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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Simpatico
    Warchus seems as at ease with the complexity of the style as he is with directing actors.
  2. Meet the Fockers
    If there's any reason to bother with Meet the Fockers, it's to see Hoffman and Streisand.
  3. First Sunday
    First Sunday is simply a case of wasting gifted performers on material that feels slapped together and unshaped.
  4. The Truth About Emanuel
    The film has an odd and striking energy, and the chemistry between Scodelario and Biel has an electrical charge to it. There are a couple of genuinely creepy moments, and Gregorini keeps us on an emotional knife edge.
  5. Stay
    Forster and Benioff are able craftsmen who apparently thought it might be interesting to seal themselves into a narrative box with no way out. Sorry about that, guys -- I hope it was a growth experience.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Spun
    The biggest problem with Spun is that it's really just about speed (and editing). And speed, like most other drugs, is in and of itself boring.
  7. Drillbit Taylor
    Owen Wilson doesn't have a single good line in the dismal Drillbit Taylor. So how is it that almost everything he does is funny?
  8. Stoned
    What we really need from Stoned, the very thing that it fails to give us, is a sense of Jones as a human being.
  9. Nowhere Man
    I'm always grateful to practice a little affirmative action on behalf of grade-C sleaze movies with a budget you could probably locate in your sofa cushions or your dryer, and Tim McCann's digital-video opus Nowhere Man is a fine example of the species.
  10. Crank: High Voltage
    In Crank: High Voltage, Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him.
  11. What Planet Are You From?
    Bening's prickliness is pure delight, but there's only so much she can do. It's a terrible fate for an actress to be upstaged by a humming p----.
  12. The Salton Sea
    To say that the film is unpleasant would imply that there's an emotional reaction to be gotten from it. I'd have to believe that there was someone, somewhere, who would actually care.
  13. Double Jeopardy
    An intermittently engaging thriller.
  14. Running Scared
    It's lower on the food chain than a mere exploitation picture because it clings so desperately to the notion that it's a serious movie about violence; it doesn't even have enough integrity to serve up cheap, sick thrills for their own sake.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    It is as deeply satisfying as only the yowling, primal trashing of several rental cars and hotel rooms while in the grips of a hopelessly depraved ether jag and several sheets of blotter acid can be... A cinematic masterpiece.
  16. Four Christmases
    Gordon's best not-so-secret weapons, though, are his two stars: Vaughn and Witherspoon are an inspired pairing, not least because they're such a mismatched set of salt-and-pepper shakers.
  17. Raze
    There’s enough craft and intelligence at work here that you can’t dismiss Raze as meaningless sadism, but not nearly enough to make it worth the unpleasantness of actually watching it.
  18. Chappie
    It’s not just that Chappie is a mishmash of familiar ingredients whose story quickly slides off the rails into a swamp of action-movie clichés, or another misbegotten project from the Land of Intriguing Premises. It doesn’t have an intriguing premise in the first place. It’s cluttered, goofy and incoherent from beginning to end, and much too long.
  19. Darling Companion
    The doggie in Darling Companion is a big, warm bundle of puppy love; his owners are lost forever in a big chill.
  20. House of Wax
    Paris Hilton is the big draw in Jaume Collet-Serra's not-really-a-remake horror-slasher thriller House of Wax, and she'd have to be: There's so little else going on in it that you find yourself waiting for her few brief scenes.
  21. The Hunted
    It's an A-list movie for the most brain-dead elements of the action-movie crowd.
  22. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus isn't junk. It's carefully, competently made, though with no particular feeling for technique or rhythm.
  23. Gangster Squad
    As a capable imitation of better movies by Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma and Roman Polanski – it's reasonably successful entertainment.
  24. Evolution
    Proceeds at such an amiable pace and features enough creepy-crawly effects that many viewers won't quite notice or care how rickety and second-rate it is.
  25. Vantage Point
    Wears off in about 10.8 minutes.
  26. Piñero
    A sustained piece of showboating mythmaking, and something of a snow job.
  27. Suicide Squad
    Decadence is supposed to be fun, surely, or at least more fun than the desperate, sludgy, frantic mess of Suicide Squad.
  28. The Phantom of the Opera
    This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
  29. Monkeybone
    A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.
  30. Wicker Park
    Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be. The director, Paul McGuigan, is fond of fancy split-screen effects and stylish, snappy cutting, but he can't tell a story to save his life.
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