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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. The Patsy
    Another moronic mishmash in which Mr. Lewis falls all over himself.
  2. Secret Society of Second Born Royals
    The most polished superpower on display in the defiantly unexciting Secret Society of Second-Born Royals is the ability to say its title without spitting.
  3. Flannery
    This biographical documentary of the writer Flannery O’Connor, directed by Mark Bosco and Elizabeth Coffman, is sporadically informative. But it mostly underscores the shortcomings of the varied methods it uses.
  4. The Tax Collector
    LaBeouf, like his castmates — in particular, the talented Chelsea Rendon from the STARZ drama, “Vida” — is constrained throughout by the weight of the stereotyping and dialogue that doesn’t stand a chance against the violence.
  5. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
    For an ostensible action hero, Henry Golding in the title role does an awful lot of standing around and looking tense. The mayhem is frantic yet forgettable.
  6. The 24th
    This stultifyingly earnest movie makes its points with such a heavy hand that its horrors struggle to resonate.
  7. The Secrets We Keep
    An exploitation film that proceeds as if it were a solemn memorial, The Secrets We Keep doesn’t do right by the Holocaust history it invokes — or much else.
  8. The Sleepover
    As The Sleepover juggles the genres of heist movie, action thriller, scavenger hunt and teen/tween comedy, it never finds an identity which it slips into effortlessly, the way a good thief can.
  9. The Lie
    This is a whiffed effort at an all too familiar subgenre: the ostensibly dark, searing human drama undercut by the fact that all the humans in it are boorish idiots.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Eye of the Cat
    The plot is an overstated, reworked and all too familiar one.
  11. Holidate
    Far worse than these characters’ grating personalities are the regressive strains underpinning their flirtation.
  12. Books of Blood
    It’s a mess — and I’m not just talking about the close-up of a bleeding, ghost-gratified fingernail.
  13. American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules
    The original “American Pie” was tasteless; this version is flavorless.
  14. Skin Deep
    Mr. Ritter is an engagingly comic actor, but the women in his life are so uncharacterized, in the writing, casting and the playing, that the comedy fizzles. All that's left is a movie about a seriously alcoholic writer making a mess of things.
  15. Chimes at Midnight
    A confusing patchwork of scenes and characters.
  16. Kindred
    A derivative, irritating thriller.
  17. Mortal
    Mortal isn’t really a movie proper as it is ponderous scene-setting for a potential sequel.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Devil's Rain
    The Devil's Rain is ostensibly a horror film, but it barely manages to be a horror. The quality of writing, acting and direction give a general and routine witlessness to this movie.
  19. Operation Christmas Drop
    Much of the film feels not light and breezy, but like a self-conscious chore, unwilling to deviate from an established blueprint.
  20. Let Them All Talk
    Despite the talented actors onscreen, Soderbergh’s mannered direction lacks charisma and the characters lack chemistry.
  21. The Next Man
    A suspense melodrama made by people whose talent for filmmaking and knowledge of international affairs would both fit comfortably into the left nostril of a small bee.
  22. Scream
    Throttled by a corrosive self-awareness, the latest Scream is a slasher movie with resting smug face, so enamored of its own mythology that its characters speak of little else.
  23. Memories of Me
    A film that assumes it's up to the job of dealing with life and death and love, but is not even up to dealing with lobsters.
  24. Bundle of Joy
    A sadly deficient entertainment when looked at objectively. Its book is an obvious and witless rework of a plot that has gray hairs, and its music and so-called dances are depressingly lacking in class.
  25. Minor Premise
    When a movie that feels this scientifically far-reaching lacks heart, the viewing experience is a dreary, soulless one.
  26. If Not Now, When?
    It doesn’t take long to notice that these are earnest, even humorless, women. They are too busy contemplating their daily turmoil to play or crack a joke. As a result, their chemistry never coheres, and the movie flounders under the weight of lifeless sincerity.
  27. Outside the Wire
    Grainy establishing shots of the skirmish offer little visual information other than its location on an expressway. Without viewers knowing where, and at whom, the soldiers are firing, the onscreen action is rendered indecipherable. Mackie’s quirky performance — Leo ends every order to Harp with an uncomfortable smile — is likewise baffling.
  28. Mortal Kombat
    While the carnage demonstrates some imagination (can ice cauterize wounds? Did a hat just turn into a table saw?), the rules, extending even to whether death is permanent, are so arbitrary that nothing matters. Test … your patience.
  29. The Mack
    Even as action melodrama of a Shaft sort, the film is inept, so confused that occasionally it seems surreal.
  30. Palmer
    That Palmer eventually embraces Sam as an ally in misfitdom is inevitable. So is the annoyance inspired by this prosaic masculine melodrama.
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