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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 4.5 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. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    A harmless but almost charmless adaptation of a book by L. Frank Baum’s grandson.
  2. Moms' Night Out
    Mom’s Night Out sets itself up for laughs that it rarely delivers.
  3. R.I.P.D.
    The worst comic book adaptation since “Jonah Hex.”
  4. Savannah
    Savannah gets by on touches of grace and spirited performances, especially by Caviezel. After being so serious for so very long, it’s great fun to see him take on a “genuine character” with all the boozing, brawling and shooting that entails.
  5. 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.
  6. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is more Gatling guns and grenades than The Brothers Grimm.
  7. The Legend of Hercules
    At times, with its stiff, charisma-impaired cast, its digital sets and slo-mo slaughter, The Legend of Hercules has a whiff of the Augean Stables about it — if you catch my drift.
  8. Getaway
    Maybe they all took a gander at that random, ridiculous scenario and hoped that the car would be cool enough to bail them out. It isn’t.
  9. Barefoot
    Barefoot is “Rainman” meets “Benny & Joon.”
  10. Exists
    Convincing shaky cam or not, in the end all we’re left with is what we started with, just another bigfoot movie.
  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. 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.
  13. Grown Ups 2
    It’s another pointless romp through Sandlerland — where the women are buxom, the kids have catch-phrases and the jokes are below average.
  14. The Ultimate Life
    The performers are more competent than compelling, a common failing of faith-based films. Blame the edge-free, freshly-scrubbed characters that they play. Sadly, even as a safe-for-seniors saga ready-made for The Hallmark Channel, this is pretty thin gruel.
  15. 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.
  16. Movie 43
    About a third of the short films land a few laughs. But even the weakest material is lifted by the actors.
  17. Best Night Ever
    The saving grace of this more-rude-than-funny film are its cast. They’re just a quartet of Simi Valley “Woohooo” girls in the opening, but the players make each member of this motley crew distinct, human and out of her depth. And Janet (Flanagan)? You’ll want to party with her.
  18. God's Not Dead
    The pace is stumbling, the characters are broad, the makeup and the performances uneven, though Sorbo dives into his tactless, unethical indoctrinator role with Satanic glee.
  19. 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.
  20. Left Behind
    It’s inoffensive, unless you take umbrage at the idea that the only people who know not to steal are True Believers and all that keeps society from an instant meltdown are the Faithful.
  21. Persecuted
    A confused and confusing thriller.
  22. Scary Movie 5
    Scary Movie 5 comes up short in every way imaginable.
  23. InAPPropriate Comedy
    There’s a phone app that could text a funnier script than this.
  24. Home Run
    It’s too bad the muted Home Run didn’t take its own advice about being daring and inventive.
  25. The Lesser Blessed
    The performances are pretty sharp... But the situations feel contrived, the romantic pairings a bit arbitrary. Strip away the narration, and this would be more cinematic. Take away the setting and this is fairly routine stuff.
  26. Between Us
    This is a good cast, but it’s all played at a rather shrill pitch that must work better on the stage. The intimacy of the screen makes it all uncomfortably in our face.
  27. Heatstroke
    With villains cribbed from the generations of cheap thrillers that precede it and action scenes that have no novelty to them, Heatstroke starts looking like Adam Sandler’s “Blended” more by the minute — a movie the cast signed up for to get a free working African vacation out of it.
  28. Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
    It’s visually lovely, and the performances are subtle, sunny and sympathetic. Camara lends a playful touch to Antonio’s Beatle-mania.
  29. Two-Bit Waltz
    It’s no surprise that a Child of Mamet should have a clever way with a line and wicked sense of when to drop some tasty profanity. But Two-Bit Waltz is amateur theatrics committed to celluloid, a cast of “adorable” eccentrics performing scenes with the precious, remedial chapter titles.
  30. The Physician
    The setting and old fashioned structure of the story won’t be to every taste. But The Physician is quite good at recreating its era and reminding us that once, long ago, it was the West that was backward and always looking East for enlightenment, education and a way out of the Dark Ages.
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