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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. The Sitter
    One of the weaknesses of The Sitter is that Hill doesn't develop much comic chemistry with the children.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Conan the Barbarian
    Those nostrils do a lot of Momoa's acting, to be honest. As right as he is looks-wise, Momoa falls short in attitude.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Final Destination 5
    Isn't as novel as it hopes to be, but it gets the job done.
  4. Paranormal Activity 3
    Paranormal Activity 3 just uses new technology to deliver the same old ghosts-and-goblins hokum.
  5. The Thing
    Here's the thing about the new The Thing. It isn't as satisfying as the old "The Thing." And it's nowhere near as enthralling as the vintage "Thing," which inspired every other "Thing" to follow.
  6. Immortals
    The movie's self-importance is further inflated by the usual pseudo-Wagnerian score and occasional narration by John Hurt.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Raven
    Director James McTeigue was much more successful capturing graphic novelist Alan Moore's mood in "V for Vendetta" than he is conjuring the bone-chilling suspense of Poe. But viewed as simply another Hollywood thriller, The Raven builds up a decent head of steam as time runs out for our hero's imperiled fiancee.
  8. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    A blandly middling crowd pleaser.
  9. This Means War
    As this sloppy, scattered, utterly synthetic piece of Hollywood widgetry unspools, it becomes increasingly clear that the romantic tension at play exists mostly between the men in question.
  10. Amigo
    The argument in Amigo is so heavy-handed - and its execution so crude - that by the time the movie winds its way to a predictable but uninvolving conclusion, nobody will be listening anymore.
  11. The Deep Blue Sea
    The story is maddeningly oblique and incomplete, despite paying what at times feels like excruciating attention to the minutiae of a dying love affair's final hours.
  12. There Be Dragons
    There Be Dragons is like fine wine, served in a Big Gulp cup. A little is very nice. A lot is way too much.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    With summer comes theaters filled with superheroes, sequels and forgettable family fare. In the last category, we find Judy Moody.
  14. Johnny English Reborn
    I spent most of Johnny English wondering whom the filmmakers were targeting. While childish and silly, it's far too violent for young kids.
  15. Lockout
    Enjoy it, in moderation. It's your recommended weekly allowance of schlock.
  16. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    A cautionary environmental tale with a thin veneer of entertainment on top. With its cotton-candy-colored palette of orange, pink and purple truffula trees, it looks like a bowl of fuzzy Froot Loops. But it goes down like an order of oatmeal. Sure, it's good for you. It's just not terribly good.
  17. Men in Black III
    This third outing climaxes with a dark and melodramatic twist that, while adding a layer of nuance and back story that the previous two films never had, also feels wildly out of sync with its audience's expectations.
  18. Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages gets too mired in plotty cul de sacs, manufactured setbacks and numbers that are all staged as show-stoppers. In the words of the Journey song that serves as a climactic singalong, it goes on and on and on and on.
  19. Ted
    Eventually MacFarlane's formula -- consisting of filthy, ethnically offensive jokes, scatological humor, tacky pop culture references and random cameos -- begins to wear thin.
  20. Bellflower
    Worse yet is the insincerity of the film's central performances. Too cool by half, Glodell, Wiseman and Dawson speak every line as if it had air quotes around it. In fact, the entire movie feels as though it has air quotes around it.
  21. The First Grader
    It's heartwarming. But the film never really takes fire.
  22. The Art of Getting By
    There's no sense of perspective here.
  23. Trollhunter
    The film's real problem is that it can't seem to make up its mind about whether it wants to frighten us or make us laugh.
  24. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The books-trump-movies camp knows where this is headed: The film version - contains two characters and one narrative too many.
  25. House at the End of the Street
    Most of the comedy, however, is unintentional. House At The End of the Street may not draw much of an audience during its initial run, but the movie's preposterousness certifies it for future midnight screenings, where the story will get the jeering it deserves.
  26. American Reunion
    An aggressively crass - and not especially funny - trip down memory lane, an attempt to recapture the sweetly ribald magic of the earlier film. As anyone who's ever attended a class reunion can tell you, it almost never works.
  27. Man on a Ledge
    Man on a Ledge has its diverting moments, but by the time it has reached its too-pat final twist, it turns out to be a title desperately in search of a movie.
  28. Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows doesn't know where it wants to dwell: in the eerie, subversive penumbra suggested by its title or in playful, go-for-broke camp.
  29. The Guilt Trip
    Anne Fletcher's lifeless comedy about an overbearing mother and her exasperated adult son, has no flawlessly delivered punch lines. It doesn't even have a hangnail.
  30. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    It's a bloated, shockingly tedious trudge that manages to look both overproduced and unforgivably cheesy.
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