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For 11,162 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 7.6 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 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Knight and Day
    There's never been a particularly crisp line between intense, SUPER-AWESOME Tom Cruise and the characters he plays. In Knight and Day, his age-old cool curdles into motormouthed neediness.
  2. Bound to Vengeance
    Bound to Vengeance strains credibility (seriously, she never calls the cops?) and swerves dangerously close to exploitation often enough that its semi-clever premise can't keep it on course.
  3. Gangster No. 1
    The actors all function as best they can as glowering clichés, though the narrative's temporal jump presents difficulties.
  4. Choke
    They explain and explain again the genesis of Victor's demons, to the point where the novel and movie play almost like parodies of novels and movies in which a character has to get in touch with his feelings in order to become a better man.
  5. They're Out of the Business
    The film's recognition of its (and its makers') own failings doesn't stop them from being unbearably accurate.
  6. Free Ride
    The film is content to merely document certain happenings and hope you find them as interesting as it does.
  7. Modern Life Is Rubbish
    For those who delight in candy-coated nostalgia, writer Philip Gawthorne’s familiar, cliché-heavy script offers a twee jaunt down memory lane. For everyone else, even a killer Britpop soundtrack teamed with the leads’ palpable chemistry can’t save the film from overtrodden territory.
  8. Love Ranch
    Hackford's pacing throughout is continuously off, with scenes extending several beats too long, his two leads adrift and bored.
  9. This Is Where I Leave You
    The most charitable thing you can say about This Is Where I Leave You is that it is resolutely innocuous — a nothing of a movie, neutered and sanitary.
  10. Watching TV with the Red Chinese
    Nearly every scene is clunky, and the film's commentary about TV as the unifying glue of American culture is embellished through lame incidents of sex and violence that eventually validate the Chinese tourists' anti-U.S. critiques.
  11. Hysteria
    Proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era.
  12. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Yet another black comedy that misunderstands and misrepresents the genre.
  13. Life of an Actress: The Musical
    A timid and slapdash musical.
  14. Submergence
    Like Vikander, you deserve better than Submergence.
  15. The Brass Teapot
    Wearing out its welcome long before its moralizing finale, the film...does manage to mine contemporary fears about the increasing worthlessness of a college degree.
  16. The Samaritan
    Weaver's story slowly begins to buckle under the weight of its own self-seriousness and familiarity, concluding with a showdown and resolution marked by one implausible and unsatisfying been-here-done-that twist after another.
  17. Kikujirô no natsu
    An overtly saccharine fairy tale of abandonment that is subverted by its own comic brutality. It's oddly affecting...which is to say, sad in a way that its maker might not have intended.
  18. Gangster Squad
    The proximity of horrible headlines scarcely matters - released on any day of any calendar year, Gangster Squad would be a crime against cinematic sensibility.
  19. 1st Night
    The depressingly predictable script—and tendency of everyone involved to jump to ridiculous conclusions—suggests a combination of Noises Off at best, and at worst, Three's Company.
  20. Secret Window
    "The only thing that matters is the ending," Mort declares in the closing seconds, just as the director is serving up a colossal (and literally corny) stinker. But for Depp, it's yet another daunting mission accomplished with wit and ingenuity.
  21. Aloha
    Cameron Crowe writes movies like he's calling us in eighth grade with his heart on fire.
  22. 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.
  23. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    Seriously, if this is the best promotion of itself that the free market can manage, it really would benefit from the help of a Ministry of Culture or something.
  24. Penguins of Madagascar
    Plays like a sampler of Dreamworks Animation's worst creative impulses: sugar-rush pacing, pandering meta-gags, and a slick, flavorless animation style.
  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. Dot the I
    The movie finally undermines all pretensions of satire with its geeky eagerness to subvert expectations.
  27. Skyscraper
    I almost admire the laziness of the scripting. In this overworked, underpaid country of ours, why begrudge a screenwriter seizing the chance to knock off early?
  28. Brooklyn Rules
    As a longtime writer on "The Sopranos," Terence Winter has steered clear of most of the hoary organized-crime clichés. Instead, he's poured them all into director Michael Corrente's anemic urban drama.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    City with No Mercy
    Flash Point treats its audience like dogs, making us suffer through routine, almost inscrutable plot points and inconsequential characterizations to get to these episodes, and as such reveals itself as nothing more than a dumb action picture with delusions of Johnnie To–dom.
  30. The Day Silence Died
    Agazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them.
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