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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. Haunt
    There’s lots of mixed film stock and screeches on the soundtrack (as in the credits for “Seven”), but this gets annoying, as do the predictable twists.
  2. 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.
  3. The Prince
    The Prince isn't just awful, it's depressing.
  4. Machete Kills
    Machete Kills? “Machete Bores” is more like it.
    • New York Daily News
      • Posted Oct 10, 2013
  5. The Dilemma
    This tonal mishmash cripples The Dilemma almost immediately, though there are many other speed bumps, including Vaughn's irritating, fast-talking prattle.
  6. Gamer
    What the movie needs more than anything else is a fast-forward button.
  7. Are You Here
    The compelling Draper’s the creation of “Mad Men” mastermind Matthew Weiner, the writer-director of Are You Here. Which begs the question: how could Weiner make, as his debut comedy, a movie as amateurish and off-putting as this one?
  8. How Do You Know
    Brooks' shallow screenplay feels half-finished, and he never compensates with additional guidance or directorial flair. So all his actors are forced to flail about ineffectually. Apparently, none of them read the script in advance. Because surely then they'd have known to take a pass.
  9. Happy Tears
    A cringe-inducing, self-consciously kooky indie comedy that's best enjoyed for its taste of Rip Torn.
  10. Dragon Blade
    An epic in China, it’s been trimmed here in the States. But this movie didn’t need a cut, it needed a beheading.
  11. An Invisible Sign
    Alba certainly tries her best at portraying not just a beauty but also a beautiful mind, yet very few things add up despite director Marilyn Agrelo's efforts.
  12. Space Chimps
    And then there is the most annoying animated sidekick in a long time: a bulb-headed, trying-to-be-cute glow creature called Kilowatt (Kristen Chenoweth), who sings an ear-piercing, high-pitched note when it's scared, which is often.
  13. The Nutcracker
    Do not, in fact, go at all. Because aside from the actual nutcracker, most of the crucial elements are missing from Andrei Konchalovsky's bizarre miscalculation. Magic and joy top the list.
  14. The Trouble with Bliss
    The biggest trouble with "Bliss" is the way it wastes a cast that deserves so much more.
  15. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    The James Bond parodies and genre riffs feel at least 20 years past their prime, and most will fly right over the heads of audience members 7 and under
  16. New in Town
    A romantic comedy that's neither romantic nor funny.
  17. Affluenza
    The movie’s ennui feels like so much posing, and the Bret Easton Ellis-lite characters are monotone. It’s rich in effort, but it all comes to diminishing returns.
  18. Gigantic
    Dano is a talented actor who needs to aim higher, and it should go without saying that Deschanel can do - and should know - better.
  19. Best Worst Movie
    This fawning appreciation wears thin, despite the good-natured clowning of Alabama dentist/would-be actor George Hardy, who's like a poor man's Bruce Campbell (our apologies to Bruce Campbell).
  20. Rage
    As for our leading man, he’s clearly just messing with us now. Who else would make a revenge thriller called Rage and then sleepwalk his way through it?
  21. Abduction
    A ridiculously cheesy confection filled with unthrilling thrills, bored-looking adults and a comically overstuffed backstory.
  22. Night Train to Lisbon
    Murder on the Orient Express, this ain’t.
  23. Albatross
    Albatross is the kind of movie that looks good, begins with promise, and then nosedives into deep disappointment.
  24. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass - based on a graphic novel - thinks it's so brave and bold. But it's more like the title character, a dweeb who just thinks he's tough.
  25. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    Swan is so eager to be a trippy comic lark that it ends up resembling a clown trying to fit through a pea-shooter.
  26. The Moth Diaries
    Director Mary Harron ("American Psycho") can do little with this bloodless drama.
  27. Authors Anonymous
    You can always tell when filmmakers get their ideas from watching other movies. First-time writer David Congalton must be a Christopher Guest fan, because his derivative mockumentary feels like the work of someone who’s seen “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show” too many times.
  28. 33 Postcards
    There’s no explaining the presence of Guy Pearce in Pauline Chan’s sappy, atonal family drama. But it’s easy enough to understand why he looks so uncomfortable throughout.
  29. Days and Nights
    In a movie, nothing good ever seems to happen at a country house. And when it comes to this film, nothing very interesting happens, either.
  30. Saw 3D
    Franchise morphs into generic slasher series without Jigsaw.
  31. Masterminds
    This movie was made by a bunch of hired guns who had their hearts elsewhere. Masterminds does center around a heist — one committed on ticket buyers.
  32. Wendy and Lucy
    Like a worst-case-scenario, indie-movie cliché, Wendy and Lucy throws every bone it can at the screen.
  33. Brightest Star
    Far from burning bright, this earnest indie starts out dull and gets duller.
  34. The Revenant
    By the middle of the second hour, you'll be wishing a zombie would just chomp off your head to end the pain.
