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For 16,522 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. Bad Johnson
    Little more than an 88-minute "it has a mind of its own" gag, Bad Johnson should have kept its premise in its pants.
  2. Drive Hard
    The stars' banter is insipid and unfunny, the wacky shocks short out and, most unforgivably, the car chases are a snooze, filmed as a series of stationary close-ups and diced in the editing room until they suggest anything but movement.
  3. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    If it only had a brain, a heart and the nerve.
  4. War of the Worlds: Goliath
    War of the Worlds: Goliath is just a few cereal commercials shy of a pointlessly cartoon marathon — violent, messily drawn and lifelessly dragging.
  5. Southern Baptist Sissies
    Irrational camera work and editing render Southern Baptist Sissies more fitting for the theater merchandise stand than for theatrical distribution.
  6. Tennessee Queer
    This unevenly acted yuckfest, which is as unsubtle as its title, has all the pizazz of a bad sitcom episode.
  7. Wolf Creek 2
    Everything we can gather seems to nullify any virtues we saw in the original film.
  8. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    The movie doesn't even need five minutes to signal that it's already a goner.
  9. Stage Fright
    None of it works, really, as either musical satire or genre Chex mix.
  10. After
    After catalogs so many clichés in the dysfunctional family at its center that the film could be taught in a screenwriting class as a lesson in what not to do.
  11. Among Ravens
    There's simply nobody to care about in Among Ravens, even as a case study in unhappiness and delusion.
  12. The Prince
    So unless you're a fan of yawn-worthy shootouts and showdowns, The Prince is a "Taken" retread hardly indicative of any special set of skills.
  13. The Longest Week
    Like so many filmmaking wunderkinds who could have used a course in common sense, Glanz is technically assured but emotionally hollow.
  14. Raw Cut
    Aside from the film's double-entendre title and typical slasher-movie poster, director Quist and screenwriter Ponickly have given us nothing to fear.
  15. Jersey Shore Massacre
    There's no ignoring the aggressive stupidity and crassness behind the whole enterprise.
  16. Saban's Power Rangers
    I feel more qualified than usual to announce that Saban’s Power Rangers (Saban clearly never learned to share) is a witless and cobbled-together pile of junk, and I mean that not as an insult so much as an assurance of brand integrity.
  17. Bridge and Tunnel
    In addition to flat visuals, logy pacing and lots of first-draft dialogue, "Bridge" plays host to such an uninspired — and uninspiring — circle of friends and lovers it's hard to invest in their mundane journeys.
  18. Innocence
    A movie of such snowballing stupidity that it's a wonder the actors could keep straight faces while shooting it (outtakes, please!).
  19. But Always
    Hokey dialogue, a syrupy score, a corny use of slow motion and a slew of contrived or undercooked plot developments further sink a movie whose appeal may elude even die-hard romantics.
  20. The Scribbler
    Director John Suits seems more concerned with plying eyeballs with creepy atmospherics, showy visual effects and sexy interludes than with propulsive pacing or roiling tension.
  21. The Disappointments Room
    The script telegraphs things, but also often descends into incoherence. It tries to be too many things at once, and ends up being nothing.
  22. Extraterrestrial
    Joyless and repetitive, Extraterrestrial is like getting cornered by a madman. You keep wondering, why is this movie shouting at me?
  23. Taken 3
    This time around the dramatics and dialogue are so laugh-out-loud funny that if there is a "4" — despite the promises that "3" is the final chapter — maybe it should be a straight-out satire.
  24. Guardian Angel
    Aside from too many characters and story strands, the dialogue is hackneyed and the acting subpar, starting with the movie's lead.
  25. By the Gun
    Emilio Mauro's screenplay is all rancid machismo, tedious yelling and turgid plotting, while director James Mottern exhibits a pathological love for repetitive close-ups and terrible acting that instantly brings each endlessly talky scene to a dead stop within seconds.
  26. Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
    An unholy mess co-produced by Cameron's faith-based Camfam Studios.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Kickboxer
    This may not be the dumbest action picture of the year, but it's not for lack of trying. Insurmountable plot implausibilities, rampant racial stereotyping, superfluous nudity and inhuman amounts of comically exaggerated violence--"Kickboxer" has it all.
  28. Panic 5 Bravo
    Inept on every level, Panic 5 Bravo is a virtually unwatchable, blood-soaked crime drama serving as the writing-directing debut of actor Kuno Becker.
  29. Vice
    Perhaps aware of how little its audience might pay attention to anything not running, fired off or blown up, the movie's characters explain themselves regularly. Willis, meanwhile, mutters his executive-suite-villain lines as if he's afraid of waking you.
  30. Life of an Actress: The Musical
    The theatrical acting style doesn't translate here, and the film feels overdone yet amateurish. The cinematography is dim and dingy, and some shots don't make any sense. There's no reason for this story to be a musical and no reason to watch it unless you're a die-hard musical theater completist.
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