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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. A Good Day to Die Hard
    Ultimately, even more than 2007’s “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Good Day” never lets McClane be McClane. Gone is his taunting snark and quick-witted preparedness; instead he seems like a jerk with a thing for guns.
  2. Kill List
    It would be easy to say that the final minutes of this mixed-up thriller make everything before it meaningless, but that would indicate the odd conclusion has meaning, too.
  3. Dogtooth
    The father is the only one who can leave the house to go to his factory job, and that seems like a paradise for viewers trapped watching this clinically shot claptrap.
  4. Dredd
    The drug that Ma-Ma trafficks in, Slo-Mo, slows its user's brain to 1% of its normal speed. Dredd unfortunately makes you feel as if you, too, have partaken.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Friday the 13th
    Purists will be – happy? Relieved? – to know that the "ch-ch-chhh" music survived, and the body count still totals 13.
  6. Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business squanders almost every opportunity provided by its potentially funny premise. Instead, it becomes yet another blotch on star Vince Vaughn’s résumé.
  7. Something Borrowed
    Even if you've got a soft spot for silly rom-coms, know that this one is as empty-headed as it gets.
  8. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    This insipid mashup of history lesson and monster flick takes itself semi-seriously, which is truly deadly.
  9. Amelia
    Tis embalmed drama is a ghost from the '80s, a decade that regularly produced surprise-free, caramelized biopics. The airless Amelia is missing practically everything.
  10. 3 Days to Kill
    It only comes alive when the star briefly shows the casual looseness that once was his calling card.
  11. Viva
    Viva needed to be shaved down to about 70 minutes, the better to really let loose and jettison some over-the-top jokiness.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Brothers Bloom
    An overstuffed failure that mistakes sleight storytelling for dazzling entertainment.
  13. Chaplin of the Mountains
    Some of the locations and scenes of indigenous musicians make this trip a tiny bit worthwhile. But only a bit.
  14. Motherhood
    Motherhood's litany of complaints and trite comedy-drama comes off as thin, and targeted, as a flyer for The Children's Place.
  15. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    This eye-rollingly bad movie is silly, sluggish and miscast.
  16. Run All Night
    Fatigue is all we get from Run All Night.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    6 Ways To Die
    I checked my watch over and over — and I wasn’t even wearing one. The only death the movie really supplies is one from boredom.
  18. Pacific Rim
    Laudable as its world-building is, the film drags not just in its interminable middle hour, but also during the redundant monster-on-mechawarrior smackdowns.
  19. Free the Nipple
    Shallow and frustratingly misguided drama.
  20. San Andreas
    San Andreas is a disaster — literally. That’s not to take a piece out of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. His charm and family-man-style fearlessness as the movie’s star is the only saving grace in this thuddingly repetitive, badly written crash-a-thon.
  21. Red Lights
    A ghost-busting drama set in a world of mystics, mind-benders and various and sundry fake-psychic gobbledygook. But the weirdest thing is how all the fun gets lost in a bottom-drawer "X Files" story.
  22. The Captive
    Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”) can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller.
  23. Hesher
    Any way you slice it, writer-director Spencer Susser's movie is bad company, full of wanna-be-outrageous anecdotes from the fringe.
  24. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    Phil Alden Robinson’s overheated dramedy feels disconnected from reality in every emotional way.
  25. Salt of This Sea
    Both written and played in broad strokes, each character quickly devolves into the most simplistic of symbols. The results comes across more as an agenda than art.
  26. This Means War
    "War" is depressingly mean-spirited.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Home Sweet Hell
    A dark comedy that isn't funny and a marriage satire that doesn't break new ground.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
    The holes in the plot, not in Eddie’s diet, are the real joke.
  29. Venus in Fur
    Polanski views things so mischievously that the naughtiness is neutered long before sniveling Thomas is tied to a pole. He’s a captive not only to Vanda, but also to all the dull, reductive mind games.
  30. Zookeeper
    A children's comedy about talking animals that feels as if it were written by children or, perhaps, by talking animals.
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