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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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    • 39 Metascore
    • 16 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dr. Giggles
    At this late date, the rules of the adolescent slice-‘n’-dice genre have codified into ritual (teens + sex = death), suggesting that those who rent this may have bigger problems than just bad taste.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Never Back Down
    Movie is dopey. And with its emphasis on stupid violence, xylophone abs, and getting yourself on YouTube, it's yet another product that makes you feel bad about today's youth culture.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    3 Ninjas Kick Back
    Filled with martial-arts action, bathroom humor, and slapstick, 3 Ninjas Kick Back even has a politically correct kicker: The champion ninja is a girl.
  4. Dot the I
    The movie is in love with its own story loops and fancy, pop-dream cinematography from Almodóvar associate Affonso Beato, which is fine; it's also in love with its own indie-culture cleverness, which isn't.
  5. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble.
  6. The Darkest Minds
    There is no resolution for any of the story lines haphazardly dangling like electrical wires. No villain is defeated, no secrets are explained. When the credits roll, there has been no catharsis for the 90 minutes of movie preceding it, which makes it all feel like a protracted introductory sequence for a sequel that, god willing, will never come.
  7. Virtuosity
    Washington is wasted here. Kelly Lynch is wooden. Crowe has a ball going over the top, but how much taunting and eyeball popping can a performer do?
  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. Resident Evil: Retribution
    Writer-director W.S. Anderson's overseeing of the Resident Evil zombie franchise has proven to be both lunatically haphazard and dementedly enthusiastic.
  10. The Gunman
    Sean Penn doesn’t make movies very often these days. So when he does, you go in with certain expectations. Sadly, it’s best to leave them at the concession stand if you’re planning on enjoying The Gunman.
  11. Daddy Day Care
    A parent-and-kid-oriented comedy about the adventures of men doing the hard work of mommies, which couldn't be more timely -- or less delightful.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.
  13. When Will I Be Loved
    A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense.
  14. Legendary
    A well-meaning dud.
  15. Final Destination
    An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
  16. Down Periscope
    Periscope is filled with such familiar faces as Bruce Dern and Rip Torn playing squabbling admirals, and Harry Dean Stanton in a tiny role as a grizzled engineer. None of them are used to good effect.
  17. The Other Woman
    This one has its own wonky charm and intermittent moments of genuine, depraved hilarity; it's like "Bridesmaids" drawn in crayon.
  18. Johnny English Strikes Again
    Every gag in this movie has already been done before, and better, presumably by one or both of the earlier Johnny English films. I promise that I will never force myself to find out.
  19. Runaway Bride
    The difference between "Pretty Woman" and Runaway Bride is that we can no longer buy Roberts in her tearful romantic-melancholy mode. It seems vaguely patronizing now.
  20. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Poisonously smug, one-joke indie comedy.
  21. The Sitter
    A needlessly frenzied, pseudo-raunch comedy that whips up a whole lot of R-rated antics only to arrive at crunchy PG-13 lessons in love and tolerance.
  22. Tammy
    It's a broad, helter-skelter farce whose best bits hinge almost entirely on the considerable charms of its star.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Arthur and the Invisibles
    "The Professional's" Luc Besson has made a fair share of artfully bad movies. Arthur and the Invisibles -- half-live-action, half-CG kid's adventure -- is (by a hair) more bad-bad, like "The Fifth Element," than good-bad, like "The Big Blue."
  24. Justin Bieber's Believe
    When the movie occasionally does confront its hero’s foibles, its answers are disappointingly pat.
  25. P.S. I Love You
    FYI, there's zero chemistry between P.S. I Love You's two commodified headliners. P.S.: The plus in the harsh grade goes solely to the divine Lisa Kudrow, delivering desperately needed laughs as the twitchy widow's husband-hunting best friend.
  26. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
    It’s disappointingly ho-hum, without the spectacular — and often very funny — special effects that have become the hallmark of this series.
  27. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    What we get is the usual mash of swashbuckling nonsense and soggy mythology: There will be romance, and revelations, and some silly gold-plated cameos (hello there, Sir Paul McCartney! And whoops, goodbye). Through it all, Norwegian duo Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (the Oscar-nominated Kon-Tiki) feel less like directors than shepherds.
  28. Fat Albert
    The sermonizing on behalf of good clean fun and hard old effort (Cosby co-wrote the script) is as faded as Big Al's sweater after too many days on earth.
  29. Cry_Wolf
    Cry_Wolf is underscored with idiot adolescent excitement (and gets extra absurdist points for casting Jon Bon Jovi as an educator).
  30. Exit Wounds
    In its low grade way, this blithely brutal cops and drugs thriller is an efficient hot wire entertainment.
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