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For 7,776 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Storage 24
    More chilling than the horror of the alien's close-quarters assault is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place-grade human drama.
  2. John Dies at the End
    The frantic, grotesque imagery ironically only highlights Don Coscarelli's inability to truly cut ties with the constraints of accepted storytelling.
  3. Girls Against Boys
    Essentially a horror movie in which the source of the horror shifts from capital-M men to crazed lesbianism.
  4. The Last Exorcism Part II
    Scenes of solemn importance drag on to the point of self-parody in an attempt at establishing mood, while dialogue reeks of connect-the-dots spoonfeeding.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Emperor
    Peter Webber's historical drama is blunt about its stylistic ambitions while at the same time failing to meet them, and the effect is one of sad ineffectuality.
  6. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
    It would be inaccurate to call Happy People: A Year in the Taiga the newest Werner Herzog film.
  7. Knife Fight
    Bill Guttentag exaggerates the absurd lengths advisors go to win an election and yet ultimately aggrandizes their behavior.
  8. Baggage Claim
    Writer-director David E. Talbert adapts his own 2003 novel into something as useless as it is implosive.
  9. Reincarnated
    Essentially 90-minute promo video carefully orchestrated by the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg and his handlers.
  10. Would You Rather
    A shrill Indiewood torture porn that, despite promised shocks and revulsions, doesn't even have the conviction to hold its camera on the story's most appalling twists.
  11. Inescapable
    The film spins its wheels for almost an hour until collapsing under the weight of exposition that renders the mystery nearly besides the point.
  12. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    This third and supposedly final edition in the franchise is nothing more than an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation.
  13. Phantom
    Todd Robinson's film is a third-rate submarine-set drama until, in its final moments, it sinks to fourth-rate.
  14. Planes
    The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast.
  15. The Numbers Station
    Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.
  16. Love and Honor
    The deceptions and romances carry on as one might expect, all while the film makes some attempt at exploring the cultural shifts of the time period.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
    Sadly, those looking for any insight into Journey from Ramona Diaz's documentary are going to have to look elsewhere.
  18. The Sweeney
    Clichés abound, even in the look of the film, which toggles between post-Ritchie crime-violence burlesque and sleek, Nolanesque faux-grandeur.
  19. Disconnect
    Fails not so much because of its occasional self-seriousness or didacticism than it does from a scattered plot that makes the story's overriding theme or message difficult to grasp.
  20. Unfinished Song
    Part end-of-life romance, part grossly manipulative mush, the film tries to stare grief and mortality in the face while practically shitting rainbows.
  21. Insidious: Chapter 2
    A full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when its director, James Wan, unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk with its original, spiritedly directed predecessor.
  22. Crazy and Thief
    It's eventually obvious that Cory McAbee mistakenly believes that his characters' resolutely dull adventures speak for themselves.
  23. Silver Circle
    Amateurish and hyperbolic, this animated feature directed by Pasha Roberts makes quite clear his political leanings.
  24. Riddick
    For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it's fittingly ironic that the film itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark, muddled mess.
  25. Pompeii
    Shockingly, the violent release of smoke, fire, and meteoric debris is positioned more as a climactic afterthought than as the main attraction.
  26. Copperhead
    Ron Maxwell's film, from beginning to end, exudes all the excitement of a textbook history lesson.
  27. 1st Night
    The political dynamic that underpins The Rules of the Game is nonexistent in 1st Night, which is fixated entirely on the zany sexcapades of its characters.
  28. Dracula Untold
    It's a story arc that wouldn't be out of place on Game of Thrones, except it lacks for the HBO program's dense and surprising dramatic reflexes.
  29. Heaven Is for Real
    Heaven Is for Real is by Christians, for Christians, and deliberately, if subtly, antagonistic toward everyone else.
  30. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping.
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