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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. Bones
    You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all.
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  2. Young Woman and the Sea
    The film evokes all of the usual biopic tropes while painting a standard picture of an extraordinary hero.
  3. I Declare War
    Imagination is what these filmmakers could use more of, as their ingenious concept doesn’t develop much beyond a gimmick.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thor: The Dark World
    Has its moments of visual invention and self-aware humor — mostly when the hero’s trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is around — but otherwise it’s an awkwardly plotted extravaganza.
  5. On_Line
    Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Duchess of Langeais
    The film's a minuet fetishistically repeated until either the audience or the lovers go crazy. I'd say it was a tie.
  7. Life of the Party
    Thoroughly vanilla comedy, a movie jammed with well-meaning girl power messages but surprisingly little edge.
  8. Underworld: Evolution
    They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.
  9. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Like a Bond picture with no spies or villains or car chases or gadgets or explosions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Road
    The movie trades the paranoia of modern omni-cam culture for a tighter, more personal drama, and while it sticks with you, you feel the missed opportunity like a phantom leg.
  11. Gang Related
    The schizoid Gang Related is too heavy to be light and too light to be heavy. [8 Oct 1997, p.F3]
    • Boston Globe
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Thirteen Ghosts
    A formulaic script, a tired plot -- and uninspired dialogue all point up the real star. It's the house,
    • Boston Globe
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Never Die Alone
    Invites us to both hate King David and admire his style, and there will probably be some hand-wringing about that.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Danny Deckchair
    What you might call conditional whimsy, predicated on the audience overlooking so many plot implausibilities that it might get tuckered out from all the charity.
  15. The Great Buck Howard
    This is an old man's movie, without an old man's experience. Despite McGinly's stated affection for Kreskin (the movie ends with a written appreciation of him), there's nothing personal about it. It's the movie equivalent of handing us a business card.
  16. Hardcore Henry
    When the action is at its sharpest, such as with Henry’s mid-chase leap from a detonating truck onto the back of a motorcycle, it’s spectacular.
  17. The Meddler
    The Meddler is a disappointment after the talent Scafaria demonstrated in her 2012 feature debut “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”
  18. Assault on Precinct 13
    Disappointing for a number of reasons. For one thing, it's silly. For another, it's not always silly enough to be diverting.
  19. The Skeleton Key
    It has the wild, rancid atmosphere of a garbage bag that a raccoon has ripped open.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G
    If the movie's not as bad as it sounds, it's not all that great, either.
  21. Ella McCay
    Thankfully, Ella McCay is not as bad as its predecessor. Had this film been a total disaster, it would be easier to dismiss. But every so often, there are glints of the James L. Brooks brilliance I loved so much.
  22. Ghosted
    Rom-com turning into bomb-com (there are lots of explosions) is a funny idea. But since neither the rom-com nor the bomb-com is much to speak of, Ghosted isn’t either.
  23. Escape from Planet Earth
    Colorful as the 3-D aliens-among-us comedy is to look at, though, Corddry is handed a role that’s beige as can be, and so are his castmates.
  24. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease").
  25. Dancing Across Borders
    Well-meant though it may be, the movie has an advertorial gloss.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Project Power
    Project Power is the kind of action/sci-fi bone-cruncher where the cast is better than the material, the characters are more interesting than the premise, and the dialogue chugs along in the middle. It’s on Netflix and is worth a few hours if you’re in a B-movie state of mind.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tammy
    It just plonks down the actress and a handful of stellar co-stars without much in the way of a script, storyline, or actual jokes. Yet you may still come out with a smile on your face. It’s very odd.
  28. Bait
    Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
    • Boston Globe
  29. The Penguin Lessons
    The Penguin Lessons severely falters when it deals with the dangers of military occupation. It’s hard to watch a serious subplot involving people being “disappeared” by the government juxtaposed with scenes of cutesy penguin mayhem and classroom hijinks.
  30. Eye of the Beholder
    Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.
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