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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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    • 27 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Simply Irresistible
    Scores points for oddball charm.
  2. View from the Top
    The film, meanwhile, goes for that choppy, air-pocket sensation, veteran helmer Bruno Barreto directing like he's never made a movie before, and never wants to again.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Heartbreak Hospital
    Sluggish, tonally uneven -- In fact, it doesn't even rise to the level of 1991's Soapdish, with the feverishly mugging Elisabeth Shue sending up TV's cesspool of sentimentality.
  4. Terminal
    Compounding the manic energy of the editing is dialogue that muses mostly on long-winded ideas that don’t lend themselves to any kind of visual representation.
  5. The Anomaly
    The thread holding it all together is endless, repetitive, interminable fight scenes whose limp choreography is spiced up with Matrix-style slow motion -- in 2015. For all that -- fists flying, bullets dodged, gratuitous female nudity -- the film is oddly inert.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Miss Wonton
    As genre comeuppance, this might have been nasty fun, but the movie barely makes sense, with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks.
  7. Little Fockers
    Game performances and a couple of half-laughs, sure, but this is the screen comedy equivalent of the televised Yule log.
  8. I.T.
    Whatever cautionary point I.T. may be trying to make about privacy gets lost in the formulaic ugliness, and not even the constant stream of facepalm moments make it entertaining or watchable.
  9. How to Rob a Bank
    So objectively awful it ceases even to be a reflection of writer- director Andrews Jenkins's non-talent, How to Rob a Bank calls into question the distribution filtration process that should protect delicate consumer eyes from things like this.
  10. Speciesism: The Movie
    Ultimately, Devries seems to want to impress viewers with his anger.
  11. Fantastic Four
    The model here isn't adventure pulp. It's dystopian Y.A., junked up with scenes of medical horror too scary for kids and too unpleasant to be enjoyed by anyone.
  12. Brooklyn Babylon
    Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, set during a hot summer in Crown Heights, is an ethnic-strife tract as thuddingly didactic as his previous "Whiteboys."
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Twisted
    No mystery here: Twisted is D.O.A.
  14. The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    The subjects can be amusing, chilling, or tragic -- but in the end, they offer few surprises.
  15. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
    The rotting corpses, projectile insect vomit, and creepy geezers in black arrive pretty much on cue, as does the great Cicely Tyson as the obligatory old blind woman who "sees" more than most people with two good eyes. It's her upper bridge, though, that's truly the scariest thing in the whole movie.
  16. Because I Said So
    Like nearly all of Lehmann's post- "Heathers" work, it's lazy and disinterested--a hack-for-hire job any number of film-school grads could have put through its uninspired paces.
  17. Everybody Wants to Be Italian
    Less a movie than a charm offensive beamed at those who thought "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was a masterpiece.
  18. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    Temptation’s refusal to find nuance in its didactic worldview ensures that the film will ultimately only succeed for audiences already in agreement with it.
  19. Trixie
    As overlong and undermotivated as it is absentmindedly incoherent.
  20. The Ottoman Lieutenant
    This movie's got everything except gravity or a sense of emotional coherence.
  21. Rio, I Love You
    Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
  22. The Reunion
    The resultant smorgasbord is a misshapen mess, short on humor, tension, or chemistry among its bickering protagonists.
  23. Basic Instinct 2
    Not content simply to examine the relationship between sex and death, BI2 ponderously blurs the boundaries between art and life, and the plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging "Usual Suspects" twist).
  24. Patch Adams
    The year's most repugnant movie.
  25. The Squeeze
    Like many, many films starring Christopher McDonald, the best thing about The Squeeze is Christopher McDonald.
  26. Tideland
    Gilliam has suffered more than his share of butchered projects, but with this exercise in kamikaze auteurism, he appears to have made exactly the mess he wanted.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Memory
    While the mystery doesn't engage, Davlin keeps you off guard with his film's weird rhythms, bouncing from family drama to romance to macabre mood piece without much warning. How he and Zane manage to make such dreck almost tolerable is the real mystery here.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fish Without a Bicycle
    Strong performances are marred by a script whose dialogue ranges from cheesy to unspeakably bad.
  29. Waiting for Forever
    Strangely unaware of its overt creepiness.
  30. The Best and the Brightest
    Drearily shot with cheesy skyline pans, oppressively scored with Hallmark cutesiness, and oddly filled with filthy one-liners.
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