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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 7.6 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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Finding Eleazar
    Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sun Kissed
    The only joy to be extracted from Sun Kissed is voyeuristic: watching Teddy and Leo's taut bodies as they frolic in the sun-drenched surf. To music you like.
  3. Talk to Her
    Initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience.
  4. Jig
    Bourne's lengthy chronicle of the World Championship is severely under-contextualized, leaving us in the dark about the competition's structure and frustrating our efforts to take a rooting interest in the proceedings.
  5. Lucky Stiff
    Lucky Stiff shoots for "zany" and lands at "attention deficit disorder," but the songs aren't bad.
  6. The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
    The feature itself remains a grotesquely enjoyable turn through the pulp-cinema wringer; hell, it could prove to be Mansfield's most enduring work.
  7. Rock the Kasbah
    The film often plays like everyone making it agreed that some on-set idea was so funny it had to be included, whether or not it suited the story.
  8. An American Affair
    Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later.
  9. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    There's no breathing life into a formula that ought to have bowed out gracefully while the going was good.
  10. The Signal
    The persuasive power of individual moments suggests that director William Eubank has a bright future — and could push himself harder when writing his scripts.
  11. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, and True Blood's Ryan Kwanten co-star in this glossy, lifelessly paced edition as three of the criminals, though their underwritten personas and motivations are fairly interchangeable.
  12. The Boss
    The Boss is a better film than Tammy, but it still flounders, almost capsizing in its sloppy final third.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Come on Eileen
    The film betrays an eager crowd-pleaser's impulse toward on-the-nose dialogue and resolution on command.
  14. Survival of the Dead
    The inevitable all-you-can-eat orgy of zombies pulling stringy mouthfuls away from red, wet rib cages may satisfy gorehounds, but big set pieces showing how atrophied Romero's cutting and tactical framing have become is depressing to anyone who has valued his films for more than just splatter.
  15. Splendor
    Might as well be bad TV...Splendor is what happens when a director whose natural mode is subversion runs out of things to subvert.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With Friends Like These...
    Messina's characters gripe at being typecast as goombah hit men, yet the director seems blissfully unaware that he dooms them to the very fate they protest by painting them with such prosaic, uninspired strokes. (review of re-release)
  17. Elling
    Elling is nothing if not carefully controlled hokum -- both actors, the director, and screenwriter all worked it through first as a stage adaptation of a novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen.
  18. Unexpected
    Unexpected isn't about, but rather a product of, class-based condescension in America.
  19. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    The material is often weak, but the stars earn their paychecks.
  20. Friend 2: The Legacy
    The most compelling thing about Friend 2 is its trifurcated plot, a structural gimmick borrowed from The Godfather Part II.
  21. Apart
    To understand Apart's Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown tommyrot any better, one would need a psychic bond to first-time writer/director Aaron Rottinghaus, for his movie doesn't do much of a job explaining it.
  22. 50 to 1
    While the film isn't without charming moments -- the Derby sequence is entertaining -- the lack of narrative sophistication grates.
  23. This Revolution
    A clever but aesthetically murky remake of Haskell Wexler's scorching McLuhan pastiche "Medium Cool" (1969).
    • 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.
  25. Movie 43
    It's the kind of thing you feel you should laugh at through a phlegmy, hacking cough-and it does get laughs, if inconsistently, predictable given the circumstances of production.
  26. Remember
    Though it dodders engagingly at its antihero's pace, Remember is not subtle.
  27. Paris Can Wait
    Imagine The Trip meets Lost in Translation (Coppola’s daughter Sophia’s debut), but with stale dialogue and neither much romance nor comedy
  28. The Terminal
    Making Viktor a Middle Eastern, a South Asian, or even a Bosnian tourist would have given this trite exercise an edge--and a measure of human pathos.
  29. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    John Whitesell's extraordinarily witless movie operates as a checklist for cultural and racial clichés.
  30. Angel of Evil
    In many ways reminiscent of "Mesrine" but suffers greatly in comparison. It hits many of the same marks -- but the scenes unfold almost elliptically, never really building or illuminating character, and never sparking narrative momentum.
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