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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. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an utterly depersonalized thrill machine, yet it’s exactly the film’s go-go relentlessness that is likely to make boys and girls eat it up.
  2. Gangster Squad
    Brolin and Gosling are both supposed to be playing World War II veterans who bring their knowledge of battle into the tough turf of the streets, but that's just a concept that the sketchy, half-baked script tosses out there.
  3. Lethal Weapon 3
    The movie zips around without any true forward momentum. The stars carry you along, though.
  4. Vantage Point
    Vantage Point starts to slide off the rails when it tracks a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and his trusty camcorder; instead of Zapruder-like intrigue, the episode has him running around like an agent in a rote thriller.
  5. Evolution
    Visually witty and even marvelous when it comes to depicting the spectacular creatures evolving at a speed previously known only in the Bible.
  6. Paranormal Activity 4
    PA4 develops the story ever so slightly (not enough to satisfy fans) and delivers a few good scares (not enough to satisfy newbies); mostly, it plays like a overlong prologue for the already-in-the-works PA5. Here's hoping this is just the tension-racking lull before the next big scream.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tempest
    Though real-life couple Cassavetes and Rowlands bounce well off one another and Raul Julia does a wacky musical number with goats (set to the tune of ”New York, New York”), the magic’s spare.
  8. Table 19
    Slight even by the wafer-thin standards of the wedding rom-com genre, writer-director Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19 offers a couple of mild chuckles, six actors who’ve all been far better elsewhere, and a mercifully brief running time.
  9. The Power of One
    The Power of One spends so much screen time reveling in the eloquence and bravery of its hero and depicting South Africa’s blacks as an anonymous horde of victims that the film, in effect, becomes their victimizer.
  10. Act of Valor
    When the bullets are flying, Act of Valor is undeniably tense and thrilling.
  11. The Boss
    A few moments are fantastically bonkers, but granting director duties to McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone, feels more like an act of love than wisdom.
  12. Horrible Bosses 2
    It's the small, tossed-off moments — Bateman's deadpan mugging, Day's frenzied cluelessness, and Sudeikis' smarmy one-liners — that land the best.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Final Analysis
    Insanely ridiculous.
  14. Unhinged
    It doesn't help that Pistorius' Rachel spends the first 75 of it like a woman who's never seen a horror movie — if there were noises in the basement, she'd run right down to investigate with a plastic spork in her hand — and the final 15 like a ninja assassin who invented them.
  15. The Good Heart
    The Big Apple of this evanescent tone poem is an invented nocturnal landscape featuring speechifying eccentrics and absurdist moments that feel northern European in sensibility.
  16. Igor
    The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't.
  17. Here Comes the Boom
    A cloddish, harmlessly drecky comedy from the Sandler factory of crude mush.
  18. Derailed
    A junky thriller that mistakes brute-strength plot twist, showy violence, and the against-type participation of Jennifer Aniston for earned excitement.
  19. Nightwatch
    Nightwatch is a horror for reasons that have nothing to do with suspenseful moviemaking.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Juno and the Paycock
    Hitchcock deserves credit for putting his personal artistic flourishes aside to create a straightforward adaptation, undistracted by technical wizardry. Unfortunately, the film is essentially a vacuum with no sense of intrigue or urgency — there's practically no character development, thematic weight, artistic innovation, emotional resonance, or narrative thrust.
  21. Suicide Squad
    Writer-director David Ayer (End of Watch) skillfully sets up the film, introducing each of the crazies with caffeinated comic-book energy. But their mission...is a bit of a bust. The stakes should feel higher.
  22. Appleseed
    At this point, there's something almost masochistic about the way animators in Japan use cheesy ''Westernized'' heroes to fuel their fantasies.
  23. Nightbreed
    Barker spins grisly fantasy out of sexual obsession, yet his style here couldn’t be less obsessive. It’s cluttered and rather incoherent, as though the trailers to four different horror movies had been spliced together.
  24. Barb Wire
    This rusted-future comic strip comes at you in shards -- exhaustingly derivative images of mayhem and titillation, with Lee, in her bad-girl bondage gear, as its blank vixen. If you didn't call her babe, she wouldn't exist.
  25. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    Lawrence makes you believe in the character you're watching. He does an amazing little piece of acting.
  26. Max Keeble's Big Move
    Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.
  27. The Phantom of the Opera
    The result isn't liberated from the stage; it's trapped, with waxworks literalness, onscreen.
  28. Dance Flick
    Enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals.
  29. The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch feels like more than the sum of its disparate parts; a painting in the wrong frame, maybe, but one whose imperfect beauty still draws you in.
  30. The Virginity Hit
    Works cleverly because it emerges right out of the everyone's-an-exhibitionist YouTube age
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