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For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Denial
Lowest review score: 0 From Paris with Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,004 out of 1801
  2. Mixed: 382 out of 1801
  3. Negative: 415 out of 1801
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  1. Knife Fight
    As a bare-knuckle assault on the corruption that has come to define the creeping rot of American politics, Knife Fight is neither as satirical as Barry Levinson's "Wag the Dog" nor as incisive and wrenching as George Clooney's "The Ides of March," but it's a noble, shocking and inspired film worthy of attention.
  2. Valentine's Day
    It’s a romantic piffle stuffed with so much candy that your skin could break out.
  3. Safe Haven
    This one blends the scented candles of a daytime soap with the tamer aspects of a middling thriller. Some folks will bring Kleenex. Others will need NoDoz.
  4. Erased
    All we know is that the only sure way to avoid the loss of any more I.Q. points in the world today is to stay away from movies like Erased.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Mummy
    You only have to watch the trailer to know that Producer-Director Alex Kurtzman’s reboot of Brendan Fraser’s once-charming mummy movies is full of embalming fluid.
  6. The Bubble
    The movie spends the bulk of its largely inert runtime painfully unaware that it is an example of the self-indulgent narcissism it’s intended to send up.
  7. 33 Postcards
    The dependable Australian actor Guy Pearce is always welcome, even in a well-meaning dud like 33 Postcards.
  8. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    Anthony Hopkins plays the king of the hops, and he is excellent. So is the rest of the movie, a sober, no-frills account about the highest ransom ever collected up to that time — $10 million and counting.
  9. The Chaperone
    Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop," but better.
  10. Burning Palms
    Burning Palms is too sick to attract the masses, but he's onto something subversively valid, and the film is never boring.
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's
    Five Nights at Freddy’s takes a novel, off-the-wall premise and makes it feel rote. Even as someone who has no experience with the games, I felt as if I was on my third or fourth playthrough already.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Stereo
    Starts out as though it’s gearing up for romantic comedy terrain, but quickly confounds your expectations.
  13. The Baytown Outlaws
    The resulting mayhem and slaughter is vile and disgusting.
  14. Out of the Dark
    Unfortunately, there aren’t many thrills and the pace is so slow that I fell asleep from tedium waiting for something that resembled a goose bump.
  15. Fifty Shades Darker
    It’s fifty times more boring than the first one. It is also fifty shades dumber.
  16. About Cherry
    James Franco's role hardly exists. He's a doped-up cipher who attends museum openings and drives his car into a cement wall, looking as bored and out of place as he did hosting the Academy Awards.
  17. Holy Lands
    Despite good performances from a first-rate cast, the problem here is that the movie was written and directed by Amanda Sthers, who adapted it from her own novel. The result is too literary, but not in a good way. It’s choppy like paragraphs from a book, instead of chapters.
  18. Haunt
    I’ve had bigger scares from the windows at FAO Schwarz.
  19. The 5th Wave
    The 5th Wave is a typical example of the kind of dopey junk that passes for literature among today’s unsophisticated teens.
  20. Chlorine
    As a film, though, Chlorine is as confusing as its title. Moviegoers be warned: With the skyrocketing cost of movie tickets (not to mention popcorn), this one is a bad investment.
  21. Euphoria
    A Swedish-German co-production in English, Euphoria should be called Dyspepsia. It lulls you into a disagreeable stupor clearly labeled “who cares?”
  22. The Girl in the Photographs
    Rest assured, Anthony Perkins would have demanded a re-write.
  23. Primal
    Recent complaints about action flicks with no action can be ameliorated by Primal, a white-knuckle thriller with a thrill a minute. Nicolas Cage delivers his best performance in years.
  24. The 11th Hour
    The 11th Hour is a bona fide stinker, only worse. To borrow one of Mel Brooks’ favorite lines, it stinks on ice.
  25. Careful What You Wish For
    Sliding down the James Franco hole is not an attractive career goal, but in his (Jonas) new movie Careful What You Wish For, there is evidence that he is at least learning how to act.
  26. Love Again
    It’s not much to examine at length, much less remember, but if you’re in the mood for a Hallmark card to revive your faith in gooey rom-coms, Love Again is not the one.
  27. Charlie Countryman
    The result is the most idiotic excess of sex and bloodshed since "Only God Forgives."
  28. I Still See You
    Nothing about I Still See You attempts to succeed on any level of logic, including the script, peppered with pseudo comic book mumbo-jumbo.
  29. Mary
    At the movies, bad things happen to good people all the time. But it’s especially lamentable to see two sterling silver talents of the caliber of Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer trapped in a mindless trifle like Mary. It’s a watery tale of supernatural nonsense at sea as lost and immobile as a beached mackerel.
  30. Dead Water
    The cinematography is beautiful (filming in the Virgin Islands, you’d have to be a moron to make a movie that looks ugly) and the four-member cast is easy to take. Not the worst way to spend 90 minutes on a hot day.
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