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For 12,933 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,625 out of 12933
  2. Mixed: 5,140 out of 12933
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12933
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  1. We the Party
    Despite the filmmaker's obvious good intentions in trying to impart valuable life lessons to younger viewers, We the Party suffers from any number of problems, including uneven acting (talent isn't always hereditary); stereotypical characters and situations; and a manic visual style featuring the sort of split-screen obsession that felt outdated decades ago.
  2. Surviving Progress
    As with many films of its ilk, Surviving Progress takes on more than it can comfortably handle, veering haphazardly from subject to subject.
  3. Darling Companion
    While superbly acted, the dramedy plays out like a tepid "Big Chill" at best.
  4. God Bless America
    A niche theatrical run might draw fans of Goldthwait's previous work, this effort isn't likely to get as much help from critics as those sometimes did.
  5. The Intouchables
    Corny, calculating and commercial...Their slickly executed culture-clash character piece is stuffed chock full of hard-knock life lessons that owe much more to the conventions of the screen than the tough realities of social deprivation and of the severely handicapped.
  6. Jack and Diane
    Imagine a teenage lesbian love story directed by David Cronenberg and you'll have some sense of the weirdness of Jack and Diane. Bradley Rust Gray's attempt to weave horror elements into a fairly conventional narrative yields diminishing returns in this overly stylized effort.
  7. The Smurfs 2
    Beyond a few chuckle-worthy one-liners and some amusing visual comedy, there’s not much to engage adults, although the wee ones should be distracted enough.
  8. The Perfect Family
    This debut feature by Anne Renton doesn't quite find the proper tone to convey its heartfelt message.
  9. Downtown Express
    While Downtown Express suffers from a derivative storyline, it offers enough musical authenticity to provide ample compensations.
  10. Kid-Thing
    The film's slender conceit is given some weight by its 11-year-old leading lady Sydney Aguirre, whose portrait of a flinty, instinctively mischievous tomboy growing up without benefit of parental guidance provides gratification even when there's not much going on.
  11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    The castmembers portraying Splinter and the turtles achieve a persuasive level of realism that was never possible with the elaborate puppetry required for the original film series and adequately fulfill expectations for their characters.
  12. All In: The Poker Movie
    Informative and lively if low on cinematic value, the documentary will play well on the small screen.
  13. An Encounter with Simone Weil
    Filmmaker Julia Haslett lacks focus in her ode to the French philosopher.
  14. Jesus Henry Christ
    Amusing but scattered and unconvincing comedy.
  15. Battle of the Year
    The young dancers' undeniable skill and athleticism is squandered in this formulaic, overly familiar dance movie.
  16. 300: Rise of an Empire
    Other than for the pleasure of watching Green try to conquer ancient Greece dressed as a distant forebearer of Catwoman, more is less and a little late in this long-aborning sequel.
  17. Madea's Witness Protection
    Madea is starting to look a little tired.
  18. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    Subject matter this powerfully charged shouldn't feel like a study aid.
  19. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    As an exercise in style, it's diverting enough, but these mean streets are so well traveled that it takes someone like Eva Green to make the detour through them worth the trip.
  20. The Broken Tower
    Despite the highly mobile and often arresting work of cinematographer Christina Voros, The Broken Tower is not a heady experience like many of the semi-experimental 1960s films he emulates. Instead, it's mostly a tedious chore, much akin to listening poetry you don't much like.
  21. 42
    Pretty when it should be gritty and grandiosely noble instead of just telling it like it was, 42 needlessly trumps up but still can't entirely spoil one of the great American 20th century true-life stories, the breaking of major league baseball's color line by Jackie Robinson.
  22. Side Effects
    In trying to merge this alarmist theme with an old-fashioned murder mystery, the filmmakers throw at least one plot-twist sucker-punch too many, leaving the viewer with an “Oh, come on” reaction to the entire film.
  23. A Bag of Hammers
    A dicey blend that generates viewer goodwill but can't make its conflicting vibes gel, A Bag of Hammers will play best with the most soft-hearted viewers provided they don't mind rooting for unrepentant felons.
  24. Grassroots
    A campaign movie for viewers who, if they care about politics at all, certainly don't require the full Sorkin treatment.
  25. The Cup
    The family drama The Cup revisits this popular win in a workmanlike fashion.
  26. For Greater Glory
    The sort of lumbering epic drama that went out of fashion by the late 1960s, For Greater Glory is mainly notable for shedding light on a little-known historical conflict, namely the Cristero War that took place in 1920s Mexico.
  27. Mighty Fine
    Has heart to spare, but little new to say.
  28. Paranoia
    The filmmakers may have hoped to make a timely commentary on the amorality in our executive suites, but they end up merely restating the obvious. Maybe the whole thing would have played better as a corporate comedy, the kind that Doris Day and Rock Hudson made some 50 years ago.
  29. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    A heartfelt but rather generic coming-of-age dramedy.
  30. The Queen of Versailles
    The Queen of Versailles will prompt loathing not only among the so-called 99 Percent, but among those in the top 1 percent who would like someone more sane to represent them on camera.
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