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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Return to Silent Hill
    Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    It's difficult to discern precisely where this all went wrong, and even more difficult to speculate about possible improvements.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Mother's Day
    A home-invasion film like Mother's Day is elongated coitus interruptus.
  4. Zookeeper
    It's monumentally terrible. "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" now has competition for worst picture of the year.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Darkest Hour
    In a year-end season stacked deep with worthwhile films, what possible incentive could there be for submitting to The Darkest Hour's utter pointlessness?
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Tommy Wirkola's film suggests A Knight's Tale as penned by Seth MacFarlane.
  7. Here Comes the Boom
    As a comedy, the film aims low and manages to miss the mark entirely.
  8. Wrath of the Titans
    Made possible by the half a billion dollars Clash of the Titans garnered worldwide, Wrath of the Titans sputters and coughs on the fumes of its own inevitability.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Love, Wedding, Marriage
    Love, Wedding, Marriage is a movie so shallow and wooden, its actors less models than mannequins, that it resembles a furniture catalogue.
  10. Day of the Falcon
    There's an enormous amount of perverse pleasure to be had here for those who get off on the annihilation of nuance.
  11. Reagan
    The film’s treatment of its subject is belligerently hamfisted, disingenuous, and incurious.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Movie 43
    This is barely a movie at all, mostly due to its structural similarities to "SNL", but also because it acknowledges the fact that its own premises are inherently unfilmable.
  13. Act of Valor
    A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness, Act of Valor features a cast of real-life active-duty Navy SEALS in order to grant the project's us-versus-them geopolitical worldview a sham moral authority.
  14. Golf in the Kingdom
    The film, for all its trite lessons, forgets that people mainly play golf because they enjoy it.
  15. Cold Fish
    A hybrid of the millionth send-up of the repressed/impotent Japanese patriarch and the "bad buddy comedy" that Barry Levinson held up as exhausted and bankrupt with 2004's "Envy."
  16. Brother's Justice
    Dax Shepard delivers an I'm Still Here-style mockumentary of staggering incompetence with Brother's Justice.
  17. One Fall
    One Fall is a bafflingly lame assemblage of self-help platitudes, the sort of film in which every narrative detail is specifically placed to pave the way for a pat moral you've grasped before the opening credits have barely concluded.
  18. In Search of God
    This is didactic self-help drivel of the worst kind, as filmmaker Rupam Sarmah creates a return-to-the-origin narrative contaminated by what Kathryn Bond Stockton would surely call "kid Orientalism."
  19. Glitch in the Grid
    Eric Leiser's hackneyed documentary/stop-motion hybrid Glitch in the Grid presumes social importance by simply referencing the relationship between modern young artists and their inability to express themselves amid a failing U.S. economy.
  20. Snowmen
    I'm not sure what part of Snowmen doesn't scream completely inappropriate, sentimental Manichean drivel.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Cherkess
    But that hardly matters, as Cherkess is so inept it inspires appreciation of the craft that goes into even grade-B romantic melodrama such as last year's "The Other Woman."
  22. Angels Crest
    Angels Crest opens with the laughter of children at play, but that's the only hint of happiness you'll find in this unflinchingly manipulative and pointless morality play.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Silver Tongues
    Silver Tongues is the creation of a filmmaker who's not an acute observer, but a trickster, one who values being clever for the sake of being clever.
  24. Casa de mi Padre
    You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene.
  25. Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration
    Laredoans Speak is bad in a special kind of way that inspires the obviously piteous description of "well-intentioned."
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  26. 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
  27. Beautiful Creatures
    Beautiful Creatures basically spits in the face of a legacy of literature founded on feelings of exclusion and social alienation.
  28. Good for Nothing
    The title is apropos, but it's also an understatement.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Losing Control
    The film, in its defense, is far too vacuous to be accused of having any kind of agenda--it just happens to get its politics wrong along with everything else.
  30. Last Will and Embezzlement
    The doc is so obnoxiously simplistic that you find yourself strangely unsympathetic to its objectively inarguable aim to promote greater standards of elder care.
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