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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. That Awkward Moment
    The best thing about awkward moments, after all, is that they usually pass quickly. And, blessedly, just as swiftly forgotten.
  2. Adore
    Adore at its core is a bore, nothing more.
  3. SPECTRE
    We don’t expect a James Bond film to be deep, but at least we should be dazzled by the seductive gloss of its surfaces. Aside from that stunning opening sequence, this installment feels overcompensating and dutiful.
  4. Man of Tai Chi
    If for some reason you find yourself in a theater watching the martial arts adventure Man of Tai Chi...feel free to take a nap during the non-fight sequences.
  5. Romeo & Juliet
    Just a series of familiar scenes unfurling toward an inevitable conclusion.
  6. Chappie
    Despite Blomkamp’s efforts to make some kind of commentary about the human soul, which the auteur bolsters with his trademark social consciousness — a tone of preachiness that, after three films, has worn out its welcome — the movie exhibits precious little humanity.
  7. The Zero Theorem
    The Zero Theorem doesn’t fully earn the elaborately conceived scaffolding on which its relatively tame ideas are hoisted.
  8. We Are What We Are
    There’s some fun to be had, as long as your idea of fun includes being grossed out.
  9. The Last Days on Mars
    All of The Last Days on Mars feels like it’s been done before.
  10. Addicted
    Watching Addicted is like eating Cheese Whiz straight from the jar. There’s no nutritional value. It’s kind of embarrassing. But it does satisfy a base craving for cheap, immediate sensation.
  11. Horrible Bosses 2
    Even at its lamest and most entitled, this sequel will most likely please fans of the first installment, chiefly because Bateman, Sudeikis and Day are, admittedly, often very funny together.
  12. Capital
    Capital is too cynical to ever really suggest that redemption is possible. Not that anyone watching will even care.
  13. Son of God
    Don’t expect to see a great film, or even a very good one. Whether you discover a meaningful channel with which to continue your walk with the film’s protagonist, however, is strictly between you and your god.
  14. Victor Frankenstein
    Even McAvoy’s reincarnation-obsessed Frankenstein can’t breathe vitality into this shallow adaptation, which careens from moments of horror to serious drama to attempts at comedy that don’t quite land.
  15. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    This sharp left turn takes the films’ mythology in strange and not entirely satisfying new directions, including a crazy time-travel element.
  16. House in the Alley
    There’s nothing sly about writer-director Le-Van Kiet’s scenario.
  17. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
    The film is probably of interest only to those viewers who, like Gondry himself apparently, already have an obsession with Chomsky.
  18. Passengers
    Tyldum...isn’t a dynamic stylist as much as a competent executor of what’s on the page. He gets Passengers to where it needs to go, which is a resolution in keeping with a movie that wants to have its cake and eat it too, no matter how much credibility it strains, or how many political and ethical quandaries it elides.
  19. Insidious: Chapter 3
    The “Insidious” franchise, after three attempts to exorcise its real demons, still can’t seem to shake what really haunts it: the ghost of B-movies past.
  20. Dumb and Dumber To
    So maybe some of this is hilarious. Heck, maybe all of it is. It will not be everyone’s cup of tea, and it was not mine.
  21. Sabotage
    Sabotage doesn’t exactly glorify violence, but it certainly does get off on it.
  22. The Mummy
    The big thrills and few laughs are no match for the cumbersome, convoluted story, not to mention the nonexistent chemistry between Cruise and Wallis.
  23. The Boy Next Door
    The Boy Next Door plays best as unintentional comedy.
  24. The Wedding Ringer
    What’s truly regrettable about The Wedding Ringer is that, at certain moments, it almost succeeds as a heartfelt comedy about male friendship in which its two stars, Josh Gad and Kevin Hart, get to demonstrate that they can act.
  25. Justin Bieber's Believe
    Along the way there’s a sprinkling of humanizing moments.
  26. Pan
    Pan doesn’t deliver on its own promise. The movie doesn’t so much enhance our understanding of the flying boy as it demonstrates how little thought went into crafting his back story.
  27. Step Up: All In
    First-time director Trish Sie, a music-video veteran, is more interested in spectacle than character, as she demonstrates even when nobody’s dancing.
  28. And So It Goes
    Reiner assembles a square meal of rom-com pleasure points, but it’s bland, by-the-numbers and not particularly memorable.
  29. Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon)
    The movie’s editing mishaps, unbelievable scenarios, overuse of music and computer-generated fakery distract from what should be a great ad­ven­ture.
  30. Knight of Cups
    Knight of Cups may want to be understood as the portrait of a man plunging beneath the veneer of modern life, but it can just as easily be perceived as the self-portrait of a filmmaker in his own Versailles, letting himself eat cake and having it, too.
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