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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. The Mexican
    Intermittently appealing, fundamentally dysfunctional action-comedy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Jersey Girl
    Aware of its awfulness.
  3. 9 Songs
    Winterbottom never provides the empathic connective tissue we expect. Love it or not, 9 Songs amounts to a common human rite fastidiously caught in amber, giving off no heat or joy but crystallized for the future.
  4. Hot Rod
    Like so many movies from the SNL factory, there are perhaps 10 to 15 minutes of good, gag-worthy material here stretched out to interminable lengths. Or to put it another way: It's a very small dick in an oversized box.
  5. Le Chef
    Daniel Cohen's Le Chef does little more than illuminate the superficiality of the restaurant business.
  6. Equals
    We're left with an idea of passion instead of a real depiction of it. And a movie that can't stop wallowing in its own emptiness.
  7. Sorry, Haters
    It's all about the performances. Kechiche is reserved and superbly troubled, but Wright Penn, her stardom-crippling reserves of bitterness and bile rising to the surface, is a scary monster in full bloom, and her habitation of this wacky role makes the movie worth its weight in pixels.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    My eight-year-old nephew sat nearly silent throughout, so when he says he had fun, he must be talking about the treats.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    X Games 3D: The Movie
    Steve Lawrence's glitzy infotainment raises the question, "How much awesomeness can an audience take?"
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Light It Up
    Unexpectedly satisfying feel-good agitprop.
  11. American Pie 2
    Hardly works up a decent belly laugh before its characters are happily pairing off with whomever they desire most. The film is like skipping the orgasm and going straight for the cigarette.
  12. Anything Else
    I have a friend who insists Allen should make a western, if only because the demands of genre might force the birth of new ideas. His movies do create and service an innovation-free comfort zone that makes most TV sitcoms seem adventurous.
  13. The Beach
    Barely a movie.
  14. Hellbenders
    Aided by capable if unnecessary 3D effects, Petty displays a flair for staging violent action, but he's trapped inside a broad comic set-up that doesn't mesh with the story's innate meanness.
  15. Chaplin of the Mountains
    Self-taught Kurdish-American filmmaker Jano Rosebiani's mostly English-language drama...is deadened by milquetoast characters, uninspired landscape photography, and no perceptible stakes.
  16. Shelter
    Shelter is a well-intentioned film that edges into misery porn.
  17. All I See Is You
    It defeats expectations, but it’s far more arresting and captivating a romance because Forster infuses it with suspenseful urgency. I have to admire the guts of a director who portrays the dissolution of a mismatched marriage with the dread of a murder mystery.
  18. Year by the Sea
    It’s less the story of a woman taking a year off from city life and her husband than it is a pleasant revue of sketches and scenarios on that topic.
  19. Sherman's Way
    Plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers.
  20. My Best Enemy
    Getting even is wearying in My Best Enemy, a banal World War II thriller dependent on contrived role reversals.
  21. Wish I Was Here
    Wish I Was Here is at least stretching toward something, and even if its reach exceeds its grasp, Braff's earnest determination as a filmmaker and performer helps smooth out some of the awkward bumps.
  22. Total Recall (2012)
    Where Paul Verhoeven's original was testosterone-stupid and, therefore, fun, Wiseman's film is just boring-stupid.
  23. Suspended Animation
    Alternately tense and cheesy.
  24. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Mistakes self-pitying embitterment for carry-on endurance, and manages to have its causality both ways.
  25. The Last Castle
    Bizarre, confused, sanctimonious manure that makes Lurie's own "The Contender" look responsible by comparison.
  26. Paycheck
    Woo's film is in some ways closer to Dick's -- and his own -- pulp roots, and if he lazily quotes himself (and, inexplicably, Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly") once too often, he at least gets loose, spirited performances from his cast -- Uma's post-"Kill Bill" gravitas notwithstanding.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    From Other Worlds
    There's no beguilement to this toothless caprice by writer- director Barry Strugatz, who may intend a spoof of '50s melodramas and alien abductions but delivers instead an inert doodle.
  28. The War on Kids
    Cevin Soling's lively documentary lays out in hair-raising detail the authoritarian underpinnings of America's child-centered culture.
  29. Salt of This Sea
    Annemarie Jacir, who was raised in Saudi Arabia, directs with flair and loving attention to the wild, damaged beauty of the contested landscape. But Soraya's rebellious bursts of rage come off more like the tantrums of a spoiled princess than the legitimate anger of an emerging activist.
  30. Hiding Divya
    Though the leads make for a believable family unit, the performances in writer-director Rehana Mirza's thin-skinned, no-frills drama unevenly range from functional to histrionic.
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