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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 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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  1. Bonneville
    This rarity in cinema--a graying cast in a female-bonding adventure--couldn't be more dull-humored or predictably maudlin without just calling itself "The Bucket List 2."
  2. Blind Mountain
    Blind Mountain forces its way through numerous illogicalities and several plot lapses to a violently abrupt ending.
  3. Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
    The duo's travels never gain a traction of their own, and the film's destination feels overdetermined despite its sweetness.
  4. The Life Before Her Eyes
    Moviegoers may mistake The Life Before Her Eyes for an unduly long L'Oreal commercial featuring softly lit film stars moving languidly with swinging hair through overbearingly premonitory weather.
  5. Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    Glass is a stupefyingly dull portrait of a man who doesn't seem to be lying when he says, "I have so few secrets."
  6. Standard Operating Procedure
    Since "The Thin Blue Line's" remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic--lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry.
  7. Hancock
    It doesn't take itself as seriously as it should, and undercuts a final act that should have and so could have packed a mighty emotional wallop.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Transsiberian
    Just as nasty as the titular mode of transport is the script's wanton declaration of theme and a cynical and fashionable belief in moral grayness that may complement the frosty setting but nonetheless feels easy.
  9. Bottle Shock
    The movie should have been more like Rickman: sparkling and light, with just a hint of acid. Instead, it's a huge gulp of vinegar.
  10. The Rocker
    This is sugary-sweet stuff--pop instead of rock.
  11. W.
    A painful movie to endure.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    This sketchily conceived and executed space yarn is one missed opportunity after another.
  13. Christmas on Mars
    As a Lips completist, it's at least worth enduring for its homegrown resourcefulness, all General Electric stoves and found industrial objects, but that's the thing about experimentation: Sometimes it's destined to fail.
  14. Ghost Town
    If it sounds all so pale and predictable, it is.
  15. The Lucky Ones
    Its hopelessly schematic road-trip arc (bond-fight-reconcile-repeat) grows increasingly tedious.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nights in Rodanthe
    Exhibits a certain amount of integrity in its dedication to being uncomplicated, unashamed romantic goo.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Blindness
    Unflinching at best and treacly at worst, the film unveils its apocalyptic scenario with visceral intensity, but lacks the emotional sophistication to rise above schadenfreude kicks.
  18. The Express
    Like all formulaic biopics, The Express sacrifices the details for the Big Picture--hagiography without the humanity.
  19. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    The film's length may well be intended to mirror the 72-day ordeal, but it's relentlessly wearing and lacking in nutritive fiber.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gardens of the Night
    Pitched at the risible level of Marco Kreuzpaintner's Trade, the film never quite recovers from writer-director Damian Harris's dithering way of shooting things.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Transporter 3
    The movie has more lags in action than either of the previous episodes, and somehow the dialogue is even more daft
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dark Streets
    The film has its shallow pleasures, but once it becomes obvious that that's all Dark Streets has going for it, the affected performances and forced tough-guy speak stop feeling playful and start to become oppressive.
  23. What Doesn't Kill You
    Goodman's movie tends to limp along.
  24. Donkey Punch
    A workmanlike thriller that works as an (unconscious?) auto-critique of mainstreamed Internet-age hedonism.
  25. Inkheart
    It all smacks of that overdone "passion for literature" common in English teachers who send any healthy-minded kid running from books.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    New in Town
    The movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start. She's not enough the ice queen, like Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl," for us to accept her transition into adorable Melanie Griffith.
  27. The Last House on the Left
    This new House tries to sustain a grave, heavy sense of threat. It fails, through its villainy.
  28. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Even in the context of pop-to-statutorily-rape-virgin-eardrums, it's difficult to rate the Jonases. The tunes are no-stick.
  29. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
    The spectacle of two dudes mucking about in the primal forest becomes tedious.
  30. Skills Like This
    Skills thinks it's far more magically whimsical than it really is.
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