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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. Revenge of the Green Dragons
    Green Dragons wants to be spaghetti with marinara, but it's closer to egg noodles and ketchup.
  2. Stolen Summer
    Made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss, it might as well be called "Pray It Forward."
  3. On_Line
    Indifferently written, passably acted, resourcefully shot in video with enlivening splashes of local color.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Anarchist Cookbook
    Cookbook banks on the humor of its caricatures and the heft of its moral dilemma, but because it never develops its characters beyond types, it comes off as flat and forced throughout.
  5. No Such Thing
    Thematic muddle aside, the film's appeal lies in Burke's ranting charisma, Julie Christie's thankless turn as a sympathetic doctor, and Michael Spiller's radiant cinematography, which frequently captures the mythic grandeur that eludes Hartley's narrative grasp.
  6. Beloved/Friend
    More exciting and truthful than most better-looking films dare to be.
  7. Walter
    Walter's self-conscious efforts at quirkiness...and cartoonishly drawn characters...try too hard while falling far short of their marks.
  8. We'll Never Have Paris
    Throughout, Helberg's awkward-anxious routine proves insufferable, and it's made no more tolerable by supporting turns from Zachary Quinto, Alfred Molina, and Judith Light, who are given so little to do that their presence in this mess feels downright cruel to both them and us.
  9. Push
    Seems to have been made up as it was being filmed.
  10. Hôtel Normandy
    There isn't a moment in Hôtel Normandy that isn't painfully contrived, yet, worse still, its mix-ups boast all the inspiration and excitement of a weekend getaway at the local mall.
  11. Lucky Bastard
    The film is most successful when humanizing the people behind the objectification, with lives beyond the smut.
  12. Why Stop Now
    An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists.
  13. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    Bert Stern: Original Madman is a sometimes uncomfortably intimate portrait of a man who seems unsure if he has a place left in the culture he helped to shape.
  14. Rupture
    Rupture is a sci-fi abduction thriller that leaves little to be thrilled about.
  15. Love's Labour's Lost
    Hamming shamelessly as Berowne, Branagh is overseasoned for his part ... he's as desperate as a veteran social director at a Catskills hotel about to fold.
  16. Contracted: Phase II
    The virus is spreading, but the filmmakers don't appear fully committed to the idea of a zombie apocalypse, so no sense of dread (or suspense) ever takes hold.
  17. Camera Obscura
    Though it’s not very scary, the film mines suspense from Jack’s attempts at luring his victims and hiding his tracks.
  18. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The film absolutely delivers on the scenery-chewing front. And yet the movie is still hollow and joyless.
  19. Paris Countdown
    The skirmishes are alternately silly and wan. The film's gloomy techno score is its most lasting attribute.
  20. Grudge Match
    Segal's gearbox gets jammed between recession-era sports drama and brainless comedy, especially as Hart hollers pop-culture punch lines like he's the squirrel sidekick in a CGI kiddo flick.
  21. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab.
  22. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Yet another black comedy that misunderstands and misrepresents the genre.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Stealth
    Its action sequences, more geeky than thrilling, fail to rescue the laughable plot.
  24. Smokers Only
    Detached performances and a murky sound mix further the sense of suspended animation.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    All the stylistic flourishes can't hide the lack of an actual plot, character development, or point. Like Gerardo, we wait, hoping something will happen, knowing nothing will.
  26. Americatown
    The vibe rarely expands beyond dozy Comedy Central skits sprinkled with ironic cliches rather than jokes, 99 percent earnest slo-mo quirk and 1 percent funky non sequitur (the characters sport brand names, like Plymouth Ray-Ban), most of it explained rather than performed.
  27. For Greater Glory
    It is plodding, lazily filmed, gassy with James Horner's score, and pads its runtime only by way of tolling repetition.
  28. Dorfman in Love
    Even as Deb comes to embrace the vibrancy of urban life, she's still prey to a blinkered suburban viewpoint which becomes inscribed in the film itself.
  29. The Guillotines
    A corny saga of social and generational conflict, it's ultimately yet another Chinese period epic that functions as a thinly veiled treatise on the nobility of socialist equality.
  30. Dream House
    Dream House also manages to commit a cardinal thriller sin: casting well-known actors in ostensibly inconsequential roles, which in this case reveals the real culprit before the mystery proper has even begun.
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