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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Indigo Children
    Chaney attempts a dreamlike quality by alternating between footage of the young couple together, doing mostly nothing, with admittedly gorgeous scenes of their sylvan landscape. This works to a point.
  2. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is half silliness, half swagger, but Branagh's arms-akimbo impudence as a director makes it work. He takes it all seriously, but with a wink.
  3. Back in the Day
    It's good for a couple of fart jokes and otherwise utterly forgettable.
  4. Big Bad Wolves
    Even though Papushado and Keshales raise some ticklish questions, it's hard to know exactly what they're going for, beyond some mischievous, grisly thrills. At least they're skillful at delivering those.
  5. The Legend of Hercules
    Renny Harlin's Legend of Hercules fulfills every silly, flimsy promise that it makes in the first place: There are lots of battles (albeit rather jerkily rendered ones), some grand-looking horses decked out in handsome metal headdresses, and lots of well-oiled beefcake.
  6. The Rocket
    The Rocket's ample pleasures come from Mordaunt localizing this tested formula rather than trying to reinvent it.
  7. Truth
    Truth is hammier than Easter brunch, but its depictions of rejection transfiguring into violence are always affecting and distressing.
  8. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    This sequel comes off as both sillier and crueler than the original, mixing sight gags and labored puns with a vicious assault on a sex-ed teacher, and, well, "duck rape."
  9. Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon)
    Chander Pahar is an unfocused adventure-cum-travelogue.
  10. Loves Her Gun
    Has a lived-in, almost documentary-like realism to it, but as drama it's occasionally inert.
  11. The Truth About Emanuel
    Despite the psychological extremes, writer-director Francesca Gregorini presents her characters as recognizably human balls of complexity, nudging but never forcing them toward a sad, beautiful conclusion.
  12. Raze
    The stark prison Sabrina and a half dozen final contestants inhabit make the torture chambers of Hostel look inviting, but to their credit (perhaps), screenwriter Robert Beaucage and director Josh Waller never sugarcoat their grim tale.
  13. Open Grave
    The road to the finale is littered with dead bodies and red herrings, but Open Grave is more notable for its laid-back approach to storytelling than for its plot twists. That's a kind way of saying it's sort of boring.
  14. Hamlet
    Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament.
  15. If You Build It
    Creadon unveils his story in a haphazard, backwards-unfolding way.
  16. Free Ride
    The film is content to merely document certain happenings and hope you find them as interesting as it does.
  17. Divorce Corp
    Despite the film's hyper but insubstantial presentation of its information, there likely is a story here.
  18. Dumbbells
    Dumbbells manages to be pleasant and largely inoffensive despite early indications that it might turn into a T&A-fest.
  19. Cold Comes the Night
    Most of the film's major happenings are either illogical or, much more damningly, not especially thrilling.
  20. In Bloom
    This is a film for which the landscape, both social and material, is paramount.
  21. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    If The Marked Ones is mildly brilliant in the first half, it stumbles witlessly into its own dumb pentagram in the second.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Justin Bieber's Believe
    This time around, we enter the now 19-year-old's world while he sits behind the piano, hitting a melody that's not nearly as memorable as the focused expression that we will see repeatedly throughout the movie.
  23. Hollywood Seagull
    Guinzburg's retool is full of unintentional humor, high-school-theater level acting, and shoddy writing.
  24. Interior. Leather Bar.
    It's a particularly risible nothing whose premise alone betrays the paucity of Franco's imagination and wit.
  25. The Best Offer
    Vertigo this ain’t, but there’s some quasi-Gothic charm in the baroque premise and eccentric marginal details, including a mathematically gifted dwarf.
  26. In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
    Fortunately, In No Great Hurry never succumbs to cutesy hagiography.
  27. Beyond Outrage
    It's somewhat surprising to find the filmmaker's sequel marked by such a lack of urgency. The action here seems dutiful, devoid of the indignation at criminal vileness that seethed below Outrage's surface.
  28. 47 Ronin
    This Hungarian-shot bore is so indistinct it reeks of no place more than Hollywood, where the fascinating specifics of history and legend are ground into universal mush.
  29. Lone Survivor
    Lone Survivor just reads like a quasi-political exaggeration of a slasher film: the cellphones that don't work, the rescuers just out of reach, the killers chasing our victims through the woods.
  30. The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it.
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