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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Sisters
    Family gatherings in the movies are shorthand for brutal trips down mine-strewn memory lanes. The Sisters doesn't disappoint in that regard.
  2. Aloha
    Aloha isn’t horrible, but it does have a pitiable odor about it, like a dog that’s sat too long on the beach. Crowe aspires to Golden Age of Hollywood repartee, but something feels off, just as it did in “Elizabethtown” (2005) and “We Bought a Zoo” (2011). Everyone just seems to be trying too hard.
  3. Insidious: Chapter 2
    Comes upon a few quirky solutions and movie-ripoff scares before settling into a kind of coma.
  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Does its best to include as much fan fodder as it does kiddie fare with the distinct personalities of the four Turtles — "Mikey," "Leo," "Raph" and "Donnie" — faithful enough to previous incarnations that both should be happier with the sequel over its predecessor.
  5. Beautiful Creatures
    The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained.
  6. Pay It Forward
    My rule of thumb for manipulative movies: I don't mind playing the marionette as long as the strings aren't visible.
  7. Head in the Clouds
    Charlize Theron's Gilda in Head in the Clouds invites comparison to Rita Hayworth in 1946's "Gilda," which adds a touch of the ludicrous to this already strained material set in wartime France.
  8. Happy Hour
    Unfortunately, what you'll remember most about the movie is its banal script and dialogue so ripe it almost laughs at itself.
  9. Wild Card
    Statham brings so little energy that the fight scenes are hardly more vivid than the gambling ones. His one-liners have no heart; his cynicism is no longer sharp.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A View to a Kill
    As for Bond’s glib wit, which has been running down lately, the screenwriters haven’t solved that problem. Some of his double entendres are older than Moore and one of them had to be used twice.
  11. Petunia
    Even in shabbily put together dramedies, such as this one, there can be a glimmer of light. Here it’s Christine Lahti’s anguished, nuanced turn as a wife and mother excited to begin a new phase with her husband.
  12. Make Your Move
    It’s cheesy fun for sure, but fun nonetheless.
  13. Jupiter Ascending
    Talk about lost in space. The whacked-out outer-space melodrama Jupiter Ascending has embedded in its genes the DNA of “Barbarella” and “Flash Gordon,” some dust from “Dune” and even a bit of Michael Jackson’s Disneyland short “Captain Eo.”
  14. Homefront
    A disappointing mess of a genre flick.
  15. Saw II
    Though the overall effect feels a little anemic compared with its predecessor, the ads promise blood, and - oh yes - there is blood.
  16. The Benefactor
    Old silver-fox Gere looks great. He’s almost embarrassingly charming — which is the point — but there’s not much else here.
  17. Trouble Every Day
    Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
  18. The Man Who Cried
    The result is a movie that talks big, even walks big, but has no scale whatsoever.
  19. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    It's never a good sign when the creepiest moment in a movie about monstrous 50-foot snakes is the sight of 2-inch leeches sucking on someone's back.
  20. Man on a Ledge
    Screenwriter Pablo Fenjves start with a promising premise, and the opening scenes are taut and suspenseful. A late-day chase scene picks up the sagging middle, but Leth totally fumbles what should be the movie's biggest moment.
  21. Passengers
    A clunky, dead-on-arrival scary drama that proves that even people with good taste need a good script or direction.
  22. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The film's major action sequences are never exciting, and even the now-requisite destruction of New York feels lazy.
  23. Ash Wednesday
    We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out.
  24. The Cell
    Disturbing, visually stunning thriller.
  25. Duets
    Hard to take stone-cold sober.
  26. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    The movie delivers the promised ballroom action, but not the charm. And if you think the title is endless, wait till you see Goodman's death scene.
  27. Butter
    Appropriately enough for a movie built on two-dimensional cartoons of amoral adults and innocent children, Shahidi is the only actor who emerges with her dignity fully intact.
  28. Beastly
    There's less to Beastly than meets the eye - and what meets the eye is no great shakes, either.
  29. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    "Wolverine" is silly and typical, not in spite of but because it bonds an undeveloped family feud onto the main character's renegade story.
  30. Brick Mansions
    The film is put together too choppily to appreciate the bounce-off-walls athleticism of parkour. That’s a shame, since “District 13” star Belle is known as a founder of the sport.
  31. Dracula Untold
    The CGI — mostly Evans transforming into fightin’ bats — look muddy and cheap, but the weapons, Turkish helmets and Romanian interiors are all gorgeous. If only the rest of this “Lord of the Rings” wanna-be were at the same level.
  32. Green Lantern
    The effects are so omnipresent it's like Reynolds' perfect hair is floating in CGI limbo. Yet when they need punch, as in a "Superman"-ish display-of-powers scene involving a helicopter, there's no flair.
