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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. Reality
    The bizarro plot threads, and dippy characters fail to connect in any rewarding way, resulting in a largely unfunny film that proves as repetitive and tedious as the 1971 Philip Glass snippet that provides its entire score.
  2. Survivor
    Amid the choppy action and whirl of sketchy characters lie muddled messages about revenge, greed, war, hubris and the endless ripple effects of 9/11.
  3. Superfast!
    While fans can appreciate all the winks and nudges, the film is a wreck for the uninitiated.
  4. Bravetown
    First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
  5. Reset
    An unpleasant exercise in self-indulgence
  6. The Secret Life of Pets
    Resisting the temptation to invest its characters and storytelling with any particularly winsome, distinctive qualities, the film quickly devolves into an infernally busy and overextended chase sequence crammed with desperately unfunny comic patter and noisy, pointless action.
  7. Every Secret Thing
    Crushingly listless and at times as off-putting as a needle scratching vinyl, this corkscrew tale of questionable (and questioned) parenting, youthful misjudgments, grudges and disappointments doesn't even have the disciplined domestic-evil allure of a Lifetime movie.
  8. John Doe: Vigilante
    The fatal flaw of "John Doe" is its focus on ideas, rather than people.
  9. Road to Juarez
    With a succession of tangential flashbacks, the film gradually disengages viewers from the plot.
  10. Dirty Weekend
    That Les isn't one of LaBute's garden variety sadists is the best thing you can say about Dirty Weekend.
  11. Lou!
    For anyone who's not a Francophone tween girl, the film likely will be a tedious, precious exercise in indulgence.
  12. Bass Clef Bliss
    The young man is inspiring all on his own, never more so than when he's being social or making music with others. It's only the movie around him that is so artless in its uplift.
  13. Fifty Shades Darker
    This is a surprisingly dull and tedious affair where nothing is even remotely plausible, the romance and the sex least of all.
  14. Fifty Shades Freed
    If liberation is the endgame of Fifty Shades Freed, most of the time we feel trapped right alongside the characters, immobilized by the pointless, suffocating beauty and the stultifying dramatic inertia of the world James has created for them.
  15. Freedom
    We get too little character development to be invested in the story and barely a glimpse at the horrific plight of enslaved people.
  16. American Heist
    Despite a few strong emotional beats, the crime drama American Heist proves as undistinguished as its generic title.
  17. Dark Was the Night
    The script, the special effects and Jack Heller's direction simply don't add up in the profile of the mythical creature. It's quite obvious the filmmakers didn't put a lot of thought into it and went straight for the cheapest thrills.
  18. Into the Grizzly Maze
    Rarely do you sense that any key performer was ever in the vicinity of a real animal.
  19. Miles to Go
    What really hampers Miles to Go is its aimless wandering. Many things could be forgiven with some growth or movement in the journey, but ultimately, this one just ends up running in circles.
  20. Unfreedom
    In writer-director Raj Amit Kumar's heavy-handed political theater, characters are little more than avatars of opposing cultural currents.
  21. Phantom Halo
    Although the performances, including that of Rebecca Romijn channeling Cybill Shepherd as a femme fatale type, are sturdy, their characters have been given absolutely nowhere interesting to go.
  22. Big Stone Gap
    The movie mostly plays so strained and corn pone that it undermines its sincere emotional core and good intentions.
  23. The Pardon
    Except for a reliably flavorful turn by John Hawkes, compelling in a few key scenes as Henry's accomplice, The Pardon remains stubbornly uninvolving.
  24. Charlie, Trevor and a Girl Savannah
    Flashily shot and cut like a long-form music video, the film is merely an empty vessel for a Guy Ritchie-esque stylistic exercise.
  25. Beyond the Mask
    The faith-based impetus behind this redemptive, family-friendly, American Revolution-era yarn is placed front and center amid all the digitally assisted derring-do and skulduggery.
  26. The Stranger
    Seeking existential, noirish heft, Amoedo coyly avoids articulating what Martin is. (He calls himself "sick.") But it only comes across like an amateur play at gravitas, one unsupported by dully weighted scenes and clunky dialogue, delivered mostly by English-speaking actors straining to hide Latin accents.
  27. Redeemer
    Unfortunately for English speakers, nothing here is lost in translation. Everything is exactly as lame as it sounds.
  28. Dragon Blade
    The movie's grandiose emotional quotient never feels any more real than its ham-fisted dialogue, dubious accents, strained "Kumbaya" moments or eclectic hairdos.
  29. Faith of Our Fathers
    This evangelical "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" by way of "The Dukes of Hazzard" takes a mighty ridiculous route to righteousness.
  30. Gone Doggy Gone
    The film's oddball assortment of broadly played characters feel like sketch comedy escapees stretched beyond their limits, an attempt to fill the demands of a feature-length canvas.
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