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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. Who's Driving Doug
    By turns earnest and profane, the story of three twentysomethings' Sin City sortie contains flashes of wit.... But this road is lined with clichés and blunt dialogue, the emotional shifts all too neatly underlined by Death Cab for Cutie tracks.
  2. Five Nights in Maine
    The dreary postmortem drama Five Nights in Maine is barely kept afloat by the gravitas of dueling leads David Oyelowo and Dianne Wiest.
  3. Burning Bodhi
    The cinematography, by David J. Myrick, is lovely and luminous, but the story itself lacks insight or deep emotion.
  4. Paradox
    The temporal puzzle is enough to distract from the artless direction, visibly cheap set designs and tacky special effects. But if the expository scenes are any indication, his writing could benefit from some refinement.
  5. A Hologram for the King
    Hologram for the King is a baffling film, cinema without weight or heft. The problem is not that anything on screen is troubling, it's that nothing there, not even star Tom Hanks, is capable of holding our interest or attention for very long.
  6. A Country Called Home
    A paint-by-numbers indie that barely uses its most vivid hues.
  7. The Darkness
    While McLean and company admirably aim for some relevance by tying the Taylors’ haunting to their personal demons, ultimately The Darkness is just the same old show: things that go bump in the night, and the tasteful decor they defile.
  8. Snowtime!
    Directors Jean-François Pouliot and François Brisson fail to organize the material into a coherent story or strike a consistent emotional tone.
  9. The Great Gilly Hopkins
    Characters and situations are painted in such simple, broad strokes, we’re asked to take much at face value.
  10. Jack of the Red Hearts
    There's a poignant, powerful story lurking at the edges of Jack of the Red Hearts but, as is, the film proves a strained, implausible family drama.
  11. Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame
    A slapdash tribute too humdrum to ever whip up a truly inspirational froth.
  12. Road Games
    Though built to divert, Road Games mostly feels untethered to any memorably crafty storytelling.
  13. The Preppie Connection
    While the film is well-acted and appealingly slick, the end result lacks novelty.
  14. Going in Style
    If anything, it uses its gifted veterans to disguise how tired, implausible and overly sentimental the proceedings turn out to be.
  15. The Predator
    From time to time its mix of foul-mouthed bro camaraderie and in-your-face violence nods in the direction of modest entertainment value, but the net effect is a whiplash-inducing muddle. The movie is full of noise and energy but devoid of real wit, coherence or impact.
  16. Nina
    There are a few stirring moments, but it never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
  17. Boo! A Madea Halloween
    In its final moments, Boo! A Madea Halloween delivers a moral with after-school-special levels of subtlety. A jolting switch from oft-mean-spirited humor to a message movie, this comedy is unlikely to win over any new fans, but the devoted will find comfort in the familiarity.
  18. An Eye for Beauty
    Insistently distancing if aesthetically pleasing.
  19. Holidays
    The film mostly feels perfunctory and awkward — like calling home at Christmas.
  20. Being Charlie
    The film is well-made — the direction is strong, the cinematography by Barry Markowitz compelling and the script by two first-time writers is confident. The biggest problem with the film is Charlie himself.
  21. Sold
    It's unfortunate that Brown and company were unable to bring stronger narrative and filmmaking skills to this vital subject.
  22. Mothers and Daughters
    The emotions about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters are spot on, and there’s no shortage of star power. But there’s an insistently dour fog over the proceedings, and the film feels subdued and sedated without the levity to brighten up things.
  23. Mad Tiger
    Directors Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein put the focus on the standard reality-TV repertoire like "Making the Band." Their repeated disregard for Hioki's pleas to go off the record smacks of opportunism and exploitation rather than revelation.
  24. Daddy
    Daddy is the strained, at times cringe-worthy film adaptation of Dan Via's stage play, which ran off-Broadway in 2010 and the next year in Los Angeles. Based on the show's largely good reviews, something was clearly lost in translation.
  25. When the Bough Breaks
    Under the workmanlike direction of Jon Cassar (“Forsaken”), “Bough” breaks little new or inspired ground as it spins out its mildly effective, occasionally silly cautionary tale.
  26. We the People: The Market Basket Effect
    There are good lessons to be learned from the Market Basket saga. "We the People" doesn't trust the audience to figure them out for themselves.
  27. CHIPS
    Its principal ambition — basically, to make movies like “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Starsky & Hutch” look like rigorous masterworks of screen-to-screen adaptation by comparison — may be as shallow as the gutter. But from time to time, the movie does throw off its own crazy, moronic verve.
  28. The Last Heist
    While it has a sharp hook — and is reasonably diverting — it never rises above the routine.
  29. The Congressman
    Earnest and well-meaning, The Congressman devolves into predictable schmaltz.
  30. Dough
    The challah may be extra special, but the humor found in John Goldschmidt's direction and the conventional script by Yehudah Jez Freedman and Jonathan Benson is disappointingly stale.
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