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For 16,523 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 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. Fading of the Cries
    Enthusiasm isn't exactly a replacement for good sense or basic skills, and the film's truest mystery is why no one pulled Metcalf aside and suggested he keep all this to himself.
  2. After Earth
    The script has no nuance, none. And when Shyamalan moves into the director's chair, the script problems are magnified. Everything is spelled out, underlined in red.
  3. I, Frankenstein
    There's certainly no moviegoing reanimation in director Stuart Beattie's adaptation of Kevin Grevioux's graphic novel.
  4. I Am Singh
    What unfolds instead is a deadly dull trial and boatloads of speechifying about religious dignity, hate crimes and prejudice.
  5. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    Perry's ongoing disinterest in improving as a filmmaker is now seemingly part of his unshakable belief in himself, his insistence on doing his thing his way.
  6. Won't Back Down
    This poor film is so shamelessly manipulative and hopelessly bogus it will make you bite your tongue in regret and despair.
  7. Alex Cross
    The best of the Alex Cross mess suggests that as an actor, he has the talent to move beyond the world of Madea should he want to. He just needs to look for much better material.
  8. Dark Tide
    Dark Tide, directed with hopelessly flagging energy by John Stockwell, barely musters up enough interest to be thuddingly bad.
  9. The FP
    The FP so desperately wants to be cultishly admired for its bad-taste rollout of wacko characters, ugly costumes and vulgar slang that it forgets to be genuinely offbeat or funny.
  10. High School
    Lacking real kick, High School winds up as irksome as a bag of ditch weed and as lame as the pun of the film's title.
  11. Grown Ups 2
    Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us.
  12. Battle of the Year
    This 3-D spectacle is less the dance movie that's going to make b-boying cool again than a shill for sponsors' gear.
  13. The Hangover Part III
    Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie - indescribably irritating and only in it for the money.
  14. Last Ounce of Courage
    The patriot-packaged Last Ounce of Courage has been made with the conviction of true zealots, but also the competence of amateurs.
  15. Excuse Me for Living
    Vaguely misogynistic and defiantly paternalistic, the movie fails at nearly everything.
  16. Getaway
    But unless you're a demolition-derby fetishist or a connoisseur of vehicular mayhem, none of that will buy you a thrill in this video game posing as a movie.
  17. The Brass Teapot
    Without a human dimension to ground its construct, The Brass Teapot ultimately feels like an interminably stretched-out skit rather than a storybook lesson stained with blood and hurt.
  18. The Counselor
    McCarthy has not done himself or his reputation any favors with this original.
  19. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
    The storytelling, from a script by David Coggeshall, is at times nearly incoherent and relies too often on random scares.
  20. Saving Lincoln
    Saving Lincoln feels amateurish, strange and beyond redress.
  21. The Numbers Station
    A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action.
  22. If I Were You
    This is Nancy Meyers territory, but leaden with passé observations about lovelorn women...and hardly ebullient as either oddball-pair comedy or housewife-revenge fantasy.
  23. K-11
    K-11 has the makings of a cult movie campfest but little of the authentic wit, edge or outré vision it would take to get there. What's left is a dreary jailhouse drama that somehow managed to imprison a few notable actors within its lurid walls.
  24. Maniac
    The self-serious POV visual style has none of Brian DePalma's cheeky, unnerving and self-implicating virtuosity — it just reinforces how sick and dumb this whole feel-bad exercise in misogyny and dimestore pathology is.
  25. Paris-Manhattan
    The conceit grows more strained, its Talmudic potential unrealized, while the comedy never rises above bleh.
  26. The Second Meeting
    This mission, well intended as it may be, proves a no-go from the get-go.
  27. The Legend of Hercules
    If you admire Kellan Lutz's chiseled body, The Legend of Hercules does offer plenty of that in 3-D glory.
  28. Aftershock
    Lopez is a middling ringmaster of doom at best. But there's so little context to the litany of ugliness — some played for laughs, some meant to shock — that it's hard to discern where the entertainment value lies in any of this.
  29. Generation Um...
    Neither the film, nor the film within the film, hold our attention. Bummer, Keanu.
  30. Copperhead
    Painfully lugubrious, any sting Copperhead might contain for its contrarian's view of history is undone by its wayward sense of storytelling.
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