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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. Runner Runner
    The film might take its name from poker subculture, but it lacks all the urgency, single-mindedness and swiftness that the title implies at its most literal. Runner Runner is a bummer. Bummer.
  2. 2 Guns
    2 Guns feels like it’s all been done before, whether by John Woo, Michael Bay or any number of their CGI-happy clones.
  3. 2016: Obama's America
    D'Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you're predisposed to believe that Obama hates America. It's bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist.
  4. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Anyone much taller than a Smurf may turn blue long before its 81 minutes are over.
  5. We're the Millers
    It would be dishonest to claim it isn’t funny. The laughs may come in fits and starts, usually by way of sight gags and set pieces, but they do come. And then they go.
  6. To the Wonder
    Clocks in at close to two hours. It feels much longer. By comparison, Malick’s World War II epic “The Thin Red Line” tipped the scales at a whopping 170 minutes. But at least that 1998 film had people shooting at each other. There’s no such excitement here.
  7. Machete Kills
    It’s exhausting. It’s also not particularly funny or engaging.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Hercules
    This outing does not suffer the epic badness one associates with films that aren’t screened early for critics, and in fact it offers moments of actual entertainment. It simply fails to exploit its assets: an amusing, revisionist take on the mythological strongman, and the charisma of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
  9. Jobs
    The film is so thick with Jobs’s career highlights and lowlights that there’s little room for insights.
  10. The Counselor
    A movie that, despite its strenuous efforts to appear hardened and sexy and sleek, is unforgivably phony, talky and dull.
  11. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    The aptly subtitled Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a blast of dead air and mummified humor.
  12. Molly's Theory of Relativity
    The movie features not one, but two precocious children, a cloying stock character that should be used sparingly, if at all. And much of the dialogue sounds fake, veering alternately toward cutesy and overly cerebral.
  13. Transcendence
    The real trouble with Transcendence is that it just isn’t all that scary — at least not in the way that it wants to be.
  14. Insidious: Chapter 2
    A bustling, overly busy mess.
  15. Jupiter Ascending
    It seems that Andy and Lana Wachowski have never lost that childlike ability to dream. But they also haven’t mastered the grown-up power to rein it in. The story they tell in Jupiter Ascending could probably occupy an entire television season. There’s way too much here for one movie to hold.
  16. Salinger
    While some of the stories are interesting, the film is much longer than it needs to be. For his part, Salerno tries to get creative with solutions for the lack of visual stimuli, but most attempts fail.
  17. Austenland
    The movie has an Austen-like plot about an Austen obsessive. And while Hess laboriously checks off so many familiar scenarios...the film doesn’t have so much of what makes Austen transcendent.
  18. Pompeii
    Paul W.S. Anderson, best known for the “Resident Evil” franchise and 2011’s “The Three Musketeers,” creates harrowing simulations of the disaster. It’s enough to make you want him to ditch the story altogether.
  19. Dracula Untold
    The film isn’t awful. There are moments of handsome cinematography and occasional effects that both frighten and impress.
  20. When the Game Stands Tall
    Ironically, When the Game Stands Tall isn’t about keeping gridiron glory in perspective, but about blowing it out of proportion.
  21. Deliver Us From Evil
    The question at the heart of Deliver Us From Evil, a garden-variety serial-killer thriller tarted up as an exorcism drama, is not whether good will triumph over evil. Rather, it’s this: What in God’s name possesses good actors to make dreck like this?
  22. Lone Survivor
    What’s missing here is something, or rather, someone, to care about.
  23. I Give It a Year
    In addition to some trite set pieces, writer-director Dan Mazer serves up nothing more than conspicuous cynicism masquerading as comedy.
  24. The Angry Birds Movie
    After paying good money to take your family to see this film, you may be dealing with some anger-management issues of your own.
    • Washington Post
      • Posted May 19, 2016
  25. The Other Woman
    Although The Other Woman nibbles around the edges of revealing truths about relationships, it leaves most of that potential behind, instead pursuing easy, exhausted cliches about zip-less marriages, upper class suburban drudgery, cynical careerism and dumb-but-sweet blondes.
  26. Hating Breitbart
    The depiction of an always energetic and often furious Breitbart may please the man’s followers. But Marcus makes little effort to illuminate Breitbart’s character or motivation, so this high-pitched portrait ends up a little flat.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The Congress
    The film is ambitious and heartfelt, with pressing concerns about the virtualization and fantasization of reality. But it’s a blunder, one interesting mostly for what it might have been.
  28. Young & Beautiful
    Ozon has created a monster that he can’t seem to let go of. Isabelle doesn’t just frighten her mother (and us). She seems to terrify Ozon, and I’m not sure I want to know why.
  29. 3 Days to Kill
    3 Days to Kill feels like two very different movies, neither of which is particularly good.
  30. The Expendables 3
    The movie’s action sequences are both thrilling and idiotic.
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