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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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    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Perfect Guy
    It’s a lazy, by-the-numbers bore.
  2. Conan the Barbarian
    With the most growling and grunting of any movie this summer - and that includes those apes perched atop the box office - Conan the Barbarian seems at times to have actually been made by barbarians.
  3. Speed-Dating
    Jonathan, who was so great in "Roll Bounce," deserves better. It'd be overly generous, however, to say the same about anyone else involved.
  4. Land of the Lost
    This lumbering, ha-ha-look-what-we-remade action-comedy is a high-concept disaster.
  5. Would You Rather
    With a bit less grisliness, it could have been a mystery dinner-theater performance.
  6. Downloading Nancy
    Unpleasantly icy film based on a true story.
  7. K-11
    Points for niche audaciousness, but that’s all.
  8. Twice Born
    The tragic Balkan conflict of the 1990s is due for a sweeping, important and engaging cinematic remembrance. Twice Born wants to be that movie — a Bosnian “Doctor Zhivago” — but falls short.
  9. Focus
    Will Smith may have run through every trick in his bag. In Focus, the one-time fresh prince and former box-office champ looks tired, bored and, even worse, uninspired.
  10. The Paperboy
    It is likely to become an unintended camp classic, something we haven't had since "Showgirls."
  11. Swerve
    Despite the revved-up start and a suitably dusty setting, the movie stalls almost immediately. The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Clarke tries to inject some energy into the action, but even he seems to realize this ride’s going nowhere.
  12. The Women
    Is it an exaggeration to call The Women the worst movie of the year? Well, yeah, probably. But it may be the most disappointing, given all the effort that went into it.
  13. Disaster Movie
    Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Greetings from Tim Buckley
    For all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along.
  15. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s film underserves its cast of up-and-comers (Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan), allows the usually solid actor Michael Angarano to go astray with a scenery-chewing role and buries Crudup in fretting and sanctity. Worse, the experiment’s inherent drama is exacted with a tin ear and a cheesy style.
  16. The Rite
    Terminally silly, even more so for being "inspired by actual events."
  17. Swiss Army Man
    Swiss Army Man's greatest challenge is to its audience. Just, exactly, how much will we sit still for? Endless scenes of Dano in role-playing drag, sporting a rag-mop wig and giving dating tips to a corpse? Frequent closeups of Radcliffe's furry flatulent buttocks?
  18. A Green Story
    There probably is an interesting story in Van’s rags-to-riches tale. But all we get in this extended publicity stunt is clichéd filmmaking, stilted performances and a self-aggrandizing hero.
  19. One for the Money
    She's (Heigl) disastrously miscast as a character beloved by fans of novelist Janet Evanovich.
  20. Sinister 2
    Say one thing for these killer kids: they’re creative.
  21. Red Riding Hood
    The amazingly awful dramatic thriller Red Riding Hood could, with tweaks, be enjoyably bad in a "Plan 9 From Outer Space" kind of way. Instead, it's M. Night Shyamalan-style bad, which means despite all the unintentional snickers, you feel trapped.
  22. Step Brothers
    So that's three snickers, not counting the Bush quote, 'cause including that one ain't fair, man.
  23. Gnomeo and Juliet
    This is perhaps for Shakespeare completists only.
  24. The Woman with the 5 Elephants
    Alas, this learned woman of letters - her expertise became the work of Dostoyevsky, whose major novels Geier nicknames "the five elephants" - is ill served by a trudging approach and dry-as-dust, procedural style.
  25. Bulletproof
    Does the testosterone fly? Not as fast as the potty jokes. Ditto the homophobe jokes zing! zing!
  26. The Crazies
    Has warmed-over chills and a muddled, zombie-like execution.
  27. Blumenthal
    The problem with this hyper-verbal comedy is in the title.
  28. Battle in Seattle
    Well-intentioned but as earnest as a college freshman discovering campus politics.
  29. Paranormal Activity 4
    PA 4's best idea, besides reintroducing the slow-walking, statuesque Katie, is a strange video trick involving lots of little lights filling a darkened room. It's tough to describe, but the cameras, of course, capture a figure the characters can't.
  30. Gotti
    Admittedly, Travolta, who produced, is sure having fun. What ham wouldn’t? Chewing on the scenery like it was a meatball hero, he swaggers around in shiny suits and silver wigs, barking orders.
  31. The Pyramid
    Poisoned air, feral night-vision critters and hard-to-read hieroglyphics are just the tip of the pyramid for the world's dumbest squad of adventurers who walk right into their own curse.
  32. Texas Killing Fields
    Rote, dull and point-blank obvious.
  33. Role Models
    Where on the evolutionary scale of wacky-dudes-learn-to-grow-up movies does Role Models fall? Certainly less evolved than "Meatballs," but head and hairy knuckles above "Daddy Day Care" or "The Benchwarmers."
