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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Angel-A
    Amiably inconsequential fairy tale.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run, Fatboy, Run
    Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation--and nobody plays blithe humiliation with more style.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Scoop
    So flat, dull, and off form that it seems to have been conceived in a fog. It not only lacks the verve and energy of Allen's best New York–based work, it feels culturally adrift, like some bewildered tourist trying to read a city map held upside down.
  4. The Judge
    The Judge has its funny moments but is far more serious at heart, and much more of a slog, too.
  5. Missionary
    The tension in Missionary is surprisingly effective, especially given how easy it should be to put out an APB on a guy on a freaking bicycle, and there are enough scares to remind you to keep the chain latched when those polite young men in the slacks and neckties drop by.
  6. Spiral
    Fairrie’s unfocused examination of anti-Semitism illuminates little.
  7. Ardor
    Too bad that Ardor's arrhythmic editing and glacial pacing make it impossible to get lost in its jungles — or to invest in its pseudo-mystical ambiance.
  8. A Lot Like Love
    Interjections from perennial second bananas Kathryn Hahn (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and Kal Penn (winning even when not conjuring vivified bags of pot) generate the only sparks.
  9. Believe Me
    The movie loses its zip as it becomes more dramatic.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goon: Last of the Enforcers
    In some ways Goon: Last of the Enforcers actually manages to improve upon its forebear, connecting on jabs at a rate roughly equal to that of the earlier film but this time — if you’ll pardon yet more in the way of this figurative pugilism — mixing in some gut-punches, too.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Secuestro express
    A focus on a timely social problem paired with an archetypal class-war tale would be a winning combination for Secuestro Express, were it not for the movie's strangely exploitative nature.
  12. Titan A.E.
    Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
  13. Scarlet Diva
    What a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts -- say, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Christina Ricci -- had this much imagination and nerve. Few of them, at any rate, have Argento's reserves of lonesome passion and unspigoted woe.
  14. The Banger Sisters
    For a few brief moments, it's the bravest work this Hollywood gargoyle (Hawn) has ever done.
  15. Charlotte Gray
    The narrative is unexpectedly sleepy, excepting the occasional flashy set piece.
  16. Kingdom Come
    Demands high tolerance for low comedy.
  17. Brothers in Arms
    The less-is-more approach to Kerry's war heroics (the incident that led to his Silver Star is covered only briefly) allows the crewmen to dominate.
  18. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    A loud and frequently funny clown show, Full Throttle is less a grim demolition derby than a day at Coney Island, punctuated by the clatter and screams of the Cyclone.
  19. Remember the Titans
    Boorish and flatulent.
  20. Ride
    There's a wry sweetness to this picture.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We the Party
    Van Peebles's heart is probably in the right place, but his attempt to wed his kids' generational moment to a classic coming-of-age template falters in its message-obsessed execution.
  22. Decoding Deepak
    Following the celebrity guru into Thailand for his ordainment as a Buddhist monk, the film is at its best when Gotham can't help but see through his father, who seems entirely restless without an audience and a smartphone through which to be reminded of their adoration of him.
  23. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    Lackluster screenwriting and the absence of actorly communion are breezed past with monotonous banter, as is the fleetingly visible plot.
  24. Made in America
    There's no type of documentary as shallow as those covering modern music festivals, a fact reconfirmed by Made in America.
  25. Stay
    The film's quiet demeanor, exacerbated by wide shots of lonely, sprawling bogs, sometimes comes off as dull rather than reflective. Still, it does capture the maddening silence of waiting for an absent lover to make contact.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dynamite Warrior
    Director Chalerm Wongpim's skull-buster makes up in wild-eyed insanity (and excessive, arbitrary slow motion) what it lacks in acting, pacing, and coherence.
  27. Autoerotic
    Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard's latest exploration of amorous urban collisions, is only sporadically a good sex comedy, in part because the flat affect favored by its young Chicago cast of hipsters looks an awful lot like, well, seriousness.
  28. 4 Minute Mile
    The narrative is so formulaic as to feel immediately contrived, with seemingly every plot device taken from another film.
  29. October Gale
    The performances in October Gale subvert genre expectations: Clarkson displays toughness and resolve without turning into Liam Neeson, and the distressed Speedman is as vulnerable as he is determined.
  30. The Beauty Inside
    Worse than the latent silliness of such a premise is how little the filmmakers ultimately do with the world of narrative possibilities it presents; in attempting to show the universality of love, The Beauty Inside succeeds in showing the opposite.
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