  33. Angel Eyes
    A movie about healing that makes us want to scream out, ""Hollywood, heal thyself!"
  34. Confusion of Genders
    Despite a plethora of "naughty bits," it's a yawn.
  35. Inhale
    The film awkwardly mixes political, social and medical issues and ends up being less than the sum of its parts.
  36. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    There isn’t even an actual sea of monsters in “Sea of Monsters,” unless you count some fish guts.
  37. Dark Places
    One of 2015’s dullest.
  38. Fame
    Whether the young ensemble attains it remains to be seen. The standouts, though, are Naughton, Pennie and Perez De Tagle.
  39. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Has some good music and hot dancing -- filmed choppily -- but it completely lacks the magic of its predecessor.
  40. Twist
    Unfortunately, despite some strong performances, the movie never really makes a case for its own existence.
  41. Dead Man Down
    Before it devolves into typical American-style action, there’s an intriguing, European-style complexity to Dead Man Down.
  42. Clash of the Titans
    Can't overcome mythic stupidity.
  43. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    The oh-so-out-there mentality earns some chuckles, but that, along with Piven's preening, gets very trying. A hard sell is still a hard sell.
  44. The Green Hornet
    Turns out, Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial.
  45. Just a Kiss
    Stevens, an actor taking charge from the other side of the camera, and writer and co-star Breen are going for a romantic black farce, a darkly noble idea, but one that requires far more empathetic characters and funnier situations than they've created.
  46. Bait
    It may be a dismal comedy thriller, but Antoine Fuqua's Bait has one piece of bait that's definitely appealing: Jamie Foxx.
  47. Bringing Down the House
    A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.
  48. The Wedding Weekend
    A grab bag of sitcom jokes that work about 20% of the time.
  49. Death in Love
    Challenging and thoughtful, but is also, like its characters, a prisoner of its own anger.
  50. St. Trinian's
    Anyone with a fondness for the midcentury cartoons and films that inspired this scrappy comedy will appreciate the latest trip to the titular British boarding school.
  51. The Barber
    What remains rote is how easily the fiend’s victims fall for his tricks. It’s almost as if they’ve seen too many movies like The Barber, and shaved away all common sense.
  52. Zipper
    On all counts, Zipper comes up short.
  53. Need For Speed
    This movie is so dumb for most of its running time, you walk away wishing there was less plot and pointless posing and more of the fuel-injected coolness that brought you to the multiplex in the first place.
  54. Nights in Rodanthe
    It's an increasingly rare pleasure to see two naturally aging adults onscreen, and it's not exactly hard work to watch this still-gorgeous pair fall in love.
  55. Life as We Know It
    The sisters who play Sophie are adorable. And if you happen to be a sleep-deprived parent yourself, there are worse ways to catch a two-hour nap.
  56. Dirty Weekend
    The only thing more boring than this comedy about two colleagues on a layover in Albuquerque might be an actual layover in Albuquerque.
  57. The Edge of Love
    The Edge of Love may be intended as a biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, but it’s destined to be remembered as the movie that brought Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller into the same bathtub.
  58. Aftershock
    A lot of Aftershock predictably involves screaming or shock cuts, and the movie features a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo from Selena Gomez.
  59. Provoked: A True Story
    Rai's acting is frustratingly passive in Provoked, and the script is laced with prison and courtroom cliches. But the movie gets most of the facts straight and the flashbacks to the wife's abuse are harrowing.
  60. Adventures of Power
    Mostly, though, you'll appreciate Grenier, who approaches this minor project with hilarious and generous abandon.
  61. Alvin and the Chipmunks
    If karma exists, Alvin and the Chipmunks must be Lee's punishment for appearing in the likes of "Jersey Girl."
  62. Man of the Year
    You know a comedy's in trouble when the only laughter the audience can hear is coming from the speakers. There are other problems with "Man," notably its abrupt shifts from farce to romantic comedy to suspense thriller, and the near absence of a political edge.
  63. Silk
    By the end of Francois Gerard's plodding, uninvolving melodrama, his boredom will have nothing on yours.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Growing Up and Other Lies
    Only Adam Brody is compelling here.
  65. Never Back Down
    By the time ever-noble, ever-watchable Djimon Hounsou shows up to teach earnest young Jake honor and roundhouse kicks, the power-rock and smashmouth idiocy become like a fever dream, sweaty and hard to shake off.
  66. Just Like a Woman
    Just like its meaningless title, Rachid Bouchareb’s disappointing drama evokes better works without developing any distinct identity of its own.
  67. Love at Times Square
    Dev Anand's unintentionally hilarious Bollywood romance would be considered terrible by any artistic standard, but it serves as proof that sometimes the worst films make for the most fun.
