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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 8.1 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. Simon Killer
    Sort of “An American Psycho’s European Vacation,” this indie dramatic thriller mixes sex and violence and still winds up dull.
  2. Upstream Color
    Upstream Color is weird, but it’s worth the time.
  3. The Company You Keep
    Though consistently engaging, Redford’s latest directorial endeavor does feel like a plea. You can almost hear him coaxing us to learn from the past, even as we rush into the future.
  4. Evil Dead
    Though Alvarez keeps us watching, he takes no real chances. Buried under all those enthusiastically mangled bodies is the comfort of familiarity. He may have intended to remake a single film, but we’ve seen this movie countless times before.
  5. Somebody Up There Likes Me
    The actors hold our attention, and there’s something to be said for the guys’ pathological disconnect. But the movie itself is too disconnected to say it.
  6. Blancanieves
    We’re not in Disney’s world. Berger knows his Grimm, and he suffuses his entrancing fairy tale with a moving sense of melancholy.
  7. Mental
    The cutesy energy is just too much in this Aussie comedy that’s overly bemused by its quirkiness.
  8. Room 237
    What Room 237 is really about is how movies inspire passion. Which is a great thing, even if it comes out in wack-job ways.
  9. Welcome to the Punch
    Unfortunately, the rest of writer-director Eran Creevy’s film just shows that the Brits, too, make good-looking but empty thrillers, just like in Hollywood.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tyler Perry's Temptation
    The mixed tones don't quite meld; While Smollet-Bell is fine, the broad comedy is so sporadic it feels out of place.
  11. Family Weekend
    Despite the promise Epps and Turner show in their film’s finest moments, we’re still talking about a movie that tries to wring jokes from puppet therapy.
  12. The Place Beyond the Pines
    The poetry in The Place Beyond the Pines can be elusive, but also easy to get lost in.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Renoir
    Unfortunately, for all the beauty, director Gilles Bourdos goes no further than simply observing surfaces.
  14. The Host
    Watch closely and you might even spy a better film inside, straining to break free.
  15. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    The G.I. Joe team is back, and most of their sophomore movie adventure, G.I. Joe Retaliation, is as bland as their name and as subtle as an exploding tank.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gimme the Loot
    Director Adam Leon, 31, has slyly and reverentially crafted a perfect New York movie, including the class tensions, relentless hustling and spontaneous connections that best define the exuberant strain of the city. The soundtrack, filled with mostly soul oldies, somehow feels exactly right for the sweaty New York summer of this scrappy kid-venture.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Croods
    The Croods are not meant to be beauties — they are, after all, a family of Neanderthals. But is the animation meant to be ugly, too?
  18. Olympus Has Fallen
    Perhaps every generation gets the movie stars it deserves. “Olympus” has quite a bit to say about the current state of our country. Intentions aside, not all of it is entirely flattering.
  19. Admission
    The bad news about Admission is that this thin envelope of a comedy checks all the boxes for being a phoned-in, phony, padded rom-com.
  20. Love and Honor
    Hemsworth has presence, but he also represents this film’s biggest problem: It feels like a bunch of good-looking kids putting on a show.
  21. Starbuck
    A high-concept goof that’s hard-pressed to surmount its twee preposterousness.
  22. Dorfman in Love
    Brad Leong’s “quirky” romantic comedy retreads ground that is already so well worn, everyone just slides right through.
  23. Hunky Dory
    Enthusiasm carries the day in this paint-by-numbers period tale, which is just charming enough to coast on its own clichés.
  24. Everybody Has a Plan
    It’s not easy to play twins (in another language, no less), without relying on showy mannerisms to define them. But Mortensen pulls it off. Your move, Franco.
  25. Stars in Shorts
    None of the seven shorts here is worth a single, well-made feature. But there are a few amusing moments to be found.
  26. The Call
    No one’s winning any awards for The Call. But at least the award winners know how to make it worth our while.
  27. K-11
    Points for niche audaciousness, but that’s all.
  28. From Up on Poppy Hill
    Even with no wood sprites, witches or spells, there’s plenty of magic in this coming-of-age charmer.
  29. My Amityville Horror
    Lutz, who was a boy when his family fled the Long Island home, is full of belligerence in this chronicle of his family’s alleged run-in with a ghoulish home where a murder had occurred.
  30. If I Were You
    Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful.
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