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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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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  1. American Hero
    The filmmakers blend tones like a child mixing fountain drinks into one unidentifiable flavor.
  2. A Case of You
    A Case of You is a disappointing romantic comedy that aspires to social relevance until the third act, when it settles for pat Freudian revelations.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Holding Trevor
    There's nothing to fill up the 88 minutes of the film except for the idle bitchery spewed by nearly every character.
  4. Remember Me
    There's an insult-to-injury quality to a plain bad movie with a "seize the day" message (Remember Me's tagline: "Live in the Moments"), which heckles you with all the other things you should or could be doing while you're marking time waiting on the credits.
  5. Who Killed Nancy?
    An unnecessary retelling of rock's dingiest "legend"--ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
  6. We're the Millers
    This film's eagerness to please functions as a slow poison, draining The Millers of its vitality by rendering its characterization uneven, its potential undeveloped, and its plot predictable and stupid.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Gets sucked into a gravitational cesspool of sci-fi clichés.
  8. Shutter
    Ostensibly a remake of a Thai film--by a Japanese director with a Hollywood cast--this plays more like a video copy of "The Ring" that’s been so degraded that all the good bits are no longer visible.
  9. Sherman's Way
    Plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers.
  10. Uncertainty
    The result is some nice atmospherics tethered to a cripplingly half-baked existentialism.
  11. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Before it descends into Percy Jackson and the Things That Happen in Movies Like This, the adventure at times clicks into the inventive groove of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels, which at their best are touched with the high strangeness of the ancient tales that inspire them.
  12. Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America
    All his film can do to make its case for Sosa's significance is trot out subjects who compare her to Joan Baez, Ella Fitzgerald, and, most puzzlingly, "Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney in one," without elaboration.
  13. Phantom
    The ensuing suspense story is a pastiche of familiar tropes—effectively paced, but without originality. And what is up with combinations of Ed Harris, water, and unbelievably hokey endings?
  14. Smiley
    Tell a die-hard horror-movie fan that the latest scary movie is the worst thing ever, and that fan will nod respectfully but still make plans to go see it. Horror fans must always see for themselves. All of which makes it a bit pointless to declare Smiley the year's dullest scare flick (thus far).
  15. Dixieland
    Writer-director Hank Bedford delivers some tactile, human details.... But the film is slow and often agonizingly predictable.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Jolene
    Throughout, Chastain delivers a full-bodied debut performance, but she's ultimately stuck taking her wandering-soul protagonist far more seriously than it-or the film-deserves.
  17. R.I.P.D.
    Unfortunately, the interesting drabness of the afterlife’s police department is paired with the colorless paucity of the film’s heavies...The deados, unmemorable CG brutes, spout generic bad-guy dialogue undistinguished by humor or characterization.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    Like 2 Fast 2 Furious before it, Tokyo Drift is a subculture in search of a compelling story line, and Black's leaden performance makes you pine for the days of Paul Walker.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
    For all the legitimate reasons to jeer Palin, should her rightful wariness of Broomfield's camera be one of them?
  20. 186 Dollars to Freedom
    On every level this production - from Robinson's callow performance to Vila's hackneyed handheld camerawork, punching beats in the stead of the actors - remains firmly on the level of the obvious.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Eagle vs Shark
    You can't see the forest for the twee in writer-director Taika Waititi's thicket of cutesy conceits, from the stunted supporting characters to the precious animated interludes.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BloodRayne
    Our blood-smacking antiheroine, Rayne (Kristanna Loken), isn't a vampire; she's a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire cross-fiend who's as anguished, strange, and sloppy as mercenaries, or movies, get.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Marley & Me
    Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston relegate Marley to a lifestyle accessory in his own biopic.
  24. The Box
    The new Richard Kelly movie is basically a sock of coal for Christmas.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sleepover
    Nussbaum's attempt to capture the 'tween zeitgeist fails: The Spice Girls–infused soundtrack is dated, and the feel-good progressiveness forced.
  26. The Big Tease
    A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Taxman
    A wintertime crime caper that truly leaves you cold.
  28. The Artist and the Model
    Treating one's audience like ignorant children in need of lecturing is hardly a way to win fans, or display one's own artistry.
  29. Adore
    The disparity between the inherently trashy appeal of the story and the self-serious way it's presented cripples much of the potential for enjoyment. The setup screams pulp, but the film doles out stately drama.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Brown Sugar
    Draws a belabored association between romance and hip-hop, and it's hard not to wish the parallel lines would hurry up and converge.
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