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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. She's Out of My League
    While Baruchel is fun to root for and watch flail about like a pipe-cleaner in the wind, this movie encourages a sick desire in me -- to see Michael Cera and all the runners-up in the Mr. Puniverse Contest knocked down a peg by a bully with a neck the size of a tree trunk.
  2. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    You could argue that the only thing that’s automatic about A Dame to Kill For, really, is some of the firepower that its hardcases are packing.
  3. The Comedy
    At some point, he finds himself drifting around a swimming pool, and it's tempting to think of Dustin Hoffman sinking to the bottom of the deep end in "The Graduate." But there's a difference. Swanson's pool is empty.
  4. How Do You Know
    The experiment in the new movie is this: What happens when his Type A's are forced out of their comfort zones? If only Brooks had managed to leave his. How Do You Know feels like a collection of scenarios he's done better.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Arthur
    King Arthur does to this legend what "Troy" did to Homer, with one important difference: It's a better movie.
  6. Hostel: Part II
    The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
  7. If I Stay
    A mawkish, preposterous melodrama riddled with clichés, stereotypes, bad dialogue, and inept emotional manipulation.
  8. One Night at McCool's
    Neither as rollicking nor as wild as one had hoped, but Tyler's tongue-in-cheek noir goddess transcends cliche and the screenplay's other shortcomings terrifically.
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    A romantic comedy with an adult sensibility, a film that avoids characters-as-caricatures (with one exception), and deftly mixes cynicism and hope.
  10. Secret Window
    A jokey, junky potboiler.
  11. White Sands
    Red blood, white sands and a blue Corvette are the real stars of "White Sands," the slick new Roger Donaldson thriller that's more about its plot convolutions than its characters, and more about its visuals than either. [24 Apr 1992, p.85]
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  12. Fast & Furious
    By 2009, the franchise has nothing new to offer. The culture, through video games and reality television, has caught up to the series and surpassed it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoot
    The movie balances cardboard comic bad-guys with believable teenagers, has the courage to avoid romance, and unlike most Hollywood films suggests parents can be helpful and loving as well as clueless.
  14. Fifty Shades of Grey
    The director of the much-anticipated adaptation, Sam Taylor-Johnson, made what could have been a trashy TV movie into well-conceived cinema.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rebel in the Rye
    The movie tries to tell the whole story instead of just a good one.
  16. Shotgun Wedding
    Director Jason Moore and writer Mark Hammer have fashioned an action movie/romantic comedy hybrid that’s too violent for comedy fans and not thrilling enough for thrill seekers. It’s not romantic at all, despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Gospel
    A heartfelt but muddled melodrama.
  18. Undercover Blues
    The script by Ian Abrams puts them through strictly formulaic moves, but it has flashes of wit and it's even literate. [10 Sept 1993, p.47]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capone
    The British actor works his gonzo Method madness with such rigorous control, though, that he’s mesmerizing to watch even when the movie around him is losing its mind.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Da Vinci Code
    An acceptable but uninspired simulacrum: an overly faithful multiplex translation of a very, very popular airport novel.
  21. The Basketball Diaries
    It's not boring to watch, but in the end it's too lame and too tame. [21 Apr 1995]
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  22. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mortal Kombat II
    Will “Mortal Kombat II” make a splash this awards season? Probably not. But this faithful adaptation should satisfy longtime fans of the franchise.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hollywood Ending
    A small film, but its ease and grace are virtues that can't be overrated.
  25. Bruce Almighty
    Bruce Almighty would rather go runny and bland, mostly where Aniston's Grace is concerned.
  26. Saw
    As long as Saw stays in that big, nasty bathroom, all we need to believe is the knot in our stomachs.
  27. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.
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  28. CJ7
    CJ7 is precisely the 80-something minutes of delirium and cheesy special-effects you'd expect from the man responsible for the chaos of "Shaolin Soccer" and the lunacy of "Kung Fu Hustle."
  29. Horns
    Directed by splat-pack director Alexandre Aja (“Piranha 3D”) with uncharacteristic but still gruesome restraint, adapted from what seems a very busy novel by Joe Hill, Horns resembles an awkward collaboration between Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, and Rob Zombie.
  30. Joker: Folie à Deux
    In addition to being a lousy musical, “Folie à Deux” is also a dreadfully dull courtroom drama.
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