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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. The Lone Ranger
    This mishmash of styles, genres and tonal shifts makes for a dizzying pastiche best described in terms of the many movies it references throughout its nearly 2 1/2-hour running time, from “Little Big Man,” Buster Keaton’s “The General” and the Monument Valley-set canon of John Ford to “Dead Man,” “Rango” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
  2. Playing for Keeps
    A dreary, dismally unfunny excuse for a romantic comedy.
  3. R.I.P.D.
    A dud that squanders a decent cast and succeeds neither as the comedy nor the action film it purports to be.
  4. Machine Gun Preacher
    It gets the bullet points of Sam Childers's life, but misses the target.
  5. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    By visual standards alone, the characters, rendered in eye-popping 3-D, resemble nothing so much as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. They’re just as lifeless and inexpressive, too.
  6. The Last Stand
    That's the thing about this corpse pileup of an action movie. It persistently tries to drag the audience down to its mindless level.
  7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    There's a fine line between precocious and insufferable, and it's a line continually crossed by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    5 Days of War
    A tired old quote about truth being the first casualty of war is a strange way to start 5 Days of War, an overwrought drama that, whatever its good intentions, could hardly be said to aim for objectivity in its account of the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia.
  9. The Double
    Speaking of the script, questionable motives and unbelievable decisions are relatively small potatoes compared with the Sputnik-size plotholes.
  10. Bullet to the Head
    Hill and Stallone seem determined simply to prove that, even in their golden years, they're still tough enough to rumble with all comers. Bullet to the Head exposes that bravado for the pose that it is, and it's not a good look.
  11. After Earth
    You can’t blame Will Smith for wanting to give his son a leg up in the business. Maybe one day Jaden will have his father’s career — and his ability to carry a movie. For now, it’s a little premature to ask him to bear the weight of this soggy, waterlogged “Earth” on his skinny shoulders.
  12. Taken 2
    A sequel every bit as clumsy, ham-handed, outlandish and laughable as the original was sleek, tough and efficient.
  13. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Even likable actors can’t obscure the fact that, holy gods on Mount Olympus, this thing is a slog, a movie that dutifully hits its plot points involving prophecies and fleeces without evoking a whiff of spirit or imagination.
  14. The Reunion
    Mainly for those who are already infatuated with Cena's stoic, Mount Rushmore-esque countenance and who do not find the idea of the big lug leaping off the edge of a cliff onto an airborne helicopter's landing gear remotely absurd.
  15. Into the Abyss
    A shapeless collection of encounters with Texas prison inmates and their victims, what could have been a well-aimed examination of the most troubling contradictions of capital punishment instead becomes a maudlin, unrestrained wallow.
  16. Won't Back Down
    So didactic that viewers are likely to feel less uplifted than lectured.
  17. Casa de mi Padre
    With Casa de Mi Padre, it's often hard to tell the difference between when it's making fun of bad movies and when it's being one.
  18. Fun Size
    A 90-minute theatrical release from Nickelodeon Productions that, if anything, should have aired as a half-hour Nickelodeon special.
  19. Identity Thief
    McCarthy’s willingness to go to the mat notwithstanding, it’s viewers who are likely left feeling punched in the gut.
  20. RoboCop
    For all its playfulness, the new RoboCop can’t help but lack the novelty of the original’s jolting mixture of dumb-smart irony and visceral pulp.
  21. 300: Rise of an Empire
    When the film isn’t sloppily directed, it’s a series of lazy filmmaking tics, including fetishistic slow-motion shots of blood, water and sweat, as well as sundry dismemberments, impalings and decapitations.
  22. The Hangover Part III
    To make matters worse, this third “Hangover” is dull.
  23. Crooked Arrows
    The high-school sports drama Crooked Arrows has two -- but only two -- original selling points: Its protagonists are Native Americans and the sport in question is lacrosse. That's something you don't see every day. Other than that, however, the film's moves are taken straight out of "The Bad News Bears" playbook.
  24. The Equalizer
    For all of The Equalizer’s overkill, Washington retains an admirable air of seriousness, embodying McCall as a believable figure of purity and protection, even when he’s going after his opponents with methodical, thoughtfully choreographed sadism.
  25. Bachelorette
    "Bridesmaids" may have been crude, but it also said something about female friendships that felt true. Bachelorette feels like it's about four women who, not even all that deep down, can't stand one another.
  26. Last Ounce of Courage
    A workmanlike, if treacly and overblown, piece of propaganda. Its effectiveness depends entirely on the degree to which you already believe its talking points.
  27. Pain & Gain
    The whole thing is played for laughs that almost never come. To be sure, the film has its moments, but they’re few and far between.
  28. The Family
    After the movie limps along for an hour and a half, Besson suddenly switches gears and does what he does best.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Last Exorcism Part II
    An ineffective excursion that maintains a few direct ties back to the original film but never moves the story forward.
  30. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
    More sluggish than a funeral barge, cheaper than a sale at K mart, it's a nerd, it's a shame, it's Superman IV.
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