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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Gimme Shelter
    Propaganda is a bitch to act. And this misguided movie leaves Hudgens buried in it.
  2. Hot Rod
    I laughed, then I wished it was funnier, then I just wished it would end.
  3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    It's the Bay touch you feel in the way actors register as body count, characters go undeveloped, and sensation trumps feeling. A nightmare, indeed.
  4. He's Just Not That Into You
    Here's a true S&M date movie. Only sadistic men and masochistic women could love it.
  5. My Sister's Keeper
    The infuriating cop–out ending reduces the premise to mush. I wanted to scream. Here goes: Arghh!
  6. Dumb and Dumber To
    The bad news isn’t that Carrey and Daniels got old, it's that the jokes did. The spirit is still willing in Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the original writer-directors, but the sagging flesh is weak from prolonged repetition.
  7. The Expendables
    So why oh why is The Expendables such a limp-dick bust? Because Stallone forgets to include non-spazzy direction, a coherent plot, dialogue that actors can speak without cringing, stunts that don't fizzle, blood that isn't digital and an animating spirit that might convince us to give a damn.
  8. The Only Living Boy in New York
    Even the best actors – and this coming-of-age movie boasts a handful of them – can't fight this much tin-eared dialogue.
  9. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    Morning sickness afflicts most of the potential mommies. For me, the movie itself triggered the vomiting.
  10. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    This lumbering retread, subtitled The Legend of Curly's Gold, is mostly old ground slavishly covered. There are wider gaps between the jokes this time, and the slick style of British director Paul Weiland, best known for commercials (Schweppes, Heineken), can't disguise the fact that he's selling stale goods.
  11. This Is Where I Leave You
    This comedy about a death is a funeral for the audience.
  12. The Greatest Showman
    I'm convinced there is a good movie trying to punch itself out of The Greatest Showman. What a shame that Gracey buried Jackman and company in a pile of marshmallow.
  13. The Golden Compass
    Me, I just think it blows. What does it matter if you spend millions on a movie - love the talking, battling bears! - if the effects are cheesy, the story runs off on tangents and after watching the movie fail utterly to be the next Lord of the Rings, you just want to go home.
  14. Land of the Lost
    Will Ferrell and Danny McBride can find the dumb fun in anything. Too bad that Land of the Lost is so much less than anything.
  15. Secret in Their Eyes
    The Americanized version is miscast, misguided and misbegotten.
  16. Chappie
    Blomkamp and his wife and co-writer, Terri Tatchell, stack the deck. Instead of awe, we get "E.T." - aww.
  17. Think Like a Man Too
    If you laughed at Tim Story's first "Think," based on Steve Harvey's bestselling advice book for women, you'll probably ride along for this jacked-up, Vegas-set sequel in which dudes and dolls offer sexist approaches to throwing a bachelor party.
  18. All the King's Men
    Overthought, overwrought and thuddingly underwhelming, this high-profile misfire makes a congealed gumbo out of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer-winning 1946 novel and the Oscar-winning 1949 movie that followed it, sinking a classy cast in the goo.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Virtuosity
    Though Virtuosity connects all the dots to give audiences a roller-coaster ride, the movie begets nothing new: It's stillborn.
  20. One True Thing
    Even director Carl Franklin, an artful purveyor of sterner stuff in "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress," can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
  21. Need For Speed
    There's nothing to distract you from a plot so tired there are tire tracks from other racing movies all over it.
  22. Now You See Me
    I left this movie feeling I’d been had. And not in a good way.
  23. Reign Over Me
    Veering between sentimentality and exploitation with a few misguided stops at raunchy sex farce, Reign Over Me never finds a tone to suit its purpose.
  24. The Judge
    How did talent like this conspire to pump out such bilge? I mean, really.
  25. Snakes on a Plane
    It's not so bad that it's good. It's so bland that it's boring. Not even worth a hissss.
  26. A Dog's Purpose
    A manipulative script about dog reincarnation that whacks your emotions like a piñata – that's forgivable. Not this. It shouldn't happen to a dog.
  27. Vacation
    Leslie Mann and wild-card Chris Hemsworth, as her cock-flashing hubby, get the heartiest hoots. The rest is comic history warmed over.
  28. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless.
  29. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Independence Day: Resurgence pretends there's fresh ground to cover. There isn't, but director Roland Emmerich makes a good show of faking it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Private Resort
    Witless.
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