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For 6,395 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: 2,487 out of 6395
  2. Mixed: 3,433 out of 6395
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6395
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  1. The Brave
    Besides the implausibilities, the direction has two fatal flaws: it's both tediously slow and hugely narcissistic as the camera focuses repeatedly on Depp's bandana'd head and rippling torso.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Solarbabies
    All-purpose sci-fi rip-off, set on a planet where evil Jordan lords it over a cadre of roller-skating minor brat-packers who call on ancient mystical force - 'Bodhi' - to escape his sway. A misbegotten Brooksfilm which sank without trace in the US.
  3. Knucklehead
    A distinctly shameless and shoddily made family comedy.
  4. Happiness Runs
    Sherman based this obtuse psychosexual dystopia on his own hippie upbringing; the result is virtually teeming with bitter resentment for the drug-addled parent collective that inadvertently turned his adolescence into a chapter from "Lord of the Flies."
  5. Holmes & Watson
    A completely charmless, laughs-free experience.
  6. Saw 3D
    Like a stumpy limb requiring quick cauterization via steam pipe (our first cringe), the Saw series is begging for closure.
  7. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    Only Billy Connolly, as the boys’ way-of-the-gun pa, brings a smidgen of sobering gravitas to the proceedings, though he can hardly counter the pounding hangover brought on by all the mock-virtuous butchery.
  8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    As for parents: Are you cool with feeling like you're having artificial sweetener sandblasted into your eyeballs for 87 minutes?
  9. Breaking Point
    Dramatically handcuffed and smothered in overbearing mood music, this lightweight New York crime thriller is desperate to look and feel gritty; the cast, meanwhile, deliver vein-popping diatribes between clenched teeth and weep openly in a desperate ploy to earn gravitas.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Furry Vengeance
    The only saving grace of this wannabe Looney Tune? The animals don’t talk.
  11. Collateral Beauty
    It’s just impossible to get past the core ridiculousness and arm-twisting manipulation of the plot.
  12. Music
    The ‘bad sibling comes good helping the autistic one’ plotline isn’t exactly new (hullo, Rain Man), and there isn’t much more meat on the bones here. Where Music really stumbles, though, is in its fantasy musical interludes.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Jack and Jill
    The film is merely a series of random celebrity cameos and shameless product placements. (In one case, both-thank you, Jared from Subway!) But there are a few moments of inspired absurdity, mostly provided by a surprisingly energetic Al Pacino.
  14. Couples Retreat
    It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Turk 182
    Adamantly sincere but utterly redundant populism from Bob "Porky's" Clark, a boy scout's stab at Bonfire of the Vanities starring Timothy Hutton's noble adam's apple (gulp!), which he thrusts this way and that for all the world like an ostrich with a social conscience.
  16. An Invisible Sign
    Except for two brief summits between Alba and Messina's pillowy lips, however, An Invisible Sign fails even to pander effectively.
  17. Underworld: Blood Wars
    If you like sexy vampires or ferocious werewolves, you can do much better than this exhausted, computerized sequel.
  18. The Roommate
    The film's sure-to-be-brief theatrical release is a mere stopover on the way to basic-cable eternity.
  19. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    No stranger to one-joke premises, writer-director Tommy Wirkola (of 2009's Nazi-zombie "classic" "Dead Snow") populates this frenzied horror-satire with tons of incoherently staged bloodletting and f-bomb–accentuated kiss-off lines. It's a grim fairy tale, all right.
  20. Brother's Justice
    Outside of a few spirited celebrity cameos - Favreau seems convincingly affronted by Dax's ineptitude, Bradley Cooper gamely tussles with him on a suburban lawn - this meta-vanity project isn't funny so much as counterproductive. It's no less a work of wankery for winking at us.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Bounty Hunter
    You know it’s bad when a caper comedy makes you long for the Goldie Hawn–Chevy Chase showcases of yore.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    That's What She Said
    A noble goal, but That's What She Said's overload of self-loathing is apt to break the audience's spirit first.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    Hilariously horrible when it isn't just plain awful.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Supercapitalist
    Mostly, this DOA movie is an excuse to hammer home that there's more to life than making a shit-ton of money. Take that, Wall Street!
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
    It provides the thinnest of excuses for rerunning the 'dramas' of the night before, but it doesn't do anything to salvage the venerable formula.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Friday the 13th
    A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Revolution
    An almost inconceivable disaster.
  28. Twelve
    From the moment Joel Schumacher's dour teens-in-crisis melodrama establishes its group of spoiled (and so, so unloved) Manhattan silver-spooners, you long for anything to leaven the tsk-tsk prurience.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    New Year's Eve
    Director Garry Marshall continues his systematic defilement of society's most romantic holidays with another rom-com built - and executed - like a '70s disaster movie.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Villain
    Douglas mugs his way through a tedious routine of graceless, mistimed slapstick as his incompetent outlaw repeatedly fails to waylay the miscast Schwarzenegger and Ann-Margret, while director Needham - apparently lost without Burt Reynolds - resorts to hackneyed camera trickery, and only stops the rot with a truly offensive resolution.
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