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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. Girl on a Bicycle
    What wants to be a screwball comedy is run over by preposterous character motivation and a clunky plot.
  2. The Lincoln Lawyer
    There's a reason potboiler paperbacks don't make good movies - there's too much outlandish plot, even for Hollywood.
  3. Killer Joe
    What's most notable about this aggressively cynical project is how much talent it wastes.
  4. Hereafter
    It doesn't help that Eastwood's laconic style is as torpid as it was in such misfires as "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "Changeling."
  5. Kite
    As for Jackson, he strolls through the nonsensical story so casually, one suspects his mind is on other things — like what he’ll do with his paycheck. He has probably already moved on. We’ll happily do the same.
  6. Adore
    Though Fontaine makes sure the beaches are sun-dappled and the women’s shared house comes off like a sandy paradise, the movie is like the early-’80s groaner “Summer Lovers” with wrinkle lines. Hooray for the freedom and beauty of older women — a demographic that deserves better than the deplorable Adore.
  7. Sherman's Way
    Unfortunately, this strained comedy relies entirely on clichés and contrivances to tell the story of Sherman.
  8. The Box
    The Box is its own kind of awful, a disconnected mess that never finds its reason for being.
  9. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
    Has raw action and urgent performances, but loses power due to an amateur approach.
  10. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Flashbacks show samurai shenanigans, but it's all cluttered and rambling. Watch "True Blood," "Let the Right One In" or "Twilight" instead. Or wait for "Thirst" or "New Moon" or "Daybreakers" or ...
  11. Rings
    Filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez really doesn't have a lot to work with beyond a flimsy story, weak script and characters you'll have a hard time caring about.
  12. Tickling Leo
    Throughout, Davidson's intentions are honest but become lost in a haze of overly familiar story beats.
  13. [Rec] 2
    This Spanish sequel to a 2007 cult hit uses the way-overdone conceit of videotaped terror.
  14. Friended to Death
    Michael (Hansen) fakes his death and announces it online, solely so he can see who shows up at his funeral. His plans only grow more dimwitted from there.
  15. Bachelorette
    While plenty of gross-out comedies have come and gone in the last two decades, Leslye Headland's Bachelorette may be the most vulgar of them all.
  16. 3
    Rois has moments of desperate urgency and depth, but Twyker's love of parallels is finally done in by artsy shots of the threesome au naturel against stark white backdrops.
  17. Hell Baby
    Evil babies aren’t exactly fresh meat for parody. Then again, there’s hardly a laugh in this whole hellish thing.
  18. Terminator Genisys
    One achievement of James Cameron’s “Terminator” is that it overcame its low-rent, B-movie trappings. The great sin of “Genisys” is that it costs millions and yet isn’t worth a dime.
  19. Killing Season
    Travolta, who was more believable as a middle-aged housewife in “Hairspray” than he is as a former Serbian commando, has the accent down pat. But his Boris-and-Natasha-style syntax seems to represent Killing Season best. Just imagine that voice saying: Dees ees very seelly movie. Catch on cable TV, please.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I.T.
    Let’s just say director John Moore’s new thriller I.T. should be lost in cyberspace — not filling up an hour and a half of your life.
  21. Legendary
    Most of the acting is amateurish at best, and the tone is vintage "Afterschool Special." But it does aim to be family-friendly, and at least it succeeds there.
  22. The Baytown Outlaws
    Okay, y'all, the never-ending appeal of the Southern-fried crime caper for filmmakers hungry for flavor is back with The Baytown Outlaws. Only here, the drawling accents, screeching tires and sawed-off blasts that rise again don't amount to much.
  23. Safe
    Safe arrives filled with bombast and sneers but barely any thrills.
  24. What Goes Up
    Glatzer's self-consciously quirky indie is misguided on every level.
  25. [REC] 3: Genesis
    It's the same-old flesh-chewing. Like vampires, this genre is getting deadly.
  26. Beyond the Reach
    This film, though, lacks any spine. Director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti isn’t sure if he’s making a Hemingway-lite faceoff or a hemmed-in horror flick.
  27. Hitman: Agent 47
    Hitman: Agent 47 is a by-the-numbers schlock action sequel that writes its own epitaph when a character mutters the dusty insult, “You’re dead, too. You just don’t know it yet.”
  28. The Inbetweeners Movie
    After much fumbling, the snicks and giggles of adolescence grow wearying yet again.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Douglas is the only one who looks like he's actually having fun with the dim-witted script.
  30. See No Evil
    Grim, bloody and relentless, without even a spark of fun or intelligence, Evil is barely good enough for late-night cable.
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