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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. Dracula Untold
    It works neither as a sweeping historical epic nor as an action-horror hybrid.
  2. Green Lantern
    Reynolds makes Hal a perfectly functional comic-book hero, but there's a big difference between functional and super.
  3. Angel Eyes
    A cumbersome dud, grows draggier with each new revelation.
  4. Simon Birch
    It allows for little of the dark and funny in Irving's picaresque morality fable. No room! Not with the buckets of bathos thrown our way, substituting for mass-market spiritual uplift!
  5. The Change-Up
    Soon enough it's back to stale jokes about spousal date nights.
  6. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Sarcastic quips and cynical attitudes abound, maybe as a way for the movie's makers to telegraph that they know this is all just so much kid stuff. But if the characters can't muster genuine awe for their adventure, it's a tall order to ask us to do it for them.
  7. Swing Kids
    The movie is a somber, smoothly crafted drama about a wily adolescent who senses there's something rotten going on in his country but can't quite put a finger on it.
  8. Lethal Weapon 4
    At the Lethal Weapon plant, what you see, after 11 years, are the rusting remnants of a once innovative model.
  9. Jigsaw
    It feels too long, and it’s only 90 minutes. Jigsaw’s lifecoach-gone-mad ruminations have never sounded less threatening: He is become mansplainer, destroyer of drama. But there are lasers. I liked the lasers.
  10. Dark Places
    It’s never pushed far enough. Instead, Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists.
  11. Fame
    The teachers (including original cast member Debbie Allen as school principal) turn out to be the best part of the show.
  12. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    There are two sparks of light amid the trifling dialogue and bad faux-'80s love-on-the-beach montages in Havana Nights, and they are the film's costars.
  13. Consenting Adults
    This is the sort of cloddish thriller in which characters keep putting themselves in dangerous situations because…the movie requires them to be in dangerous situations. The one true surprise has nothing at all to do with the plot: It’s Kevin Spacey’s hair. Dyed a glittering blond, it sets off his smirky, come-hither mug with maximum perversity.
  14. Clash of the Titans
    As Zeus, Liam Neeson twinkles where Laurence Olivier kvetched, and Ralph Fiennes, as Zeus' dark brother Hades (who has egged on the revolt to challenge Zeus), has a slinky nastiness.
  15. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Ed Helms and Ving Rhames score laughs. But the breakout is "Step Brothers'" Kathryn Hahn as the tough (sales)girl who keeps up with the boys.
  16. Why Him?
    It all works in theory. But the execution’s off.
  17. The Green Hornet
    In a last-minute tweak, the production has also been meaninglessly 3-D-ified - never mind that there's nothing whatsoever 3-D-ish going on. Maybe those clumsy 3-D glasses are meant to let moviegoers mimic the superhero mask-wearing experience?
  18. Bringing Down the House
    Stock farce characters and stale scenes of mayhem fill the downtime between the Martin-Latifah skirmishes.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Bait
    A tired action thriller determined to play the race card every which way for every which kind of viewer, seems hopelessly behind the curve.
  20. Need For Speed
    A moderately popular racing series that the powers that be have tried to turn into a turbo-boosted stunt-car extravaganza of the same make and model as the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
  21. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    The rare quiet moments in Nutcracker suggest Foy might be a real movie star. Let’s give her a real movie and find out.
  22. Nights in Rodanthe
    Lane and Gere mime adult courtship with the efficiency of synchronized swimmers. Yet in this ocean of emotion, they look like they're drowning.
  23. Life as We Know It
    There's something about Holly: She's the most ridiculous, irritating, two-dimensional rom-com heroine since...Katherine Heigl's last rom-com.
  24. Zoe
    An unimaginative waste of science-fiction potential.
  25. Aftershock
    The first, pre-'quake half hour is such a patience-testing slow burn that director Nicolás López runs the risk of extinguishing the viewer's interest altogether. But when things head (metaphorically) south they do so with an escalating, apocalyptic ferocity which continues until the very last second.
  26. Provoked: A True Story
    Based on a true story, this Indian variation on a theme of "The Burning Bed" emphasizes the psychological freedom the inmate finds behind bars.
  27. Man of the Year
    Williams turns out to be exactly the wrong candidate for the job, a comedian singularly uninterested in letting anyone else get a word in, but with nothing to say.
  28. Silk
    Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
  29. The Bodyguard
    The Bodyguard is an outrageous piece of saccharine kitsch — or, at least, it might have been had the movie seemed fully awake. Instead, it’s glossy yet slack; it’s like Flashdance without the hyperkinetic musical numbers and with the romance padded out to a disastrously languid 2 hours and 10 minutes.
  30. Backdraft
    Fire, as this movie makes clear, is nothing if not photogenic, and Howard has done a beautiful job of conjuring both its danger and its deceptive, primal beauty.
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