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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. To the Wonder
    It feels like a high-end perfume ad.
  2. A Promise
    A romantic triangle featuring Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman and “Game of Thrones” costar Richard Madden has no business being this dull.
  3. The Dark Tower
    The Dark Tower is simply dim.
  4. The Witch
    Early on, it seems that The Witch is tapping a higher metaphor for coming of age...or religious intolerance...or man's uneasy balance with nature...or something. It doesn't take long into the film's hour and a half running time, however, to break that spell.
  5. Arthur Newman
    There’s never a moment when we forget that Mike and Wallace are just vacant personalities that two talented actors decided to try on for fun.
  6. Set Fire to the Stars
    High art swings sort of low in this watchable but thematically repetitive drama.
  7. Identity Thief
    The ensuing road trip should be hilariously chaotic, a classic misadventure between two ill-matched travelers. Instead of “Midnight Run,” though, we get another gloss on the recent “Guilt Trip,” in which the concept is all that counts.
  8. Cheatin'
    Still, with a story this weak, arguing that the illustrations look cool feels like a cheat.
  9. It's a Disaster
    Berger’s got some clever ideas, but he does not push far in exploring them. And aside from Cross, there is virtually no one to like among these self-involved suburbanites. After an hour alone with them, we can’t help wishing The End would just arrive.
  10. Frances Ha
    Aiming for lightness but landing with a thud, Frances Ha is a well-meaning blunder. Director Noah Baumbach’s ode to Brooklyn twentysomething life is a flibbertigibbet fable that, like a self-absorbed flirt you meet at a party, grates on the nerves despite being easy on the eyes.
  11. The Boxtrolls
    Kids who get a kick out of the macabre will enjoy this exquisitely crafted but tedious film.
  12. Any Day Now
    Director Travis Fine gives his period details flourish and lets Cumming and Dillahunt create well-rounded characters, but Any Day Now winds up treacly.
  13. Quid Pro Quo
    While a good director can spin a worthy movie from any subject, first-timer Carlos Brooks does surprisingly little with the jaw-dropper of a topic he chose.
  14. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Even if he's slumming, Renner gets it best: his dry delivery fully acknowledges the movie's ridiculousness. If you're planning on entering this fractured fairy tale, you'll want to follow his lead.
  15. The Truth About Emanuel
    The most startling truth is about Emanuel is that she's a rather ordinary teen in a rather ordinary movie.
  16. Phyllis and Harold
    Engrossing, sad and heartbreaking.
  17. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Despite the presence of Jet Li, only the last half-hour of this chatty epic truly flies.
  18. Two Night Stand
    Teller is, by far, the best thing about this easygoing, stubbornly generic independent romance from Max Nichols (son of Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols).
  19. Megamind
    Plays out like a clunky, not-so-incredible "Incredibles," or a more-despicable "Despicable Me."
  20. No Impact Man: The Documentary
    The efforts of Beavan's clan are so extreme that they spark some interest, but their environmental commitment feels a bit too self-serving to have the impact that's clearly desired.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    5 to 7
    Nostalgia only works if the audience buys into the act. As a writer-producer for “Mad Men,” Levin should know this.
  22. Planes: Fire & Rescue
    Surprisingly dull.
  23. Here Comes the Boom
    All banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.
  24. Stand Up Guys
    The script is undernourished, the supporting characters - including a horribly miscast Lucy Punch - ill-conceived, and Val increasingly hard to take. But when the movie ended, I wanted to watch Walken all over again.
  25. Leap!
    All three screenwriters either forgot or didn’t care that their heroine is 11. Even worse is when Félicie ends up dancing on tables in a bar — as in, a bar — “Coyote Ugly”-style. What? It’s not easy to take a message about taking leaps of faith from a movie that too often has two left feet.
  26. Red Tails
    George Lucas produced this candy-coated, fictionalized drama, and while its cast is first-rate and its flying sequences sharp, the movie is as glazed and wide-eyed as a 70-year-old comic book.
  27. Princess Kaiulani
    This somber but unexceptional drama is luxurious to look at but never gripping.
  28. Bottled Up
    The second film from Enid Zentelis (“Evergreen”) comes across as a heavy-handed message movie. And its presence in theaters can only be explained by the participation of Oscar-winning lead Melissa Leo.
  29. Blackhat
    Unfortunately, Mann’s newest film, Blackhat, fails to connect.
  30. The Best and the Brightest
    Riding in to save almost every scene, though, are recent Tony Awards host Harris and the wild and woolly Sedaris, who goes too far, but in a good way. Shelov could learn from them.
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