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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Always
    Gentle and moving as it means to be, Always is overloaded. There is barely a scene here that wouldn't have worked better with less fanfare.
  2. Hook
    Hook is overwhelmed by a screenplay heavy with complicated exposition, by what are, in effect, big busy nonsinging, nondancing production numbers and some contemporary cant about rearing children and the high price paid for success.
  3. Wish You Were Here
    After the painstaking buildup, the revelations are disappointingly predictable.
  4. The Expendables 3
    It’s all a bit like a classic-rock tribute concert, or playing with all your action figures at once, or maybe “Cannonball Run,” with the strained buddy-buddy back-and-forth.
  5. Fukrey
    Too often it calls to mind the much better “Delhi Belly,” which had a genuinely madcap script and sharper things to say about being young, urban and Indian.
  6. Pandora's Promise
    Mr. Stone builds his case seamlessly but leaves no room for dissent, much less a drop of doubt.
  7. Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire
    Like so much of current polarized communication, “Assaulted,” wherever it is shown, is likely to be preaching to the choir.
  8. Breaking the Girls
    An erotic thriller with too many twists and back stories to count.
  9. Petunia
    It’s possible to make a great movie out of family dysfunction, but this one is too short on insight to rank with the best of the genre.
  10. My Best Day
    A gently wry sense of humor about human foibles and some well-turned exchanges keep the proceedings drifting along pleasantly enough, until characters start convening for the requisite heart-to-hearts and making-up.
  11. Somm
    Somm, though an entree into a little-known world, rarely finds a second dimension.
  12. Just Like a Woman
    The story arc is so familiar...that the main emotional response is hollow relief as every beat is, indeed, hit just as expected.
  13. L.A. Superheroes
    L.A. Superheroes is at times endearing, humorous and insightful. But her golden nugget of a story idea suffers in the big-screen telling.
  14. The Nut Job
    The Nut Job features muddy-colored and often ugly animation, a plot that feels too stretched out and loaded with details to hold the attention of most children, and more flatulence jokes than anyone deserves.
  15. Mood Indigo
    More begets more and then too much in Mood Indigo.
  16. Ramaiya Vastavaiya
    There is something for everyone in Prabhudheva’s ambitious Bollywood film Ramaiya Vastavaiya — comedy, romance, action and the obligatory music-and-dancing numbers — but hardly any of it is convincing, and the proceedings are rife with clichés.
  17. Filth
    After a certain point, watching it is like listening to the ravings of an increasingly incoherent and abusive drunk.
  18. The Canyons
    With The Canyons, [Mr. Schrader] tries to get at something real under all the hard, glossy surfaces, but ends up caught in the divide between the movie that he seems to have wanted to make and the one he did.
  19. The Lifeguard
    This directorial debut by Liz W. Garcia, a writer for television, bears some echoes of its creator’s origins, going from deft to trite in its drama and setting up character arcs that feel sappily resolved within its feature length.
  20. A Single Shot
    Mr. Rosenthal puts the story’s parts into play well enough, but once everyone and everything is in position that’s more or less where they stay as this slow story downshifts to a crawl.
  21. Chennai Express
    The movie chugs along for most of its 2 hours and 20 minutes searching for comedy and characters in a frantically overplotted story.
  22. National Security
    Though not without substance, National Security is marred by writing that’s not nearly as creative as the torments it portrays.
  23. Off Label
    The film’s stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society.
  24. Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!
    Poor pacing and editing result in a lack of transition between scenes; poignant moments are punctuated with distracting music; and the dialogue is overstuffed with platitudes that land like corny messages from fortune cookies.
  25. Savannah
    The film’s tale ends up being less rich than its lovely Georgia settings.
  26. C.O.G.
    Despite smatterings of wit and a stable of skilled performers, C.O.G. struggles to find a consistent tone, its episodic structure veering from farcical to poignant to dangerously raw.
  27. Million Dollar Arm
    Every conflict is softened by inspirational clichés.
  28. Escape from Tomorrow
    None of it is as scary or as funny as it should be, and what starts out as a sly thumb in the eye of corporate power ends up as a muddled and amateurish homage to David Lynch.
  29. Five Dances
    A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment.
  30. Gung Ho
    It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.
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