  35. Captive
    For a movie about purpose, Captive never finds its own.
  36. The Life Before Her Eyes
    What this heavy-handed film mainly has to endure is a clunky story structure and an ending that wasn't original when it was seen four decades ago on "The Twilight Zone."
  37. She's Out of My League
    Would like to think of itself as an extension of its lead character -- gangly, a bit uncouth, but ultimately sweet. Unfortunately, it's more like the best friend in a movie like this -- irritating, unfunny and something that hangs around longer than it should.
  38. The 11th Hour
    This Ill-Conceived fertility thriller is overwrought, underwritten and pure cynicism.
  39. The Names of Love
    Director Michel Leclerc's comedy plays like one of those foreign-movie spoofs Jerry and the gang would go to see on a "Seinfeld" episode. Only here, there's no "young girl's journey from Milan to Minsk" - just from madcap to moronic.
  40. Towelhead
    Ball knows one trick, and it's sure over.
  41. Raze
    This ugly, dull and idiotic actioner doesn’t know if it wants be fun or grim. It winds up simply being deplorable exploitation.
  42. The Stranger
    The movie touts a “Presented By” credit for modern horror maven Eli Roth, but there’s none of that director’s shock or sly subversion. Don’t bother getting to know this stranger.
  43. Max Payne
    The story has more holes than a shot-up metal door, the acting feels bored at best, and the intermittent action, while passable, hardly makes up for the downtime.
  44. The Bag Man
    So do the minutes. They stretch on as one tiresomely quirky sadist after another appears. Cusack is typically likable and De Niro is amusing in his brief scenes. But unlike Jack, you’re too smart to make big sacrifices for so little return.
  45. Simon Killer
    Sort of “An American Psycho’s European Vacation,” this indie dramatic thriller mixes sex and violence and still winds up dull.
  46. Dirty Grandpa
    This movie has almost nothing redeeming. And it’s flat out gross.
  47. The Quiet Ones
    Ah, wait — it’s an ancient Sumerian curse. That seems like poppycock to everyone but this film’s four screenwriters, who also unfortunately go for crashes and yelling instead of a frightening story.
  48. Homecoming
    As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.
  49. The Theory of Flight
    Theory of Flight follows the standard inspirational formula. [23 Dec. 1998, p.43]
    • New York Daily News
  50. RoboCop
    The remake of the 1987 cult actioner Robocop is a misguided failure — not only because its retooled half-man/half-machine hero now has emotions, but also because its “fear the machines” message winds up feeling creaky.
  51. Inside Out
    These World Wrestling Entertainment-produced movies are a world unto themselves: Cliché-ridden B-flicks anchored by monstrously huge grapplers giving acting their all.
  52. Pandorum
    The movie soon turns into only a production-designed run-and-chase game, and our curiosity about what happened to Earth and the crew is teased and teased again until the movie’s big letdown of a reveal.
  53. Old Dogs
    Travolta, who delivers an impressively enthusiastic performance, seems to have no idea that he's stuck in one of the year's worst movies. The perpetually pained expression on Williams' face, however, suggests he knows otherwise.
  54. 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.
  55. The Raven
    This wannabe Sherlockian thriller is like a night spent at Madame Tussauds, watching mannequins strangle other mannequins.
  56. Hotel Noir
    It's hard to know whether Sebastian Gutierrez is imitating or satirizing the hard-boiled noirs of Hollywood's past, but either way it feels like a botched attempt.
  57. Young & Beautiful
    All we’re left with is the sight of older men hiring a gorgeous young woman to take her clothes off and fulfill their desires. If nothing else, Ozon does leave us wondering whether he intended such an uncomfortable parallel between life and art.
  58. Hamlet
    This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.
  59. Fired Up!
    Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
  60. The Spy Next Door
    The movie even has the nerve to start with a montage of moments from his better films, a bad idea that sets off an escalating tumble downhill.
  61. Cold Comes the Night
    Cranston, in a fake beard and dark glasses, seems to be enjoying his goofy act. Trouble is, this isn’t the kind of movie in which goofy earns goodwill.
  62. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The cozy sentimentality in The Time Traveler's Wife is the only thing that grounds it. Mostly it's just featherheaded.
  63. Victor Frankenstein
    This un-terrifying film tries to find an interesting twist on the classic Frankenstein tale, but horrifically fails.
  64. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    An epic example of muddled storytelling, chintzy excitement and scatter-brained execution.
  65. Wish Upon
    Wish Upon is dull because it never goes far enough to truly scare anyone.
  66. Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
    Broomfield's point that Palin followers threaten her enemies, though, is worthy of a different documentary - perhaps one about American fanaticism.
  67. The Love Guru
    An atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment. To borrow word-shtick from the guru Pitka, it's AWFUL as in, "Anyone Watching Feels, Um, Loser-ish."
