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For 693 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Artist
Lowest review score: 5 The Roommate
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 426 out of 693
  2. Mixed: 226 out of 693
  3. Negative: 41 out of 693
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  1. Priest
    To Stewart and screenwriter Cory Goodman's credit, the whole set up takes about 10 minutes flat, leaving Priest's remaining 77 minutes to the dark, desolate action at hand. Even more to their credit, there's something evocative in that darkness, something poetic in its desolation.
  2. Darling Companion
    There's too much people and not enough dog in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, and even if you prefer people to dogs, that's a serious problem.
  3. The Perfect Family
    It's still a kick to watch Kathleen Turner don a housedress and trade soothing pieties with Richard Chamberlain. The Perfect Family feels like it could have been more than that, but I suppose counting its blessings is the more Christian thing to do.
  4. Paranormal Activity 4
    The film is heavily reliant on jump scares, but its best moments are the ones before them, when the tension builds without the benefit of escalating music to queue you in to the approaching shock.
  5. Act of Valor
    The plot might be summed up this way: America's having a war, and everybody's invited!
  6. The Good Heart
    Kári relies too heavily on the fleeting rewards of situation for the film to come together as an involving story.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Here Comes the Boom
    The first half hour of Here Comes the Boom is so good moviegoers might be fooled into expecting something better than an obvious wish fulfillment fantasy so patently implausible it's almost insulting.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Virginity Hit
    The Virginity Hit feels forced, hollow and ultimately scattershot. Never has watching an on-screen teen trying to lose "it" seemed so empty.
  9. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    You really need chemical aids to be able to sit through something so unabashedly half-assed.
  10. Man on a Ledge
    Either in spite of or because of its whimsically convincing quality, Man on a Ledge is reasonably fun to watch along the way.
  11. Beastly
    Beastly manages to show you all the ways it might have worked by missing every available mark, sometimes by the gaping expanse between Alex Pettyfer's ears, sometimes only by the feline curl of Vanessa Hudgens' smile.
  12. Green Lantern
    Takes forever to get going and then goes nowhere.
  13. Inhale
    Like the recent and only slightly less fantastical "Never Let Me Go," Inhale manages little more than a gesture toward untying its bundled moral knots.
  14. The Change-Up
    Tainted by a script (by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) so risibly broad it makes "Wedding Crashers" look like Bergman in the Hamptons.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The Green Hornet
    While this latest Rogen-penned iteration is a game try, it feels a bit like he's trying to make a volume out of a footnote.
  16. Life as We Know It
    Despite these two actors' decent - and occasionally very charming - performances the film stacks the odds of the audience caring about Heigl and Duhamel against a narrative vacuum that favors eye candy and cheap effect over emotional logic.
  17. Resident Evil: Retribution
    It's the closest thing you'll find yet to a recreation of a video game sensibility on the big screen - which is in line with the franchise's source material - and makes for a memorably unsettling if not particularly satisfying viewing experience.
  18. The Sitter
    The Sitter's a lazy ramble of a movie that's amusing enough to hold your gaze for 81 minutes while leaving you feeling a little cheated when it's over.
  19. Underworld: Awakening
    Murky and perpetually bluish in tinge, Underworld: Awakening does and gets little with the 3-D in which it's being offered, and ends by shamelessly setting up a further and fatally unnecessary installment.
  20. The Lucky One
    The Lucky One aspires to but never reaches the grandly melodramatic heights of the über-Sparks adaptation "The Notebook," though a reconciliation embrace in an outdoor shower of some sort seems deliberately staged to evoke the earlier feature.
  21. The Rite
    Hopkins is having a blast, and he's fun to watch.
  22. Seeking Justice
    Some of the film's limpness is due to the fact that Cage plays Will in a minor weird key as opposed to one of his major ones -- there are no fits of operatic oddness.
  23. The Ward
    The story's obvious and various potential is left to stand on its own, and the scares are largely uninspired.
  24. The Moth Diaries
    It offers glancing pleasures of the atmospheric kind – the impact is the equivalent of a filmy cobweb brushing against your cheek. It tickles more than it bites.
  25. I Don't Know How She Does It
    After a while, you stop hoping she'll tell her family to suck it up and watch some TV and then drink a bottle of rosé all by herself, and instead settle for wishing she'd develop a smidgen of self worth.
  26. Brake
    It wouldn't go so far as to say it feels like you went through Jeremy's ordeal for nothing, but I did wish I had come to know as much about Dorff's character as I did about the size and shape of his nostrils.
  27. Trespass
    Trespass is best received as an almost viable B-movie that just happens to have A-list leads.
  28. 1911
    1911 isn't propaganda but more a relentless, serious, fiercely nationalistic bit of historical mythmaking.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Afterlife
    Sorry to disappoint the fanboys, but this is the first film in the Resident Evil series in which Milla Jovovich neither begins nor ends the movie stark naked.
  30. The Tourist
    If Elise and Frank are opaque to each other, they're opaque for a reason, as, sadly, lovers sometimes are. (Come to think of it, this picture has more in common with "The Lives of Others" than you might expect.)
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