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For 601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 56 Up
Lowest review score: 25 Blended
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 363 out of 601
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 601
  3. Negative: 105 out of 601
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  1. America: Imagine a World Without Her
    What he’s doing, it turns out, is lowering the viewer’s standards of proof for a vigorous return to “2016″ territory, a hatchet job on Obama and Obamacare that tries to tie everything to a 1960s “radical” organizer who might have influenced the president.
  2. The Hot Flashes
    Hot Flashes don’t generate much heat — comical or otherwise. A pity, since that rare menopause comedy is a terrible thing to waste.
  3. The Possession of Michael King
    As “found footage” horror movies go, The Possession of Michael King is more unpleasant than scary.
  4. Behaving Badly
    First-time director/co-writer Tim Garrick has little sense of timing and the movie mainly just lies there, never percolating to life, never living down to its lowdown and lewd promise.
  5. Let's Be Cops
    "What's the worst that could happen?" The answer to that is, you could end up in a summer comedy that's barely funny enough to warrant — ahem — release in the summer.
  6. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    Dull, carnal, and explicitly so in both regards, it’s a slow-moving slog through one crushed soul as she relates the empty, passionless pursuits of her youth.
  7. Stolen
    For all the heists, chases and shoot-outs, it's a sluggish picture. Characters feel the need to stop the action to explain themselves. Thoroughly.
  8. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    Cranking out two formulaic movies like this a year show the Atlanta mogul’s true ambition — replacing all those soap operas TV is canceling, two hours at a time.
  9. Free Birds
    Frozen, undercooked and sorely lacking much in the way of “all the trimmings,” this turkey isn’t ready to serve.
  10. The Last of Robin Hood
    The entire affair feels malnourished, under-rehearsed and starved of energy.
  11. Reach Me
    An indie comedy whose primary virtue is its cast, well-known actors who took small roles on a lark — a chance to play against “type.”
  12. Paranoia
    It is as slow, slick and superficial as the director of “21″ and “Killers” can make it.
  13. The Citizen
    By the time we reach the third act, which is where the trial we’ve been teased plays out (at great, boring length), The Citizen has exhausted its supply of immigration cliches and our patience.
  14. The Maze Runner
    The resolution to this puzzle is so botched it’s insulting, as if they’re daring us to laugh at the notion that this is merely “the beginning.”
  15. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    Neeson is the rock anchoring all this, making the incredible at least passably credible as he lurches into the frame with his limping boxer’s gait. But you get the sense that he is no more “Taken” with this than we are.
  16. Hours
    Walker has few “big” scenes, no memorable dialogue and plays up the exhaustion, which tamps down the emotions of his performance. So even an action packed finale can’t rescue this dramatically thin exercise in one-man showmanship.
  17. 47 Ronin
    It’s a movie of pointless scenes.
  18. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    It’s a film of limp police procedures — stake outs that aren’t really clandestine, generic prison scenes, interrogations by underlines that suggest the leading players weren’t available on set for the entire day.
  19. Blended
    These days, Adam Sandler is a bottle of beer that’s lost all its bubbles — cheap, mass produced domestic beer. So let’s focus on what works in his latest, Blended, because he sure doesn’t.
  20. The Identical
    A musical mashup of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis biography and myth, The Identical plays like a failed faith-based “Inside Llewyn Davis.” And that’s the closest thing to a compliment it will get.
  21. I, Frankenstein
    The humorless, generic, and chatty Frankenstein served up here makes you wonder if the good doctor, in all his patching-together of parts, didn’t forget the brains.
  22. The Last Exorcism Part II
    Part II is every bit as cheap and far more generic, nothing more than a run of the mill ghost story masquerading as The Devil Made Her Do It.
  23. Persecuted
    A confused and confusing thriller.
  24. InAPPropriate Comedy
    There’s a phone app that could text a funnier script than this.
  25. Scary Movie 5
    Scary Movie 5 comes up short in every way imaginable.
  26. Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    Perry has made better movies, and perhaps worse ones. But never one as dull as this.
  27. A Haunted House
    For 85 rude and raunchy minutes, he does his best to drive a comical stake through the heart of horror's hottest franchise and the "found footage" genre. He doesn't exactly succeed.
  28. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    A lump of cinematic coal Perry’s shoving into America’s stockings this holiday season.
  29. Sabotage
    Watching this head-slappingly stupid movie is an exercise is seeing David Ayer sucked into the drain that Arnold’s been spiraling down ever since his “comeback.”
  30. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    There's nothing thrilling about summarily dispatching everybody who isn't meant to survive to the credits, nothing entertaining about meathook, hatchet and chainsaw murdering that we've seen scores of times.
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