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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. Peeples
    Director Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote the screenplay, seems to have relied pretty strongly on Perry for guidance. In particular, she rejects any notions of subtlety, either in the comedy or the weirdly heavy-handed messages about masculinity.
  2. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Full of unenlightening snippets and blithe but banal asides, what the movie is missing is edge.
  3. Pioneer
    This one can't handle the pressure.
  4. Kung Fu Panda 3
    Once upon a time, Black's charisma might have been enough to carry the movie.
  5. Musical Chairs
    In truth, Musical Chairs is so simplistic it almost feels like a first film.
  6. Cockneys vs Zombies
    The oldsters are feisty — a gun-totin’ granny is played by Pussy Galore herself, “Goldfinger’s” Honor Blackman — but the shtick’s as flat as old ale. It is bookended, though, by two seriously great songs.
  7. Charlie St. Cloud
    Though it was directed by Burr Steers, Charlie St. Cloud feels more like a misguided collaboration among Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan and Billy Graham.
  8. A Woman in Berlin
    Unfortunately, Färberböck never gives us reason enough to sit through such unremitting punishment. Though the story is based in truth, an emotionally removed Hoss feels more like a symbol than an actual person, while her detached narration keeps us at further remove.
  9. Casino Jack
    The trouble starts with the casting. The usually reliable Kevin Spacey never quite gets a handle on Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew devoted to unorthodox business methods.
  10. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Melancholy, often muddled documentary.
  11. The Last Gladiators
    He tells his story honestly, but with no great sense of self-awareness or insight.
  12. Who Killed Nancy?
    The eyewitness testimony of dozens of punk-era survivors and hotel denizens has a disorienting effect, and everyone gets sidetracked, though the colorful anecdotes are priceless.
  13. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
    With his (Cage) over-the-top delivery and operatically intense facial expressions, there's no way anyone could accuse him of phoning this one in.
  14. Stars in Shorts
    None of the seven shorts here is worth a single, well-made feature. But there are a few amusing moments to be found.
  15. Mr. Holmes
    Stories about mythic figures at the end of their days are compelling — but they still need some zing. That’s what Mr. Holmes is missing.
  16. The Notebook
    Despite the human drama here, we’re kept at a remove by stolid direction and by-the-numbers storytelling.
  17. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    If any life story should make for a compelling biography, it's certainly Hugh Hefner's. Unfortunately, this love letter is so lacking in any edge, the end result is not just unsexy but unforgivably staid.
  18. Lakeview Terrace
    The same boring routine gets played out again.
  19. Yes Man
    An appealing Deschanel does her best, but the pair is mismatched in every way, from age to attitude. The entire movie is hung on Carrey's shtick, so if you're a fan, you'll have a decent time.
  20. Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
    But oy, such terrible jokes and choppy direction. Would it have killed her to share the credits with someone else?
  21. Paranormal Activity 3
    A few really weird things happen during Paranormal Activity 3, though unfortunately, they have nothing to do with being frightened.
  22. Get Smart
    While the whole cast -- including Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson -- is game, too much time was spent coordinating chase scenes and explosions, and too little fixing a slack script that relies on bathroom humor and snickering sex jokes.
  23. Funny Games
    Denying us any catharsis, Haneke becomes a stern, finger-wagging lecturer; he seems to mean his movie as punishment, conveniently forgetting his own role in the crime. [11 March 1998, p.38]
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  24. A Long Way Down
    The results are awkward and atonal.
  25. Cowboys & Aliens
    The sole treasure of Cowboys & Aliens is that director Jon Favreau ("Iron Man") has fashioned an actual rawhide ride from a graphic novel (that took six writers to wrangle to the screen).
  26. Cloud Atlas
    For all its strengths, the film is cursed by an ADD-style structure and a flashy but inevitably ineffective casting stunt.
  27. The Last New Yorker
    Wang tracks his guys like the documentarian he is, and if the movie feels a bit canned thanks to Adam Forgash's unoriginal script, classic NYC spots and a big heart make it feel like home.
  28. Small Time
    His (Surnow) unfocused script swerves all over the road, but Christopher Meloni and Dean Norris repeatedly get things back on track.
  29. The Smurfs
    Azaria channels his inner Charles Nelson Reilly, which helps, as does an evil emoting cat. Kids under 7 will likely giggle at some too-harsh pratfalls, not care about a grown man's fear of procreation, not get all the tiny innuendos and possibly miss how the movie is a fairly successful tourism ad for New York.
  30. Life of Crime
    Ultimately it’s the cast, more than the crime, that gives this story life.
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