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For 7,797 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Double Jeopardy
    This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.''
  2. Monster Trucks
    The final result is… rather unspectacular.
  3. Running Scared
    Running is a fevered smashup, as if Hollywood dug up Sam Peckinpah's corpse and forced it to adapt "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" for the screen.
  4. Sabotage
    You won't respect yourself in the morning, but you might have some dumb, lizard-brain fun.
  5. G-Force
    The first 3-D film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer turns out to be similar to 2-D projects from the same noise-making producer--heavy on action scenes and heavy, too, on message.
  6. Surviving the Game
    Essentially, the movie is Cliffhanger with one third the firepower. Ice-T, looking like a depressed lion in his thick Rasta braids, remains a charismatic camera subject, though he’s too much the snaggletoothed urban runt to make a convincing action dynamo.
  7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The movie is a true folly, yet there's no denying that Gilliam has gotten some of the hallucinogenic madness of Thompson's novel on screen.
  8. Miss Bala
    It’s mostly left to Rodriguez to carry the absurdity on her shoulders, and the fact that she makes it so watchable is a real testament to her abilities. Next time, may the material rise at least halfway to meet her.
  9. Before I Go to Sleep
    Sleep is 91 minutes of delightfully twisted tension and three minutes of eye-rolling treacle. Kidman and Firth are both excellent in their sadness and savagery, and Joffe builds tension far better than most of the horror movies available at your local Cineplex this Halloween weekend. If only he had quit while he was ahead.
  10. Bad Boys
    It's like a series of cliches exploding in your face.
  11. Four Christmases
    Crassly enjoyable.
  12. Super Troopers 2
    Isn’t aggressively terrible or outrageously offensive. It’s just harmless, pointless, and meh. You’d think with 17 years at their disposal these guys would be able to come up with some jokes that weren’t so half-baked and dumb. Alas, this is low-hanging fruit all the way.
  13. Constellation
    Deeply odd films are often deeply personal ones, and Constellation, a dazed, inchoate drama about a mixed-race Alabama family, tells a story that's clearly close to the heart of writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman.
  14. The Grudge
    The Grudge is overly reliant on jump scares and the sheer number of characters involved here means that some are thinly-drawn, though the crackerjack cast of actors breathes at least some life into their respective parts. The real asset here — as well as the movie’s main likely problem for many viewers — is its bleak tone.
  15. Nowhere to Run
    The producers of Nowhere to Run simply toss out the mousetrap. They make the dismal mistake of turning Van Damme into a softy, a sensitive lunk who puts up his dukes only because he wants to help his new family. The former kickboxer would do well to remember that the most heartfelt performance he was put on this earth to give revolves around the tender sound of snapping limbs.
  16. White Chicks
    A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles.
  17. Chappie
    When we’re first introduced, he’s an overwhelmed infant, and by the time the credits roll, he’s John McClane. Is that an accurate representation of how artificial intelligence can evolve? Absolutely. Does it make for compelling drama? Not particularly.
  18. Hop
    It's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with only one chipmunk, and (if possible) even less fun.
  19. Wild Target
    The cast, though, includes a great bunch of Brit faves who have all done better work elsewhere.
  20. The Quiet Ones
    Aside from a few cheap but effective shocks and jumps, there's nothing here that horror fans haven't seen in better recent films like "The Conjuring." Not to mention all of those wonderful Hammer films from the '50s and '60s.
  21. The Week Of
    It feels like Smigel and Sandler just shot the first draft of their script without fine-tuning or polishing any of the jokes.
  22. Priest
    Its B-movie sins are many, worst among them an icy hero and a plot that feels like it was built from relics of other, better films.
  23. Darling Companion
    Lawrence Kasdan's comedy strikes a note of rib-nudging blah coyness that feels very 1987.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    House of Wax
    Except for when Paris is on screen giving us the winking sex eye, Wax is just a museum of gory, joyless, easy shocks.
  25. Metro
    In Metro, he’s been replaced by a slick, businesslike machine of an actor, playing an uninspired variation on the Axel Foley character he’s done for over a decade now, since starring in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. Only this time he’s not even funny.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Illegal Tender
    For a second, the movie has the snap of a truly surprising thriller -- like a Hispanic "Kill Bill" -- about an aging lioness willing to kill to protect her cub.
  27. Jakob the Liar
    Of course, there's still the Williams schmaltz factor.
  28. The Hunted
    The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kaena: The Prophecy
    Originally conceived as a videogame, Kaena is now, instead, a creamy-colored yet derivative sci-fi fantasy with a few rip-offs so blatant (''The Empire Strikes Back,'' ''Alien,'' etc.) that even kiddie fans not yet mentally agile enough to make sense of the loopy plot could pick them out.
  30. Some Body
    Will take you places you haven't been, and also places you have.
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