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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. Country Strong
    This lame-ass chick-flick sampling of "Crazy Heart" is more like country Kryptonite.
  2. Rampage
    It's easy to root for George. The movie deserves the finger.
  3. The Outsiders
    Francis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory, with twenty-two minutes of added footage and a new soundtrack featuring Elvis Presley. [Review of re-release]
  4. 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.
  5. S.W.A.T.
    What we have here is a model for the paint-by-numbers, perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick. An original idea would die for lack of oxygen in S.W.A.T.
  6. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    When a chick flick goes wrong -- and this one hits a dead end in hell -- it's a wipeout.
  7. The Kid
    The comic screenplay...pivots on a toothless premise: Russ needs to get in touch with his inner child.
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  8. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    It's no mystery that the target audience for this G-rated bubblegum fantasy is tweens, parents of tweens and the occasional pervert. They'll be so pleased. Anything for the rest of humanity? Not so much.
  9. Rules of Engagement
    Friedkin turns on the juice and Jones and Jackson let it rip.
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  10. Levity
    A dreary film that's damn near torture to sit through.
  11. Legends of the Fall
    What makes Legends such an entertaining male weepie is the star shine. Though the admirable Quinn has the toughest role, Pitt carries the picture.
  12. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    Magicians have been pulling rabbits out of hats for ages. And yet, with all this talent, no one can make a decent script materialize.
  13. Cherry
    The movie is so overbearingly high on its own fizzy, clever stylishness that it strands the heart of its own story.
  14. School for Scoundrels
    Uproarious and unexpectedly biting.
  15. Kate & Leopold
    Director and co-writer James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted) is supplying comfort food for bruised romantics.
  16. Mapplethorpe
    What’s missing are the moments in between that actually make up a life and give it emotional resonance.
  17. Oz the Great and Powerful
    There's no Judy Garland songs, no Scarecrow, no Tin Man, no Cowardly Lion. There's also no simplicity, no magic, no truth.
  18. Joyful Noise
    Lots of talented young singers decorate the scenery, notably Jeremy Jordan (late of Broadway's failed Bonnie & Clyde but soon-to-open in Newsies)who has vocal and acting chops that shine even in this bucket of Glee Goes Gospel cornpone.
  19. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    Call this cowpoke comedy "Blazing Saddles" for millennials. Or just call it icky.
  20. Committed
    It's a one-joke premise that ultimately wears thin, but Krueger works some playful variations on a theme.
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  21. Pearl Harbor
    The film has no soul. An epic about this day of infamy should shake you to the core. But the real infamy about Pearl Harbor is that when you exit, you don't feel a thing.
  22. The Marksman
    Not a great movie, but courtesy of director Robert Lorenz, a lean, plausibly entertaining one with all the fixin’s and none of the extra flab of deep, incisive meaning. It’s a buddy movie, a cartel chase, a sentimental redemption story. It’s a comfort watch.
  23. The Jacket
    Though shot for maximum moodiness by the gifted Peter Deming ("Mulholland Drive"), the movie straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Hollywood formula with sugar on top.
  24. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    True Kingsman fans will appreciate that director Matthew Vaughn reacted to digs at "The Secret Service" for being gratuitously violent, sexually adolescent and politically reactionary by laying all of it on three times thicker.
  25. Drive Angry 3D
    Patrick Lussier is listed as The Director, though I saw no evidence of anyone in control.
  26. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Ever since "True Blood" glamoured me, Twilight seems even more sexless and toothless. I prefer my undead with a little life in them.
  27. The Legend of Tarzan
    It's a heavy thematic load for a single movie to handle — especially this one, which nearly collapses from its burden. But it's hard to fault director David Yates, who captained the last four Harry Potter movies, for having ambition.
  28. Vatel
    This putrid dish marks a new low for director Roland Joffe.
  29. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    This is Transformers-level inanity. This is a blow to your head from a mallet. It will not make you feel like a 10-year-old, but it will make you feel 10 years older than when you first entered the theater. It is certainly not personal in any way, shape or form, just strictly chilly, corporate to a fault and somehow both chintzy and wildly overblown.
  30. Murder Mystery 2
    These are movies for those who find the Knives Out franchise too sophisticated and droll, red meat for the Sandler faithful. It’s a movie of small ambitions tailor-made for the small screen. It is exactly what you think it is.
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