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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. A Perfect Man
    One of those projects whose very existence should baffle anyone hardy enough to endure all 94 minutes.
  2. Endless Love
    Directed by Shana Feste (“Country Strong”), this new Endless Love doesn’t have enough going on to make it memorably terrible: Banality is its gravest sin.
  3. Twice Born
    Whatever thoughtful instincts Mr. Castellitto might possess are undermined by his addiction to cinematic prettiness.
  4. Dumbbells
    The movie is so incoherent that its screenplay, by Mr. Drolet and Mr. Richards, might as well have been scrawled between takes as it was being filmed.
  5. The Fall of 1980
    It’s essentially a modern version of “The Big Chill” without the banging oldies soundtrack or competent actors.
  6. Commitment
    For all the shooting, knifing and nattering about sleeper cells, the film feels weirdly static and terminally tired.
  7. The Unbelievers
    Too slight to persuade, The Unbelievers is also too poorly made to entertain. The rational roots of atheism deserve a much better movie than this.
  8. The Mummy
    The “Mummy” reboot from 1999, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, was kind of fun. Monster movies frequently are. This one, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, is an unholy mess.
  9. Barefoot
    The movie acts like screwball comedy, but there are no laughs as Daisy and Jay’s connection lurches toward implausible romance.
  10. Big Bad Wolves
    Is there a point? All the filmmakers seem interested in is the ugliness of the main Israeli characters.
  11. Truth
    Filled with sappy dialogue and screeching strings, Truth is a puerile excavation of secrets and sickness.
  12. Jinn
    Most of the time, this incoherent thriller resembles an overheated trailer for itself: a glaringly rough assembly of ill-staged computer-generated action sequences and portentous moments.
  13. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
    The jokes are thin, the computer animation is wanting and the inane plot is a series of set pieces strung together.
  14. Demi-Soeur
    This sickly sweet concoction sets your teeth on edge.
  15. Drive Hard
    Airless, senseless — and seemingly endless — this clumsy heist movie, directed by the prolific schlockmaster Brian Trenchard-Smith, manages to make even the magnificent coastline of Queensland, Australia, feel dreary.
  16. Entourage
    You could accuse it of glamorizing the shallow hedonism it depicts, but that charge would only stick if the movie had any genuine flair, romance or imagination.
  17. Moms' Night Out
    Little of it is funny or genuine, and the benefits and beauty of real faith are nowhere in evidence.
  18. Left Behind
    The director, Vic Armstrong — whose lengthy résumé hews primarily toward stunt work — displays no facility with actors and even less with pacing.
  19. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    You won’t find much offensive in Kevin James’s slick, innocuous vehicle Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You won’t find much prompting an emotional reaction in general, so familiar are the jokes and situations. If Mr. James’s character thinks of safety first, so does this movie, to its extreme detriment.
  20. Mortdecai
    What a frantically dull spectacle this vanity project is.
  21. Friended to Death
    Constant close-ups give the sense that the movie itself is violating viewers’ personal space, while an earnest moral suggests that online communication can’t substitute for face-to-face interaction: a topic Friended to Death doesn’t seem to know much about.
  22. London Has Fallen
    Will this hard-luck president again defy death while his stoic sidekick vanquishes the nasty, uncivilized terrorists? It’s hard to care when a movie is this formulaic and moronic.
  23. Geostorm
    Geostorm uses digital technology to lay waste to a bunch of cities and hacky screenwriting to assault the dignity of several fine actors.
  24. Lullaby
    Lullaby, the directorial debut of Andrew Levitas, a jack of all artistic trades, is the kind of manipulative, cliché-infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears.
  25. The Possession of Michael King
    Dim in wits and lighting, The Possession of Michael King strains our eyes, spits on our intelligence and saps our generosity of spirit. Relatively untaxed, however, is the part of the brain that processes new experiences: There’s scarcely a shot or an idea in this first feature from David Jung that we haven’t seen many times before.
  26. Teen Wolf
    For a film that's so innocuous, Teen Wolf is aggressively boring.
  27. Teen Wolf Too
    No one expects realism from a movie called Teen Wolf Too... still, the film makers could pretend to know what college is like, might try to liven up the kindly werewolf formula.
  28. The Best of Me
    The screenplay is so haphazardly constructed that when the movie seems to be ending, it refuels with preposterous new developments.
  29. Breakthrough Weekend
    This New York shaggy-dog story from Sujewa Ekanayake is an example of extreme-makeshift filmmaking — but not, unfortunately, a successful one.
  30. Among Ravens
    Among Ravens claws itself to death with sophomoric symbolism.
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