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We’re rating Gerard Butler motion pictures by Tomatometer! We begin together with his Licensed Contemporary, together with the Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon trilogy, the sentimental tearjerker Expensive Frankie, and 2020’s Greenland. That sci-fi household thriller was his first Licensed Contemporary non-animated film since Frankie 16 years earlier, and that led the best way to 2021’s equally praised Copshop. In fact, a lot of Butler’s bread and butter are motion pictures that don’t essentially hit with critics however have constructed an everlasting, action-focused viewers over his profession, together with 2006’s 300, Rocknrolla, the Fallen sequence, Regulation Abiding Citizen, and now Aircraft. —Alex Vo
#1
Adjusted Rating: 106823%
Critics Consensus: Boasting dazzling animation, a script with shocking dramatic depth, and thrilling 3-D sequences, Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon soars.
#2
Adjusted Rating: 98732%
Critics Consensus: Thrilling, emotionally resonant, and fantastically animated, Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon 2 builds on its predecessor’s successes simply the best way a sequel ought to.
#3
Adjusted Rating: 97604%
Critics Consensus: Visceral and visually putting, Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus proves Shakespeare can nonetheless be each electrifying and related in a contemporary context.
#4
Adjusted Rating: 94062%
Critics Consensus: Due to some prime notch appearing, the chemistry between its stars, and a witty, considerate script, Mrs. Brown delivers a nuanced and entertaining, if not totally factual, account of a seldom explored historic relationship.
#5
Adjusted Rating: 104403%
Critics Consensus: The uncommon trilogy capper that basically works, Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World brings its saga to a visually dazzling and emotionally affecting conclusion.
#6
Adjusted Rating: 85986%
Critics Consensus: It would not add many new components to the style, however motion followers within the temper for an old-school thriller will probably be blissful to purchase what Copshop is promoting.
#7
Adjusted Rating: 84891%
Critics Consensus: Expensive Frankie is a small, good-hearted movie with effective performances.
#8
Adjusted Rating: 84322%
Critics Consensus: Beware, comets of Greenland: Gerard Butler is right here to guard Earth — and present audiences an improbably entertaining time.
#9
Adjusted Rating: 86184%
Critics Consensus: Suspenseful ambiance, an evocative setting, and a robust solid hold audiences invested all through The Vanishing‘s affected person strategy to unraveling its thriller.
#10
Adjusted Rating: 81203%
Critics Consensus: Aircraft charts an ordinary action-adventure course with its cruising altitude only a few miles above Direct-to-Video — however with Gerard Butler within the cockpit, thriller fans will nonetheless discover this a enjoyable flight.
#11
Adjusted Rating: 70629%
Critics Consensus: An easy-minded however visually thrilling expertise, filled with blood, violence, and ready-made film quotes.
#12
Adjusted Rating: 65276%
Critics Consensus: Combined opinions for Man Ritchie’s return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster film roots, however most agree, it is a step in the fitting path following two main turkeys.
#13
Adjusted Rating: 50439%
Critics Consensus: This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is just too tedious to carry curiosity.
#14
Adjusted Rating: 55538%
Critics Consensus: Regardless of good intentions, Nim’s Island flounders below an implausible storyline, simplistic inventory characters, and distracting product placement.
#15
Adjusted Rating: 57114%
Critics Consensus: It’s miles from authentic, however Olympus Has Fallen advantages from Antoine Fuqua’s tense path and a robust efficiency from Gerard Butler — which could simply be sufficient for motion junkies.
#16
Adjusted Rating: 51086%
Critics Consensus: Although it presents the conflict in shockingly gritty, practical phrases, Harrison’s Flowers makes use of such scenes as background for a trite love story.
#17
Adjusted Rating: 49525%
Critics Consensus: Regardless of the spectacular Icelandic surroundings, Beowulf And Grendel fails to search out its footing within the transition from epic story to the massive display.
#18
Adjusted Rating: 47207%
Critics Consensus: Reign of Fireplace features some altitude with its pyrotechnic motion and a smolderingly campy Matthew McConaughey, however the function’s wings are clipped by a by-product script and visible results that fizzle out.
