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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 Happening
    The film never builds past its initial idea, the references to 9/11 feel cheap, the good actors are wasted, and the bad ones are distracting.
  2. Family Weekend
    Despite the promise Epps and Turner show in their film’s finest moments, we’re still talking about a movie that tries to wring jokes from puppet therapy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    October Gale
    This dramatic thriller is a ball of confusion, but with barely any bounce. The one reason to see it: Patricia Clarkson’s subtle star turn.
  4. Mercury Rising
    A brutal and preposterous action movie about a guy, a kid and a secret code. And a whole lotta shattering glass.
    • New York Daily News
  5. Astro Boy
    Looks so great, it may take a while to notice it's a clunky political parable wrapped in a tonally confused fairy tale.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Faults
    Mind control is a topic that should be fascinating, but it’s utterly forgettable in this disappointing, low-budget indie.
  7. Just Like a Woman
    Just like its meaningless title, Rachid Bouchareb’s disappointing drama evokes better works without developing any distinct identity of its own.
  8. Real Steel
    In either a stunningly brave or misguided act of meta-absurdity, Real Steel, which is about a boy, his dad and the robot that changes their lives, actually feels as if it were made inside the mind of a kid obsessed with robots.
  9. Janie Jones
    Writer-director David M. Rosenthal fills this dewy road-trip movie with too many cliches. From the glimpses we get of Shue's character, that may have been a more rockin' story.
  10. The Girl Cut in Two
    Velvety storytelling still feels more thawed-out than heated.
  11. Cheap Thrills
    In Cheap Thrills, a committed cast elevates what is, ultimately, a gimmicky thriller. It dissolves into a puddle of blood-tinged hypocrisy.
  12. Hancock
    There's a great idea here, but it's buried within a muddled story that lurches between dark comedy and maudlin drama.
  13. Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    The 3-D format is mostly wasted, and the production so slick we never truly feel like part of that screaming audience. For fans only.
  14. Mighty Fine
    Boasting perhaps the most bored-sounding voice-over ever, this unexceptional drama imagines itself - much as its young heroine does - to be far more noteworthy than it actually is.
  15. Stuck in Love
    All those cliched literary trappings come together in Stuck in Love, but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.
  16. Jack the Giant Slayer
    A director as talented as Singer (“The Usual Suspects,” “X-Men”) should be working to raise popcorn movies to a higher level. Instead, this uninspired effort feels like a colossal letdown.
  17. McCanick
    It’s a shame the script doesn’t offer anything beyond loose-cannon-cop cliches.
  18. The Darkness
    The Darkness offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.
  19. Some Girl(s)
    Bell’s skepticism feels real, and Brody, still best known as “The OC’s” insecure Seth Cohen, is perfect as the sort of arrogantly self-deluded player we’ve all met.
  20. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    Unlike last year's superior "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer" - which put its grade-school heroine through similarly seasonal woes - "Dog Days" squanders several chances to find something magical in the mundane.
  21. We Bought a Zoo
    "Field of Dreams" this ain't, and Crowe, whose "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" are justly held in high esteem, can't build the right frame here. It's neither fish nor fowl; a "guy-gets-his-life-right" rom-com runs smack into a "kids-with-animals" lark.
  22. The Sacrament
    This sometimes-taut little thriller is sullied by its unnecessary masquerade as a documentary presented by HBO’s gonzo news show “Vice.”
  23. Broken City
    There is no urgency, and little honesty, to the convoluted goings-on unfolding here.
  24. Tomb Raider
    Too bad the new actress doesn’t bring much to the party, and this “origin story” feels like leftovers.
  25. The Lucky One
    The biggest problem, however, comes down to chemistry. If the leads have it, a Sparks romance will work.
  26. Hide Away
    The film doesn't play games; it's basically just Lucas going through a short story-like period of reflection and redemption almost entirely without dialogue. It's not enough, but it is what this underappreciated actor does best.
  27. Mama
    If you're going to have a ghost in your movie, it might be a good thing to present a viable alternative to that ghost. Mama, however, presents a battle between two not very good options before crumbling like a sheet on a string.
  28. Aloft
    Deep — deep! — in this impenetrable block of ice is an actual, OK story. But the patience it takes to get to it? The return on investment just isn’t there.
  29. Erased
    Most people can only watch the same movie so many times. But Philipp Stölzl is clearly hopeful that when you’re done with “Taken” (and “Taken 2”), you’ll want more of the same. Should that be the case, this undistinguished but decent knockoff is ready to satisfy.
  30. This Is the End
    It's no minor accomplishment to make one of the most indulgent projects in Hollywood history. But with This Is the End, Seth Rogen and his pals have indeed achieved this dubious goal.
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