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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. We Are Your Friends
    What hurts is that filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love did it better just a few months ago in "Eden," about the French house movement since the 1990s. In this movie, James tells Cole the ideal EDM track would work up the heart-rate of the crowd to 128 beats-per-minute. We Are Your Friends never even gets us to break a sweat.
  2. The Giver
    Lowry took chances with her novel. The movie of The Giver takes none. It's safe, sorry and a crashing bore.
  3. Book Club
    Some may feel like this smirking sex farce goes down easy. Others may choke on it – or worse, feel like they've wandered into the cinematic equivalent of Christian Grey's Red Room of Pain?
  4. An Unfinished Life
    It's not just that Jennifer Lopez looks lost and out of her league acting with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. That's to be expected. It's the drag-ass solemnity of this turgid family drama that makes you crazy.
  5. Licence to Kill
    Drab in the extreme. Timothy Dalton's second and wheezing, final turn as 007 was barely recognizable as a Bond film.
  6. That Awkward Moment
    The compensation comes in the three lead actors, all way too good for the material dished out by writer-director Tom Gormican.
  7. Broken City
    Another January dud. Broken City drops hot-shot actors in a quicksand of clichés and watches them sink.
  8. It Could Happen to You
    Regrettably, Bergman can't do much with a one-note script by Jane Anderson that reduces Perez to a grating cliché, Cage and Fonda to a parody of Ken and Barbie and our interest in what could happen to them to dry ash.
  9. San Andreas
    There's nothing to keep the pulse alive after the first quake. Peyton throws in a second quake and a tsunami, but after a while buildings tumbling into the ocean are just a bunch of pixels turning everything into visual mush and leaving audiences in a digital stupor.
  10. Sister Act
    For stranding these talents in a one-gag movie that wears thin somewhere between the first choir practice and the second chase, the filmmakers should say a sincere Act of Contrition.
  11. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    The money shots of the living tableau are padded with jokes that feel embalmed before the actors get them out of their mouths.
  12. A Perfect Murder
    What the film lacks is suspense, surprise (the new ending is a dud) and passion.
  13. What Happens in Vegas
    If you don't see where this is going, you've never seen a movie. Sorry it had to be this one.
  14. Vantage Point
    By the end, Vantage Point is such a unholy mess of drooling sentiment and sloppy loose ends that you’ll hate yourself for being suckered in.
  15. SuperFly
    At least it looks super fly. It's too bad that Director X (born Julien Christian Lutz), the Canadian short-form film master for the likes of Rihanna, Drake and Nicki Minaj, stumbles when he has to stretch a scene past video length.
  16. Home Again
    A patently bogus romcom in which every note rings false.
  17. Maleficent
    Jolie comes to this party ready to bite, but the movie muzzles her. Even at 97 minutes, Maleficent is still one long, laborious slog.
  18. The Hangover Part III
    What happened, bitches? Didn't the letdown of The Hangover Part II – basically Part I set in Thailand but minus the laughs – teach you anything? Guess not.
  19. The Watch
    Then there's the movie itself, which should be crazy, stupid fun but settles for just stupid.
  20. The Wolfman
    What have you done to The Wolfman, Hollywood? It’s got no kick to it. No fun either. And no real scares, which is more unforgivable.
  21. Cadillac Man
    Williams is an actor of protean gifts, a super pitchman when it comes to putting across flimsy material (Dead Poets Society). But even he can't palm off this lemon as a peach. When it's not being offensive, Ken Friedman's screenplay is merely oafish.
  22. Bel Ami
    With that cast, we rightfully expect fireworks. What we get is the film equivalent of a wet blanket.
  23. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    The film wants to make a case for Parker as the first modern woman. It gets the look and the attitude right, but it can't find her heart.
  24. Song One
    First-time filmmaker Kate Barker-Froyland trusts the silences that occur when two people aren't talking. That's a good thing. What's not so good is when the talk grows enervating.
  25. Adore
    Working from a script by the gifted Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement), who seems to have traded his wit for a paycheck, Fontaine manages the trick of making sex joyless. Like porn. Then she tops that by draining her film of variety, longing and feminist insight. Like farce. Ouch.
  26. The Adjustment Bureau
    What Dick rendered potent, Nolfi renders preposterous.
  27. Drive Angry 3D
    Patrick Lussier is listed as The Director, though I saw no evidence of anyone in control.
  28. Everybody's Fine
    No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones.
  29. Inferno
    Hanks is one of the most likable actors on the planet. But Inferno just lays there onscreen, pancake-flat and with no animating spark to make us give a damn.
  30. The Book of Henry
    The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle – and ends in crashing disaster. But the feeling persists that director Colin Treverrow believes every word in the shambles of a 20-year-old screenplay by crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz.
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