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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. Eden
    Commercial director Shyam Madiraju, making his feature debut, demonstrates a spare, sinewy visual grip on the low-budget film, especially during that crash sequence. But the mechanical script strands a capable young cast in a sea of hackneyed character types and soggy platitudes.
  2. The Man Who Saved the World
    The film is a disingenuous, thoroughly dramatized reenactment at best and a reality show at worst.
  3. Olvidados (Forgotten)
    By cramming in as many tangents as imaginable, Olvidados ultimately loses sight of what the story is even about.
  4. Mr. Right
    It feels at once overwritten and thematically thin, coasting on a cutesy concept before descending into relentless, and therefore meaningless, violence.
  5. Me You and Five Bucks
    A dull, meandering romantic comedy with serious believability issues.
  6. The Anomaly
    There's infinitely more than one anomaly to be found in The Anomaly, a thoroughly nonsensical futuristic sci-fi thriller that makes a case for the perils of vanity projects.
  7. Manhattan Romance
    Despite what the film might want us to believe, if he walks, talks and acts like a selfish, predatory creep, he is, and there's just no sympathizing with him.
  8. Heist
    As vapidly generic as its title, British director Scott Mann's Heist is a by-the-numbers crime thriller that squanders a decent cast, including Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Dave Bautista.
  9. Tower to the People: Tesla's Dream at Wardenclyffe Continues
    Tower to the People means well, and Tesla deserves his own movie, but it's like being cornered by a zealot: an educational slog that morphs into an infomercial.
  10. Darling
    By the umpteenth disruptive shock-cut and patiently framed shot of Carter staring us down, Darling has worn out its welcome even as a mood piece.
  11. Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
    The film never gives a real sense of the daily travails associated with traumatic brain injury.
  12. Submerged
    Even the movie's brighter spots are undermined by ineptly staged action sequences, flatly functional dialogue and stock characters. Ultimately, Submerged is all wet.
  13. Shelter
    The story on screen comes off as a naive interpretation of the homeless experience as imagined from a place of great privilege.
  14. Western Religion
    A one-dimensional movie painted in painfully broad strokes and whizzing, hurry-scurry action sequences.
  15. Lost in the Sun
    Despite some scenic territory, there's just not much to this journey, leaving Lost in the Sun feeling like a short story stretched way too thinly toward feature length.
  16. Kill Your Friends
    The movie — glibly admiring of its hero's awfulness — is tone-deaf about genuine satire, assuming anything ugly (insults, nihilism, bloody violence) qualifies as sharp cultural commentary as long as the unceasingly venal, knowing narration explains it all for us.
  17. Ratchet & Clank
    From a storytelling perspective, the obsession with guns in a movie aimed at children is troubling, in poor taste and is lazy writing to boot.
  18. Bleeding Heart
    Writer-director Diane Bell suggests that these women are so steeped in low self-esteem and codependency that they would not be able to leave their men if they didn't have each other.
  19. Condemned
    Aggressively ugly and gross, the movie boasts a certain low-rent authenticity, but the auteur never figures out how to fill his grubby little rooms.
  20. The Girl on the Train
    The empathy that Taylor summoned so effortlessly in his previous films feels strained and unpersuasive here, and moments that should be lacerating...are overplayed to ghastly effect.
  21. The Ridiculous 6
    The jokes are often juvenile and gross, unsophisticated and insensitive, but one does not wish to strike juvenility or grossness or even insensitivity outright from the comic tool kit; these just aren't all that good.
  22. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
    This is the same infinitely repeated plot of "Halloweens" 1, 2 and 4 (3 took a slightly deviant turn), with the same unkillable bogyman Michael Myers, wreaking the same programmed havoc, and Donald Pleasence as the same distraught psychiatrist, repeating the same dire warnings to no avail.
  23. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
    The latest in a numbing series begun in 1978 by John Carpenter, and repeated five times since, with only a few plot and casting changes to detract from the brilliant slice-and-dice work of its masked hero. Mike may be getting older, but he can still sling a knife around like a chef at Benihana. [2 Oct 1995, p.F8]
    • Los Angeles Times
  24. Missing Child
    Writer-director Luke Sabis brings some interesting ideas to the well-known genre, exploring the nuances of abuse, spirituality and redemption. Unfortunately, the low-budget execution shows on screen, with a dim and dismal look, and the energy is decidedly lethargic.
  25. Close Range
    There's no characterization to the cartel members beyond freeze-frame title cards; they are interchangeable and expendable.
  26. Care of Footpath 2
    Director Kishan SS has made Care of Footpath 2 (a.k.a. Kill Them Young) as a bombastic, overlong melodrama that doesn't recognize the occasional need to takes things down a decibel or three.
  27. Landmine Goes Click
    It's a shame that what could have been an intriguing situational thriller devolves into a hateful, arduous drag
  28. This Isn't Funny
    This first feature is populated by blandly underdeveloped main characters who tend to recite their lines rather than inhabit them.
  29. Moonwalkers
    A famously crackpot conspiracy theory, psychedelic humor and arty ultraviolence make for dreary bedfellows in the scattershot British comedy Moonwalkers.
  30. Joe's War
    The film, unfortunately, treats the important and complex subject of post-traumatic stress disorder in an oversimplified and reductive way.
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