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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. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    This would-be satire earns an E for Effort for wanting to be to the advertising world what “Being There” was to television.
  2. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    The concept is the same, and just as tired as it was when the second, third and fourth sequels to “Paranormal Activity’s” 2009 first installment.
  3. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    If you're not an 11-year-old boy, or a grown-up in the mood to feel like one, the endless "wow!-that-car-is-now-a-deep-voiced-robot" scenes lack thrill. In fact, the action scenes, as in the previous films, are downright headache-inducing.
  4. Lake City
    Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh. There's even a mouthy kid Garity is "taking care of" - guess whose son he is?
  5. You Won't Miss Me
    Other than those related to cast and crew, it's difficult to imagine who else would sit through Ry Russo-Young's self-obsessed indie.
  6. Aftershock
    A lot of Aftershock predictably involves screaming or shock cuts, and the movie features a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo from Selena Gomez.
  7. Supercapitalist
    Filled with enough clichés to be broken up and sold in pieces as junk material.
  8. Walking with Dinosaurs
    Yes, the film’s CG dinos look great tromping in the Alaskan wilderness, but children deserve better than such unchallenging fare.
  9. The Misfortunates
    The title of The Misfortunates ­really applies to any audiences unlucky enough to sit through it.
  10. The Moment
    The story itself is fairly straightforward, but lands with a thud.
  11. The Purge: Anarchy
    The film’s “What if?” scenario takes the germ of an interesting social-science idea and lets it rot in a nasty, ethically questionable cesspool of junk cinema.
  12. Jewtopia
    Even if we had never heard of Woody Allen or Adam Sandler, this schlocky effort would feel about as fresh as a week-old bagel.
  13. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    Appearances from Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis and John C. Reilly help some, but all the mincing from Heidecker and Wareheim, the wanna-be, gross-out humor and THE CONSTANT SCREAMING get tiring.
  14. Mother's Day
    A Mother’s Day movie full of flat jokes, reheated clichés and two hours spent staring at your watch.
  15. Bad Santa 2
    Billy Bob Thornton's grouchy Santa is finally back, but his sequel is pretty ho-ho-horrible.
  16. All's Faire in Love
    Finding a fresh setting for a comedy is difficult, but a Renaissance fair is too broad a target.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Blindness
    Piles on the indignities, violence and island-of-man turmoil.
  18. Project X
    Though the central blowout is as epic as advertised, so is the movie's self-congratulatory obnoxiousness.
  19. Blood Ties
    Fine actors are let down by a comatose script and wayward direction in this retro crime drama.
  20. Java Heat
    It would be nice to say that Rourke, at least, offers a reason to see this junky thriller, about an American agent who gets involved in an Indonesian terrorist plot. But as entertaining as it is to watch him adopt a strange accent and swan around in sarongs as an eccentric jewel thief, it’s also a little depressing. The paycheck cannot possibly be worth it.
  21. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    Madagascar 3 can't upgrade its own shtick, becoming a craven example of a fast-buck, no-fun family film.
  22. Hit by Lightning
    Cryer makes a likable sad-sack and Will Sasso provides balance as his narcissistic best friend. But both guys deserve better. As do we.
  23. Petunia
    Even in shabbily put together dramedies, such as this one, there can be a glimmer of light. Here it’s Christine Lahti’s anguished, nuanced turn as a wife and mother excited to begin a new phase with her husband.
  24. The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments is a grating stunt that plays like a film-school project, cutting a bland story into a million tiny irritating pieces.
  25. Bride Wars
    Hudson has, if nothing else, traded up: last winter she was stuck in "Fool's Gold."
  26. Viktor
    Preposterous things are everywhere in this lethargic thriller.
  27. Surveillance
    The performances are dreadful, the direction shoddy and the final twist so idiotic, your mind can’t help but drift toward all the better scripts just waiting, sadly and silently, for the chance wasted here.
  28. The Art of Getting By
    Well-meaning but dreadfully executed movie.
  29. Revenge of the Green Dragons
    The local angle offers a degree of flavor, but this is a dull tale, reminiscent of a hundred others. The dialogue is ludicrous, the video stock looks cheap.
  30. Johnny English Reborn
    It must be said that everyone - including Dominic West and Rosamund Pike -- works awfully hard to entertain us. But that just makes it all the more depressing when joke after joke falls painfully flat. Stay home and introduce your kids to Mr. Bean, instead.
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