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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. Love the Coopers
    Jessie Nelson’s film sells itself well. There’s care in the details, and the characters often feel like actual people.
  2. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    The climax of Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bit more interesting and unpredictable than the usual horror-movie third act. But it feels like it's bred more out of desperation than anything organic; you can sense the gears turning in the screenwriters' heads as they try to figure out a way to breathe some fresh life into this franchise.
  3. Hot Pursuit
    A mixture of mild pleasures and deep disappointments.
  4. The Book of Henry
    It does not suffice to call The Book of Henry bad; it’s nonfunctional, so poorly conceived from the ground up as to slip out of the grasp of the usual standards one applies to narrative film. It might be admirable if it wasn’t such torture to watch.
  5. The Life of David Gale
    The Grisham-esque murder-mystery plot got so scrambled that, finally, it’s anybody’s guess what the filmmakers intended.
  6. Artemis Fowl
    The movie is so charmless and hopelessly incoherent that you might feel the need to consult Wikipedia afterward for some help on what it was even about.
  7. The Crow
    Skarsgård and Twigs have a total absence of chemistry, and while she’s adequate in what’s still basically a dead-wife role, he’s shockingly inert for someone with a career built almost entirely on characters at the intersection of creepy and hottie.
  8. Seventh Son
    Seventh Son not only offers no new spin on its bland, by-the-numbers story, it also fails to deliver any generic pleasures; I’m not sure this movie could even keep a young child engaged.
  9. Alex Cross
    What a whorish film this is: Even the serial killer lectures the detective.
  10. The Hangover Part III
    Turgid, unfunny catastrophe.
  11. Kill Me Three Times
    This twisty-turny film seems too enamored of its twisty-turniness to give us characters we can latch onto.
  12. The Electric State
    There’s something truly off-putting about The Electric State’s palette of junk and colorless branded robots. By trying to give this world such weight and grit, the filmmakers have doubled down on its ugliness.
  13. John Q
    Is it possible none of these actors read the script before they signed on? Were New Line executives perhaps too hung up on hobbits to notice how whacked out this movie is?
  14. Stonewall
    Unfortunately, Roland Emmerich is a terrible filmmaker, and his efforts to make his protagonist "relatable" backfire spectacularly.
  15. The House
    All these performers are given decent setups, but the script loses interest in anything that starts to look like a comedic through line.
  16. Mad Women
    I like the movie, though. It forced me to rethink the way sexual desire saturates everything, along with extreme vulnerability of children.
  17. I, Frankenstein
    Eckhart plays Frankenstein’s monster in a monotonous, teeth-gritting mode, as if someone had one gun on him and another on his family.
  18. Endless Love
    It’s actually worse than the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli–Brooke Shields version — which is worse than being waterboarded but at least bears some resemblance to the book and its brilliantly addled ‘70s vibe.
  19. She Hate Me
    Spike Lee’s She Hate Me is his worst movie ever--even worse than "Bamboozled," his self-serving indictment of modern minstrelsy, which at least was worth arguing about.
  20. Let's Be Cops
    Let’s Be Cops has its moments, but it in no way distinguishes itself.
  21. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
    If only Ghost Dimension spent more time in the ghost dimension and less time in the people dimension, we might have had something.
  22. Daddy's Home 2
    This is a toxic, not at all benign film.
  23. Peppermint
    Peppermint has no surprises up its sleeve, and casting Jennifer Garner as the put-upon housewife turned gun-toting vigilante doesn’t change that. If anything, changing one element of the formula does more to expose its dullness than the same movie starring Liam Neeson.
  24. Vehicle 19
    Vehicle 19 sets up a fascinating conceit for itself, and then loses interest in delivering on it. It just wants to get to the cool car chase, but by the time it does, we’ve stopped caring.
  25. Driven
    Driven is recommended only to those gentle souls who want to know what it looks like to crash into a wall at 200 mph.
  26. Battle of the Year
    Luckily, there is a movie you can watch instead that will give you both fascinating context and awesome dancing. It’s called "Planet B-Boy."
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film is one-half Sound of Metal and one-half Misery: Unfortunately, those movies already exist.
  28. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    It tries to repeat everything the original did, and winds up leaving you stone-faced and depressed. I think there were more laughs in Schindler’s List.
  29. Scary Movie 2
    Isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.
  30. Rock the Kasbah
    The air of mourning might have worked as a counterpoint to the silliness if Mitch Glazer’s script had smart gags, but as one-liner after one-liner misses its mark, you begin to feel sorry for Murray, who’s really too old to be playing a guy who has a little daughter (not granddaughter) and likes to get kinky with Kate Hudson as a raucous, Dolly Parton–style hooker-businesswoman.
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