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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Inherent Vice
    Anderson's film is something to be experienced, like a psychedelic drug trip where the journey trumps the destination. Unfortunately, his journey just didn't do it for me.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Cobbler
    What starts off as a potentially charming fantasy never finds its footing.
  3. The Interview
    It's a pity that the film is bereft of satiric zing, bludgeoning the laughs with a nonstop sledgehammer of bro humor.
  4. God's Pocket
    In one of his final roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a man whose no-good stepson is killed on a construction job, while John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, and Christina Hendricks round out a formidable cast that isn’t given much to work with.
  5. Wish I Was Here
    Braff, who co-wrote the film with his own brother, is clearly attached to the semiautobiographical material here and still has a knack for sweet two-person scenes.
  6. The Bag Man
    The only one having any fun in this dead-on-arrival noir is Robert De Niro.
  7. Oculus
    Unless you’re Billy Bob Thornton, old furniture just isn’t all that scary.
  8. As Above, So Below
    Like other movies of its ilk, it's missing a very simple bit of next-level Hollywood technology: a tripod.
  9. A Long Way Down
    With an ace troupe like that, there are affecting moments, to be sure. But the movie criminally wastes Sam Neill and Rosamund Pike in barely there supporting roles, and the picture has exactly two tones: grim and gooey. They do not coexist harmoniously.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Shadow
    While the movie’s re-creations of New Deal-era Times Square and other period New York locations are impressive indeed, screenwriter David Koepp (who scripted Jurassic Park, which shares The Shadow‘s craven refusal to take its genre seriously) and director Russell Mulcahy sink the movie through their lack of conviction.
  11. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    There's barely a trace of the magic of 1939's "The Wizard of Oz"; the bricks are still yellow, but the road doesn't lead anywhere special.
  12. Ride Along 2
    Ride Along 2, which moves the action from Atlanta to Miami, plays more like a remake than a sequel.
  13. Hateship Loveship
    The supporting cast includes Nick Nolte, Christine Lahti, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Hailee Steinfeld, making the movie’s greatest accomplishment the fact that it was able to squander so many interesting actors.
  14. The November Man
    The utter lack of originality eventually sinks the movie.
  15. X-Men: Apocalypse
    Apocalypse feels like a confused, kitchen-sink mess with a half dozen too many characters, a villain who amounts to a big blue nothing, and a narrative that’s so choppy and poorly cut together that it feels like you’re watching a flipbook instead of a movie.
  16. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    While Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F isn’t terrible, and it does have a few funny zings plus one decent chase scene, there’s not a molecule of originality on display. One can’t help but call it a missed opportunity.
  17. The Salvation
    Green is officially the world’s best actress in bad movies.
  18. The Fluffy Movie
    Fluffy isn't awful, just disappointingly lightweight.
  19. Timecop
    The plot is more confusing than clever, and the only actor who seems to be having any fun is Silver, who's at his best throwing masochistic hissy fits at his younger, not-quite-so-evil self.
  20. Horns
    It seems to have been made by people who couldn't decide if their film was a horror flick, a whodunit, or a "Hellboy" knockoff.
  21. Ben-Hur
    This arena, unfortunately, is no Thunderdome. The chariot race is sloppily framed, choppily edited, and droopily choreographed, with special effects that look like they needed another few passes through the CGI machine.
  22. Men, Women & Children
    The problem isn't so much what the film is saying but its shrill, alarmist tone. You don't have to be a sociological genius to look at all of us walking down the street like zombies, obliviously staring at our smartphones, and know that something's wrong.
  23. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    Left without a gimmick, The Scorch Trials wanders between YA cliches — there’s a Resistance, but it’s unclear what they’re resisting — and zombie movie tropes, with the obligatory a zombie bit our friend scene.
  24. Bad Turn Worse
    Directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins add air-quote references to Jim Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers but are too proud of the movie's twists to make them truly snap. Call it "Blood Simple-ton."
  25. Revenge of the Mekons
    Director Joe Angio presents the group's music with the contagious enthusiasm of a diehard, but exuberance is no substitute for storytelling, and Revenge of the Mekons is in desperate need of a narrative path.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfinished Business
    The movie struggles to find its comedic footing by trying to bring out the family man in Dan Trunkman and underutilizing Franco, whose character clearly has much more to his disadvantage than a lack of prior business experience. Bottom line: Unfinished Business doesn’t deserve that handshake after all.
  27. Wild Card
    Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara all pop up in glorified cameos and give the movie more fizz than their roles require. Which begs the question: Why would they sign on for such thankless, bite-size roles?
  28. Everly
    With so little backstory and character depth, it’s nothing more than a pointless exercise in brutal, nasty style.
  29. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Allegiant aches to be a thought-provoking, moving allegory of the current world. Instead, it’s an unwieldy two hours too unintentionally silly to validate how seriously it takes itself.
  30. The Mountain Between Us
    Can’t decide whether it wants to be a chilling survival movie or a sweeping romance. It never fully commits to either genre, and the result is a forgettable adventure that leaves you feeling cold.
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