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For 7,949 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 0.9 points 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 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. Last Night
    It's the sort of movie that thinks cutting between two different stories makes it art. Usually, it feels like an exercise in art. There's a lot of calisthenics but very little beauty or truth or whatever it is the movie is going for.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dark Tower
    The movie makes me finally want to test-drive one of the “Dark Tower” novels, if only to see what King himself was able to bring to the party. Maybe that’s been his evil plan all along.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Much like reality TV, nothing much of consequence happens.
  4. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
    Some entertaining inventiveness, before nagging limitations finally drag it down.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen to Play
    For all the talk, there's not a lot of chess here, and the game remains stubbornly on the level of metaphor. You don't feel rooked, exactly, but by movie's end you're more than ready for the check.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mia and the Migoo
    Where Mia and the Migoo triumphs is in the art department alone, with rich brown charcoal outlines, majestic pastel washes that give depth to the landscapes, and riotous colors that are more vivid than the story line.
  7. Skyfall
    These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prometheus
    Watching Prometheus is like opening a deluxe gift box from Tiffany's to find a mug from the dollar store.
  9. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    It makes you wonder if the series' animators, who took time out for "Rio" just before this, aren't so secretly yearning to sail different creative waters.
  10. Here Comes the Boom
    Kevin James's latest comedy doesn't promise any bing or bang, only boom. Take it at its word.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Total Recall (2012)
    The only laugh to be had in Total Recall, a ripsnorting sci-fi action extravaganza that starts well and works its way down to average, is in the opening credits, where we learn that the movie's primary production company is called Original Film. Really?
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mirror Mirror
    Just a limp, jokey family film that wants to have its fairy tale magic and its hip irony, too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wreck-It Ralph
    It's pure plastic product from plot line to the pro forma 3-D to the tidy moral lessons - ersatz family entertainment as disposable as it is diverting. It made me want to go read a book.
  14. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    The problem is that the heart of the movie is McGowan. He's just not a very compelling figure. He's a bit doughy and inert.
  15. Wrath of the Titans
    The moments that elevate Wrath above the routine are right in line with Liebesman's "Battle: Los Angeles'' high points: frenetically shot u-r-there combat sequences that feel like the real thing.
  16. Bride Flight
    Bride Flight is pretty predictable once the basic situation gets established.
  17. The Expendables 2
    As it stands, The Expendables 2 is lazily satisfied with repeating the first movie's formula, shortcomings and grisly strengths alike.
  18. 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.
  19. The First Grader
    You marvel all the more at Litondo's and Harris's performances, considering how much claptrap Ann Peacock's script requires them to put up with.
  20. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    It's hard to tell whether this is a tribute to female solidarity or a lamentation.
  21. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Any originality in this new movie is overwhelmed by its lazy eagerness to embrace the new standard for R-rated comedy.
  22. Janie Jones
    The actors also acquit themselves well singing the film's numerous tunes. Breslin's voice is pleasantly melodic, while Nivola sounds like someone who's been grinding it out on tour for years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ParaNorman
    ParaNorman is supposedly for kids, but it's really aimed at their snarky older brothers, and it illustrates the limits of the new family creepshows.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Campaign
    It's just another happily idiotic Will Ferrell comedy, ably directed by Jay Roach ("Meet the Parents," "Dinner for Schmucks") and tossing its bawdy jokes at the side of the barn.
  25. Gone
    Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you.
  26. Mr. Nice
    There's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Land of Blood and Honey
    Like Jolie's public persona, Blood and Honey is both strong and headstrong, equally invested in grit and glamour with a hazy understanding of the line separating the two.
  28. The Woman in Black
    Janet McTeer provides a little ham to the role of a woman who dresses up her dogs because she misses her dead twin sons. But there's not nearly enough of her. Nor is there enough legitimate suspense.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oz the Great and Powerful
    Which is precisely what’s missing from Oz the Great and Powerful: that sense of emotional journey.
  30. Love Crime
    This is a ridiculous movie - a thriller so indifferent to suspense, so above mystery that one character literally stabs another in the front.
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