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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. Five Minutes of Heaven
    Early scenes set up the tragedy, but the majority of Oliver Hirschbiegel's movie is set in a TV studio where the two eventually face each other, and the tension, unfortunately, quickly becomes stagey.
  2. Syrup
    This dark lark is like walking around Times Square looking at the flashy logos and lights and thinking you see the message behind the medium.
  3. The Frozen Ground
    What’s more depressing: that John Cusack chose the junky, un-exciting serial killer drama The Frozen Ground as his latest step away from John Cusack-y roles, or that Nicolas Cage chose to, at long last, be as un-Cage-like as possible?
  4. Chloe
    A tacky 'Fatal Attraction' for the lesbian set.
  5. Deception
    The real culprit is first-time director Marcel Langenegger, who seems to have studied for his debut by watching nothing but Cinemax. The score hints at ominous activities that never happen, a rain machine provides the only atmosphere and the actors have to suffer through the silliest sex scenes in recent memory.
  6. Special Treatment
    As clichés trot through their sessions - it's like "In Treatment" as bedroom farce - we check out. Huppert, though, is as fearless as ever.
  7. Accidental Love
    The movie is played fast but lacks wit. The script, written by Kristin Gore — daughter of Al, and author of the book on which it’s based — mistakes frantic for funny.
  8. Eddie the Eagle
    Hugh Jackman doesn't play Wolverine in Eddie the Eagle, which is too bad. The film deserves to be slashed to bits.
  9. Staten Island Summer
    It all goes nowhere slowly, with only a few visual jokes to break the monotony.
  10. A Merry Friggin' Christmas
    The atonal script is credited to first-timer Michael Brown, but there’s still no explaining Shapeero’s lump-of-coal debut.
  11. We'll Never Have Paris
    The danger in writing, directing, producing and casting yourself in the same movie is that there’s no one to pull you back from the cliff. Simon Helberg (“The Big Bang Theory”) did co-direct this grating vanity affair with his wife, Jocelyn Towne, but neither seems to realize how misguided it is at every step.
  12. A Night in Old Mexico
    If there were a Lifetime Channel for Men, Emilio Aragón’s unabashedly sentimental take on old age would surely wind up there.
  13. The Babymakers
    How does a comedy troupe even get from the frat-humor antics of "Beerfest" to the middle-class suburbanality of Babymakers? Well, everybody gets old eventually. Growing up, on the other hand, is optional.
  14. Julia
    The end result is like Quentin Tarantino reworking a Charles Bukowski story.
  15. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Problem is, this movie is all surface - to quote one character, it has hidden shallows.
  16. An American Affair
    This is one of those films in which almost every element is done in such an embarrassingly amateurish way, you want to put it out of its misery.
  17. Casa de mi Padre
    It's an unfunny Spanish movie that worked best as a two-minute trailer.
  18. Darling Companion
    The folksy shenanigans are well-intentioned but frankly interminable, with Kline's wry efficiency the best relief from all the yowling and whining.
  19. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Forgive us for being demanding, but shouldn't an animated kids movie like this one be, at the very least, fun? Cute? Watchable?
  20. Jenny's Wedding
    Any humor, though, is buried deep in bad writing. So the joke’s on us. Writer-director Mary Agnes Donoghue is surely well-intentioned, but her tin ear and very-special-episode worldview miss the mark.
  21. Savannah
    Savannah should win some sort of award for most amount of times you’ll ask, “They roped that guy into this turkey, too?”
  22. The Informers
    Ellis' stamp is immediately apparent, from the absurdly vapid characters to the undercurrent of barely repressed anger.
  23. Hey Bartender
    Skip the movie and go buy yourself a drink instead.
  24. Reach Me
    The concept itself is bafflingly empty. We’re never given any reason to respect Teddy or his work — which is built on tired, self-help clichés — so we hardly believe in his rapturous fans.
  25. Beautiful Creatures
    Who could have predicted that one day we would long for the relative subtlety of “Twilight”? Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures is so outrageously florid, Bella and Edward’s baroque courtship looks understated by comparison.
  26. All Relative
    Does Hollywood have so little to offer women that well-regarded actresses feel obliged to accept demeaning indies like this flatly unfunny, morally vacant comedy?
  27. Act of Valor
    Act of Valor is like watching the wrestlers in dramas produced by the WWE: They're great at what they do, but being in front of the camera isn't part of that.
  28. The Last Exorcism
    The Last Exorcism trods on previously stomped ground and has almost no good jump-outta-your-seat moments.
  29. Wild Card
    Statham brings so little energy that the fight scenes are hardly more vivid than the gambling ones. His one-liners have no heart; his cynicism is no longer sharp.
  30. A LEGO Brickumentary
    As Corporate promotional videos go, this one snaps together right out of the box. As a movie, it can be as annoying as stepping on a stray LEGO brick with your socks off.
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