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Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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Critics' Group:: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
C	54%	At Any Price (2013)	" An old-fashioned, fifties-style melodrama, it offers a host of plots and sub-plots, twists and turns that frankly never congeal--except to make a rather murky mess." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
B	76%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" An extraordinary combination of documentary and dramatization...a Holocaust film that's also a modern detective story." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
B	43%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" This isn't a great 'Gatsby,' but it's quite a good one...Despite the spectacle-for-spectacle's sake filmmaking philosophy and lack of interpretive depth the picture works on its own terms." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
C	53%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" An earnest, serious film, but ultimately one that fails to satisfactorily dramatize the subject--or to transcend a bare, frustrating didacticism. " — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 4, 2013
C	40%	Kon-Tiki (1950)	" A sort of grown-up version of a boys' adventure tale...most travelers will be happy to disembark when the credits roll." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 2, 2013
C-	77%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Dark, gloomy, chaotic and basically misanthrophic...Iron Man in Dark Knight territory." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 2, 2013
D	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" An extended sitcom with a particularly raunchy streak that grows more and more artificial and hard to stomach as it proceeds." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 26, 2013
D	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Wants to be a goofy blend of farce and violence but comes off as a nasty, brutal, cringe-inducing misfire." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C-	33%	The Numbers Station (2013)	" Claustrophobic and repetitive...a numbingly tedious would-be thriller." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
D	65%	Starbuck (2013)	" Despite (or because of) Huard's mugging, 'Starbuck' is more likely to cause queasiness than smiles of contentment." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C-	24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" An artificial exercise about people who are synthetic in more ways than one." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
A-	98%	Mud (2013)	" A coming-of-age tale that's also a suspense thriller...this beautifully realized picture is easily one of the year's best thus far." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C+	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" Great-looking but not very filling...this stately, solemn film is yet another sci-fi epic that's technically accomplished but narratively derivative." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 18, 2013
D	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Banal ideas presented as deep thoughts and bandied about in a self-consciously poetic style." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 18, 2013
C+	68%	Disconnect (2013)	" Ironically, by linking things up so snugly it damages its ability to connect with us." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	77%	42 (2013)	" Has its heart in the right place but plays the inspirational card too often, and too ham-fistedly." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Lacks the visceral energy that would raise it from the level of a curiously humdrum political thriller." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	68%	Trance (2013)	" By the close you're likely to be exhausted by the effort to keep things straight and angry that you bothered to try." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
B	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" A diverting excursion for lovers of Kubrick's films...even if, at over a hundred minutes, it does go on a bit long." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
B-	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" Doesn't always mix its anti-prejudice message and its feel-good nostalgia with complete smoothness. But despite some ragged edges it provides a reasonably good time." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 8, 2013
D	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" Just another gorefest, not appreciably different from the scads of other similar dreck that floods into theatres every month nowadays." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 4, 2013
C	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" The reach of 'The Place Beyond the Pines' exceeds its grasp, and the result is intermittently powerful but ultimately disappointing." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 4, 2013
F	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Garish, goofy, leering and nasty, it's meant to be hypnotic, but winds up nearly unwatchable." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 29, 2013
D	9%	The Host (2013)	" Meyer has concocted an extremely silly story made worse by Andrew Niccol's ponderous, self-important adaptation." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 29, 2013
C-	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Just a bombastically brainless summer behemoth that's arrived a few months early." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 27, 2013
C	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" There are moments of striking visual beauty and dramatic intensity...but...as a whole is a disappointment." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 22, 2013
C	69%	The Croods (2013)	" The animation is excellent [but] 'The Croods' features characters who have remarkably little personality and dialogue that has very little wit." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 21, 2013
C-	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Dumb, slick, shallow and cartoonish, a piece of jingoistic claptrap that merely panders to patriotic emotion." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 21, 2013
C+	43%	Admission (2013)	" Much less clever than one might hope, a film based on a couple of slender premises that earn an occasional chuckle but little more." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 21, 2013
D-	39%	The Call (2013)	" An extremely unsavory thriller that's like a grosser, grislier (and dumber) episode of 'CSI' or 'Criminal Minds.'" — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 19, 2013
C-	67%	Stoker (2013)	" An emptily flamboyant explosion of style over substance." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 15, 2013
B-	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" It may be more 'The Merely Okay Burt Wonderstone,' but as Frank Loesser observed, mediocrity is not a mortal sin." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 14, 2013
A-	92%	No (2013)	" Larrain fashions an unlikely crowd-pleaser from a historical episode that has its share of tragedy as well as triumph." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 14, 2013
D+	36%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" A noirish, rather ugly crime melodrama with pretensions that never get past pulp cliche." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 11, 2013
D	39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" An alphabetically-organized horror antology that's often unsettling but only sporadically rises above mediocrity and sometimes descends into absolute awfulness." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 11, 2013
C	31%	Emperor (2013)	" A decent history lesson--even if one told with a major dose of dramatic license--that's dragged down by a sappy, clumsily played romantic subplot." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 10, 2013
B+	92%	The Gatekeepers (2013)	" Extraordinary...not only an engrossing first-hand account of Israel's Palestinian policies over time, but one that may have lessons to teach both Israeli leaders and other nations confronting those they identify as terrorists." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 8, 2013
C	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Despite the title, Sam Raimi's new Oz movie isn't great; it isn't even good." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 7, 2013
F	13%	The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)	" This feeble sequel makes even its lackluster predecessor look good--or at least less terrible than it was." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 3, 2013
C	25%	Phantom (2013)	" Dramatically waterlogged and, despite the efforts of a strong cast, more than a little silly." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 3, 2013
F	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" Or 'The Hangover: The College Edition'--and totally abysmal...the pits in every respect." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 3, 2013
B-	92%	Lore (2013)	" Remarkable for its unusual perspective...but never manages to connect emotionally as deeply as it might have." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 1, 2013
B	89%	A Place at the Table (2013)	" Fine but conventional documentary on the problem of hunger in contemporary America." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 1, 2013
B	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" A surprisingly deft, enjoyable variation on the old tale... [with] a vibe reminiscent of Rob Reiner's 'Princess Bride.'" — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 27, 2013
C-	35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" Since all the second-hand ingredients are delivered without much style of flair, the movie makes for a pretty insipid dish." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 23, 2013
C+	58%	Snitch (2013)	" Earns points for dealing with a serious social issue...but by trying to pass muster as a conventional action movie while delivering its message, it comes up a mite short." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 21, 2013
B-	70%	Bless Me, Ultima (2013)	" There's a bit of a cable-movie feel to 'Bless Me, Ultima,' but in the end its sincerity and willingness to address big issues...make it an admirable attempt to bring an important piece of Chicano literature to the screen." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 21, 2013
A-	98%	56 Up (2013)	" Quite simply one of the great documentary projects in the history of cinema, an engrossing sociological experiment on film; and though this mostly mellow installment isn't as revelatory as some earlier ones, it's still a remarkable document." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 21, 2013
D	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Nobody goes to a movie in this franchise expecting an exercise in intelligence, but even the most die-hard fans will have a difficult time swallowing [this] entry...which falls into the depths of dumbness at the very start and goes downhill from there." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Feb 13, 2013

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