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For 7,772 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. The Letters
    A brain-dead slog whose bankrupt aesthetics ironically soil the very legacy it purports to aggrandize.
  2. R.I.P.D.
    R.I.P.D. devotes far more energy to concept than execution, leaving most of the promising aspects high and dry.
  3. Argento's Dracula 3D
    The film is dispiriting because there's virtually no sign of Dario Argento in it, nor of any novel motivation to mount yet another version of an oft-told tale.
  4. The Man on Her Mind
    The film suggests an ineffectual mishmash of Ruby Sparks-ish high concept and modern Elizabethan comedy.
  5. Rings
    Rings is unsure as to whether it’s a sequel to the other entries in the series or a contemporary reboot.
  6. After
    Throughout After, the filmmakers crank the trials of the film's Valentino family up to 11, sans irony or subversion.
  7. Smiley
    Michael J. Gallagher's half-cocked horror fiasco is filled with clichés, pitiful dialogue, and clumsy aesthetics.
  8. Showgirls
    Showgirls is truly one of the only ’90s films that treats pop culture as a vibrant field of social economics and cerebral pursuit, and not merely tomorrow’s nostalgia-masturbation fodder.
  9. Strange Magic
    As juvenile and frivolous a wish-fulfillment fantasy as one might expect from the visionary behind the lightsaber and Princess Leia hogtied to Jabba the Hut, Strange Magic depicts war as a series of scarcely muddied binary oppositions: between good and evil, the beautiful and the ugly, and singing and death by karaoke.
  10. Abduction
    Odds are John Singleton doesn't know he's made one of the funniest films of the year.
  11. Deadline
    By the end of it, you'll be crying uncle--or wish you were watching The Help instead. At least that was a more artful lie.
  12. Generation Um...
    The levels of insight provided into the characters are exactly commensurate with any conceivable viewer's interest in learning more about these nonentities.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Savannah
    The film is impossible to take seriously as a commemoration of Moultrie's life or Allen's prolific status because of its plethora of contrivances.
  14. Gods of Egypt
    Its virtues as throwback don't elide the foolhardly decision to imprint an ancient mythology on a contemporary superhero framework.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Merry Christmas
    The conceit has the potential to be amusing, but the role-playing is never as funny or immersive as it could be, and the characters' repartee often feels more stilted than witty.
  16. Apollo 18
    A nasty, cleverly revealed monster might have redeemed some of the monotony of the first (seemingly endless) hour, but the beasty here manages to be ludicrous, dull, and unoriginal somehow all at once, compromising the marginal hope you may have been holding out for the film.
  17. Dawn Patrol
    The opposite of enlightenment, the film hides its anxieties behind a mélange of third-rate grit and playful xenophobia.
  18. Assault on Wall Street
    Uwe Boll's insistence on plugging genre tropes into his imagined idea of populism returns us to the same cynical place as Postal, except with none of the sizzle.
  19. The Family Tree
    A few trite race and religion jokes goose up what's mostly a sentimental story of a dysfunctional family suddenly and magically learning to function again.
  20. A Warrior's Heart
    A Warrior's Heart is so inept at developing itself as a film that it hands in all of its devices to the soundtrack itself and becomes a music video.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  21. Piranha 3DD
    John Gulager is neither artist nor genius, bringing only straight-to-video conviction to Piranha 3DD.
  22. Saving Grace B. Jones
    This cumbersome and graceless 1950s-set period drama possesses the reactionary life insights and amateurish production values of a Lifetime soap.
  23. Unfreedom
    The film's troubled aesthetics are exacerbated by a screenplay that contains the trappings of amateur toil, including dialogue that harps on innocuous moments and trifling exposition.
  24. Dark Crimes
    There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive, as well as blatantly misogynistic.
  25. Outlaws
    The grim Australian biker drama Outlaws is little more than an endless stream of brooding, yelling, and “badass” posturing broken up by grisly violence and gratuitous sex scenes.
  26. Midnight in the Switchgrass
    Randall Emmett’s directorial debut is virtually indistinguishable from the scores of cheap VOD action thrillers that he’s produced to date.
  27. Life on the Line
    For a film about such a singular profession, Life on the Line offers surprisingly little insight into linemen's day-to-day labor.
  28. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    It's that rare thing, a movie that clocks in under 90 minutes, but feels like an endurance test in every moment, at every plot concern, and every musical number.
  29. Return to Sender
    The kind of wholly misconceived thriller that begs asking precisely what its filmmakers were seeking to accomplish.
  30. Collateral Beauty
    David Frankel's film argues that the power of miracles can be manufactured by those who can fund them.
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