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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. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    Everything about it screams mid-20th century. Rather than refresh the cast with new actors, the producers would have done better to just digitally reanimate Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, the stars of the 1949 adaptation of Rand's "The Fountainhead."
  2. Killer Joe
    The action and dialogue find the same squalid level in time for the climactic scene, the cruel humiliation of a central character. That's when sensitive viewers should do what the bloody-minded Joe could never imagine: Walk away from the mess he has made.
  3. The Awakening
    The Awakening is nonsense, but with its posh British cast and colors drained to near-gray, it's very solemn nonsense.
  4. Mama
    There's something dead and rotting at the center of Mama, and it isn't the ghost of the woman who lends the horror film its title.
  5. The Collection
    Dull and repetitive, even by the standards of an already repetitive genre.
  6. Backwards
    The biggest problem, then, is the characters who populate the film. For the most part, they're one-dimensional caricatures.
  7. Halloween
    Halloween is a stab at a derivative minor classic. It's apparent where Carpenter got his horror devices - and a minor misfortune that he hasn't been able to synthesize them in a fresh or exciting way.
  8. 47 Ronin
    Ultimately, the movie just doesn’t justify its outrageous bid to turn a solemn tale of self-sacrifice into swaggering global-marketplace entertainment.
  9. The Dark Tower
    The Dark Tower isn’t frightening, or even, despite some serviceable action and special effects, very interesting, except perhaps for viewers too young to know better, or for Stephen King fans especially susceptible to outright pandering.
  10. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    A rarely funny spoof that's heavy on bone-crushing and blood-gushing.
  11. Jack the Giant Slayer
    Too scary for very young children, yet too silly for most older fans of director Bryan Singer’s earlier forays into the Superman and X-Men franchises, “Jack” seems designed to appeal to a very narrow, and possibly illusory, demographic: the mature moppet.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reagan
    For a movie about the Great Communicator, “Reagan” communicates surprisingly little.
  13. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    Although “G.I. Joe” is merely a movie based on Hasbro toys, the action -- the real point of all this -- feels just as lifeless.
  14. Safe Haven
    Safe Haven is one of those Valentine’s Day confections that satisfy your sweet tooth until you get to their weird, off-putting center. The problem with movies is that you can’t put them back in the box.
  15. Man of Steel
    Snyder tries to up the spectacle ante with ever more explosions, crashes, thermal blasts, topological realignments, gunfire and mano-a-mano fistfights. But the result is a punishing sense of diminishing returns and a genre that has finally reached the point of mayhem-induced exhaustion.
  16. The Host
    It’s a mushy and unsuspenseful melodrama.
  17. The Big Wedding
    Even the susceptible softies, who always cry at weddings, will probably leave the theater dry-eyed, not to mention feeling a little empty inside.
  18. Walking with Dinosaurs
    Like an elaborately decorated wedding cake, the kid-friendly Walking With Dinosaurs 3D may leave you wondering how something so stunning could end up being so bland.
  19. Warm Bodies
    Cute without being especially clever, Warm Bodies is almost as pallid and as brain-dead as its zombie antihero.
  20. RED 2
    The bigger surprise is just how clunky and unsatisfying this follow-up feels.
  21. Pixels
    Lazy humor and familiar plotting aside, Pixels at least gets a little mileage out of its affection for the 1980s.
  22. A Good Day to Die Hard
    Both assaultive and tiresome, A Good Day to Die Hard barely registers on the action movie Richter scale. It goes bang, it goes boom, and then it blessedly goes away.
  23. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    The problem is quantity. There are so many action sequences related to so many story lines that midway through an epic fight, you might find yourself wondering what exactly started this particular battle and what the objective is other than destruction for the sake of it.
  24. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Kids will chuckle, for sure. But parents who were pleasantly surprised by the original film’s intelligence will miss Lord and Miller’s guiding hands, as what once felt so funny now leaves a stale taste.
  25. Battle of the Year
    What saves “Battle” from complete irrelevancy is the undisputable fact that a scrappy underdog formula tends to work no matter what time period or sport.
  26. The Face of Love
    Bening and Harris are great actors, and they fill their roles as completely as they can, given the limitations of the soggy and implausible script by Matthew McDuffie and director Arie Posin.
  27. White House Down
    White House Down never quite seems to decide what kind of movie it wants to be, although by firepower alone it qualifies as this summer’s most cartoonishly bombastic exercise in sensory overload (so far).
  28. The Heat
    Bullock and McCarthy and the chemistry they generate are far more compelling than the movie they’re in. Too often the sketches go on too long, and the coarse, abrasive tone quickly begins to feel repetitive and off-putting.
  29. Need For Speed
    Need for Speed is a piece of auto-collision pornography that weighs down its car-flip-and-massive-fireball money shots with a preposterous plot involving vehicular manslaughter vengeance.
  30. Stoker
    Stoker plays out like a Kabuki “Macbeth”: gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart.
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