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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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    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Supercross
    Not since Burt Reynolds's "Stroker Ace" has a racing movie provided so many laughs, intentional or otherwise.
  2. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Visually incompetent to a painful extreme and almost never funny, but, worst of all, it doesn't have the courage of Max's unadulterated convictions. If you're going to offend the easily offended, at least go big.
  3. Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense.
  4. Friended to Death
    You can sense the director, Sarah Smick, gearing up to make a point. It proves rather obvious: Real connections are meaningful and too much Facebook is bad. But isn't the real problem more insidious?
  5. Against the Night
    Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia is the unscary film’s only source of spookiness.
  6. I Melt with You
    Stylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible.
  7. 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.
  8. Alien Outpost
    The promise of the multi-screen future-history info-dump that kicks off Alien Outpost isn't enough to mask this military sci-fi indie's repetitive familiarity.
  9. Stratton
    The rest of the characters...are equally unvivid, serving only to advance the vague plot through chunky reams of dialogue.
  10. Filth and Wisdom
    There's an undeniably funky charm and abiding can-do spirit to this loose-knit portrait of three London flatmates trying to make their way in the world.
  11. The Other Side of the Ice
    Too much of the movie is just people being crabby (or, later, dumb!) in fascinating places, which is less enthralling than the places themselves.
  12. No One Lives
    Director Ryûhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) is too talented for material this retro-junky, but he and screenwriter David Cohen keep the action coming hard and fast.
  13. Shadow Hours
    Isaac Eaton wrote and directed; he evidences little talent in either department.
  14. Nola
    Screwball it isn't, but it has screwy down pat.
  15. Taken 3
    Taken 3 isn't brilliant, but it's a hell of a lot of dumb, head-smacking fun.
  16. 2016: Obama's America
    The only true surprise here is D'Souza's haplessness in constructing both film and argument.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Salon
    Where's Al Sharpton's decency parade when you need it?
  18. Innocence
    Hilary Brougher's YA-ish horror satire/romance/whatzit Innocence, adapted from Jane Mendelsohn's novel, boasts a wicked setup, some strong performances, several gloriously bloody spook-out images, and a movie-wrecking hypoglycemic listlessness.
  19. Pavilion of Women
    Yim's film is kneecapped by its soundtrack twice over.
  20. Hatchet III
    There's no shortage of visceral, gross-out thrills.
  21. The Diabolical
    It might be asking too much for The Diabolical to fully live up to its cheesy-ominous title, but the sheer unadulterated inanity of these proceedings suggests that it'll soon be teleported to the far corners of the B-movie streaming-video abyss.
  22. 14 Cameras
    Unfortunately, Archambault’s churlishly over-the-top performance makes it impossible to take 14 Cameras seriously, no matter how you interpret Gerald’s actions.
  23. September Dawn
    Shot in a style that might be termed Americana gravitas, September Dawn has the ham-fisted lyricism of political ads and pharmaceutical commercials. The schematic script is further burdened with heavy ironies and hackneyed dialogue.
  24. The Million Dollar Hotel
    Wenders's The Million Dollar Hotel is something of a monstrosity -- liquored self-indulgence taken to its own astral plane.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The One
    In The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion -- a solipsistic extension of Bruce Lee pacing the room of mirrors at the end of "Enter the Dragon."
  26. Bad Johnson
    Bad Johnson is probably the most thoughtful movie possible about a penis that takes human form.
  27. Georgia Rule
    There's almost no rescuing this wobbly movie from its showdowns and insights. Except, that is, when Lohan's around.
  28. Hell Ride
    Bishop's jumbled, wholly unexciting throwback has very little on its mind beyond mythologizing its maker as a bad-ass biker named Pistolero.
  29. License to Wed
    Dreadful excuse for an unromantic comedy.
  30. Alina
    It’s all rather implausible, as is how all those cinema luminaries Barenholtz once nurtured seem to have no impact on his style-free storytelling.
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