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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. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
    These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like "Predatory College Professor" and "Self-Obsessed Father" on them.
  2. Branded
    Branded has ideas, but unfortunately, the ideas are reeking batshit nuts, especially once the cheaply animated "brand" monsters, which might not actually exist, start flying around like Ghostbusters mistakes biting one another. You've been warned.
  3. The Seventh Dwarf
    The original Brothers Grimm stories were hardly feminist, but The Seventh Dwarf's female characters are deplorably retrograde on both the script and design levels; they have little to do except be rescued, and Snow White is a vain, buxom sexpot whom the dwarfs leer at.
  4. Harlem Aria
    Racial tensions and bawdy humor carry the day, until, following an unfunny set piece at a fancy hotel and a street robbery, black and white (far too) easily come together to help their young charge.
  5. The Informers
    A tale of absolute self-absorption and unconscious revelation.
  6. A Haunted House
    Are the movie's half-dozen genuine laughs there just to tease the audience? What can we do to keep "A Haunted House 2" from happening?
  7. 30 Beats
    It is absolutely terrible.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Besotted
    Although the existentialist conclusion highlights the stochastic nature of everyday life, this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour.
  9. Would You Rather
    Would You Rather verges on genuine intrigue at times, but it's ultimately just a slasher without the gore.
  10. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Bizarre and hysterical.
  11. Son of the Mask
    At its heart is a deep, unresolved ambivalence about child rearing.
  12. The Stroller Strategy
    Writer-director Clément Michel can't escape the usual infant-related movie pitfalls.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Marci X
    Moving beyond stultifying to stupefying.
  14. Absence
    There are many things absent from this found-footage horror movie, including suspense, logic, and originality.
  15. Cellmates
    The film, directed by Jesse Baget, aims to be a satiric look at racism but at every turn flaunts the laws of logic and believability.
  16. Assassin's Bullet
    Fans of incessant flashbacks and endless whooshing zooms into close-ups will find much to love about Assassin's Bullet; less satisfied, alas, will be those with a fondness for lucid plotting, compelling intrigue, and credible performances.
  17. The Word
    Attempts to offer the white-knuckle gratifications of a studio procedural with a conspicuous lack of production values, screen talent, plausibility, originality, or a lick of aesthetic flair.
  18. Soldiers of Fortune
    Christian "Direct-to-Video" Slater lends not a shred of credibility to the role of Craig MacKenzie.
  19. The Cat in the Hat
    Comes scarily close to being the most unendurable Hollywood creation of the last dozen years.
  20. All the Queen's Men
    The fiercely original Eddie Izzard is wasted in this botch, not something you could say for lucky millionaire Friend Matt LeBlanc.
  21. Crave
    Hey, Crave, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you.
  22. Reprisal
    It’s downright sad watching Willis go all half-assed in another movie. I guess we’re gonna have to wait for Glass to come out next year to see if Willis can do a movie in whole-assed form again.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Underclassman
    British bliss czars, the doughnut-loving LAPD, and bitchin'-hot Spanish profs, no matter how many, how fat, or how bitchin' hot, can't make up for easy double entendres and zero character development.
  24. Labor Day
    A well-intentioned but dull, video-ugly documentary if it weren't partly financed by its subject, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); that just makes it a crappy infomercial.
  25. Tomorrow You're Gone
    What starts out as a moderately interesting thriller in the vein of Blue Velvet and Angel Heart ends up less than the sum of its portentous parts.
  26. To Save a Life
    To Save a Life wants to rescue kids from the Satanic messages of "Gossip Girl"--a benign, even worthy enough objective, but must alternatives to empty, materialistic adolescence require baptism in the Pacific?
  27. Grown Ups 2
    A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired.
  28. Cavemen
    A tiresome film that itself knows nothing but other rom-com plots.
  29. The Lovers
    Bring a notebook and some tissues — the mission to protect the queen becomes a tangle of shifting alliances between local and British forces that might require visual aids, while the snail-slow realization of gloomy prophecies may well tear you up in boredom.
  30. After Fall, Winter
    Schaeffer can't be trusted or believed as a broken man - he's got no humility.
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