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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. The Other Sister
    Plunging headfirst into mush at every opportunity, Marshall brings out the worst in his actors.
  2. Bunraku
    Insular and indulgent as it is, though, the movie is never less than a visual treat.
  3. The Unspoken
    This film is in dire need of some atmosphere and a rewrite to make the twists work.
  4. A Good Day to Die Hard
    The movie is constructed like a window some kid broke and then tried to glue back together.
  5. Hick
    Too odd to be funny, too cold-hearted to be tragic, Hick is an infuriating muddle.
  6. Ghost Ship
    Despite a couple of inventive CGI effects (one involving mass evisceration), the results are more predictable and less frightening than a Con Ed bill in mid August.
  7. Love and Honor
    Between the cast's modern hairstyles and attitude, and the paint-by-numbers set design and period costumes...the action comes across as a prolonged, dreary game of dress-up. That director Danny Mooney shoots his material like a TV show doesn't help.
  8. Love Sick Love
    Attempts to transform meet-cute romance into an absurdist fatal-attraction thriller, but ends up neither fish nor fowl.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Nobel Son
    Director and co-writer Randall Miller is so ill at ease with the basic building blocks of the genre that Nobel Son quickly announces itself as one of those misbegotten clunkers where almost every creative decision isn't just wrong but tone-deaf.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inside Out
    This WWE-produced thriller is the best kind of bait-and-switch, auguring cranium-crushing action but instead delivering a meandering, eccentric, downright adorable existential crime yarn.
  11. 47 Ronin
    This Hungarian-shot bore is so indistinct it reeks of no place more than Hollywood, where the fascinating specifics of history and legend are ground into universal mush.
  12. Lifelines
    The film's befuddling direction and tone, queasy HD interiors, and tin-eared, often preposterous, screenplay prove disastrous.
  13. If I Were You
    If I Were You is a screwball comedy for Canadians—not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get.
  14. London Has Fallen
    The action never stops once the first car bomb is triggered, but the second half of London Has Fallen takes place mostly in the dark, where nobody can see the budget.
  15. The Big Shot-Caller
    An overaffected, preachy drama.
  16. Passion of Mind
    An out-of-body experience for its viewers as well as its heroine.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Third World Cop
    Cop is an energetic portrayal of mean-street ghetto life.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Adored
    The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Filiberti's self-casting exacerbates this already shoddy melodrama: Frequent come-hither stares beaming from his patently sub-marquee mug provide one too many non-ironic "Zoolander" moments.
  19. Just Married
    Unlike Reese Wither-your-spoon, stagy Murphy actually does deserve her own "Philadelphia Story," or "Singin' in the Rain." She's obviously a camp genius (see "Clueless," not "8 Mile"), but this dopey script, topped with too-pretty Kutcher's rote 70's Show blowups, ain't it.
  20. Some Kind of Hate
    Like so much teen-targeting modern horror, it opts for dull angsty brooding over the very sort of grim-and-gruesome sleaziness that might have made its premise interesting.
  21. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Unexciting, incoherent, lamely acted, and carelessly written.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Eating Out
    The best straight-plays-gay, straight-goes-gay flick since "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
  23. CHIPS
    CHIPS is so all-around masturbatory, it’s hardly a surprise when we learn that Ponch has to constantly pull over because he needs to find a bathroom and rub one out. Much like him, this revved-up orgy of raunch and sweet rides never stops jerking itself off.
  24. Kalamity
    Though Hausler's sincerity is palpable, his efforts at world-weary ennui seem premature, and his wisdom about what motivates random violence in the youth of today proves too callow for a satisfying climax.
  25. Immigration Tango
    Less forgivable is the fact that this is a film in which characters are flung out of character solely for cheap laughs and rarely actually listen or talk to one another.
  26. Maladies
    The social construction of illness is certainly a worthy topic, but Carter situates his characters far from any semblance of a plot and even further from his heart.
  27. The Divide
    Neither intellectually nor viscerally engaging, what The Divide finally offers audiences is the not-terribly-edifying, stagnant experience of being locked in a basement with a pack of assholes.
  28. The Big Wedding
    Many Hollywood films are founded on privilege, but few are as open and nasty about their racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
  29. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Even sillier than it is cynical, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a tiresome tale.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    See You in Valhalla
    See You in Valhalla struggles to assemble a cohesive conflict for its ensemble cast to overcome.
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