  34. The Lone Ranger
    This smart-looking but empty adventure — with a hero that looks more Tom Ford than John Ford — suffers from a shambling script, shifting tones and a surplus of villains. Clunky and drawn out, “Ranger” shoots blanks, even with the star power of Johnny Depp behind it.
  35. Youth
    Youth is fleeting. "Youth" is not. In fact, you may feel yourself getting older just watching it.
  36. The Christmas Candle
    This odd Dickens-meets-Sunday-school movie is as artless as the setup is muddled.
  37. Mammoth
    The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of "Babel," its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson.
  38. Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
    Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
  39. The Longest Ride
    If this is your particular poison, it won’t kill you. But anyone averse to Sparks’ sappy touch may get sick from all the bull.
  40. Babylon A.D.
    The plot makes absolutely no sense.
  41. Heist
    So, Bobby, seriously, what the hell is happening? You got a new movie, or what you’re billing as a movie, except it's already on cable and I figure a month from now it'll be in one of those Redbox things. And it's called Heist, I guess because it wants to separate me from my money.
  42. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Stein's schlumpy presence is disarming, though his know-it-all nature is at odds with his free-speech posing.
  43. Dom Hemingway
    When you name your movie Dom Hemingway and then require the titular antihero to repeatedly declare, “I am Dom Hemingway!” the filmmakers must be very confident that there is something special about their character. Too bad there isn’t.
  44. Kill Me Three Times
    This Australian movie reminds you what can happen when directors pretend to be Quentin Tarantino, complete with snark masquerading as style, slippery timelines, blood and guts and guns everywhere.
  45. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The film is an exasperating bore.
  46. MacGruber
    To call MacGruber"a total bomb is a bit much, but this comedy-action flick sure feels like it was put together with gum, shoelaces and a couple of sticky Twizzlers.
  47. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Anyone hoping to engage even a single brain cell, however, is out of luck. Which is too bad, since popcorn blockbusters don't actually have to be mind-numbingly stupid or soul-suckingly empty.
  48. Chloe and Theo
    This tale of an Inuit coming to New York City to warn about the perils of climate change is like a 1970s PSA, complete with stock, one-note characters and message-y dialogue.
  49. Trust
    Trust - a drama about the dangers of teen sexting and online predators - plays as prurient, ham-handed and amateurish.
  50. Why Stop Now
    This comic drama tries too hard to serve up a slice of manic life, but Eisenberg, along with Tracy Morgan and Isiah Whitlock Jr. as the affable druggies, provides some spark.
  51. Skyline
    It's finally here: The most boring alien-invasion movie ever.
  52. Not Forgotten
    None of it makes any sense, but it is just nutty enough to provide a few (entirely unintended) laughs.
  53. Scary Movie 5
    Luckily, folks like Snoop and good sports like Sheen and, yes, Lohan, break up the monotony. Until, like an undead beastie, the boredom and dumb jokes come roaring back.
  54. Just Before I Go
    The former “Friends” star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this.
  55. Beyond the Black Rainbow
    Add two more stars here if zoning out to weirdo-dreamy, '80s public-access TV with a synthesizer soundtrack is your idea of midnight fun. Because this ambitious, but not uninteresting, failure has that in its DNA.
  56. Tracers
    True, the energy level is high, and there are some pretty faces and toned bodies. But Tracers cannot live by pecs appeal alone. And pretty soon, Lautner won’t be able to, either.
  57. The Samaritan
    The most charitable approach to this unfortunate diversion in Jackson's career would be to pretend it never happened. Now, who wants to go see "The Avengers" again?
  58. Nanny McPhee Returns
    This dour, hyperactive family film is joyless, overly busy and starchy.
  59. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    What you don't expect is how bad almost all of it is.
  60. Little Boy
    Somewhere amid the storytelling rubble in Little Boy there’s a decent message against racial prejudice. But it’s suffocated beneath a hokey premise and hopelessly square execution.
  61. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    What's most baffling is that such a canny actor is so unable to direct his own cast.
  62. Saw V
    This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.
  63. Miss March
    It takes a really bad stupid comedy to make you appreciate well-done stupid comedies. And boy is Miss March a stupid comedy.
  64. Sleeping Beauty
    Though Julia Leigh's surprisingly dull debut is meant to present the mysteries of a troubled young woman, you're more likely to wonder why its star, Emily Browning, is drawn to such demeaning roles.
  65. The Ministers
    Does John Leguizamo need a better manager, or does he just have terrible taste in scripts? Because aside from voicing the "Ice Age" movies, he wastes too much time on misfires like this one.
  66. Love and Honor
    Hemsworth has presence, but he also represents this film’s biggest problem: It feels like a bunch of good-looking kids putting on a show.
  67. Get Hard
    Get Hard isn’t edgy enough to be offensive or witty enough to be challenging. It’s just dumb.
