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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. 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.
  2. The Canyons
    The Canyons has more in common with Schrader’s opulent immoral tableaux “The Comfort of Strangers,” “Auto Focus” and “The Walker” than with his other work (including the script for “Taxi Driver”). It’s weaker than those, though, and less biting.
  3. Hello, My Name Is Doris
    Luckily for Hello, My Name Is Doris, Sally Field is still so likable, really likable.
  4. Good
    An uncharacteristically stiff Mortensen can't break free from the clichés that constrain his character, who feels more like a symbol than a real person.
  5. Centurion
    Marshall shows off the breathtaking landscape, but with interiors, he populates the ale houses and encampments with cliches - like dueling female warriors, one a mute and the other a white-haired vixen.
  6. After Words
    Director Juan Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do — up to a point. But there’s only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, “Summertime”-lite affair.
  7. Alex Cross
    Though they lack chemistry as a team, it's gratifying to see both Perry and Burns stretching in ways they haven't before.
  8. Annie
    For all the talent involved, the overall effect is surprisingly flat. Foxx appears disconnected, Byrne is wasted and a painfully hammy Diaz seems to be in another movie altogether.
  9. Fugitive Pieces
    Though much of the film's power is tamped down by the passive storytelling style, Dillane's performance as the adult Jakob is compelling, and Ayelet Zurer is beguiling as Jakob's late-in-life soul mate.
  10. Burn After Reading
    Hopped up like a Bugs Bunny cartoon on mescaline and as chatty and uppity as a 5-year-old, Burn After Reading could be seen as the Coen brothers' need to let loose after the tightly wound "No Country for Old Men."
  11. The Pool
    Smith ("American Movie") sees the poetry in everyday people, and lets his rambling story find its own rhythm.
  12. The Host
    Watch closely and you might even spy a better film inside, straining to break free.
  13. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    In the end, Albert’s biggest problem isn’t the threat of coyotes or cholera. It’s that he’s being played by the wrong guy.
  14. Love Crime
    More cold fish than cold-blooded, director Alain Correau keeps his movie buttoned up and predictable.
  15. About Time
    What makes the calculated sentimentality palatable is Curtis’ intelligent assurance as he guides us through each step. It’s a gooey indulgence, to be sure, but one that will please anybody with a cinematic sweet tooth.
  16. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    Descends with dismaying speed into clichéd Southern melodrama.
  17. The Myth of the American Sleepover
    The real problem is that this eager-to-please debut never quite achieves its own, more modest ambitions.
  18. Flipped
    There's barely half a film here, stretched and pulled so thin you can nearly see through it.
  19. Madea's Witness Protection
    While I fully support the appearance of a new Madea movie every six months, even Tyler Perry can't be bothered to take this setup seriously.
  20. Cold Turkey
    Writer-director Will Slocombe presents a familiar buffet, but there’s good stuff to pick over.
  21. Tumbledown
    So what's the problem? A hundred small annoyances, including storylines that peter out into inexplicable dead ends, others...that drone on too long, a dozen too many reaction shots from Hannah's dogs, important characters whose motivations are unclear, and a lack of romantic chemistry between Hannah (Rebecca Hall) and Andrew (Jason Sudeikis).
  22. The House Bunny
    not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star.
  23. The Short Game
    Some parents are mellow, and others have instilled emotional problems in their children. This less-than-illuminating work resembles the spelling-bee doc “Spellbound,” only with a promise of high-end endorsements and far more pampering.
  24. Narco Cultura
    The dissection and discussion, though well-intentioned, winds up lifeless.
  25. G-Force
    What it is, really, is a trainer film, meant to prep the world's youngest ticketholders for the day when they're old enough to help turn Bruckheimer's bigger movies into blockbusters.
  26. Hop
    As fake and forgettable as a marshmallow Peep, Hop goes down easy enough.
  27. Elektra Luxx
    Gugino is having a ball, but every scene feels like an oh-so-arch one-act.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ondine
    Jordan's screenplay aims for a romanticism that the beautiful but stiff Bachleda is unable to fulfill. And the ending, which injects the film's dreamy sensibility with an ugly note of realism, crashes over everything like a frigid wave.
  29. Flypaper
    It's a mess from start to finish, but there's still fun to be had in Rob Minkoff's caper comedy.
  30. The Awakening
    This stately chiller owes a lot to 1960s British flicks like "The Innocents" and "The Haunting," but unfortunately heads towards cliches with every step.
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