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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. Abduction
    A ridiculously cheesy confection filled with unthrilling thrills, bored-looking adults and a comically overstuffed backstory.
  2. Night Train to Lisbon
    Murder on the Orient Express, this ain’t.
  3. Albatross
    Albatross is the kind of movie that looks good, begins with promise, and then nosedives into deep disappointment.
  4. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass - based on a graphic novel - thinks it's so brave and bold. But it's more like the title character, a dweeb who just thinks he's tough.
  5. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    Swan is so eager to be a trippy comic lark that it ends up resembling a clown trying to fit through a pea-shooter.
  6. The Moth Diaries
    Director Mary Harron ("American Psycho") can do little with this bloodless drama.
  7. Authors Anonymous
    You can always tell when filmmakers get their ideas from watching other movies. First-time writer David Congalton must be a Christopher Guest fan, because his derivative mockumentary feels like the work of someone who’s seen “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show” too many times.
  8. 33 Postcards
    There’s no explaining the presence of Guy Pearce in Pauline Chan’s sappy, atonal family drama. But it’s easy enough to understand why he looks so uncomfortable throughout.
  9. Days and Nights
    In a movie, nothing good ever seems to happen at a country house. And when it comes to this film, nothing very interesting happens, either.
  10. Saw 3D
    Franchise morphs into generic slasher series without Jigsaw.
  11. Masterminds
    This movie was made by a bunch of hired guns who had their hearts elsewhere. Masterminds does center around a heist — one committed on ticket buyers.
  12. Wendy and Lucy
    Like a worst-case-scenario, indie-movie cliché, Wendy and Lucy throws every bone it can at the screen.
  13. Brightest Star
    Far from burning bright, this earnest indie starts out dull and gets duller.
  14. The Revenant
    By the middle of the second hour, you'll be wishing a zombie would just chomp off your head to end the pain.
  15. Captive
    For a movie about purpose, Captive never finds its own.
  16. The Life Before Her Eyes
    What this heavy-handed film mainly has to endure is a clunky story structure and an ending that wasn't original when it was seen four decades ago on "The Twilight Zone."
  17. She's Out of My League
    Would like to think of itself as an extension of its lead character -- gangly, a bit uncouth, but ultimately sweet. Unfortunately, it's more like the best friend in a movie like this -- irritating, unfunny and something that hangs around longer than it should.
  18. The 11th Hour
    This Ill-Conceived fertility thriller is overwrought, underwritten and pure cynicism.
  19. The Names of Love
    Director Michel Leclerc's comedy plays like one of those foreign-movie spoofs Jerry and the gang would go to see on a "Seinfeld" episode. Only here, there's no "young girl's journey from Milan to Minsk" - just from madcap to moronic.
  20. Towelhead
    Ball knows one trick, and it's sure over.
  21. Raze
    This ugly, dull and idiotic actioner doesn’t know if it wants be fun or grim. It winds up simply being deplorable exploitation.
  22. The Stranger
    The movie touts a “Presented By” credit for modern horror maven Eli Roth, but there’s none of that director’s shock or sly subversion. Don’t bother getting to know this stranger.
  23. Max Payne
    The story has more holes than a shot-up metal door, the acting feels bored at best, and the intermittent action, while passable, hardly makes up for the downtime.
  24. The Bag Man
    So do the minutes. They stretch on as one tiresomely quirky sadist after another appears. Cusack is typically likable and De Niro is amusing in his brief scenes. But unlike Jack, you’re too smart to make big sacrifices for so little return.
  25. Simon Killer
    Sort of “An American Psycho’s European Vacation,” this indie dramatic thriller mixes sex and violence and still winds up dull.
  26. Dirty Grandpa
    This movie has almost nothing redeeming. And it’s flat out gross.
  27. The Quiet Ones
    Ah, wait — it’s an ancient Sumerian curse. That seems like poppycock to everyone but this film’s four screenwriters, who also unfortunately go for crashes and yelling instead of a frightening story.
  28. Homecoming
    As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.
  29. The Theory of Flight
    Theory of Flight follows the standard inspirational formula. [23 Dec. 1998, p.43]
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  30. RoboCop
    The remake of the 1987 cult actioner Robocop is a misguided failure — not only because its retooled half-man/half-machine hero now has emotions, but also because its “fear the machines” message winds up feeling creaky.
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