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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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 Last House on the Left
    This new House tries to sustain a grave, heavy sense of threat. It fails, through its villainy.
  2. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    The even faintly informed will see only a cut-rate vision of flabby white men defending their own bloodthirsty opportunism.
  3. High Tension
    Manages--before faltering under the weight of its own pretensions--to be pretty scary.
  4. The House That Jack Built
    As a longtime admirer of the director’s work, I can’t quite believe I’m saying this, but the most shocking thing I found about The House That Jack Built is how tedious it is. A shame, because The House That Jack Built feels like a genuinely sincere attempt on the filmmaker’s part to wrestle with the legacy of his creation.
  5. Take Me Home Tonight
    It's not a total wash. Faris's ample talents are squandered with a should-I-stay-or-should-I-go romantic dilemma, but there's just enough of Demetri Martin doing a prick act, and Fogler excels as a Rabelaisian dynamo.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bel Ami
    Its the ladies who are worth tracking here, from Ricci's understated sensuality to Thomas's fragile angularity. They've supplemented beauty with good old-fashioned acting chops, something their cover-boy co-star would be wise to emulate.
  7. Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
    Though visually expansive, however, the film feels emotionally intimate.
  8. Godspeed
    The tone fits the material and the performances are surprisingly measured, but Saitzyk's sappy pontifications on loss, redemption, and zealotry don't register as headily as they're meant to (every character gets at least one melodramatic speech), and the spirituality invoked feels about as sincere as the Christian who only attends Christmas mass.
  9. The Decoy Bride
    Pernicious tripe suitable only for masochists and the intellectually disabled.
  10. Big Daddy
    Sandler is less goofy than spitefully self-absorbed, and most of the comedy feels like child abuse.
  11. Jem and the Holograms
    Chu and screenwriter Ryan Landels's take on fame is more fascinating than most of the film's drab, slow drama.
  12. Trash Fire
    Bates (Suburban Gothic) plays with horror tropes, juggling black comedy and suspense in scenes that tease a gory release but ultimately only emphasize how much members of the creative class can underestimate their backward kin.
  13. Breakfast of Champions
    Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
  14. Arthur Newman
    Fun for a bit, things soon turn silly.
  15. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The film isn't short on ideas, it's just that those ideas are dumbfoundingly pretentious and trite.
  16. Courageous
    Borderline creepy, Courageous endlessly expounds on the importance of God in men's lives but fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin.
  17. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
    Flawed but genuinely creepy ghost story The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is disappointing, but only because it comes close to greatness.
  18. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    King Arthur is neither Guy Ritchie’s worst film nor his best, but it might well be his most frustrating. A compendium of all the things that make the British director so occasionally exciting and so often irritating, this new, hyper-stylized take on the Arthurian legends veers between genius and idiocy.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Jailbait
    Becomes the umpteenth prison drama to focus on the lurid threat of forced submission.
  20. A Wink and a Smile
    The tension between wanting to root for these women and ultimately being faced with what you're rooting for (a pair of pinwheeling boobies) goes completely unresolved.
  21. History Lessons
    Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
  22. Bubble Boy
    The coke-fried gibbons behind Bubble Boy came to a trailblazing conclusion: The ideal filmic oddity is white, male, and -- a mother's deception notwithstanding -- perfectly healthy.
  23. Splinterheads
    Touching in its dorkiness.
  24. The Last New Yorker
    Considering how meticulously Wang location-scouted the project--documenting all the barely surviving (or since closed down) luncheonettes, Irish pubs, hosieries, and shoe repair joints of yesteryear--it's a shame he couldn't stick to his shutterbug roots and shoot a documentary instead.
  25. The Chameleon
    Screenwriters, take note: Unless your story is a whodunit, it's an unforgivable flaw to telegraph early and often that, sometime during the final act, we should anticipate the proverbial rug to be pulled.
  26. Echoes of War
    However you view the western in American filmmaking — as a moth-eaten relic or an eternal form to be resurrected every few years — there's something stale about Kane Senes's tepid historical drama Echoes of War, which utilizes the genre's symbols without delivering on its potential for moral or narrative satisfaction.
  27. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    The film is endurable owing solely to Johnson, a veteran of bad kids' movies whose sense of when to dial up the charm in such a generic, soulless entertainment remains impeccable.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Larry Crowne
    With its eager-to-please congeniality, it almost works, but with a pacing that is at once comfortably assured and frustratingly slack, like holding exactly to the speed limit on a stretch of open road, Larry Crowne never quite comes to life.
  29. Milwaukee, Minnesota
    Saddled with an improbable plotline and an incoherent character, Garity demurs on the invitation to overact.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jackass: The Movie
    Shrewdly, the Jackass gang didn't mess with their established formula in the transition to the big screen.
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