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For 6,377 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,478 out of 6377
  2. Mixed: 3,424 out of 6377
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6377
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Swept Away
    Though seemingly a prettily made, pretty erotic exploitation movie, one suspects that there is value in Wertmüller's observation of the potency of sexual chauvinism. The film fails, however, through the absence of credibility and objectivity, and its refusal to move into the realms of fantasy, allegory, or even irony.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So Fine
    Most of the humour on display in this would-be screwball comedy has an inanity which follows suit with this central conceit.
  3. Jack Reacher
    Whether blithely comparing American prisons to retirement homes or gleefully recalling the time he chewed off his own fingers in Siberia, the moonlighting German New Wave auteur injects some much-needed black humor into what is otherwise a soporific star vehicle.
  4. Brothers
    It takes a long time for Brothers to become the movie it wants to be, and even then, it stumbles.
  5. Greetings from Tim Buckley
    Other than an impromptu spectacle in a downtown record store, little of the chops and charisma Buckley fils had in spades is channeled; this is still the usual Let Us Now Praise Famous Men karaoke session, wrapped up in some extra-discordantly warbled notes.
  6. Drive Angry 3D
    We've seen Nicolas Cage when he's angry-and we like him when he's angry. So why does this painfully loud revenge movie skimp on the Cage rage?
  7. Larry Crowne
    Though both lead actors are able to coast for a while on their natural charm, it's evident by the soppy finale that their "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Pretty Woman" salad days are long past.
  8. Waiting for Lightning
    Director Jacob Rosenberg's approach is heavy with archival footage and interviews, yet oddly features almost nothing from Way himself; his puzzling absence for most of the film turns the project into less of a biography than a one-note hagiography.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I Feel Pretty
    Schumer is a talented performer, and her physical comedy here draws some chuckles (as does Michelle Williams’ turn as Schumer’s helium-voiced ditz of a boss), but I Feel Pretty is consumed by an annoying premise that seems practically designed to generate think pieces.
  10. Ride Along
    Director Tim Story (Fantastic Four) locates the right blend of humour and action in a couple of taut sequences, but Ride Along is saddled with an uninvolving plot, and largely content to coast on cop-movie clichés.
  11. The Way I See It
    If you think Donald Trump is a better POTUS than his predecessor, then fair warning: this is most certainly not the documentary for you. The problem is, if you’re of the exact opposite opinion and are, indeed, an irrepressible President Obama stan, you might just find it a bit hard to stomach too.
  12. Bunraku
    Bunraku aspires to be "Kill Bill: Vol 3"; it's more like an ornate pitch for a "Dick Tracy" reboot.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ruby in Paradise
    You know there's truth in these drab small-town lives, but, regrettably, there's little drama or humour to sustain interest in Ruby's vague musings on her bleak search for paradise.
  14. Sunset
    Nemes wants to let the chaos and noise of Sunset overwhelm the audience, but like Irisz herself, it’s hard not to get a bit lost in the clamor.
  15. My Policeman
    Variously throughout the film, close-ups of hands stroking marble, bodies or linking fingers try their best to create a sense of visual intimacy that the script fundamentally lacks. In its absence, all that’s left is a run-of-the-mill queer story with one dimension.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Last Ride
    At least Thomas gives a suitably burned-out performance as Williams. He's almost enough to melt your cold, cold heart.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Den of Thieves
    This is poor-man's action cinema with zero characterization.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bamboozled
    Lee's satire on American TV is an intriguing failure.
  19. A Most Wanted Man
    Disappointing plod of an espionage thriller.
  20. Vamps
    Vamps is commendable, even moving, as a raw-nerve confession of anachronism - but it's also what keeps this strained satire from drawing any real blood.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
    Fast-paced and quite atmospheric in its tacky way, but definitively sabotaged by Lugosi as the monster; at last getting to play the role he missed out on in 193l, he gives a performance of excruciatingly embarrassing inadequacy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Yentl
    This lumbering, overwrought, and wildly self-indulgent adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's frail short story is clearly cranked up with the full quotient of sincerity and conviction.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Indian Runner
    Potentially potent and not without naive charm, but ultimately a masturbatory ejaculation of all too personal juices.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mr. Jones
    In its present state, the film veers unsteadily between overblown romance and a portrait of a disturbed and pained man as a wacky guy who's fun to be with. Small wonder that the director has disowned the release version.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Babies
    Babies is barely more insightful than your average Flickr photo gallery or home movie clip: it’s just infant porn for prospective parents.
  26. Killers
    Kutcher is surprisingly anticharismatic as a star. A smarmy grin and looking good while shirtless does not equal screen presence, dude.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Caroline and Jackie
    Before long, the film spills over into a far less intriguing, and somewhat questionable, portrait of one hysterical woman.
  28. The English Teacher
    The film’s cutesy vibe is closer to "Glee" than "Election" or "Waiting for Guffman," with Nathan Lane’s exuberant drama teacher pitching several yards of camp tent.
  29. The Perfect Host
    Writer-director Nick Tomnay needlessly convolutes what should have been a taut, focused two-hander with flashbacks, alternate realities and too-clever-by-half reversals.
  30. 360
    Scene by scene, you want to laugh at all the ham-fisted kismet, even if the committed cast holds your attention. Hopkins is especially good in his chaste May-September interactions with Flor, and he has an AA confessional that is genuinely moving.
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