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For 7,948 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. The Iron Lady
    It's a parade float atop which Streep can pose and impose. Sometimes her showmanship amounts to shamelessness. She wants us to watch her sack another part.
  2. The Princess Diaries
    Unfortunately, the filmmakers seem to have forgotten that comedy is a requisite feature in a comedy.
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  3. After the Hunt
    Nora Garrett’s screenplay isn’t concerned with fleshed out characters; everyone here is a stand-in for some issue designed to get a rise out of the audience.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Exodus: Gods and Kings
    Scott’s “Exodus” is dutiful, deeply earnest, and more than a little dull.
  5. The Devil's Double
    Bring Wet-Naps to The Devil's Double. It's coated and fried in the same batter KFC uses for Extra Crispy chicken. The movie might be greasier, actually.
  6. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch.
  7. 80 for Brady
    Not even John Toll, who won two Oscars for cinematography, can make this movie look good. Stay home and watch the real Super Bowl instead.
  8. A Working Man
    As much fun as A Working Man can be, I kept thinking there’s a better movie peeking out through the cracks of this rather OK one.
  9. The Last Boy Scout
    While The Last Boy Scout covers no new ground, and while it features one of the heftier plot missteps in recent junk-movie history, it's far from the worst of shoot-'em-ups to burst onscreen lately. [13 Dec 1991, p.55]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spy Who Dumped Me
    It’s essentially “Romy and Michelle’s Mission Impossible” or “Lucy and Ethel Live and Let Die,” and it’s an easy, awfully disposable two hours that scatters some off-kilter belly laughs among a lot of labored gags and efficiently-shot action movie setpieces.
  11. Nicky's Family
    Winton’s inspiring story deserves greater attention but this film isn’t the best representation of it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sea
    You may have to be from Iceland to take dialogue like ''You can't freeze love like a gutted fish'' with a straight face.
  13. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    For all its handsomeness, the movie reveals a few cobwebs beginning to gather at the conceptual edges of the Disney animations.
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dopamine
    There are rich issues at play here, about the nature of attraction and whether individual will is or isn't pinned to the wheel of physiology. But Decena hasn't dramatized them; he's used them as talking points set to an indie-film guitar strum, and the result is both earnest and passionless.
  15. Secondhand Lions
    Slow and ultimately distressing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tai Chi Zero
    All this manic invention is great fun for a while, until Tai Chi Zero falls apart on the rocks of the eternal verities: story, acting, direction.
  17. A Fierce Green Fire
    Melding history, science, and up-to-the-minute urgency, A Fierce Green Fire is a clarion call that’s passionate and provocative.
  18. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    The movie usefully, carefully, and cogently argues that Bieber is more than his hair. He is his hoodies. He is his pop-hooks. He is his many handlers.
  19. Be Kind Rewind
    It's refreshing to see Gondry's moviemaking still possessed by the community spirit he caught a few years ago with "Dave Chappelle's Block Party."
  20. Fallen
    Fallen is a more than usually ambitious but ultimately failed attempt to merge a supernatural thriller and cop-chase movie. [16 Jan 1998, p.D6]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casa de mi Padre
    It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness.
  22. Hook
    Hook touches neither fantasy nor soulfulness nor yearning. Mostly, it's benign spectacle in which the actors keep yielding the camera to some expensive playground or other. Hook is neither wistful nor primal. It's film's most expensive wind-up toy. [11 Dec. 1991. p.53]
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  23. 300
    There's a stale, synthetic airlessness about the movie. Imagine a large cast trapped in a series of spectacular screensavers. It could be ancient Greece. It could be somebody's hard drive.
  24. Race to Witch Mountain
    This is not a movie. It's a coming attraction for a theme park.
  25. Any Given Sunday
    Far too long, but its rambunctiousness is engaging, propelled by Stone's virtuosic quick-cutting.
  26. Mother of Tears
    Argento set a standard a lot of moviemakers are desperate to surpass. It's not simply that he's crazy about gore and supernatural hokum. It's that he understands that storytelling is both an art and a craft. His filmmaking carries you along on the illusion of effortlessness; amusement, suspense, a certain elegance follow.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goya's Ghosts
    An overstuffed turkey that's entertaining for all the wrong reasons.
  28. Splendor
    Runs out of helium and lands pretty heavily after its airy beginning.
  29. The King Is Alive
    Sinks under the weight of its ever more inescapably apparent contrivance, and its forced parallels to ''Lear.''
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  30. Valentin
    Narrated from start to close by an 8-year-old, it often seems like a coloring book on tape.
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