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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
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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. Just Visiting
    Not only microwaves what is already four-day-old fish in Paris, but lets the original director, screenwriters, and stars do the reheating.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Radio
    Based-on-a-true-story kitschfest.
  3. Never Die Alone
    There's something refreshing about a pulp drama that turns on the notion that redemption is a sucker's fantasy. That knowledge may not have saved Goines, but it informs Dickerson's adaptation and results in stellar neo-noir.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Ouch
    If nothing else, Sophie Fillières's Ouch! is a secret pop culture index.
  5. Brief Reunion
    Beautifully filmed but written without the psychological depth or sleight of hand of the best thrillers.
  6. The Vatican Tapes
    At no point does this film strive to be more than a second-rate version of what it is: a halfhearted attempt to make some scratch while pretending the devil exists. Some trick.
  7. Ouija
    First-time director Stiles White's effective use of long takes and director of photography David Emmerichs's wide-angle digital cinematography make an otherwise generic teen ghost story unexpectedly atmospheric.
  8. No Escape
    No Escape, while cruel, is often uncommonly suspenseful. And by pitting its white leads against the citizen hordes of Southeast Asia, No Escape is also uncommonly honest about the fears and assumptions that fuel adventure fiction — here, the Other is not abstracted away to orcs or aliens.
  9. Gigantic
    I don't remember ever wanting to just haul out and punch a movie before Gigantic.
  10. The Last Time
    Beyond his technical clumsiness, Caleo seems convinced that real men exert power by being A-type jerks and all women are sluts. If nothing else, this film serves as a troubling psychological profile of a filmmaker who feels scornfully cynical toward nothing in particular.
  11. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope.
  12. The November Man
    As far as escapist fluff laced with totally unnecessary real-world horror goes, The November Man isn't wretched.
  13. Goats
    Incapable of energizing Mark Poirier's leaden script (based on his own novel), Christopher Neil directs with a mechanical blandness made more tedious still by a score of gentle guitar strumming so aggravatingly benign it might inspire you to partake in one of Wendy's climactic, cathartic primal screams.
  14. Lay the Favorite
    Screeches and scrambles from scene to scene with manic sitcom energy, much like the cherished pet hamster of one of its characters.
  15. The Rite
    Michael's motivations remain arbitrary and inscrutable, right down to his entry into the seminary. This is brought up by a number of characters, who interpret his implausible career decision as A Sign. It is-of bad writing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Suffers from a serious case of sophomore slump.
  17. Laws of Attraction
    Our counselors' lawyer-ese is illegally bland, and their committee-penned banter meticulously Botoxed.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Other Side of Heaven
    Strangely coy about its denominational allegiance.
  19. Raising Helen
    John Corbett shuffles in for yet another tour of duty as the bland requisite love interest.
  20. Paparazzi
    Cookie-cutter "Cape Fear" knockoff.
  21. Clouds
    Has nice, pearly, black-and-white cinematography, but it also has the shocking temerity to run over 100 minutes. Sweet air is required.
  22. Seeking Justice
    Seeking Justice is the kind of effective middle-range pulp thriller that has lately become an endangered species.
  23. Bad Santa 2
    God bless Kathy Bates, because she scalds with the darkest, mindfuckiest burns as the ultimate Mommy Dearest. And this script is in dire need of her.
  24. The Collection
    The Collection doesn't have much to recommend it beyond a first-reel bloodbath rivaling "Blade" and "Death Ship."
  25. BearCity
    Only an old pro like John Waters could pull off an awkward bathtub threesome that ends in a golden shower and a head injury.
  26. Unlucky Plaza
    Kwek's refreshing focus on his terrorized protagonists' pre-abduction lives keeps Unlucky Plaza afloat once it invests in generic ticking-clock thrills.
  27. Amateur Night
    Besides the narrative reversal, Montgomery is the only interesting part of the film — smart, obstinate, and ambitious. The gross-out scenes and raunchy banter between the film's sex workers are funny, but its world is pretty small and unsurprising.
  28. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    Matlin's haphephobic character dry-swallows anti-anxiety pills only in instances of extreme duress, but the actress herself looks pained throughout the movie, wincing reflexively at inappropriate moments.
  29. The Ward
    Carpenter does what he's always done well here: individualizing shorthand personalities in a group under siege. This is Carpenter's first all-female ensemble, and the inmates are uniformly well-played.
  30. Pali Road
    Chen's full-bodied commitment to her role adds something new to this familiar scenario, which also benefits from its idyllic island setting; psychodrama and Hawaii pair surprisingly well.
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