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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. If I Were You
    A comedy that is so scatterbrained and long-winded that much of it feels invented on the spot. (It’s also a half-hour too long.)
  2. Only God Forgives
    The movie is so devoid of emotion that its ritualized gore acts as a narcotic. Filmed in shades of red, with a minimal screenplay, Only God Forgives looks like a ghoulish fashion shoot in hell. Three words should suffice: pretentious macho nonsense.
  3. Copperhead
    Though the tale, based on a novel by Harold Frederic, remains relevant to our time, the film is too self-conscious and tedious for the message it delivers.
  4. The Happy House
    The film, a sleepy, low-budget affair, merely enacts a series of horror movie clichés, as if that were enough. Its bland actors and wit-free script do nothing with the familiar elements but present them.
  5. Triumph of the Wall
    Neither the very relaxed pace of this builder, Chris Overing, nor Mr. Stone’s sporadically amusing neuroses about his filmmaking make for a gripping documentary.
  6. Arthur Newman
    The glum, episodic and unbelievable Arthur Newman is the film equivalent of a dysfunctional computer sloppily assembled from discarded parts of other machines.
  7. Redemption
    Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn’t add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity.
  8. The Other Woman
    This female revenge comedy is so dumb, lazy, clumsily assembled and unoriginal, it could crush any actor forced to execute its leaden slapstick gags and mouth its crude, humorless dialogue.
  9. A Wedding Invitation
    A Pan-Asian romantic melodrama that virtually pokes you in the eye with its fakery.
  10. I Do
    In a better movie you might play along with contrived plot twists and fake obstacles, but watching I Do, a movie with thin characters and a languorous pace, you find yourself talking back to the screen.
  11. Finding Joy
    A clumsy mixed-nuts comedy.
  12. Run It
    An entwined triptych of sorts unified by invective, slurs and characters demanding that others shut up, Run It is a very patchy affair.
  13. The Stroller Strategy
    Mostly you root for Mr. Michel’s couple to reconnect simply so the movie will come to an end.
  14. Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship
    If you’re watching this film and waiting for something funny or insightful to come along to assuage your annoyance, you’ll wait a long time.
  15. The Keep
    The movie makes no sense as either melodrama or metaphysics, so that its expensive special effects go up in smoke. Literally.
  16. Universal Soldier
    Mr. Lundgren, who glowers his way all too convincingly through the role of a rabid bully, may well be the only man in the universe who can make Mr. Van Damme look like an actor.
  17. The Book Thief
    The Book Thief is a shameless piece of Oscar-seeking Holocaust kitsch.
  18. Beneath
    Though the young actors...are appealing enough, you keep waiting for a boatful of humor to come along and rescue them. The whole film is a campy put-on, right? Apparently not.
  19. The Time Being
    An exhaustingly pretentious heave of artistic self-involvement, The Time Being takes an exceptionally handsome journey to nowhere at all.
  20. Red Tide
    The undisciplined shooting style and underdeveloped script confound the actors at every turn. Despite their best efforts, they never overcome the limitations of a movie more intent on cutting corners than fleshing out a story.
  21. Scenic Route
    An awkward, long-winded mash-up of therapy session, horror movie and survival tale with pretensions of psychological depth.
  22. Winter's Tale
    A thin line separates the magical from the preposterous, and by insisting so strenuously on its own magic, Winter’s Tale pitches helplessly into earnest ridiculousness.
  23. Ted 2
    Mr. MacFarlane can be funny, but Ted 2 is insultingly lazy hack work that is worth discussing primarily because of how he tries and fails to turn race, and specifically black men, into comedy fodder.
  24. Vikingdom
    Poor computer-generated effects give the movie an unsettling, two-layered feel.
  25. Bounty Killer
    Watching this movie feels like viewing a very long, expensive car commercial and waiting for the real film to begin.
  26. Mission Park
    [A] regrettably hokey first feature from Bryan Anthony Ramirez.
  27. Nothing Left to Fear
    The familiar special effects are not the most disappointing element here. It’s the squandering of the talented Ms. Heche, who is given top billing but almost nothing to do.
  28. Jewtopia
    On screen, where visuals reign and the simple pleasures of language are less paramount, the expanded Jewtopia is just a flat premise, uncomfortable not only because the clichés are groaners, but also because you feel sorry for everyone who’s working so hard to prop up the farce.
  29. Argento's Dracula 3D
    When insects are the best thing in your movie, it’s probably time to retire.
  30. CBGB
    There is no story to speak of. Just a series of anecdotes that gain very little when acted out on screen.
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