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For 7,947 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Secret Headquarters
    Secret Headquarters is uneven but consistently lively. There are moments of real wit (when was the last time you saw a movie use Pig Latin?), though not enough to compensate for the fairly tired, somewhat confused action sequences.
  2. The Whole Nine Yards
    Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us .
  3. Railroad Tigers
    It’s only the first week of January, but it will be hard to beat Hong Kong director Ding Sheng’s Railroad Tigers for the best opening credit sequence of the year.
  4. Failure to Launch
    The movie brings to mind the more polite parts of "Wedding Crashers." Failure to Launch, while totally exuberant and appealingly made, is not nearly as randy.
  5. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
    Pee- wee's Big Adventure is a shrewdly observed, deftly executed looney tune. [9 Aug 1985, p.42]
    • Boston Globe
  6. Simon Magus
    An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
  7. What to Do in Case of Fire
    Like Schumacher, director Gregor Schnitzler is more preoccupied with his characters' looks than their behavior. You might not buy the ideas. But you'll definitely want the T-shirt.
  8. The Girl Next Door
    Comes up short when things get serious, resorting to cliches and a whole lot of hooey about "moral fiber."
  9. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    Seeing Ben Stiller, the late Robin Williams, and their magically roused gang together again, this time in London, is initially all about indulgent, nostalgic smiles rather than new wows. But then comes the movie’s exceptionally clever and fresh final act, which delivers genuine surprise along with many laughs.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    He's Just Not That Into You
    Good comfort food for most of its running time, thanks to a cast of attractive, unchallenging pros and Ken Kwapis's smooth direction.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Matrix Revolutions
    Revolutions, the final installment in the trilogy, parcels things more neatly. You get 45 minutes of the Wachowskis' patented theosophical bong water, followed by an hour of the most muscular, hard-core special-effects rama-lama yet to hit the screen. Only then does Jesus show up.
  12. In the Land of Women
    In the Land of Women sounds like a piece of cheap science fiction about the last man on earth. If you're the lovelorn mother and daughter in Jonathan Kasdan's first movie, a grating romantic drama, that's painfully close to the truth.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Heart of the Sea
    In the Heart of the Sea plays as if the joke was real and everyone on the production had caved in. The result, as a movie, is a joke.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jennifer's Body
    Jennifer’s Body falls into the dispiriting category of dumb movies made by smart people, in this case a glibly clever writer and a talented director who think a few wisecracks are enough to subvert the teen horror genre.
  15. Bad Teacher
    You don't want to think, what would Preston Sturges or Alexander Payne do with this material? But there is a seed of satirical cynicism in this movie that a smart, clear mind could have finessed. Jake Kasdan is not that director. He doesn't appear to know what to do.
  16. The Little Traitor
    The mix of mawkishness and polemic is naive. Children, though, will probably leave with a lot of good questions. A better movie would leave them with more.
  17. Lions for Lambs
    It does not feel good to report that a movie with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise makes the eyelids droop. But that's what Lions for Lambs does.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Architect
    Perhaps urban-planning solutions are too much to expect from a Friday night at the movies, but in a film this ambitious, the evident lack of thought put into the problem is disappointing. As any architect knows, it's easier to tear down than to build up.
  19. By Hook or by Crook
    Not particularly good -- meaning navigable, remotely entertaining, pleasing to the eye -- it does, rather nobly, want to hip its audience to gender fluidity.
  20. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck.
  21. Heartbreakers
    Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Flight of the Phoenix
    Silly to the last drop of rationed water.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ladder 49
    Predictable, square, and honorable all at once.
  24. Burlesque
    It's entertaining enough, like watching a celebrity workout film with a plot. But never once is it believable.
  25. A Cure for Wellness
    It is at least 10 movies in one, some of them ingenious parodies, but all adding up to a cluttered, confused anticlimax.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Restless
    A torpidly precious love story about death-obsessed adolescents, the film's becalmed and embalmed in its own sensitive self-pity.
  27. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    It all makes for competent but routine suspense.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flyboys
    The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than "Pearl Harbor."
  29. The Dressmaker
    Aussie Rosalie Ham’s quirky gothic novel is too tonally erratic to be completely satisfying. But we do get two Kates for the price of one, in a sense, as this crazy quilt of a movie allows her to play both entertainingly vampy and vulnerable.
  30. Swing Vote
    Swing Vote is a satire that's afraid to satirize.
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