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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. Gangster Squad
    The soul of the era is missing, and with it any reason to care. In Fleischer's hands, the high-stakes shootouts are as stylish as a GQ spread, but it's nearly impossible to figure out who's zoomin' who.
  2. The Last Ride
    Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, The Last Ride really goes nowhere.
  3. Parental Guidance
    Lazy, smugly self-satisfied movie.
  4. The Divide
    Director Xavier Gens seems to have set out to fashion a taut, under-siege thriller, but he never lets the innate drama of the situation play out; too often, events are accompanied by loud thumps and whooshes on the soundtrack.
  5. The Reunion
    The "Midnight Run" meets "Bonanza" idea isn't exactly a terrible one, but writer-director Mike Pavone has only one point-and-shoot gear, whether the scene is light comedy, dysfunctional family drama or western-tinged gunplay. (Even television shows these days exhibit more directorial flair and editing variety.)
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Great Gatsby
    The director has steadfastly proclaimed his passion for the novel, but the film he's made of it too often plays as no more than an excuse to display his frantic, frenetic personal style.
  7. Now You See Me
    For all the talent up on the screen — and one can't fault the performances — the movie just doesn't deliver.
  8. Magic Mike
    Life, however, cannot be lived entirely on stage, and once the characters have to take off their thongs and return to their real lives, the film goes nowhere that is either interesting, involving or surprising.
  9. Broken City
    Nothing clicks, nothing resonates, everything's broken.
  10. The Other F Word
    Winds up feeling scattershot and unfocused. Rather than capturing punk brattiness maturing into wary adulthood, director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins might have been better off simply making a film solely about Lindberg.
  11. The Greening of Whitney Brown
    After a grating start, the movie, directed by Peter Odiorne from a script by Gail Gilchriest ("My Dog Skip"), finds its way into warmer, more likable territory. That is, until it flies off the rails in a third act so devoid of logic it could have been concocted on the moon.
  12. Don 2
    Fitfully enjoyable, the film's leaden pacing and drawn-out running time make the twists of the plot less hairpin turns and more like bends in a river - moving so slowly you can see everything coming from the distance.
  13. Lawless
    For a movie about moonshine, something so imaginatively made, mood-altering and once violently sought-after, it goes down way too blandly.
  14. The Viral Factor
    A uniquely frenetic hodgepodge of story lures.
  15. The Flowers of War
    Flowers abounds with well-worn movie archetypes and slathers on schmaltz.
  16. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    Starts imploding long before the massive asteroid hurtling toward Earth is due to deliver annihilation.
  17. Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
    A self-indulgent pilgrimage to the shrine of '70s fabulousness, Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston assembles a fine assortment of archival material but falls far short of its stated goal.
  18. Detention
    Exhausting before its first few minutes of whip-pans, smash cuts, coarsely self-referential jokes and on-screen text visuals is over, the teen horror-spoof Detention is a patience-trying exercise first, energetic genre-jumble comedy second.
  19. ATM
    Screenwriter Chris Sparling worked in confined spaces to far better effect before with the minimalist Ryan Reynolds thriller "Buried." He must have used his best ideas there.
  20. Silent House
    The film is at its best as a fast-paced enigma. When Kentis and Lau start explaining what's actually going on, Silent House takes a turn not just for the worse but the ludicrous.
  21. Michael
    A strange and troubling little film, a hermetically sealed creep-fest that seems to have no desire to be anything more than just that.
  22. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    Let's say "Bayed," as in "being Bayed," is the core principle at work in the films. In general, being Bayed means being beaten, blasted, bashed, crushed, melted, morphed, reconstituted and remade over and over and over again.
  23. We the Party
    The naughty-yet-nurturing tone is certainly unusual, but in working so hard to be the adult who "gets" kids yet lectures them at the same time, he's ended up with a colorful but superficial mess.
  24. Darling Companion
    Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, Darling Companion has lost its way. Even the marquee ensemble anchored by Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Kevin Kline and Richard Jenkins is not enough to rescue this motley mutt of a movie.
  25. 360
    Hopkins' character is the most fully realized in the movie, complete with a monologue that the actor makes work, even if its carpe diem message-mongering is as unconvincing as most everything else in 360.
  26. Jack Reacher
    So thrill-less, so chill-less is Jack Reacher that it is unlikely to spark interest, much less controversy.
  27. The Perfect Family
    The film's single saving grace is Turner, who channels that legendary Catholic guilt like there is no tomorrow.
  28. Restless City
    In its portrait of a Restless City the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers.
  29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Not out-and-out terrible enough to be completely dismissed, while also not particularly memorable either, perhaps the truest summation of the film is to say simply that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that exists.
  30. The Words
    It's a snooze.
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