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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 Girl on the Train
    Director Tate Taylor, who neatly wove together women’s stories in “The Help,” is out of his depth with a thriller. He fills the screen with endless close-ups but not a lick of tension.
  2. Fast & Furious
    Like a lemon that's been tricked out with a fancy paint job, Fast & Furious won't stand up to much scrutiny under the hood.
  3. Certifiably Jonathan
    This rambling, unfocused, shuffling documentary paints the famous standup in broad strokes, only occasionally providing worthy examples of how Winters inspired generations.
  4. Larry Crowne
    It put-puts along like a moped in busy traffic, content to amble around but not go anywhere.
  5. The Good Heart
    Dagur Kari both wrote and directed, so he has no one else to blame for so little originality. Neither does his hard-working cast, all of whom deserve better.
  6. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Perfectly inoffensive and almost entirely unfunny, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is more of a numbing experience than a painful one.
  7. 3 Backyards
    From the insistently discordant score to each overthought shot, this triad of stories feels self-conscious and deliberately arty rather than heartfelt.
  8. 4:44 Last Day on Earth
    Feels stagy and anti-visceral.
  9. Pineapple Express
    When "Pineapple" goes from ganja to genre, it sours.
  10. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Comedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone.
  11. Before We Go
    Unfortunately, there’s a more potent power present here: dullness.
  12. Repo Men
    The big problem here is that dark sci-fi satire works best when it aims for several targets. Repo Men aims at corporate greed, which is good, but doesn’t fill in the details.
  13. The Children of Huang Shi
    Never achieves the David Lean style of epic it aims for - exterior vistas and interior dramas - but it has two charismatic performances, beautiful Chinese locations and an admirable lack of sentimentality.
  14. Pride and Glory
    Overshoots the mark by spinning its implausible, hyperviolent tale around too tight a family circle.
  15. Crash
    Concludes in a shower of ashes, which is fitting because this movie is a billowing bonfire of ugly human behavior. Rarely have there been so many characters in need of timeouts, cold showers or house arrests.
  16. Tennessee
    The good news for Carey is that she gets to prove she's a pretty decent actress after all. The bad news, of course, is that she's done it in a movie no one has any other reason to see.
  17. Demolition
    Demolition is a wreck.
  18. The Conjuring
    If The Conjuring were less of a con job, horror fans would not feel equally as trapped.
  19. Aurora
    Maddeningly mundane, this Romanian drama aims for an antiseptic look at random violence and, unfortunately, achieves it.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Supremacy
    Supremacy is so grueling an ordeal that its revelations barely penetrate the murk.
  21. That Awkward Moment
    That Awkward Moment is eminently forgettable — but worth remembering as Poots’ moment.
  22. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    The 6- to 10-year-old audience this movie is aimed at deserved better.
  23. Mansome
    Think of Mansome as the equivalent of a $10 manicure: It'll modestly enhance your day without making any lasting impact.
  24. 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.
  25. The Fifth Estate
    What a letdown it is to see this spellbinding, era-defining story tamed into such stodgy submission.
  26. Dorfman in Love
    Brad Leong’s “quirky” romantic comedy retreads ground that is already so well worn, everyone just slides right through.
  27. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
    True, the movie's intense, and Jovovich is certainly in fighting shape. But after 15 years of this franchise, it's getting hard to tell Alice from the things she's fighting. It's all squint and grunt, slash and groan.
  28. Black Nativity
    The movie doesn’t weave religion into the familiar structure of a comedy or melodrama. Instead, everything works in service to the sermon at the core. For most audience members, that will either be the primary draw or an inescapable drawback.
  29. Spread
    Although Kutcher deserves some ­credit for trying to spread his professional wings, it quickly becomes clear that he's in over his head.
  30. The Doorman
    Built on an amusing idea that can't quite support an entire movie, Wayne Price's comedic debut might have made a terrific short.
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