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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 Divergent Series: Insurgent
    Every scene is entwined in clunkiness.
  2. The Last Airbender
    Unfortunately, its positive attributes are thrown out of balance by its abundant negatives - including chintzy effects, lumbering storytelling and an overstylized, earnest incompetence that evokes "Speed Racer."
  3. Blair Witch
    An even bigger crime is that Blair Witch isn’t particularly scary, maybe because it’s hard to take any of it seriously when it’s just treading so much similar ground as the first movie.
  4. Shark Night 3D
    The one crime a B-movie should never commit is boring its audience. By even these low standards, Shark Night 3D is dead in the water.
  5. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    Hugely expensive and extravagantly stupid, Alice Through the Looking Glass is just one more silly Hollywood mashup, an innocent fantasy morphed into a noisy would-be blockbuster.
  6. The Humbling
    With all the talent on tap — including screenwriter Buck Henry, who worked with Michal Zebede to adapt Philip Roth’s 2009 novel — you’d think we’d get something better than this outdated indulgence.
  7. 5 Star Day
    Unless your own horoscope recommended wasting two perfectly useful hours of your day, take a pass.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Fate of the Furious
    Is it so much to ask for dialogue that doesn’t make you roll your eyes throughout “F8”? Or, you know, a story that adds up?
  9. If I Were You
    Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful.
  10. Glass Chin
    Corey Stoll is the only reason to sit through this muddled Jersey-set drama.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Perfect Guy
    It’s a lazy, by-the-numbers bore.
  12. Conan the Barbarian
    With the most growling and grunting of any movie this summer - and that includes those apes perched atop the box office - Conan the Barbarian seems at times to have actually been made by barbarians.
  13. Speed-Dating
    Jonathan, who was so great in "Roll Bounce," deserves better. It'd be overly generous, however, to say the same about anyone else involved.
  14. Land of the Lost
    This lumbering, ha-ha-look-what-we-remade action-comedy is a high-concept disaster.
  15. Would You Rather
    With a bit less grisliness, it could have been a mystery dinner-theater performance.
  16. Downloading Nancy
    Unpleasantly icy film based on a true story.
  17. K-11
    Points for niche audaciousness, but that’s all.
  18. Twice Born
    The tragic Balkan conflict of the 1990s is due for a sweeping, important and engaging cinematic remembrance. Twice Born wants to be that movie — a Bosnian “Doctor Zhivago” — but falls short.
  19. Focus
    Will Smith may have run through every trick in his bag. In Focus, the one-time fresh prince and former box-office champ looks tired, bored and, even worse, uninspired.
  20. The Paperboy
    It is likely to become an unintended camp classic, something we haven't had since "Showgirls."
  21. Swerve
    Despite the revved-up start and a suitably dusty setting, the movie stalls almost immediately. The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Clarke tries to inject some energy into the action, but even he seems to realize this ride’s going nowhere.
  22. The Women
    Is it an exaggeration to call The Women the worst movie of the year? Well, yeah, probably. But it may be the most disappointing, given all the effort that went into it.
  23. Disaster Movie
    Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Greetings from Tim Buckley
    For all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along.
  25. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s film underserves its cast of up-and-comers (Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan), allows the usually solid actor Michael Angarano to go astray with a scenery-chewing role and buries Crudup in fretting and sanctity. Worse, the experiment’s inherent drama is exacted with a tin ear and a cheesy style.
  26. The Rite
    Terminally silly, even more so for being "inspired by actual events."
  27. Swiss Army Man
    Swiss Army Man's greatest challenge is to its audience. Just, exactly, how much will we sit still for? Endless scenes of Dano in role-playing drag, sporting a rag-mop wig and giving dating tips to a corpse? Frequent closeups of Radcliffe's furry flatulent buttocks?
  28. A Green Story
    There probably is an interesting story in Van’s rags-to-riches tale. But all we get in this extended publicity stunt is clichéd filmmaking, stilted performances and a self-aggrandizing hero.
  29. One for the Money
    She's (Heigl) disastrously miscast as a character beloved by fans of novelist Janet Evanovich.
  30. Sinister 2
    Say one thing for these killer kids: they’re creative.
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