  68. From Paris with Love
    This sock-it-to-'em souffle falls very quickly, unless watching Travolta trying on another faux-hip look is considered fun.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Freedom
    It’s a restrained performance, but director Peter Cousens should have unleashed some of the “Jerry Maguire” Oscar-winner’s energy for this solemn tale.
  70. Irrational Man
    Irrational Man plays, like so much of Woody Allen’s work over the past 20 years, like a bad Woody Allen parody.
  71. Saw VI
    One we wish we hadn't seen
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dawn Patrol
    Dawn Patrol has a lot on its plate and manages to drop it all. The movie deals with themes of xenophobia, murder, revenge and forgiveness, and not one aspect is handled with anything approaching competence. What a dud.
  73. The Forger
    Travolta’s face looks immobile, while Plummer and Jennifer Ehle, as Cutter’s estranged, strung-out wife, look out of place. Sheridan (“The Tree of Life”), though, does seems comfortable in a movie where the colors blur sloppily.
  74. Barely Lethal
    This mashup of a teenage assassin lark and high school misfit comedy misses the chance to add a supercool heroine to pop culture.
  75. Total Recall (2012)
    There's something sadly poetic about a movie dealing with disappearing memories that vanishes from your mind while you watch it.
  76. Jessabelle
    There are few scares here, but plenty of mild grossness. The absurd ending ties up the mystery in a way that’s sure to annoy both supernaturalists and realists.
  77. Homefront
    A disappointing mess of a genre flick.
  78. Eagle Eye
    See, everyone complains about humans in movies but no one does anything about it, so it fell to Eagle Eye to make everything laughably, ridiculously fake.
  79. Reclaim
    There are no twists or even surprises, except the final realization that director Alan White is taking his culturally clueless, ineptly shot B-movie totally seriously. Judging from the uniformly underwhelming performances, he’s the only one.
  80. Fugly!
    John Leguizamo can do so much better than this weak rom-com, in which men are morons and women are either neurotic or nasty.
  81. Admission
    The bad news about Admission is that this thin envelope of a comedy checks all the boxes for being a phoned-in, phony, padded rom-com.
  82. Mother of Tears
    At 67, maestro Argento's taste still runs toward bloody entrails and eye-gougings, but Asia's sexy sour-lemon smile is underused in his movies.
  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. The Boy Next Door
    It’s Fatal Attraction 101.
  85. Listening
    Director Khalil Sullins’ movie has its heart and brain in the right place, but its guts are a mess.
  86. Welcome to the Jungle
    The real challenge is for viewers, who must tolerate overacting, idiotic scatological jokes and juvenile innuendo. The only way it might be endurable is if you’re wasted, too.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Finding Bliss
    Though the story is semi-autobiographical, Davis' judgmental script alternates cheap humor and clichéd characterizations with nuggets of faux wisdom about sex, love and film. At least porn doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
  88. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
    Irritating and clichéd.
  89. Red Dawn
    In this group, only Hemsworth stands out.
  90. Grudge Match
    A director who really wanted to honor these actors’ legendary roles, rather than simply use them as a marketing hook, might have found a way to make this concept palatable. Segal (“Get Smart”) is not that director.
  91. The Outsider
    Painfully dull thriller.
  92. Surrogates
    The filmmakers were too busy throwing together potential blockbuster material to notice all the loose ends and gaping holes in logic. Which may, ultimately, explain why Willis looks so confused throughout. Maybe he, too, is straining to locate some intelligence amid all the machinery.
  93. Paranoia
    Paranoia’s twitchiness is like an actual twitch: it’s contrived and clunky, and you forget it in an instant.
  94. Everybody Wants to Be Italian
    As for that title, neither character is Italian, but each thinks the other is - a weak device designed purely to inspire a slew of stereotypes.
  95. The Grace Card
    Faith-based audiences may find comfort here, but the film's heavy-handedness is a burden it can't overcome.
  96. Linsanity
    This nothing-new-here documentary presents basketball’s onetime celebrity point guard in unguarded moments. But the result is banal and fawning, with Lin coming off as a pious, charmless subject.
  97. Jamie Marks Is Dead
    Writer-director Carter Smith got his start as a successful fashion photographer. But you wouldn’t know it from the murky look of this generic thriller.
  98. Love & Air Sex
    “Keep Austin weird” is the mantra of the capital of Texas. In no way does that mean “Keep Austin gross.” The unfunny Love and Air Sex unfortunately takes the latter slogan as its mission.
  99. Resident Evil: Retribution
    Thuddingly awful.
  100. Obsessed
    Unfortunately, the whole movie seems constructed just to get the singer/actress into a knock-down catfight, shoehorning one of show business's sexiest entertainers into a scorned-woman role. And even then, the pay-off feels cheap.
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