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For 7,573 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Samurai and the Prisoner
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,959 out of 7573
  2. Mixed: 1,253 out of 7573
  3. Negative: 1,361 out of 7573
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  1. Contract to Kill
    The current incarnation of Seagal is no fun at all.
  2. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
    Little more than an extended version of the kind of political screeds that can be found online with only a minimum of effort, this is just a terrible movie.
  3. Death of a Nation
    The only thing preventing me from dubbing this one of the dumbest movies of any type that I have ever seen in my life is the fact that I am not entirely certain that something as shabbily constructed and artistically bankrupt as this actually qualifies as a movie in the first place.
  4. Plush
    All of this should have been more darkly funny, more knowingly campy, something. As it is, Plush awkwardly tries to shock and frighten us while also trying to tease and amuse us.
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    • 38 Critic Score
    Besharam
    The oddest thing about Besharam, in a litany of incredibly perplexing elements, is how cheap and small it seems.
  6. The Starving Games
    The writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer now take aim at "The Hunger Games" with their latest effort, The Starving Games, and the fact that the title, as witless and uninspired as it may be, constitutes its humorous high-water mark should indicate just how ineptly they handle things this time around.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Ram-Leela
    A visually opulent, proudly melodramatic entertainer with some great songs and star performances.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Gunday
    The action's top-notch, the songs are good, and with the above-mentioned assets, "Gunday" is an unqualified success on its own terms: a solidly entertaining pop movie.
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    • 63 Critic Score
    Bewakoofiyaan
    The star turn, and the only major element in Bewakoofiyaan that transcends the by-the-numbers assembly line rom-com, is Rishi Kapoor.
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    • 63 Critic Score
    Happy New Year
    It has some wildly fun dance sequences, some funny bits, and an impressive roster of mainstream Bollywood talent. It's a shame that those positives can't entirely outweigh the messy, lazy and dumb stuff that pads out the remainder of the running time.
  11. Three Night Stand
    The French farce aspect of the film is its true heartbeat. These characters are not really serious people, and it is difficult to take any of them seriously. That’s fine, it gives Three Night Stand its special lunatic edge.
  12. A Year in Champagne
    The Champagne experience is a particular one, and even if you don’t imbibe this movie can give you an appreciation for what makes it special.
  13. 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.
  14. The Ocean of Helena Lee
    One of the more unique, evocative and deeply felt coming-of-age films to come along in quite some time.
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    • 63 Critic Score
    Redeemer
    Zaror is clearly a skilled athlete, but what's more intriguing is how we can see him, as the Redeemer, planning his next move on the fly. It's not simply an explosion of violence. It's a precise burn.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot
    The unique working relationship between Dirk Nowitzki and Holger Geschwindner is itself of sufficient interest to make the entire thing worthwhile, and implies that Geschwindner would make a compelling protagonist of his own film.
  17. Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser
    Joe Dirt 2 is wildly inconsistent, often feeling like it was slapped together quickly before someone changed their mind and put a stop payment on the financing check.
  18. Endgame
    Endgame tries to be about many important issues, and ends up doing none of them justice.
  19. Requiem for the American Dream
    The result is a film that feels less like a lecture than a provocative X-ray of current American political realities.
  20. Who's Driving Doug
    Too shallow to project real charisma, the film is instead questionably sincere from start to finish, as if it's trying to head off questions about why the filmmakers wanted to tell this particular story, especially from the grossly underrepresented but often-manipulated perspective of a person with disabilities.
  21. The Blue Hour
    Boonyawatana provides a confident and distinctive vision of his own in this, his debut feature. While his spiraling from one genre to another may produce a final lack of coherence, it’s a nervy, purposeful strategy that keeps clichés at bay while engaging viewer interest throughout.
  22. Class Divide
    Talking with the residents of these different worlds, and contrasting their different lives, is where the film’s heart and greatest insights reside.
  23. A Light Beneath Their Feet
    A Light Beneath Their Feet is a triumph of empathetic filmmaking. It will enthrall viewers merely seeking a coming-of-age yarn, and it contains one of the loveliest prom scenes in recent memory.
  24. The Asian Connection
    I want to defend this movie, but it's so bad that I must warn you: if you watch this film knowing that it is Steven-Seagal-wearing-a-du-rag-and-glowering-impassively-at-attractive-young-women bad, you will get what you pay for. That's both an endorsement and a warning.
  25. Urge
    A movie that’s as empty and unlikable as the characters themselves.
  26. Let's Be Evil
    The movie’s relentless one-note tone makes its final twist, such as it is, entirely predictable and pat.
  27. Coin Heist
    I can’t recall another vampire film that depicted so amusingly the sheer awkwardness of adjusting to one’s fangs, as if they were yet another pitfall of puberty.
  28. Get the Girl
    It’s an alternately quirky and intense flick that never quite lives up to its potential, but contains a twist or two you’re unlikely to see coming, and could appeal to viewers who miss the days of unpretentious B-movie glory that Orion once symbolized.
  29. American Violence
    American Violence seems defiantly unconcerned with addressing the actual issues at play, delivering a generic crime thriller instead. And a bad one at that.
  30. The Institute
    The film looks like a rushed production that a few friends got together and made over a weekend. Performances range from tolerable to horrendous, and the script needed at least another rewrite to figure out what it was trying to say, and, preferably, buff out a ridiculous twist ending that would make M. Night Shyamalan go “nah.”
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