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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. Deliver Us From Evil
    Despite the screaming gore, the movie is so rote that it can’t even rouse us for the de rigueur exorcism.
  2. Salinger
    What the movie gets hilariously, howlingly wrong is the idea that a life like Salinger's—so extraordinary, yet so willfully humdrum—could somehow be captured by the most shopworn of cinematic techniques.
  3. The Slammin' Salmon
    Likably stoopid, the latest from comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Beerfest) mines plenty of jokes from eating out and being served.
  4. Sleepwalking
    Theron and Woody Harrelson provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight.
  5. Alexander
    Although inexplicable brogues and burrs appear and disappear, and although Stone post-produces the dickens of his movie trying to generate the maximum spit-fog of sound and fury, Alexander manages to be as dull as the Victor Mature films of the 1950s, which barely moved at all.
  6. House of Boys
    And yet, for all its hanging on the details of the boys' heavily eroticized performances and its graphing of the relationships between the young performers, the film is at once too drawn out and underdeveloped.
  7. Almost Human
    With acting this wooden even among those not playing zombies, though one at least attempts a rural Maine accent, the suspense lies less in who will die than in how grisly the means.
  8. Scary Movie 4
    The jokes miss more than they hit, but there are a lot of them, and when they work, it's gold.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Next to this, even "Mean Machine's" painless soft-tissue spikings and fast-fixing broken limbs are believable -- and way funnier.
  10. Mango Yellow
    A shallow Brazilian trifle.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bulletproof Monk
    Some reliably vertiginous fight sequences (rope bridge, rooftop signage) and modest flight experiments liven up the mix, but for all the leads' individual appeal, they seem to occupy slightly different films.
  12. Clockstoppers
    If I were 13, I might be sufficiently entranced by the movie's bicycle stunts (down stairs! across countertops!) and wouldn't be wondering why ideas for science fiction films haven't progressed very far from "Star Trek's" first seasons all those decades ago.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    National Treasure
    Ham-handed to start, with a fondness for cochlea-crushing decibel levels, National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises.
  14. Shrink
    Pate's eye isn't bad, but Thomas Moffett's screenplay is self-serious piffle.
  15. Dark Tourist
    Cudlitz gives a haunted performance as a weathered, misogynistic, homophobic, blue-collar man roiling with demons, and Griffith can break your heart as a good woman staggering under the weight of life.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is the listless signature on her career-long comedic suicide note.
  17. The Sisters
    A clumsy graft of Chekhovian high dudgeon and harsh, Albee-esque psychological realism that probably worked better onstage.
  18. Aloha
    Cameron Crowe writes movies like he's calling us in eighth grade with his heart on fire.
  19. Insidious: Chapter 2
    Insidious Chapter 2 picks up where its predecessor left off-- in abject silliness.
  20. Pitch Perfect 3
    The Bellas aren’t invested in the film’s competition, and the filmmakers’ aren’t invested in it, and you probably won’t be, either.
  21. Beautiful Creatures
    Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.
  22. Luster
    The climactic shocker is far too exacting, but Lewis nails the milieu, and has the sense to not spell out every motivation in capital letters.
  23. Pay It Forward
    An overflowing septic tank of chicken-soupy sanctimony that proceeds from casually offensive hypocrisy to wretchedly inapt religiosity.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Happy Hour
    Every alkie downward-spiral cliché from "The Lost Weekend" to "Leaving Las Vegas."
  25. Wild Card
    Overstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature.
  26. From the Land of the Moon
    The film could be shorter and perhaps more logical, and as the soap opera drama builds, the timeline becomes muddled. Still, there’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about its commitment to grandiose emotion.
  27. Mine
    The co-director/co-writer team of Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are none too subtle, and their reliance on hallucination sequences suggests a (misguided) lack of faith in Hammer to pull this off by himself.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    2009: Lost Memories
    Why not travel back in time and not make this movie?
  29. Kai po che!
    The dramatic stakes are so puny that every obstacle can be overcome with a simple work-it-out montage.
  30. Highway
    The degree to which Highway candies up Veera's slumming toward freedom feels so fundamentally out of touch with the realities of poverty that it skirts into offensiveness.
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