  68. Bunraku
    It should surprise no one that visually quirky, graphic-novelish, pulp-noir action flicks rarely come through the sausage machine intact.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Killing Them Safely
    This feels like a documentary about legal cases against TASER, not a documentary on the Taser.
  70. Mirror Mirror
    "Dopey" is too good a word for it.
  71. Jesus Henry Christ
    It winds up just being annoying.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ted 2
    Ted 2 is the equivalent of a middle school bully. It's not as funny as it thinks it is. Its penchant for casual cruelty masks a hollow soul. And it will be totally forgotten once we move onto bigger and better things.
  73. Epic
    Even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow.
  74. Endless Love
    If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day date, this version is probably a better choice than the uncomfortably swoony original would have been. You might be bored, but at least you won’t be embarrassed.
  75. The Angry Birds Movie
    The Angry Birds Movie is just fowl.
  76. Winter's Tale
    The whole movie hinges on the allegedly miraculous romance between Beverly and Peter, but Goldsman’s leads are distractingly mismatched and lack even a spark of chemistry.
  77. The M Word
    There are some nice moments of camaraderie, as Feldman and Imperioli do their laid-back thing and Fisher is feisty and warmhearted. Still, the let’s-all-talk-at-once actorliness wears thin. It’s just not worth the mood swings.
  78. Stephen King’s A Good Marriage
    This one has a screenplay by Stephen King, adapting his own short story. Unfortunately, that can’t save this low-budget thriller.
  79. Lovely, Still
    While all four leads deserve better, it's especially galling to see Burstyn - still so lovely - wasting her time and talents on a film with so little wisdom to share.
  80. Expired
    The performances are expert, but can't make up for a flat script and direction. Unless you, like Claire, are a glutton for punishment, we suggest you choose nothing over something.
  81. Girl on a Bicycle
    What wants to be a screwball comedy is run over by preposterous character motivation and a clunky plot.
  82. The Lincoln Lawyer
    There's a reason potboiler paperbacks don't make good movies - there's too much outlandish plot, even for Hollywood.
  83. Killer Joe
    What's most notable about this aggressively cynical project is how much talent it wastes.
  84. Hereafter
    It doesn't help that Eastwood's laconic style is as torpid as it was in such misfires as "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "Changeling."
  85. Kite
    As for Jackson, he strolls through the nonsensical story so casually, one suspects his mind is on other things — like what he’ll do with his paycheck. He has probably already moved on. We’ll happily do the same.
  86. Adore
    Though Fontaine makes sure the beaches are sun-dappled and the women’s shared house comes off like a sandy paradise, the movie is like the early-’80s groaner “Summer Lovers” with wrinkle lines. Hooray for the freedom and beauty of older women — a demographic that deserves better than the deplorable Adore.
  87. Sherman's Way
    Unfortunately, this strained comedy relies entirely on clichés and contrivances to tell the story of Sherman.
  88. The Box
    The Box is its own kind of awful, a disconnected mess that never finds its reason for being.
  89. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
    Has raw action and urgent performances, but loses power due to an amateur approach.
  90. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Flashbacks show samurai shenanigans, but it's all cluttered and rambling. Watch "True Blood," "Let the Right One In" or "Twilight" instead. Or wait for "Thirst" or "New Moon" or "Daybreakers" or ...
  91. Rings
    Filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez really doesn't have a lot to work with beyond a flimsy story, weak script and characters you'll have a hard time caring about.
  92. Tickling Leo
    Throughout, Davidson's intentions are honest but become lost in a haze of overly familiar story beats.
  93. [Rec] 2
    This Spanish sequel to a 2007 cult hit uses the way-overdone conceit of videotaped terror.
  94. Friended to Death
    Michael (Hansen) fakes his death and announces it online, solely so he can see who shows up at his funeral. His plans only grow more dimwitted from there.
  95. Bachelorette
    While plenty of gross-out comedies have come and gone in the last two decades, Leslye Headland's Bachelorette may be the most vulgar of them all.
  96. 3
    Rois has moments of desperate urgency and depth, but Twyker's love of parallels is finally done in by artsy shots of the threesome au naturel against stark white backdrops.
  97. Hell Baby
    Evil babies aren’t exactly fresh meat for parody. Then again, there’s hardly a laugh in this whole hellish thing.
  98. Terminator Genisys
    One achievement of James Cameron’s “Terminator” is that it overcame its low-rent, B-movie trappings. The great sin of “Genisys” is that it costs millions and yet isn’t worth a dime.
  99. Killing Season
    Travolta, who was more believable as a middle-aged housewife in “Hairspray” than he is as a former Serbian commando, has the accent down pat. But his Boris-and-Natasha-style syntax seems to represent Killing Season best. Just imagine that voice saying: Dees ees very seelly movie. Catch on cable TV, please.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I.T.
    Let’s just say director John Moore’s new thriller I.T. should be lost in cyberspace — not filling up an hour and a half of your life.
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