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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 5.4 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. Crimes of the Future
    With its outré images and pulsating shots of human viscera, Crimes of the Future is clearly meant to shock, as well as reference very real anxieties about technology, genetics and environmental degradation. But as the convoluted plot wears on, Cronenberg’s transgressive kink looks more and more played out.
  2. The Son
    Mawkish, obvious and manipulative, “The Son” is, quite simply, a disappointment, from its pat setup to its equally false — and, quite frankly, cruel — resolution.
  3. Trespass
    It's mindlessly violent, profane and insultingly racist. It's also relentless, repetitious and tiresome, and leaves us feeling that a once-great director has run out of ammunition.
  4. Wild Bill
    Like the opium dreams that its eponymous hero becomes addicted to, this fragmented, trigger-happy account of Wild Bill Hickok's final years feels like a bad trip through every cheap western knockoff you ever had to sit through.
  5. Marlowe
    Less intriguingly convoluted than concussed into lifelessness, “Marlowe” is the cinematic equivalent of a word salad: It parrots all the right lines while striking all the right poses, without saying much of anything at all.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    Moon has lots of setup but no resolution, treading water for most of its overlong running time.
  7. The Hollywood Knights
    With The Hollywood Knights, Floyd Mutrux, the director of "American Hot Wax," seems determined to wear out the welcome of a once-amusing nostalgic device once and for all.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Argylle
    When Vaughn is cooking, his films can be stylish, self-satisfied junk food. “Argylle” leaves the style out of the equation — it’s filmmaking as processed interstate fare, high in calories, low in fiber, tasty until you’ve had enough of it and then you feel sick.
  9. Rabbit Test
    In the annals of overcompensatory anal-retentive joking, Rivers may have succeeded in carving out an even lower niche for herself.
    • 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. 18 Again!
    Filmmaker Paul Flaherty apparently has never so much as given a friend directions to his home.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  15. North
    North, which co-producer Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman adapted from Zweibel's slight novel, is awkwardly structured -- it's still in chapters -- not to mention mean-spirited and incredibly stupid.
  16. 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.
  17. Dracula
    Dracula is one of the most confounding, and worst, movies I’ve seen in a long time.
  18. All About Steve
    Much of what's offensive and insufferable about All About Steve can be laid at the feet of screenwriter Kim Barker, best known for inflicting "License to Wed" on the world. Why do these people still earn obscene amounts of money churning out dreck? And why do stars like Bullock keep paying them?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Extract
    May be the most disappointing American comedy of the decade, partly because it's jokeless and joyless but mostly because it squanders an all-star cast of superb comic talent.
  20. V for Vendetta
    A piece of pulp claptrap; it has no insights whatsoever into totalitarian psychology and always settles for the cheesiest kinds of demagoguery and harangue as its emblems of evil. They say they want a revolution? Then give us a revolution, one that's believable, frightening, heroic, coherent and not a teenagers' freaky power trip.
  21. Fascination
    It plays like a soft-core-porn potboiler left over from the 1970s about a hot vampire chick.
  22. The Jacket
    In this case, the adage would go something like "material, material, material," also known as the Nicolas Cage Rule: Good acting can't overcome bad taste.
  23. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The makers of Miss Congeniality 2 have violated the cardinal rule of Sandra Bullock cinema. They turned her into someone unlikable.
  24. Sahara
    Sahara is a mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.
  25. xXx: State of the Union
    So primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.
  26. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Never was this funny a comedian in this horrible a movie.
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