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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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  1. The Perfect Game
    Although based on the real-life tale of nine underage underdogs from Monterrey, Mexico who swept the 1957 Little League World Series, this Cinderella sports story rings false from first pitch to last.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Encino Man
    That Link's make-over proves so painless - so devoid of comic or dramatic situations - suggests that this high-concept movie forgot what it was about.
  3. 11-11-11
    A veteran of the Saw franchise, Darren Lynn Bousman trades torture-porn antics for an old-fashioned Euro-horror vibe, complete with old dark houses and creepy maids; he then wastes what little suspense he generates with endless dorm-room philosophical debates about faith versus atheism and religio-conspiracy theories so far-fetched they'd embarrass Dan Brown.
  4. Super
    Skip this one, even if your hipster significant other whines a blue streak.
  5. Meet Monica Velour
    The film succeeds only in turning one's stomach via implausibilities, inanities and the unwelcome sight of Brian Dennehy's naked ass.
  6. Trust
    Schwimmer is so committed to telling grim truths about modern living (whither goes humanity in the age of Twitter and sexting?!?) that he abandons the film's tantalizing slide into B-movie exploitation.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Split Second
    This derivative eco-horror movie recycles dozens of disposable plots, flinging together all-purpose action man Hauer, a futuristic setting, and a reptilian alien. Hauer could do this stuff in his sleep, and the film looks as though Maylam did.
  8. Stand Up Guys
    This moronically unfunny gangster comedy fluctuates wildly between the lowest-of-low humor and pity-the-aged-man pathos, and offers further evidence that the best days are behind its iconic cast members.
  9. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    Excruciatingly stupid movie.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    If only the fantasy surrounding her made a lick of sense. Here, the Muggle types are known as the “Mundane.” An apt label for a wanna-be franchise with plenty of sheen and nothing to say.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Super Mario Bros.
    Yes, designer David L Snyder has done wonders with the set; yes, there's decent photography and effects; yes, the giant Goombas are splendid. But the whole is not a dinosaur, it's a dog. It will baffle kids, bore adolescents, and depress adults.
  12. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    As is, this semi-improvised feature comes off as a willfully vague exercise that, like its dimwit protagonist, presumes that profundity and enlightenment will emerge from the morass eventually. Er, maybe - or maybe not. Kinda like "Signs;" only much, much worse.
  13. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Mottola has made some brilliantly idiosyncratic pictures: Superbad, Adventureland, The Daytrippers. But as Joneses’s director for hire, he’s allowed zero personality.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Brass Teapot
    The film feels like its over long before the credits roll — or perhaps that’s just wishful thinking.
  15. The Star
    The whole film pinballs between reverence and poop jokes in a way that feels far more blasphemous than anything Monty Python ever did, while a cloying R&B soundtrack further cheapens the tone. Unless you have tiny religious children, it’s probably best to avoid it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    How to Seduce Difficult Women
    This shapeless series of unfunny vignettes (interspersed with pointless street interviews) deserves to be slapped hard.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Heleno
    From its flash-forward framing sequence to its glossy black and white images, the film emulates "Raging Bull" in nearly every particular, while failing to capture even a sliver of that tortured-soul sports-movie's insight or visceral power.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
    Even by the broad standards of children's flicks, the film's prank-prone next-gen tween spy Rebecca (Blanchard) is one monstrous brat.
  19. Jurassic World Dominion
    It’s to the 1993 original what The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was to Raiders.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Labor Day
    Even when it’s shooting in the swing states, the film never finds drama, focus or any greater purpose other than some dubious horn-blowing about the SEIU being singularly responsible for electing President Obama.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Death Wish 3
    With the strong element of fantasy, the frenetic attempts to create an end-product, and the squandering of resources, this is nothing more than cinematic masturbation.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Morons from Outer Space
    This ineptly combines lamebrain comedy and sci-fi adventure, two of Hollywood's most popular genres of the last decade.
  23. The Blind Side
    It’s just blinkered middle-class pandering at its most shameless.
  24. The Oranges
    Neither Janney nor Keener can rise above the rote hatefulness of their madwoman caricatures, whereas Laurie and Meester fare better at playing liberated dreamers who go against the dreaded grain. But shooting fish in a barrel tends to unintentionally conjure sympathy for the fish - or, in this case, for perfectly unhappy suburbanites.
  25. Dracula Untold
    Drab, silly and mind-numbing, this Dracula is strictly for the suckers.
  26. It's a Disaster
    Berger’s script is little more than a series of contrived comic vignettes that prevent the actors from creating believable characters, forcing them to contort to fit the low-rent farce.
  27. A Little Bit of Heaven
    Cringeworthy feel-good weepie, which finds Kate Hudson's vivacious ad-pitch whiz questioning her life choices after being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.
  28. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    The film does offer some revealing anecdotes about his infamous Monroe sessions, but mostly, it simply slouches from one sensationalistic, salacious bit to the next, sans any historical context. Worse, filmmaker Shannah Laumeister continually rhapsodizes on-camera about her own “soul mate” relationship with the subject—leaving viewers feeling mad as hell.
  29. Knife Fight
    Thanks to his pitch-perfect portrayal of Parks and Recreation's Type A–personality-run-amuck boss, we're willing to forgive Rob Lowe for virtually anything. This pitiful excuse for a political satire, however, seriously tests that theory.
  30. Halloween Kills
    It all feels so rote and old-school, especially during such an exciting era for the genre (thanks to Jennifer Kent, Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, Rose Glass and co). Never mind the fact its once-sturdy beats have been spoofed, homaged and riffed a thousand times. In the era of Netflix’s Fear Street and The Haunting of Hill House, big-screen horror surely has to work harder than this.
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