Film Threat's Scores

  • Movies
For 5,429 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Xanadu
Lowest review score: 0 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Score distribution:
5429 movie reviews
  1. If anything saves Elling, it is the trio of supporting performances that are closer to the real world.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    Greenland 2: Migration is all mind-numbing action with nothing to say. If you’re a fan of Gerard Butler or Morena Baccarin, you will probably have fun with this one. Otherwise, it’s a skip.
  2. As easy as it is to pass down mantras of fear and hate from parent to child or society to community (and individual), so is the imprinting of courage and compassion through conversation, emulation, books, plays, films, and the like. The Tale of Despereaux, aims to share such a message.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What makes this movie so inadequate is that there are some moments in it that could have been really worth watching.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This film once again proves that Hollywood has apparently run out of original ideas and is forced to remake another classic film and, like most Hollywood remakes -- big surprise -- it SUCKS.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The trouble is that the contrivances are so…CONTRIVED.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    To be sure, it's a very pretty, well acted production; however, that doesn't make up for the fact that I hated every minute of it.
  3. Tries to be bigger and better than the first "Charlie’s Angels." It achieves the bigger, but the better is sorely lacking.
  4. The role is ill-suited for Kinnear's talents. Abraham's pacing is glacial, the cinematography is flat, the score by Jill Savitt is suited better to a supermarket and then there's the fact that the climax can be seen coming a mile away. Maybe the biggest, though, is its failure to play fair with the audience.
  5. Isn’t very effective as a thriller.
  6. Eastwood is a formidable filmmaker, a force of nature, whose films like Mystic River will forever remain in the pantheon of Great Cinema. Alas, Cry Macho may likewise be forever regarded as a perplexing glimpse at a different side of the man, one who's created this macho persona and who now attempts to absolve himself, to only – pardon my crude use of the idiom – dig his own grave.
  7. It Snows All the Time resembles a prolonged PSA with all the production values and depth of an infomercial.
  8. In its favor, the film is competently edited, and the low production values aren’t too apparent – thankfully, it’s at least decently assembled.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    The messaging in Greed does nothing but preach to the choir and keeps us firmly divided in a time where reaching across the aisle would do a helluva lotta good.
  9. Shabbily structured, with barely any tension, characterization, scares, or thematic depth, Consecration, due to its utter lack of inspiration, loses the audience’s concentration within minutes, and may even lead to constipation (okay, maybe not the last part, but you get my drift).
  10. The Child Remains strives to be a unique amalgamation of horror themes, however, it ultimately results in a confounded muddling through mismatched generic set pieces.
  11. Could be subtitled “The Parade of Overrated Actresses.”
  12. The film has brief flashes of believability and humor. By and large, though, the script is uninspired, the picture's characters are stick figures, its dialogue is lackluster and the star's performance seldom rises above the adequate.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Everyone here sounds trapped in a high school staging of “The Crucible,” and after about an hour, this high-toned creature feature wears out its welcome and starts to seem rather boring and pretentious, the two greatest sins any movie can commit.
  13. Really doesn't take itself seriously. In fact, it so doesn't take itself seriously that it has a negative impact on the film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    It’s a photo-realistic computer-animated movie. The animation of Kong, Godzilla, and the other Kongs is mediocre at best. The backgrounds should look photo-realistic, but they don’t. I’d rather watch dudes in suits duke it out over a cardboard city than watch this cartoon mess again.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    In the end, The Marvel is a superhero movie clearly made and produced by people who have never read a Marvel comic book but read Archie instead. It feels like it was made for teen girls and not for actual comic book fans.
  14. We Need to Do Something simply doesn’t have the character-centered backbone to create an engaging 96-minute long story. It’s painfully obvious that atmosphere and style were the priority even though the premise made it so that the characters took the spotlight.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Powell and Loy try gamely to work their magic and wit, but it’s no use anymore.
  15. It’s easy to disappear into the setting of The Sunlit Night but if only the narrative were as involving.
  16. To put it in the best light possible, I recommend thinking of Four Christmases not so much as a really short movie but as a very special holiday episode of a sitcom.
  17. The fact that pretty much nothing makes sense renders the dull narrative that much more difficult to bear. So many questions arise regarding the laws established in this film’s universe, I frankly don’t even know where to start. So I won’t
  18. Kinda makes you think about how important seemingly minor events in life are. Not really.
  19. More tongue in cheek than its predecessor, and yet less over the top, it won't do any permanent damage. Of course, it won't leave much of a lasting impression, either.
  20. Plays like a 108 minute episode of Hawaii 5-0, minus the exotic locale.

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