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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Cat Run
    Falls squarely into the a-family-needs-to-eat category, because there is a careless lack of attention about the whole thing, something that could be perceived as smugness if the film didn't feel so haphazard and lazy.
  2. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    This movie version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original.
  3. John Carter
    That John Carter is so hit and miss, and miss, and miss is unfortunate on any number of levels.
  4. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Given the subject matter, an exercise in delicacy and restraint was unlikely, but it's too bad that the film's concept is way more entertaining than what has ended up on-screen.
  5. The Big Bang
    The movie never rises above a style-over-substance exercise.
  6. Sympathy for Delicious
    Despite the powerful sense of place, Sympathy for Delicious unwinds a narrative thread that grows increasingly tattered and flimsy.
  7. Here Comes the Boom
    The film works hard at its inoffensiveness. Throughout, jokes are left on the table, setups never pay off in any significant way.
  8. Total Recall (2012)
    Like a drug that starts with a rush and ends with a headache, Total Recall is too much of a good thing.
  9. Ranchero
    A 38-year-old man's coming-of-age story, the earnest Ranchero reaches for thematic resonance and ends up only cliché-deep.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Devil's Double
    Despite numerous pluses - Lee Tamahori's vigorous direction, handsome cinematography, outstanding production design, an impressive dual performance by Dominic Cooper as Uday and Latif - the film is more wearying than entertaining.
  11. The Ledge
    Despite a capable cast and attractive Baton Rouge, La., locales photographed by Bobby Bukowski, The Ledge suffers from a seriously flawed script that's just too implausible to be taken seriously.
  12. The Best and the Brightest
    Unfortunately, writer-director Josh Shelov's sendup of the Manhattan private school culture flies off its comic rails after an engaging start, never to land back on solid ground.
  13. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    Rather than the engaging enlightenment of the source, the film becomes bloated by confusion.
  14. The Cold Light of Day
    A by-the-numbers thriller that often looks as murky as its plot.
  15. The Guilt Trip
    There is something promising about the match-up of an old-school show-biz kid like Streisand with the modern, anxiously self-aware Rogen, but what could have been the multigenerational Thunderdome of Jewish Humor instead turns out bloodlessly disappointing.
  16. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    It's massive, all the retaliation and the world saving stuff. And it's convoluted. Frankly no one should have to think that hard to keep up with the Joes.
  17. Resident Evil: Retribution
    As always, Jovovich's game face is admirable - whether giving gunslinger shade or play-acting a protective mother storyline straight-outta-Cameron. But it can't be easy when all around her are line readings that recall the glory days of baroquely dull foreign-movie dubbing.
  18. Hotel Transylvania
    There are some crowd-pleasers - but Hotel Transylvania never becomes the great monster mash that seemed in the offing.
  19. Vincent Wants to Sea
    What's missing is any of the real-life messiness that might have lifted this material from its creatively tic-ridden confines.
  20. The Family Tree
    Director Vivi Friedman's inability to successfully reconcile the film's duality undercuts an eclectic cast gamely committed to Mark Lisson's thematically ambitious, if scattered, script.
  21. W.E.
    W.E., Madonna's second go at directing a feature film, leaves one wishing she'd find other creative outlets for those times when she's bored with the pop-star life.
  22. Ironclad
    Though the hambone acting quotient is high (and not necessarily unenjoyable), the loud, closely photographed limb-hacking becomes as monotonous as the movie's unrelentingly gray palette.
  23. The Ward
    The Ward is bland shock therapy from the guy who reinvented bloody peek-a-boo with the classic "Halloween."
  24. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" leaves audiences feeling hollowed out, dispirited and dissolute. Texas Chainsaw 3D is simply a bummer for being a big nothing.
  25. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    Not only is the story dreamed up by producer Ahmet Zappa even odder than the title indicates, its execution gets increasingly irritating as the film goes on.
  26. Tanner Hall
    The better moments are fleeting. More often, the film feels flat-footed, and the story plays out as you'd expect. Long before Tanner Hall ends, you may well find yourself wishing for the final bell.
  27. The Double
    The movie's few pleasures, though, do belong to Gere, who makes the most of his preening caginess as a spook thrust back into the cold. Grace, though, comes off more whiny than tantalizingly adversarial.
  28. A Proper Violence
    Weakly developed characters, a lack of substantive tension and an ending that's more startling than sound round out the minuses of this earnestly motivated but undercooked morality tale.
  29. The Lady
    We have a fumbling and fawning - if sincere - tribute to the living legend and a director who has never seemed more out of his element.
  30. Fireflies in the Garden
    There's a strange sort of diffidence that seems to inhabit Dafoe and Roberts' performances, and the disconnect between the two Janes is simply insurmountable.
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