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For 11,163 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 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. Sex Doll
    Sex Doll, flat though it may sometimes be, is shrewdly aware of the countless clichés surrounding sex work.
  2. Incident In a Ghostland
    The grisly post-torture-porn horror flick Incident in a Ghostland serves as an effectively punishing critique of the relentless misogyny that has become a staple of every stupid Texas Chain Saw Massacre knockoff that pits sexually active women against emotionally disturbed serial killers.
  3. In My Country
    Boorman's bathetic tourism is unconscionable for a subject of this magnitude; for an infinitely superior account of this chapter of South African history, seek out the documentary "Long Night's Journey Into Day."
  4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Chaste, oddly bloodless, and nearly plotless saga.
  5. The Legend of Tarzan
    The fights are quick and brutal and bloodless, with too much slo-mo and sped-up stuff, and some clever camera angles that get cut from before you can work out what you're looking at.
  6. Rapture-Palooza
    Always amusing, if never screamingly funny.
  7. Stalin's Wife
    Tsukerman is not interested in disproving or discounting theories, but merely assembling them.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Henry Poole Is Here
    A film that could have used some of the genuine intrigue of Pellington's thrillers to help offset the increasingly doe-eyed narrative.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fidel
    The tone is doting, but not cloying.
  10. Vatel
    Vatel is dull and silly, but the holiday season doesn't offer a better sets-and-costumes workshop.
  11. Sympathy for Delicious
    Ruffalo has assembled an exceptional cast-to surround writer and star Christopher Thornton, but a script that favors incident over story and direction that crowds scenes instead of letting them breathe make for curiously rough going.
  12. Dear Dictator
    Although the filmmakers name-check and appear to draw inspiration from Mean Girls, they’ve missed the mark on truly biting satire, leaving Dear Dictator toothless and silly.
  13. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    My dad took me. He was a film critic and he’d already seen it for work, but then he took me opening weekend and fell asleep while I watched it. He did that a lot. But I think he liked it. I guess he wouldn’t have gone to see it again if he didn’t. What kind of idiot does that?
  14. The Brothers Grimsby
    Mostly, The Brothers Grimsby simply wants to make you laugh. And it will. Whether you're laughing because the jokes are actually funny or because you can't quite believe that you just saw what you did...well, that's between you and your god.
  15. Peter and Vandy
    Ritter and Weixler do share an easy-at-being-uneasy chemistry, mostly because his performance is downright distinguished compared to her blandness, but DiPietro's screenplay is emotionally myopic.
  16. Hyena Road
    This anti-war movie is more passionate about CB radio communication than the horrors of bloodshed.
  17. Zombeavers
    Director Jordan Rubin and the cast know the material is ridiculous, but calibrate the tone so that the dangers still feel dangerous.
  18. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Is the world of the film ruled by its high concept, its low comedy, its demographic credibility, or its romantic screwball realism? Ultimately, Orgy's refusal to be any one thing - including good or bad - forms a kind of epochal statement.
  19. Churchill
    Cox’s delivery of Churchill’s “We will fight on the beaches” D-Day speech surely ranks among the best, but it’s a problem when a narrative feature’s most powerful scenes are drawn from historical text.
  20. The Belko Experiment
    Don't expect style or invention, much less satire. Its only interest as an experiment is that, out of duty, the roomful of critics I saw it with all stuck around until the end.
  21. Hostage
    Bruce looks hot and underplays handsomely as always, but Hostage is a steaming pile of siege clichés and screaming unlikelihoods.
  22. Second Best
    An ugly, amateurish film that champions mediocrity in a meta-attempt to justify its own ineptitude.
  23. Man in the Chair
    Walsh and Plummer are obviously pros, and they hustle to put across some patently ridiculous business, but, well, it's true about the polishing thing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Walking Tall
    The plot is so absurdly perfunctory that preview audiences snickered at its TV-drama slapdashness; the producers should have pushed the straight-camp potential much further and retitled this weak bruiser Sporting Wood.
  25. Man of the Century
    Good-natured but labored, the film clings to its lone gimmick with increasing desperation.
  26. Reaching for the Moon
    Poetry refracts life; this film can only reflect it, and tritely at that.
  27. Come Out and Play
    Even by the standards of the genre, the characters behave with astonishing stupidity, while Makinov tries repeatedly to mine suspense from slowly creeping up on his actors with the camera.
  28. The Inbetweeners Movie
    Britishly, the movie has a knack for inflating little sap bubbles as if mostly for the joy of popping them.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Saawariya
    See this movie if you need to get some sleep.
  30. Beijing Love Story
    So far removed from any original signal — there are several direct references to Titanic, so it's timely, too — this nuance-free affair registers as little more than noise.
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