#19
Adjusted Rating: 47947%
Critics Consensus: Den of Thieves pays energetic homage to basic heist thrillers of the previous; sadly, it by no means comes near residing as much as its apparent inspirations.
#20
Adjusted Rating: 48698%
Critics Consensus: Minimize from the identical tough fabric as its predecessors, Angel Has Fallen rounds out a largely forgettable motion trilogy in fittingly mediocre trend.
#21
Adjusted Rating: 41832%
Critics Consensus: Very similar to the submarine in its story, Hunter Killer cruises the murky motion depths, following a perfunctory course into territory that is been charted many occasions earlier than.
#22
Adjusted Rating: 39237%
Critics Consensus: The music of the night time has hit one thing of a bitter observe: Critics are calling the display adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s common musical histrionic, boring, and missing in each romance and hazard. Nonetheless, some have praised the movie for its sheer spectacle.
#23
Adjusted Rating: 35449%
Critics Consensus: It is candy, mild, and affably modest, however Chasing Mavericks is in the end pulled below by an unconvincing script and a puzzling lack of vitality.
#24
Adjusted Rating: 32512%
Critics Consensus: With all the hyperkinetic motion and not one of the aptitude of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s earlier work, Gamer has little replay worth.
#25
Adjusted Rating: 31879%
Critics Consensus: There is a advanced man on the middle of Machine Gun Preacher however the film is just too shapeless and emotionally vacant to deliver his story to life.
#26
Adjusted Rating: 38027%
Critics Consensus: London Has Fallen traps a gifted solid — and all who dare to see it — in a mid-Nineties basic-cable nightmare of a movie loaded with xenophobia and threadbare action-thriller clichés.
#27
Adjusted Rating: 32025%
Critics Consensus: Unnecessarily violent and unflinchingly absurd, Regulation Abiding Citizen is tormented by subpar appearing and a narrative that defies purpose.
#28
Adjusted Rating: 26529%
Critics Consensus: An enthusiastic however in the end uninspired soccer movie.
#29
Adjusted Rating: 28749%
Critics Consensus: Hilary Swank is miscast because the romantic lead on this clichéd movie about loss and love.
#30
Adjusted Rating: 29757%
Critics Consensus: Although the sequel is an enchancment over the primary film, it is nonetheless missing in thrills.
#31
Adjusted Rating: 23169%
Critics Consensus: Missing spectacular visuals, well-written characters, or involving drama, Geostorm goals for epic disaster-movie spectacle however finally ends up merely being a catastrophe of a film.
#32
Adjusted Rating: 18667%
Critics Consensus: This retelling trys to supply a unique spin on the origin of Dracula. Sadly, there’s nothing right here audiences have not seen earlier than.
#33
Adjusted Rating: 4534%
Critics Consensus: No consensus but.
#34
Adjusted Rating: 16812%
Critics Consensus: A Household Man has some worthy concepts, however they’re bungled in a middle-of-the-road melodrama populated by thinly sketched — and infrequently downright unlikeable — characters.
#35
Adjusted Rating: 25845%
Critics Consensus: Look on Gods of Egypt, ye filmgoers, and despair! Nothing beside stays. Around the decay of this colossal wreck, boundless and naked. The lone and degree sands stretch far-off. (Apologies to Shelley.)
#36
Adjusted Rating: 20632%
Critics Consensus: Regardless of the most effective efforts of Butler and Heigl, The Ugly Fact suffers from a weak script that depends on romantic comedy components, with little allure or comedic payoff.
#37
Adjusted Rating: 18266%
Critics Consensus: Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston stay as engaging as ever, however The Bounty Hunter‘s components script would not know what to do with them — or the viewers’s consideration.
#38
Adjusted Rating: 17483%
Critics Consensus: This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel style seems and sounds tacky.
#39
Adjusted Rating: 7740%
Critics Consensus: No consensus but.
#40
Adjusted Rating: 6828%
Critics Consensus: Witless, unfocused, and arguably misogynistic, Enjoying for Retains is a dispiriting, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood rom-com.
#41
Adjusted Rating: 6575%
Critics Consensus: A star-studded turkey, Film 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and infrequently scatological gags, however it’s largely bereft of snickers.