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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. Rid of Me
    Westby's nervy story is like "Desperately Seeking Susan" played straight. Let's hope O'Grady's next film meets this one's potential.
  2. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    Like the bloated channels it parodies, the movie stretches to find something to say, then settles for stupid.
  3. Felon
    There are times when a Kilmer performance is like watching a clock move: well-timed and oddly compelling, even though it's totally predictable. That's the case with Felon, which doesn't belong to Kilmer but which he steals anyhow.
  4. Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
    Fashionistas who flock to Whitney Sudler-Smith's documentary should pay heed to the entire title: this isn't simply the biography of an American icon, but the chronicle of a misguided filmmaker.
  5. Better Living Through Chemistry
    The unexpected chemistry between Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde helps balance this sour noir comedy.
  6. The Hangover Part II
    Phillips sticks so close to the formula of his original that even the characters are given to saying things like, "I can't believe this is happening again."
  7. Louder Than Words
    Duchovny tamps down his sardonic style to play a quiet guy, but the result is blandness. Timothy Hutton gives a solid turn as a standup businessman. In all, director Anthony Fabian isn’t sure how to build a nontreacly movie out of an inspiring true-life story.
  8. Miss Meadows
    When writer and director are one and the same, there’s always a risk that the project will suffer from a lack of perspective. Indeed, in helming her blackly comic indie Miss Meadows, Karen Leigh Hopkins fails to fulfill the potential of her own script.
  9. A Fantastic Fear of Everything
    There’s also little point and a garish quality that goes from pulp to junk fairly quickly, despite Pegg’s presence.
  10. Helena from the Wedding
    Every generation gets a "Big Chill," and this tired but well-meaning indie contains many clichés of the "pals-pondering-life" movies that came before.
  11. Who Do You Love
    The music will keep you in your seat, but there's so much more to this story. If only they'd gotten it right the second time around.
  12. Film Socialisme
    Designed as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.
  13. The Cold Lands
    The Cold Lands is aimless and dull, but has a rich tone and upstate authenticity.
  14. For No Good Reason
    When this film focuses on the work, it’s engaging.
  15. Push
    Fanning's watcher is watchable, yet the kid-actress extraordinaire is so polished it kind of makes your head explode.
  16. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Hector wants to connect to our inner child, but it feels more like a long story from a good-hearted but dull grandparent.
  17. In the Heart of the Sea
    This movie has Chris Hemsworth, in between "Avengers" movies, and a lot of computer-generated sea life. It uses a lot of fancy lures, but it never hooks you.
  18. Eichmann
    The final fate of Adolf ­Eichmann is certainly a compelling subject. But its dramatic impact is severely diminished here by stilted filmmaking and wooden performances.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Growing Up and Other Lies
    Only Adam Brody is compelling here.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfreedom
    Director Raj Amit Kumar's bold but ultimately muddled attempt to address extremism and intolerance.
  21. Dragon
    Yen, who also choreographed the fights, is a natural hero, and the large canvas and pseudo-superhero tactics work for a bit, but then the action gets sidetracked in place of myth-building.
  22. Post Grad
    Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Elvis & Nixon
    Johnson’s film is filled with tedium instead of delirium.
  24. Videocracy
    Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is an ideal documentary subject, but Erik Gandini's jumbled take on Berlusconi's corrupting influence quickly shifts from good idea to wasted opportunity.
  25. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    His humor works best when it's throw-away, but "Zohan" throws everything up to get a yuck. It's a shock to see how many "yuck!" moments Sandler settles for.
  26. Calvary
    Calvary is like a philosophical Agatha Christie mystery. That’s certainly not the worst thing to be. But it’s also the film’s undoing, because the reliance on specific genre cliches undermines the movie’s more serious intentions.
  27. Cooties
    Despite the funny premise, Cooties doesn’t live up to its potential.
  28. Fat Kid Rules the World
    This is an odd little directorial debut from Matthew Lillard - the onetime Shaggy from "Scooby-Doo," now a solid character actor thanks to "The Descendants" and "Trouble with the Curve" - but it has its rewards.
  29. Punisher: War Zone
    No worse than the second. Still, it pales in comparison to the first, which starred Dolph Lundgren. And that, right there, should tell you everything you need to know.
  30. White House Down
    Perhaps afraid that watching a symbol of liberty repeatedly go boom isn’t enough, Emmerich and screenwriter James Vanderbilt add family drama, an attack on Congress, a plane crash and the possible nuking of the Middle East. What isn’t tonally jarring ends up shatteringly inept.
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