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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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    S.W.A.T.
    Those who love police overkill, guns, jingoistic race-baiting, guns, macho smugness, and guns will be well served.
  2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey don't simply star in this movie; they tag-team it out of the Freddie Prinze Jr. --Julia Stiles puppy-love ghetto.
  3. The Kid
    Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Its swooping 3-D visuals let fans briefly feel they can touch a group that barely exists behind a wall of beefy security men.
  5. Johnny Mad Dog
    Basically, talented French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has too much style on his hands. His film isn't as amorally grandiose as "City of God." Nor does it achieve the hulking tragedy of "Gomorrah."
  6. Chasing Mavericks
    Come for the surfing. Stay for the sainthood.
  7. Rules of Engagement
    Strenuously as it tries, and pulse-poundingly successful as the embassy rescue scene is, Rules of Engagement never engages us.
  8. The Scorpion King
    For a movie with such a misplaced sense of history, The Scorpion King seems afraid to have more fun with its own stupidity.
  9. Levity
    Freeman and Hunter are both overqualified for material this ponderous, but she plays along, while he appears to have made a minimal emotional investment in the oncoming avalanche of coincidences and cliches.
  10. Necessary Roughness
    Essentially, the film's strategy is to fight predictability with bonehead amiability, and on this level it's a crowd-pleaser. [27 Dec 1991, p.28]
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  11. Legends of the Fall
    This one is hollow and caves in on itself, growing wearisome and posed, ending in a burst of salvational violence and a coda of sentimentality masquerading as transcendent toughness. [13 Jan 1995]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    The hair is funny, in part, because not much else is. “Burt Wonderstone” is a lazy, underwritten imitation Will Ferrell movie.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cherry
    Cherry is three movies in one, none of them fresh, all of them overlong.
  14. Treasure
    Julia von Heinz’s direction can’t handle the film’s tonal shifts, and the screenplay (co-written by von Heinz and John Quester) centers on two very poorly written leads who clash in ways that are supposed to be comedic but are mostly infuriating.
  15. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    If we learn nothing else about Krasinski as a filmmaker, it’s that he thinks more is more.
  16. Miracles from Heaven
    Riggen has no shame when it comes to jerking the tears — surging music, cute children, suffering children — and sometimes her manipulations work even on the hardest of hearts.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School for Scoundrels
    It achieves something previously thought impossible: It renders Billy Bob Thornton unfunny.
  18. Boys Life 3
    A mixed bag. With such a brief running time, there are not enough high points to recommend the five shorts that make up the film.
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  19. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The resulting movie is a nauseating flight of Hollywood navel-gazing.
  20. Kate & Leopold
    It's a charmer.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Slipping-Down Life
    The director deserves admiration for sticking to her guns, but here's a heretical notion: Maybe the producer's cut would have been a better movie. This version may be too late, but it's also too little, and that's what hurts.
  22. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers might be the only movie that directly pays homage to “Transformers.” Sadly, it suffers by the comparison.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mapplethorpe
    Maybe if Mapplethorpe hadn’t been commissioned by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, it would have been a batter movie. As it is, this sour, undernourished biopic is a disappointment just shy of a disaster — a portrait of a boundary-destroying artist that stays well within the safe borders of convention.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joyful Noise
    Hot gospel singing and earnest family squabbles are all that distinguish Joyful Noise.
  26. Rush Hour 3
    Rush Hour 3 reminds us that Tucker is an utterly strange entertainment phenomenon: He exists only in the world of these movies.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Million Ways to Die in the West
    It’s clear what MacFarlane is shooting for — nothing less than the chance to be both the Bob Hope and the Mel Brooks of his generation. Be careful what you wish for.
  28. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Despite moments of black comedy and some memorable images, this “debut’’ doesn’t offer a lot to love.
  29. Warlock
    Although Warlock doesn't muster enough of a charge to shoot for genre classic status as Sands subsides, it does have a degree of interplay uncommon in such outings. [19 Apr 1991, p.43]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chaos Theory
    "Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe.
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