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For 7,549 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,943 out of 7549
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7549
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7549
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  1. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    Loud, repellent, badly written, indifferently directed and almost completely devoid of any genuine laughs, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is essentially a film for 12-year-old boys who can still derive some kind of basic entertainment for the mere sight of spurting blood or a bare breast, all the better if they can appear at the same time
  2. Time Cut
    There’s so little “fun” here, feeling as if everyone is merely fulfilling an obligation. I was excited for another time jump movie with a twist. After this one, I just wanted my time back.
  3. No Good Deed
    In order to keep the flimsy narrative going, both allegedly brilliant characters are forced to act like morons throughout.
  4. Willy's Wonderland
    Willy’s Wonderland feels like a movie conceived during a drinking game. A few people had a few too many after a few rough days and dared each other to come up with the most ridiculous concept they could get produced.
  5. Don't Come Back from the Moon
    For a movie that is supposedly about the consequences of absentee fathers, it sure has little of importance to say about the families they desert. The Moon deserves better symbolism.
  6. Behind You
    The script's interest in the past becomes a dead weight, which leads to boring emotional monologues from the adults and later a typical referencing of every supernatural movie's guidebook about how to deal with the demon in one's house.
  7. 5 to 7
    Eventually, the fact that the characters are all aware of the multiple clichés they’re uttering — an exchange between Brian and a young editor (Olivia Thirlby) is particularly excruciating in this respect — doesn’t redeem or excuse the clichés.
  8. John Doe: Vigilante
    It's all a dull, repetitive slog of talking heads saying the same thing over and over in slightly different ways, and it never picks up steam.
  9. Clika
    Unlike previous iterations of music stars struggling to make it to the spotlight, “Clika” lacks the electricity and the excitement of watching a performer bring the house down.
  10. The Secrets We Keep
    While I rather doubt that co-writer/director Yuval Adler pitched his new picture as “'Death and the Maiden' meets ‘Leave it to Beaver,’” that sure is what he ended up with, conceptually at least.
  11. Trespassers
    Trespassers is fairly timid, as far as home-invasion thrillers go: it’s got some machete - and gun-related violence, a couple of leering masked killers, and a little rough sex, but that’s about it.
  12. Drinking Buddies
    Watching Drinking Buddies is like being the designated driver for a most uninteresting bunch of drinkers.
  13. Alarum
    If “Alarum” had been directed by either a complete novice or a total hack, maybe some of its grievous cinematic sins could have been forgiven or at least tolerated.
  14. Spy Kids: Armageddon
    It’s more of the same, without any discernible improvement in quality, despite the massive technological leaps over the past two decades.
  15. I, Frankenstein
    A grievously ill-advised motion picture on every level.
  16. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    These kids have to contrive magical pretexts just to lay hands on each other, and boy, are their excuses rotten.
  17. When the Bough Breaks
    While empathy is first to go in the tasteless When the Bough Breaks, there is nothing good in its place.
  18. My Dead Boyfriend
    A mixture of misplaced gallows humor, wildly over-the-top caricatures and a gimmicky use of animation combine to make My Dead Boyfriend one of the year’s more uncomfortable movie-going experiences.
  19. Reagan
    We could use much more insight into what made [Reagan] “the great communicator,” but this movie is a poor communicator about the history and the man.
  20. Armor
    Even at its relatively trim 89-minute runtime, "Armor" feels padded.
  21. Back in Action
    Back in Action isn’t as obnoxiously soulless as “Red Notice,” but it’s firmly within that subgenre of glossy, globetrotting action pictures you can stream while you fold your laundry. It all feels so cynical.
  22. The Loft
    This long-delayed would-be erotic thriller is a shabby bore that promises viewers any number of kinky thrills and then proceeds to deflate those expectations.
  23. Urge
    A movie that’s as empty and unlikable as the characters themselves.
  24. Redemption Day
    Time may feel like a flat circle, but the calendar says it’s January, so that means we get shoddy, dumping-ground dreck like the generically titled Redemption Day.
  25. Emperor
    Emperor is lousy in the same way that many other mediocre slave narratives are: it re-presents a dark period in American history without being inspired or insightful enough to be worth your curiosity or emotional investment.
  26. Shortcut
    Based solely on its own merits, Shortcut is both an amateurish production and a mindless genre exercise.
  27. Uglies
    Uglies is an Orwellian tale with weak conviction. Among its contemporaries, it’s a disappointing volume in the YA dystopian canon.
  28. Dear Santa
    By and large, "Dear Santa" feels as if someone took a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book and added some truly weird Satanic mythology.
  29. Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
    The film, unfortunately, is poorly acted and offers Hallmark Channel-level craftsmanship.
  30. The Real Thing
    There are a lot of fragmentary ideas in The Real Thing, but they’re not cohesive or worthwhile as they’re loosely formed into one grey 232-minute lump.
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