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For 3,961 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. The Lucky One
    Efron's stopped-clock seriousness is more convincing on a melancholy loverboy than it is on a melancholy soldier. We can't quite sense the harrowing torment of lives lost before his eyes, but we can sense the sweet anguish of being around the woman you adore. It'll have to do.
  2. The Dirt
    Its own pointlessness may keep The Dirt from feeling like an actual affront to humanity, but that doesn't make it very good, either.
  3. Ava
    What’s onscreen — choppy, lifeless, predictable action scenes jutting up against unbaked, middle-school-theater-production-level family drama — is quite damning in its own right.
  4. Him
    Him impresses as a stylistic exercise, a gonzo spectacle of macho phantasmagoria, but it’s hollow inside.
  5. Entourage
    The film plays out mostly like an occasionally above-average episode of the show.
  6. Terminator Genisys
    It doesn’t jell, though, and the movie’s philosophical message is especially grating.
  7. Gemini Man
    At its core is a scenario in which someone’s given the chance to confront their younger self and call out their worst choices — one that feels like it has more to do with therapy than with all the unconvincing action in which it’s unfortunately packaged.
  8. Bad Boys II
    Resembles a full-length promo for itself. The action, virtually nonstop, is a series of can-you-top-this? set pieces.
  9. The Green Inferno
    Unlike the '70s Italian cannibal movies, The Green Inferno doesn’t have a mondo vibe. It’s artfully made and acted with skill.
  10. Men in Black: International
    It’s not that this new movie has forgotten the fleet-footed charm of the original MIB films; it’s just that it doesn’t quite know how to conjure it again, so it confuses levity with listlessness.
  11. All Eyez on Me
    All Eyez on Me is rarely more than a faithful adaptation of the rapper’s Wikipedia entry, so fixated on name-checking every footnote of Shakur’s public life that there is no space to explore the experience of the man himself.
  12. The Life Before Her Eyes
    In a vile-movie competition between Michael Haneke’s "Funny Games" and Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Haneke’s film would win--but only because he’s working so much harder to be noxious.
  13. The Vatican Tapes
    A tired, unscary, incoherent mess.
  14. Ouija
    Ouija is confident, meat-and-potatoes horror, and that’s a lot harder to pull off than it sounds.
  15. No Escape
    It’s just plain offensive — and not all that well made, either. No Escape takes the casual xenophobia of something like Taken, crossbreeds it with something altogether more noxious, then asks us to kick back and enjoy the ride. We don’t. We can’t. And the ride isn’t that great to begin with.
  16. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    If the movie didn't pander so madly to the audience for "Sex and the City" and "Legally Blonde," it might have been a comedy touchstone instead of a cringeworthy footnote.
  17. The November Man
    Appropriately pulpy — fuss-free and fast.
  18. Flight Risk
    It’s a mess of a movie, and no amount of threatening huffing and puffing on Wahlberg’s part can make it worthwhile.
  19. Laws of Attraction
    It’s tough to be Tracy and Hepburn, let alone Doris Day and Rock Hudson, when you're trying to get your mouth around lines that wouldn't pass muster on a UPN sitcom.
  20. Seeking Justice
    To be fair, when the story is moving, it's okay.
  21. Chaos Walking
    Chaos Walking retains a tiny bit of its comic spirit, but one does get the sense that maybe, in some distant rough cut or interim screenplay draft, it was a much funnier, more engaging picture. Instead, what we now have is a movie that seems determined to run away from itself.
  22. The Collection
    The movie's a smorgasbord of horror, and, ironically, that takes the teeth out of it. We're not really in this villain's world, because we don't know what his world is, or what he is, or what he's trying to even do. It's like a nightmare designed by someone who's heard a lot about nightmares but has never actually had one.
  23. Think Like a Man Too
    Mostly uninspired and insipid, but it rallies, and builds up enough comic steam by the end that you might find yourself amused.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kinda Pregnant
    Hilarity is supposed to ensue, but this all just feels so familiar.
  25. American Hangman
    American Hangman, a bar thought experiment turned into a film every bit as simple and bad-taste-leaving as that would imply, only has use for humans as sock puppets.
  26. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Yes, I cringed at the casting, too, especially when, watching the trailer, I heard Parker deliver the narration in the same voice she used for Carrie in "Sex and the City." But Kate is funnier - less arch - than Carrie, and Parker reminds you what a dizzy, all-in, high-risk comic actress she can be when she's not too busy showing off the couture.
  27. And So It Goes
    Clean, pleasant, and thoroughly unremarkable. It passes the time, but with that cast and that director, it should have been so much more.
  28. Don't Say a Word
    You would have to have been born yesterday to miss the switcheroos and reeking red herrings planted in this pulp.
  29. The Pink Panther
    Steve Martin can be a delightfully spasmodic clown, but his Clouseau makes no sense.
  30. Third Person
    They make you wish Haggis would put away the Great Themes, the belabored dialogue, the forced narrative dynamics, and just figure out a way to scale down his scope and tell smaller stories. Maybe it’s not all as connected as he thinks.
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