  68. Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
    Mystifyingly bad given the talent involved, Southlander is an in-jokey, hipster escapade that appears to have been made on a drunken weekend because there was nothing better to do.
  69. Moonwalkers
    Moonwalkers is supposedly a comedy. So its clever conspiracy quickly goes disastrously wrong.
  70. Dot the I
    You can't have as many twists and turns in a story as dot the i without testing the audience's patience, and losing it before delivering the punch line.
  71. The Damned
    You won't get much back story, and the action is fairly generic. But The Damned still makes for a serviceable horror flick, with better performances than a movie of this caliber usually offers.
  72. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Perfectly inoffensive and almost entirely unfunny, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is more of a numbing experience than a painful one.
  73. As Above, So Below
    One of the world's top disturbing tourist attractions is now finally getting the spooky film it deserves
  74. Resident Evil: Retribution
    Thuddingly awful.
  75. The Gunman
    Sean Penn’s bad side makes for good action-drama in The Gunman. There’s a grubby, redemptive quality that makes this tough-minded flick feel like the son of “Serpico” and “Salvador.”
  76. Daddy Day Care
    Though topnotch actors often can elevate mediocre material, they need a topnotch director to help them do it. Steve Carr ("Dr. Dolittle 2") is not that director.
  77. When Will I Be Loved
    Toback is a smart guy with kinky tastes who has nothing left but to tempt actors into performing in his sex fantasies.
  78. In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    Bannon's film makes good use of historical footage to show how a B-list Hollywood actor made the unlikely ascension to commander-in-chief.
  79. World Traveler
    Crudup gives it his best, but his character is so economically drawn, there's hardly anything there -- certainly nothing likable.
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  80. Legendary
    Most of the acting is amateurish at best, and the tone is vintage "Afterschool Special." But it does aim to be family-friendly, and at least it succeeds there.
  81. Final Destination
    A mediocre fright-fest.
  82. Frank the Bastard
    Why doesn’t Wendy Vanden Heuvel do more film? As Clair’s cranky cousin Alice, she does more acting with a smirk and a turtleneck than the rest of the cast combined.
  83. The Other Woman
    So instead of the rom-com, we now have the “non-com.” The cardboard characters and predictable rhythms remain. But this time, we get all the comic cliches with none of the romance.
  84. Runaway Bride
    It's no Runaway success, but Gere and Roberts still glow.
    • New York Daily News
  85. Restless
    Would that the film were as interesting as the setting.
  86. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin.
  87. The Jimmy Show
    The movie is as unpleasant as its hero, and the film audience gets no more for its money than the customers at the Laughing Stock. Still, watching Whaley take Jimmy down his tortured path has some morbid appeal -- like a train wreck in progress.
  88. Mutant Aliens
    This lackluster outing is mostly just a retread of past glories.
  89. I Love Your Work
    Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.
  90. The Sitter
    The Sitter is not only an atrocious shout-out to bad '80s comedies, it's also the kind of movie Jonah Hill should look at as a crass blast from his past.
  91. Tammy
    The fact that it stars the extremely funny Melissa McCarthy is both its saving grace and incredibly frustrating.
  92. Arthur and the Invisibles
    Luc Besson, a sort of French version of Steven Spielberg without the intuition, has tried a lot of genres in his young career and has had his greatest success with slick action films like "The Fifth Element" and "La Femme Nikita." Animated movies for kids he should stay away from.
  93. P.S. I Love You
    The movie - with some gamy sexual references, a one-night stand and a long look at a stud muffin's naked buns - targets an older female audience. They may see it as unbearably cute, filled with ridiculous coincidences and laced with performances that - like the obnoxious soundtrack music - overstate the mood.
  94. Fat Albert
    Somewhere in its quest to be educational, Fat Albert forgot to be entertaining.
  95. The Maid's Room
    It’s admirable that writer/director Michael Walker wanted to make a socially conscious thriller. But surely he didn’t have to replace all the thrills with broadly moralizing messages.
  96. Reign of Fire
    Clearly, nobody's going to win any awards for this, but maybe Bale and McConaughey knew what they were doing after all. The music is loud, the action is fierce and the bodies are buff.
    • New York Daily News
  97. Cry_Wolf
    The low splatter quotient may not be enough to quell the blood lust of slasher fans, but several neat plot twists - and a surprise ending - make Cry Wolf a cut above the rest.
  98. Planet 51
    Movie references abound, but there's not enough humor to fuel even 90 minutes.
  99. August
    There's not much to it, but Austin Chick's hyper-focused indie does serve as a nicely assured showcase for lead Josh Hartnett.
  100. Underworld: Awakening
    Latest, dreadful entry in the vampires-battling-werewolves franchise.
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