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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. Easy Money: Hard to Kill
    How many times do these guys need to hear that crime doesn’t pay?
  2. Winter's Tale
    The whole movie hinges on the allegedly miraculous romance between Beverly and Peter, but Goldsman’s leads are distractingly mismatched and lack even a spark of chemistry.
  3. About Last Night
    It’s playful, stable and sexy, thanks to a cast that knows how to find the sweet spots.
  4. Endless Love
    If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day date, this version is probably a better choice than the uncomfortably swoony original would have been. You might be bored, but at least you won’t be embarrassed.
  5. 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.
  6. Vampire Academy
    The supernatural fight scenes are cheesy and cheap, but this movie is less about epic brawls and more about a headmistress in fabulous dresses, secret meetings with brooding boys in the library, sexualized fang pokes and making wisenheimer comments during prophetic visions.
  7. Love & Air Sex
    “Keep Austin weird” is the mantra of the capital of Texas. In no way does that mean “Keep Austin gross.” The unfunny Love and Air Sex unfortunately takes the latter slogan as its mission.
  8. Demi-Soeur
    Broad comedy and a little slapstick ensue. In the end, you’ve got to have a heart harder than a tortoise shell not get a little misty.
  9. The Outsider
    Painfully dull thriller.
  10. Welcome to the Jungle
    The real challenge is for viewers, who must tolerate overacting, idiotic scatological jokes and juvenile innuendo. The only way it might be endurable is if you’re wasted, too.
  11. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    Classical dance great Jacques d’Amboise calls Tanaquil LeClercq’s style a “path to heaven.” And this lovely documentary by Nancy Buirski makes clear that he’s right.
  12. The Last of the Unjust
    Though it’s more testimonial exhibit than movie, “Unjust” remains a crucial document.
  13. A Fantastic Fear of Everything
    There’s also little point and a garish quality that goes from pulp to junk fairly quickly, despite Pegg’s presence.
  14. The Pretty One
    This eerily unsettling indie takes a few pleasantly unexpected turns before winding up in a traditional place. But if you think it isn’t worth the time, you have another think coming.
  15. The Monuments Men
    There’s great repartee between its cast of this “based on a true [but forgotten] story” of World War II. Yet the film overall isn’t colorful enough.
  16. The LEGO Movie
    As full-length toy advertisements go, you really couldn’t ask for more.
  17. That Awkward Moment
    That Awkward Moment is eminently forgettable — but worth remembering as Poots’ moment.
  18. 12 O'Clock Boys
    Coco’s angry frustration, Pug’s bruised confusion, and the police helicopters constantly hovering above the defiant bikers say enough.
  19. Brightest Star
    Far from burning bright, this earnest indie starts out dull and gets duller.
  20. Love Is in the Air
    With a snappy score made up of American standards and tons of Gallic spice, “Love” wins us over.
  21. Charlie Victor Romeo
    As seen in Charlie Victor Romeo (code for “Cockpit Voice Recorder”), the events are almost unbearably gripping.
  22. I, Frankenstein
    At the very least, it does provide an easy excuse to sit in a heated room eating popcorn.
  23. Gimme Shelter
    From an artistic perspective, Ron Krauss’ heavy-handed drama, Gimme Shelter, fails almost entirely. But if the director set out to combine the stilted falsity of 1980s after-school specials with leaden political dogma, he’s certainly achieved his goals.
  24. Run & Jump
    Peake provides the solid center for a movie that would otherwise melt into indie formula. The quirky supporting characters, slow pacing and predictable plotting intermittently threaten to overwhelm such a modest story. But then Ted secretly turns his camera back toward Vanetia and, like him, we’re smitten again.
  25. G.B.F.
    The subject matter calls for ruthless observation, but his candy-colored pop vision has more in common with “Glee” than, say, “Heathers.” He’s aiming for a stinging WTF, but winds up with a fairly mild LOL.
  26. Maidentrip
    Director Jillian Schlesinger’s documentary does a terrific job countering everyone’s assumptions. Maidentrip is a clear-eyed chronicle of Dekker’s record-breaking voyage. Think “All Is Lost,” but real, and with a teenage girl instead of Robert Redford (plus a very different ending).
  27. Ride Along
    Story and his four screenwriters don’t exactly strain themselves to find a new angle in this mismatched buddy comedy. Picture “Rush Hour,” and then imagine Hart as the annoying kid in “Are We There Yet?” You’ve basically just watched the entire movie in your head.
  28. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh, taking advantage of his experience helming 2011’s “Thor,” shows an allegiance to the genre he’s working in; both as director as co-star, he pours on the menace.
  29. Like Father, Like Son
    The child performances are stellar, though most striking is how the film’s sympathies spread to everyone.
  30. Big Bad Wolves
    Israeli directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado take a classic ethical debate and turn it into a dark — and darkly funny — thriller, which Quentin Tarantino named the best film of 2013.
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