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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. Salinger
    Salinger, directed by Mr. Salerno, is less a work of cinema than the byproduct of its own publicity campaign.
  2. Turtle Hill, Brooklyn
    Turtle Hill is inconclusive from start to finish, and while that appears purposeful, it’s also pretty dull.
  3. The Second Meeting
    Their meeting was arranged by the filmmaker, and their encounters reek of false bonhomie.
  4. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    An unappealing jumble of sex, regret and hero worship, “Bert Stern” is an odd tribute to brilliance muffled by lust.
  5. Java Heat
    The film, directed by Conor Allyn, is rarely more than a few minutes away from a gun battle or a tedious chase, and soon you cease to care who is shooting at, or running from, whom or why.
  6. No One Lives
    Mr. Kitamura, an action enthusiast who prefers to show rather than tell, seems unaware that the film’s dialogue is laughable, its characters unfathomable and the acting often less than optimal.
  7. Austenland
    Advancing without a single original idea or surprising moment, Austenland seems torn between poking fun at the British and lampooning Austen’s many American fanatics — a riskier enterprise, considering that they’ll be needed to fill theater seats.
  8. Unmade in China
    Slack storytelling (including snippets from a post-film Q. and A. session) and patchy filmmaking seal the unappealing deal.
  9. Vehicle 19
    This one is well photographed, yet it’s still just a lot of cars and noise.
  10. The Great Gatsby
    Nothing that Mr. Clayton does with the actors or with the camera comes close to catching the spirit of Fitzgerald's impatient brilliance. The film transforms "Gatsby" into a period love story that seems to take itself as solemnly as "Romeo and Juliet."
  11. Revenge of the Nerds
    It is the absence of genuine comedy that exposes glaringly the film's fundamental attitude of condescension and scorn toward blacks and women, and a tendency toward stereotyping that clashes violently with its superficial message of tolerance, compassion and fair play.
  12. 1st Night
    If 1st Night had a glint of social satire, it might have amounted to something more than a frivolous fatuity. But it plays as an arch, hammily acted farce.
  13. Think Like a Man Too
    Things turn loud and desperate and stay that way.
  14. How Sweet It Is
    Brian Herzlinger’s How Sweet It Is, an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, misfires so badly at the beginning that it takes a while to notice when it goes from godawful to sweetly awful.
  15. Pilgrim Song
    Ostensibly about a walk in the woods, this slight, uncertain film spends most of its time off trail.
  16. I Give It a Year
    This painfully awkward product fails on almost every level.
  17. Blood
    Dark, airless and packed with psychological hurt that seems to spring from nowhere, this angry morality play, tucked inside a police procedural, suffers from a crippling lack of back story and characters whose relationships are fraught with unexplained complexity.
  18. The Angry Birds Movie
    The kids of today deserve better. So do I, come to think of it.
  19. Devil's Due
    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct with competence but a dispiriting lack of originality.
  20. Assassin's Creed
    For an ostensible action movie, the cast spends an awful lot of time standing around and looking lost. I can only guess that they were following their director’s lead.
  21. Labor Day
    The movie’s principal saving grace is Ms. Winslet’s convincing portrayal of Adele, a despairing woman of low self-esteem just a twitch away from a nervous breakdown. In almost every other respect, this overbaked romantic hokum is preposterous.
  22. Sirius
    Mr. Kaleka’s film feels a bit like wandering into a hotel convention hall full of true believers who have been chatting for hours.
  23. Hello Herman
    Pointing at everything and elucidating nothing, Hello Herman arrives freighted with the anti-bullying agenda of its director, Michelle Danner.
  24. The Theory of Flight
    The novelty of hearing Ms. Bonham Carter spew four-letter words fades quickly. So does the sight of Mr. Branagh elaborately rehearsing how to rob a bank. This versatile actor has many strengths, but as his wooden turn in ''Celebrity'' has already demonstrated, comedy isn't one of them.
  25. Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)
    This time Mr. Altman, such a stunningly intuitive portraitist when he truly plumbs the mysteries that guide his characters, works without inventiveness and with glaring nonchalance.
  26. The Rambler
    The Rambler...feels like a slender plot with additional scenes pasted on.
  27. As Cool as I Am
    Just when its parts should come together, As Cool as I Am crumbles to bits.
  28. Dallas Buyers Club
    There is warmth and intelligence here, and undeniable sincerity, but also a determination, in the face of much painful and fascinating history, to play it safe.
  29. The Frozen Ground
    The movie’s only fresh element is the wintry setting, which shrouds everything in a mood of weary fatalism. Otherwise, it’s the same old, same old, efficiently discharged and utterly disposable.
  30. Hatchet III
    Too busy with limb-severings and gunfire to bother being intelligent.
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