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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 5.4 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. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass might be the strangest film I've seen all year. Maybe all millennium. Is it any good? Quite frankly, I have no idea.
  2. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Is it mindless fun for the kids in an air-conditioned environment? I guess, sure, but it's maddening how many details in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore are swiped wholesale from other stories.
  3. Alpha and Omega
    The littlest children in your house may find something to titter at from time to time, but based on the reaction of a young screening audience, it won't be often.
  4. Life as We Know It
    At nearly two hours, the movie feels bloated. It could easily lose 30 minutes, give or take, and live. It would still not, however, live up to its title.
  5. Little Fockers
    How bad is the third installment... So bad that this bland, pointless sequel features a gratuitous scene where the stunning Jessica Alba - one of many new faces added to an already overstuffed ensemble - strips down to her lacy undergarments, belly-flops into a backyard pit, rolls around in the mud, and I still can't recommend you pay to see it.
  6. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    The Chinese film offers this important take-away: Don't attempt to remake a Coen brothers movie, especially if you plan to turn the thing into a bizarre concoction of melodrama and slapstick comedy.
  7. The Virginity Hit
    A comedy that looks like a documentary but plays like a horror film -- to parents of teenagers.
  8. Casino Jack
    That's the problem with the whole movie, which lies halfway between poker-face documentary and broad farce.
  9. For Colored Girls
    It's hard to imagine that any self-respecting man would want to sit through two hours - let alone two minutes - of such caustic man-bashing.
  10. Gulliver's Travels
    Unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift.
  11. I Am Number Four
    Unoriginal and woefully half-baked, Number Four plays out as such.
  12. Season of the Witch
    The movie proceeds in near darkness, perhaps to obscure its shoddy special effects, but the pervasive gloom is less discouraging than star Nicolas Cage's indifferent performance.
  13. Just Go with It
    An egregiously unfunny enterprise.
  14. Hall Pass
    Haphazardly conceived, phlegmatically paced, lazily filmed and punctuated with gratuitous moments of sexual and scatological slapstick.
  15. Arthur
    This Arthur is an exercise in time-travel tedium, a trip to the Land That Funny Forgot.
  16. The Dictator
    Even amid the hit-and-miss broadsides and laugh-free longueurs that comprise most of The Dictator, Cohen's acute hypocrisy-detector keeps on ticking, if barely.
  17. The Hangover Part II
    The Hangover Part II offers absolutely nothing new to fans of the first film. In fact, once the comfort of familiarity has worn off, they may well feel as baited-and-switched as the patrons of one of the sketchier clubs the boys visit.
  18. The Smurfs
    The Smurfs is exactly like Amy Adams's princess-in-Manhattan comedy "Enchanted," only far less clever, kindhearted, original, exciting or entertaining.
  19. Red Riding Hood
    A lurid, loopy, utterly ludicrous enterprise.
  20. 30 Minutes or Less
    Akin to watching a ring-tested champion punch far below his weight. What a comedown.
  21. Jack and Jill
    The unapologetic laziness and ineptitude of Jack's impersonation, which is played for cheap laughs, is just as lazy as Sandler's performance as the real Jill. You don't buy it for a minute.
  22. New Year's Eve
    Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, New Year's Eve - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes.
  23. What's Your Number?
    What's Your Number? ups the vulgarity, ladling it on top of a rom-com base so insipid and predictable that the only thing to keep you awake is counting the number of times that the script drops the word "vagina."
  24. Snow White and the Huntsman
    Overlong, overcrowded, overstimulating and with an over-the-top performance by Charlize Theron as the evil queen Ravenna, the movie is a virtual orchard of toxic excess, starting with the unnecessarily sprawling cast of characters.
  25. John Carter
    Even Strong's best efforts can't save John Carter from collapsing in on itself like a dead star.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    My Afternoons with Margueritte
    It is a predictable, undernourished love story. We never quite learn why Margueritte feels so close to Germain or why he bothers with her. Characters appear and disappear, without much difference.
  27. The Whistleblower
    A classic example of a film that doesn't trust the strength of its source material - or the intelligence of its audience.
  28. The Devil Inside
    It's a pestilence of infectious claptrap.
  29. Poltergeist
    To call Poltergeist laughable is not the same thing as saying it’s bad (although it is that, too.) It’s just that it seems less interested in scaring you than in making you chuckle. At least on that score it succeeds.
  30. Oz the Great and Powerful
    About the movie industry’s misguided belief that it can distract the audience from a film’s narrative weaknesses with little more than flash and spectacle. That con might have worked with the rubes once upon a time, but in case Hollywood hasn’t noticed, we’re not in Kansas anymore.
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