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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. Reindeer Games
    Punishing, visceral violence is the key element.
  2. Sweet Talk
    The mustiness of many of the script's ideas hardly detracts from what feels like a radical premise, at least in film — that a woman can get off with a stranger and leave it at that. Erica Jong would be proud.
  3. Kickboxer: Vengeance
    This reboot smartly doesn't try to escalate the material to bigger and better status, keeping things small and scrappy and relying on the fighters to be the best special effects.
  4. Paper Man
    An artist-in-crisis piece run through a drab but quirk-conscious indie processor, Paper Man is everything a film like "Lost in Translation" fought not to be.
  5. Dirty
    Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. (excellent as Perry Smith in "Capote") habitually rise above their clichéd roles.
  6. Hotel Noir
    Gutierrez bathes in moodiness while remaining unconcerned with anything so pedestrian as dramatic cohesion.
  7. Trespass
    A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as spouses.
  8. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    The script is based on screenwriter Denne Bart Petitclerc's actual experience befriending the author, but words that might have lived in real life here die on the screen.
  9. The Culture High
    It’s strongly anti-prohibition, and the film’s structure favors that bias.
  10. Marfa Girl
    The film is as shallow as its characters' oversexed conversations.
  11. Devil's Gate
    What’s most disappointing is that Staub proves himself to be a formidable director of action and visual effects. Please, someone just give him a better story.
  12. The Black Tulip
    There are good intentions here, but too little nuance.
  13. Forever Strong
    Though director Ryan Little puts together a clean, professional package, at bottom this is a nearly-two-hour scrum of therapeutic direct encounters.
  14. A Hole in One
    First-time writer-director Richard Ledes's mystical tone and pervasive swipes from David Lynch tend to suffocate his satire, and stunt casting doesn't help.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    My Wife's Name Is Maurice
    Aside from Laspalès's enlivening physical humor, Poiré's forced, formulaic comedy of errors has little to offer.
  16. Winnie Mandela
    A story that probably could have been told better as a miniseries, the film's main strength is its performances.
  17. Annapolis
    Often laughably overwrought rehash of "An Officer and a Gentleman," ekes out enough of a subtext on competition to qualify as a non-fiasco.
  18. P2
    If it weren't for two excessively violent deaths, P2 could be termed a refreshingly old-fashioned thriller, one dependent on hairbreadth escapes and the pluck of its heroine.
  19. Autómata
    Automata has moments of tremendous visual and storytelling elegance which are punctuated with ham-fisted characterization and thunderingly terrible acting.
  20. Baywatch
    Like the show, it’s about an insanely attractive lifeguard crew whose members really throw themselves into their work. But the product teeters between absurdity and earnestness.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Another Gay Movie
    Boasting a "Scary Movie" rate of scatalogical jokes-per-minute, it fails to match that franchise's low yield of guffaws.
  22. Girl Play
    Greenspan and Harmon's paltry song of themselves concludes with five minutes of outtakes, capping the self-love.
  23. Ass Backwards
    The episodic story and minimal budget result in a small canvas over which these two huge characters dominate.
  24. Flypaper
    Slick, manic, excruciatingly hollow entry in the exhausted subgenre of misfit bank-heist comedies.
  25. 1911
    If the success of epic storytelling were determined by the sheer number of unnecessary on-screen name tags, 1911 would be a masterpiece. But the small matters of characterization, audience identification, and scene-making are entirely absent here.
  26. Inescapable
    Inescapable isn't a terrible movie, but absent its ripped-from-the-headlines setting it's unremarkable.
  27. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    There's little drama here, but there is a touching sense of reflection.
  28. Aardvark
    Aardvark, the first feature from writer-director Brian Shoaf, is so inane that several times it put this critic into a fugue state. Meandering in message or plot, the film proves to be not just incoherent but excruciatingly boring, quite a feat with a cast that includes Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, Sheila Vand, and, sure, Zachary Quinto.
  29. Black Out
    A self-aware, borderline self-reflexive action-comedy from the Netherlands, Arne Toonen's Black Out is derivative in a way that undermines its wry sense of self.
  30. Freddy vs. Jason
    About as threadbare as a favorite childhood plushy. What's more, trying to keep the story line of strained meta-sequel Freddy Vs. Jason straight requires too much of a cogitative investment.
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