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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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    • 70 Critic Score
    A Drummer's Dream
    The most pleasant surprise here isn't just watching these masters perform their craft - though it is quite a treat - but rather how eloquent and thoughtful they are when discussing it: each and every one of them emphasizes the importance of simple hard work and lack of any catch-all technique or "secret" to what they do.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Greater Good
    The pace of the film remains fairly brisk, in no small part because what's being said is staggering, especially if you don't know too much about the science of and politics behind vaccines.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inni
    The result is a hazy, shoegazy visual tone that is both elegiac and eulogistic - that is, at once meditative and funereal.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hipsters
    Punch-drunk, decadently designed slice of eye candy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    It's merely a trivial footnote to the popular franchise - though one that will no doubt satisfy rabid gleeks.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Final Destination 5
    So tapped into its audience's giddy schadenfreude that beyond a kinkier-than-usual jolt of black humor and some clever red herrings, the formula remains rote.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    It's a climax of truly epic proportions.
  8. The High Cost of Living
    The cast is uniformly good, but Isabelle Blais especially stands out as Natalie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Madea's Big Happy Family
    Too lazy (and, it seems, cynical) to give his audiences any more than he thinks they want, Perry appears to have given up on making a coherent movie altogether.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Water for Elephants
    Beautifully designed, sufficiently choreographed, insipid but watchable, Elephants stresses that showbiz is about the maintenance of an illusion by any means necessary.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    The book proves proudly indigestible on film.
  12. Fly Away
    Fly Away could have been stronger if its antiseptic visual style, which anchors it in old-fashioned TV movie mode, had been more adventurous in shouldering some of the weight of depicting the emotional and psychic anguish of the story.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Arthur
    This remake seems to exist only to zap the original of its minor pleasures.
  14. One Hundred Mornings
    As the film works toward its negative Eden ending, having illustrated just how little a life is worth, one of its most potent points is how brutally destabilizing hope can be when despair has become the norm.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Redland
    The depraved, desperation-trumps-morality, circle-of-life denouement is foreshadowed a little too heavily from the beginning, but with its hypnotic, singular aesthetic, Redland still casts a spell that's hard to shake.
  16. Kill the Irishman
    Though director Jonathan Hensleigh (The Punisher) perks up when filming violence, the atmosphere throughout is past-prime, stymieing any strut.
  17. I Will Follow
    The entire cast is in fine form (Omari Hardwick, as Maye's maybe-suitor, pushes the sexual heat through the roof), but White's blistering performance sears the screen.
  18. Lemmy
    Devotees of Motorhead frontman/certifiable rock icon Lemmy Kilmister will be in heaven watching this gushing love letter to the man who straddles rock subgenres, but anyone who's not already a fan will cry for mercy long before the nearly two-hour film ends.
  19. Drive Angry 3D
    Cage's avenger is named Milton; this reference to the author of Paradise Lost is the sole hint that Old World culture ever existed in Drive Angry's convoy of hyperbolized-unto-parody Americana: bad drawls, obese gawkers, roadhouse demonology, coochie-cutter shorts, and engines revving under guitar stomp.
  20. Brotherhood
    Characters make choices that are incredibly stupid, even wildly offensive, but also recognizably human, and as the night spirals out of control Cannon demonstrates a strong hand in controlling the mayhem. He also sets himself up as a filmmaker to watch.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cold Weather
    Itself an observational relationship comedy, Cold Weather's underlying tension is reminiscent of an old-fashioned comedy of remarriage.
  22. The Roommate
    It's exactly what you thought it would be: A plagiarized, campus-set "Single White Female" pitched to teens.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sanctum
    Ultimately, the plot-point overload dilutes any palpable sense of dread, excitement or empathy, and it doesn't help that all the dialogue acts in service to either patronizing exposition or turgid interpersonal drama.
  24. Burning Palms
    Built-to-shock anthology film.
  25. Season of the Witch
    The makeup department's glommed-on plague pustules are fantastic, but the concession to modern technology in a badly rendered last-act CGI demon, cut and pasted from a Diablo II screen-grab, is so eminently lame as to cure all fear of hellfire.
  26. Gulliver's Travels
    Black, looking like an unwashed clothes pile and capering in familiar "Uncle Jack" style, is a good babysitter, his cross-dressing turn in a doll's house a highlight.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Country Strong
    Country Strong is sillier - and more tone-deaf - than Paltrow's advice website, GOOP.
  28. Faster
    The archetypal names are pure Walter Hill, the single-minded grudge mission borrowed from Donald Westlake's Hunter books - fine antecedents, though director George Tillman Jr.'s style is anything but terse, indulging rote slo-mo swagger set to secondhand musical cues.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meskada
    Sternfield's direction isn't spry enough to handle the abrupt shift in genre when this moves from detective tale to social-problem film, and things bottom out with a town hall meeting tepidly shot as courtroom drama that stops the story's momentum dead in its tracks and leaves Meskada limping through its last half-hour.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Skyline
    The military eventually shows up to nuke the joint (L.A., incidentally), but there's no urgency, suspense or charm with all that back-row rattle.
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