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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teenage
    Regrettably, it’s terrible poetry: a roughly chronological jumble of archival footage, unconvincing period reenactments, gauzy voice-overs, and half-baked ideas that makes one yearn for the stolid dullness of a History Channel documentary.
  2. Better Living Through Chemistry
    One hopes that, for their own good, when any of these actors are offered a script like this again, they’ll have the sense to just say no.
  3. Alive Inside
    Unfortunately, though, Rossato-Bennett and Cohen seem to think that the technique is a panacea. In fact, it is not even original, as music therapy in nursing homes has been around for some time.
  4. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    Compared with last time, the returning team of director Steve Pink and writer Josh Heald practically doodle the gang’s motivations and worse, their surroundings.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Tarzan
    It all might wash in a Johnny Weissmuller “Tarzan” movie from the 1940s. It no longer suffices today. Filmmakers, it’s time to pack up Greystoke Manor. Tarzan is dead.
  6. Monster Trucks
    Monster Trucks might not be a complete lemon, but it’s hardly cherry.
  7. Get Hard
    Audiences are going to want to brace themselves, too – for a movie that refuses to recognize when it’s going too far, with its wince-eliciting jokes about jailhouse rape in particular.
  8. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    As tiresome as the relentless, indulgent inscrutability and lack of story momentum can be, it says something for the movie’s visceral power that there isn’t an urge to quit on it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last of Robin Hood
    The Last of Robin Hood plays like a laboratory control experiment gone wrong: What would happen if you made a movie with a great cast and terrible everything else?
  10. If I Stay
    A mawkish, preposterous melodrama riddled with clichés, stereotypes, bad dialogue, and inept emotional manipulation.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That Demon Within
    There’s a half-realized, half-haunting Hitchcockian psychodrama buried somewhere within That Demon Within. What’s on the surface plays more like Wong and Lam simply forgot to take their meds.
  12. In the Name of My Daughter
    More disappointing than the film’s inertia and amorphousness is its sacrifice of the real-world themes of class, money, corruption, and power. Unable to decide what story he wanted to tell, Téchiné hedges his bets and loses everything.
  13. Alien Nation
    Alien Nation quickly abandons any possibility of an equivalently fascinating world for the formulas of a routine cop movie. [7 Oct 1988, p.40]
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  14. The Fluffy Movie
    For the most part, Fluffy’s material is just that — fluff, with a touch now and then of bile and bad taste.
  15. The Best of Me
    Isn’t fate a funny thing? Especially when Nicholas Sparks makes it up. Filmmakers love to adapt his stuff because he puts together narratives riddled with contrived coincidences and implausibilities meant to seem like the workings of providence when in fact they are the creations of a hackneyed mind.
  16. Spare Parts
    Aside from the clever punning of the title, Spare Parts ends up as jury-rigged and programmatic as Stinky, the robot in the movie. And, unlike Stinky, it is dead in the water.
  17. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Though not everyone agrees, Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” came close to finding the secret for making a movie about the secret of happiness. Peter Chelsom’s Hector and the Search for Happiness tries hard, but fails. Miserably.
  18. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers might be the only movie that directly pays homage to “Transformers.” Sadly, it suffers by the comparison.
  19. McFarland USA
    This chronicle of an ’80s high school cross country coach leading a team of Mexican farm laborers’ kids to competitive glory may be based on a true story, but the forced drama doesn’t help it to feel that way.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Triple 9
    There’s a reason the movie has been pushed off the back of the truck into late February. It’s damaged goods.
  21. Thunder and the House of Magic
    Thunder falls into the common mistake of many children’s films — it underestimates its audience.
  22. The Gambler
    It’s just like the Kenny Rogers song says: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.” It’s time for this Gambler to walk away.
  23. Cake
    Here Aniston suffers every manipulative cliché and contrivance in the tearjerker playbook. She works hard, and it’s painful to watch.
  24. Beloved Sisters
    If nothing else, Beloved Sisters is one of the most visually striking biopics around. Too bad you have to wade through so much verbiage in order to enjoy it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacation
    What’s interesting about Vacation is that it holds on to the original’s acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they’re front-loaded.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Independence Day: Resurgence
    The movie must be bad, right? Worse, it’s a bore.
  27. The Last Witch Hunter
    The script’s messy seams also show in the parade of sidekicks that passes through Kaulder’s door as a new threat develops.
  28. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    The fundamental value put forth in Brown’s “Sunday” sequel is not fearlessness but “family.”
  29. Unfinished Business
    Almost all mainstream movies steal from other movies, but the better ones get away with it because they possess some distinctive identity. The best that Ken Scott’s Unfinished Business can come up with is Vince Vaughn — as the straight man.
  30. Strange Magic
    If you close your eyes you’d think it was a commercial for a “Great Love Songs” DVD collection.
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