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For 7,557 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.5 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: 4,950 out of 7557
  2. Mixed: 1,249 out of 7557
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7557
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  1. The Family Plan 2
    It’s such a non-movie that it actually becomes difficult to review because there’s so little to hold onto that it dissipates from memory while you’re watching it. There are no laughs. The plot is inane. The action choreography is insulting. It is such a lifeless piece of product creation (not filmmaking) that even writing about it feels like a waste of time, much less watching it.
  2. The Reckoning
    The ensemble cast members all dutifully perform their roles, but there’s not much for them to sink their teeth into.
  3. The Letters
    A drama in which belief is reduced to well-meaning but inert treacle.
  4. Endless
    Someone must have said, “... like 'Ghost,' but you know, for teens!” when pitching Endless, Scott Speer’s shameless and embarrassingly vacant rip-off of Jerry Zucker’s wildly successful, otherworldly 1990 romantic drama. But I bet no one in that room expected the outcome to be quite this irritating.
  5. The Conjuring
    The Conjuring is as toothless as it is because it's two different kinds of boring. The film's plot is explained exhaustively whenever loud noises aren't blaring, and random objects aren't teasingly leaping out at you from the corner of your eye.
  6. American Hero
    American Hero is an obnoxious rock star moment, with images of Americana that have apparently been lost in translation by an outsider British director.
  7. Mosquito State
    What’s really wrong with Richard is that he’s a boring monster.
  8. A Sacrifice
    The first two-thirds of "A Sacrifice" are a largely leaden affair that offers viewers little that they haven’t seen before. It isn’t even awful so much as it is intensely forgettable—the kind of film whose title eludes you even as you watch it.
  9. The Humanity Bureau
    Oh, The Humanity Bureau! How could a low-budget science-fiction thriller starring Nicolas Cage go wrong? Let me count the ways.
  10. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    There’s just so much missing, including logic.
  11. The Bay of Silence
    I suppose director Paula van der Oest was trying to go for some kind of European Gothic feel, but something this unsavory needs to move a lot faster than this. This contraption is slower than molasses in winter.
  12. The Final Member
    Generally speaking, the museum seems like a modest, but vividly-detailed freak show.
  13. The Union
    The Union delivers tonal whiplash on account of its failure to exceed at either end of its genre attempt at action-comedy.
  14. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    It's "Eat, Pray, Love"-lite, and "Eat, Pray, Love" was already "lite."
  15. Our Father
    While what Cline did and the fight his victims took to find justice is a truth worth knowing and learning, Jourdan’s crass documentary isn’t the best vehicle for such weighty material.
  16. Authors Anonymous
    Farina’s talent is thrown away here; Cuoco is funnier on her sitcom; Klein and Polo you just kind of feel bad for. Hence, the only reason to watch this picture is for the novelty value of feeling bad for Chris Klein and/or Teri Polo.
  17. Rage
    The reason he’s (Cage) the most interesting thing here is not because his performances is particularly intense or eccentric but because everything around him is so wretchedly dull.
  18. Precious Cargo
    You will be hard-pressed to remember anything about it even only a few minutes after watching it, which should come as a relief to everyone involved with its production.
  19. Fractured
    This movie is atrocious, never making a lick of sense, wearing its “message” on its sleeve like a bad term paper, and then ending in a way that should make you angry more than eager to see if it makes any sense.
  20. Home Team
    Pretend it’s not a “true story” and it’s still a shallow representation of sports, parenthood, and comedy, with almost no laughs.
  21. My All American
    My All American offers viewers a thoroughly shameless hero piece.
  22. Fear the Night
    Fear the Night often feels like it was made by artists who understand the type of movie that they’re making but maybe don’t really care enough about making it, either as a by-the-numbers genre exercise or a repudiation of its fans and their need for pseudo-enlightened catharsis.
  23. Underworld: Blood Wars
    The only notable aspect of the film is that it marks the feature directorial debut of Anna Foerster, a rare example of a woman being allowed to direct a reasonably large-scale franchise film. Alas, all it proves here is that a female director can make a film of this sort that is just as listless, derivative and perfunctory as one made by a man.
  24. X-Men: Apocalypse
    X-Men: Apocalypse is a confused, bloated mess of a film.
  25. The Gallows
    A ridiculous fusion of "Paranormal Activity" and "Glee" that is so incredibly dumb that it is almost, but never quite, scary to behold.
  26. Cobweb
    While the strange and unusual world of Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb has ample enough unsettling energy thanks to Philip Lozano’s ominous cinematography, it fails to reach its scary ambitions. Jump scares feel less jumpy, and the twists are predictable.
  27. Bad Cupid
    Whatever it is going for, it does not get there. Poorly written, directed, performed, and edited, "Bad Cupid" is a Bad Movie.
  28. Like a Boss
    Like A Boss is a movie written and directed by men which bears very little resemblance to how women actually relate to each other.
  29. Heist
    There’s actually a not-too bad caper plot underneath the incoherent over-direction from Mann.
  30. Secret Headquarters
    Secret Headquarters is as bland and forgettable as its title would suggest. It’s so generic, it almost sounds like the name of a better movie translated awkwardly from another language into its simplest terms in English.
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