for The Beekeeper 2.
  6. Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
    Like the original "Care Bears Movie," Care Bears Movie II is nothing but an insidious feature-length toy commercial. But since Funshine Bear has taught me to look on the bright side, I will admit that the animation in the sequel is of a higher quality.
  7. Foe
    The ending of Foe is not the problem. It’s the beginning and the middle that feel phony: at once as calculated and as uncanny as ChatGPT.
  8. Fingernails
    It’s not the familiarity of this setup that irks, but its silliness.
    • 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.
  10. 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Front Room
    Despite what the singer/actress says, there’s not much to scream, let alone clap, about here.
    • 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film has the whiff of easy paycheck. It looks glossy but is empty. It sheds light without gaining insight.
  20. King Lear
    William Shakespeare would need a sense of humor to view Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear" without getting steamed up in his bodkins.
  21. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    North
    Even with all these familiar funny folks -- Jon Lovitz, Kathy Bates, Dan Aykroyd, Kelly McGillis, John Ritter, Faith Ford, Alan Arkin and more -- "North" seldom raises more than a chuckle.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Anaconda
    This “Anaconda” never stops winking. Its juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
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