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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. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    Visually, the movie is surprisingly inventive, with takeoffs on everything from manga to Hokusai prints. Sure, a lot of the jokes are dumb — you got a problem with that? — but “Paws” is quite smart.
  2. Into the Blue
    Into the Blue is as much a mesmerizing aquatic expedition as it is a reasonably suspenseful action adventure.
  3. The Weight of Water
    Though it never rises to its full potential as a film, still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Sum of All Fears
    And then there's Liev Schreiber as CIA operative John Clark. With less than 30 minutes of screen time, he's everything Affleck isn't - magnetic, clever, and delightful to watch. If only the filmmakers had possessed the courage to cast the splendid Schreiber instead of the feeble Affleck.
  5. How to Deal
    This movie is the worst episode of ''Gilmore Girls'' ever.
  6. Proof of Life
    It's absorbing, although draggy.
  7. Boomerang
    The result is a megabudget "House Party" -- amiable, colorful, filled with glamour and style. [01 Jul 1992]
    • Boston Globe
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invasion
    Buried somewhere within the bipolar extravaganza that is The Invasion is an awfully good movie that got away.
  9. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    I was not a fan of Albert Brooks's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" (2005), but Brooks, at least, seemed willing to concede before it was over that his movie was a terrible idea. Spurlock seems opportunistically optimistic.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    Me, I'm a Johnny Rotten man, so this limp culture-clash comedy with a heart of patchouli just made me want to stab my eyeballs out.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Greatest
    The filmmaker’s uncertainty shows itself in drably functional camerawork and an over-reliance on Christophe Beck’s tasteful piano-and-violin score.
  12. Colombiana
    It's basically a blaxploitation movie stretched to meaninglessly international proportions that leans on tired Colombian stereotypes. But if Saldana's aiming to be some kind of new Pam Grier, she needs to save more than herself.
  13. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    The early dilemma in "Rise of the Silver Surfer " is this: Save the world or marry Jessica Alba . Your conscience says, "Save the world." But the Maxim reader in you knows better.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Justice League
    Justice League may play well to hardcore DC cognoscenti, but if you’re not a fan, the movie’s failings are easy to enumerate. First off, the villain’s a dud.
  15. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The movie is long and uniquely bad, the last of Stephenie Meyer's four books greedily tortured into two installments.
  16. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    On most levels his performance is as flat as his abs: very early Wahlberg.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firewall
    A movie like this needs a suave, amoral villain, so here's Paul Bettany.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mr. Brooks
    A fertile example of the Studio Film Gone Berserk, where too many characters and too many story lines geometrically progress until a level of blissful absurdity is reached.
  19. The Little Vampire
    Sweetly macabre charmer.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maid in Manhattan
    It's Lopez who's the proper focus of this dream. So intent has she been on becoming a superstar in the past few years that many people have forgotten that, given decent material, she can act.
  21. Life as a House
    This one is nearly as bad as it gets, suggesting that all the wrong people were wielding the sledgehammers here.
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  22. Latter Days
    Such a well-meaning but unambitious work that it's tempting to take it seriously even as you dismiss it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Me If You Dare
    French films have long specialized in depicting the impassioned, go-for-broke infatuation known as l'amour fou. Yann Samuell's Love Me If You Dare may be the first to investigate l'amour annoying.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evergreen
    An earnest, simplistic, affecting slice of low-watt indie filmmaking that goes where few American movies bother: below the poverty line.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valiant
    The top-secret message this pigeon is carrying reads ''Wait for the DVD."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Dreamz
    American Dreamz pitches its softballs with style. Martin Tweed, the preeningly heartless British host of the title TV show, just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant.
  27. The Possession
    Oh my God, evil. What's with you? Ever since "The Exorcist," it's been the same song-and-crab-dance: Demons don't kill, divorce does.
  28. Miral
    Miral feels like gastric bypass moviemaking. It's a miniseries awkwardly stuffed in the body of a two-hour drama about the Palestinians' long struggle against the Israelis.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    To press the point, there is absolutely no need for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    By the Sea
    This prompts the perverse thought that By the Sea may simply exist as a movie for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to watch. It’s two hours of vacation, voyeurism, and celebrity marriage therapy, and you and I aren’t actually invited.
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