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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. God's Pocket
    As this strained, foul-mouthed exercise in gallows humor proceeds, God’s Pocket sustains a facade of meanspirited deadpan comedy. But there are no laughs, not even smirks to be had.
  2. Wish I Was Here
    Wish I Was Here is so eager to please that you are never allowed to feel uncomfortable for more than a minute or two before a reassuringly stale joke rushes in to pat you on the head.
  3. Equals
    It is so vague, cliché-ridden and devoid of surprise and suspense that once you grasp its premise, watching it is like leafing through a design magazine kept in a refrigerator.
  4. The Voices
    Grisly but not especially suspenseful, tongue-in-cheek without any real wit, The Voices aims to hit the intersection of horror and comedy but tumbles into an uncanny valley of tedious creepiness.
  5. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head.
  6. Brightest Star
    Allegories involving astronomy, baseball and sandwiches are hinted at but are no better developed than the characters.
  7. After the Dark
    Slack acting (perhaps aggravated by the harsh lighting design) and the script’s inability to build characters together vaporize the chances for the movie, which is both smugly clever and at times distastefully clueless.
  8. The Outsider
    After a somewhat tense opening chase involving a lot of girders, much of the film is rather shakily assembled.
  9. The Bag Man
    At least Mr. De Niro, who disappears from the movie until the end, seems to be enjoying himself. The force of his bonhomie gives this murky-looking, empty conceit of a film a desperately needed lift of facetious humor.
  10. Special ID
    Maddeningly muddled and frustratingly counterintuitive... the story shuttles between Hong Kong and mainland China without a noticeable gain in logic or reduction in decibels.
  11. Le Chef
    For a film about mouthwatering cuisine, it offers only fleeting delectable sensations.
  12. Shirin in Love
    It’s the kind of movie that makes you zero in on and root for an actor (Ms. Madigan) as she tries to wring something real out of her lines, but there’s no saving this film.
  13. Goodbye World
    As these overwritten characters cope and make fresh romantic missteps, the movie cruises obliviously along, littered with glib dialogue and howler developments.
  14. Authors Anonymous
    Mr. Farina gives Authors Anonymous a sharpness it otherwise lacks.
  15. As Above, So Below
    This quivering effort from the director John Erick Dowdle only increases in impenetrability whenever anything mildly curious occurs.
  16. Lucky Bastard
    Robert Nathan’s Lucky Bastard is a sorry-looking found-footage thriller as unconvincing as its characters’ thrashing orgasms.
  17. The Brothers Grimsby
    Mr. Cohen just seems off his game in “Grimsby,” and it may be that the movie’s high concept proved too constricting for someone who has done some of his best work (as in the “Borat” film) with a looser, more episodic format.
  18. One Candle, Two Candles...
    Mr. Rosebiani evidently wants to avoid depressing his audience while addressing a serious subject, but his aims are likely to be lost in this film’s strained mugging.
  19. Chlorine
    Jay Alaimo’s sour tale of suburban greed and marital disappointment, can’t even deliver a temporary high; mired in the blahs, the blues and the midlife crazies, this poor man’s “American Beauty” slowly sucks your will to live.
  20. How to Be Single
    This reheated “Sex and the City” adventure flops, even with Leslie Mann and Rebel Wilson hard at work being funny.
  21. Awful Nice
    In general, the film feels like all setup and no punch line.
  22. Tasting Menu
    Roger Gual’s half-baked film hopes to split the difference between romantic comedy and foodie delight but fails at both.
  23. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    Enervatingly synthetic, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears slices and dices the images and tropes of Italian giallo-style slasher films into an inert pile of style.
  24. Total Siyapaa (Total Chaos)
    The cramped first half, mostly in the Singh apartment, is crudely unfunny.
  25. Refuge
    Jessica Goldberg, who wrote and directed the film, prefers showcasing the somewhat treacly soundtrack to fleshing out back stories.
  26. The Slumber Party Massacre
    The fact that Miss Brown and Miss Jones have obviously tried to inject a little satire and innovation into the genre just makes the ultimate vulgarity of their film all the more disappointing.
  27. Burning Blue
    The script, by Mr. Greer and Helene Kvale, rolls along with lifeless, profoundly unimaginative dialogue.
  28. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    The movie is predictably sentimental at its root, but it’s also meant to be comedy, partly resting on Mr. Williams’s energetic but failed attempt to play a jerk.
  29. The Hero of Color City
    The Hero of Color City cannily distills the children’s movie to its lowest common denominator: bright colors flashing on screen.
  30. Emoticon
    With its underwritten characters (especially Walter) and scenes, it seems like a generic ABC Family plotline melded to a commercial for Facebook, Twitter and Skype.
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