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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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Final Cut
    Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt. All that courtliness is wearing him out, and it's wearing us out too.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    So unfocused is Shonda Rhimes's screenplay and so flabby is Marshall's direction.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of Racing in the Rain
    It’s a PG movie with pleasantly canned life lessons, and it’s safe for kids and adults alike, although anyone with a shred of cynicism may not want to be seen caving in to the script’s emotional inevitabilities.
  4. Anaconda
    There’s a real identity crisis going on here. I can’t tell if director Tom Gormican is making a new horror comedy based on the original movie, a straight remake, or a feature-length fan fiction controlled by its characters.
  5. Flipper
    Flipper, the latest incarnation of everybody's favorite dolphin, doesn't exactly make waves, but it's easy to take, especially when the underwater cameras are working. [17 May 1996, p.56]
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  6. Donkey Punch
    A thriller whose title remains printable only because the right people probably don't know that it refers to a violent sex act.
  7. Office Christmas Party
    This last angle had us thinking back to “Risky Business,” as did the Chicago setting and the reveling gone off the rails. Here, though, there’s no edge to the wildness, nothing memorable.
  8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    It's hard to tell whether this is a tribute to female solidarity or a lamentation.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lovely Bones
    The Lovely Bones, then, is something special: A spectacular, cringe-inducing failure as both a book adaptation and a film.
    • 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.
  11. My Father the Hero
    The film works because Depardieu is relaxed enough to turn in persuasive acting that keep us from noticing how plastic the setup is. [4 Feb 1994, p.52]
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  12. 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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Bounce
    No one on the screen bothers to commit to a character.
  14. The Time Machine
    The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.
  15. The Family Man
    Sitting through it is like waking up on Christmas morning to find a stockingful of styrofoam.
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  16. Drive Me Crazy
    Gets by on the watchability of its young stars.
  17. Wet Hot American Summer
    The film keeps being yanked back from nothingness by this or that clever sendup, delivered by a small army of invigorated performers who seem to push off from one another's energy levels.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stuber
    With a by-the-numbers screenplay by Tripper Clancy and assembly-line direction from Michael Dowse (see his 2013 hockey comedy, “Goon,” instead), Stuber is just the umpteenth iteration of the buddy-cop action drama pioneered by “48 Hrs.” almost 40 years ago.
  19. Joe Somebody
    The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.
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  20. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    It’s a sequel that sticks to more routine territory of action, angst, and dystopian gloom — mostly a sound approach, thanks to the consistent strength of franchise lead Shailene Woodley and a mix of intended and inadvertent surprises.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sanctum
    A muscular Australian B-movie down to the thin characters and boilerplate dialogue.
  22. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Despite a high body count, director-cowriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s version is not gory enough to satiate gorehounds. The atmospheric cinematography, by Elisha Christian, and the bombastic score, by Chanda Dancy, fail to accompany or elicit a single good scare.
  23. Raising Cain
    To be blunt, Raising Cain is a thriller that doesn't thrill. [07 Aug 1992, p.30]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Won't Back Down
    The issue is contentious, messy, prone to wishful thinking. Some see a corporate plot to privatize schools. Others see a last chance to save them. Won't Back Down is on the latter side, obviously, and it has the boilerplate urgency of a TV movie that has been blessed with a high-end cast.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    The result is a formulaic, underwhelming set-up for another era of Transformers movies.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love the Hard Way
    The film's final scenes are among its silliest, unfortunately.
  27. Daredevil
    Daredevil the movie strains itself trying to catch up with Sam Raimi's web-slinging megasmash. It's a faceless copy, right down to the muscle-rock groaning on the soundtrack.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Abandoned
    With a "Lost"-meets-"The Haunting" plot and a handful of convoluted thematic twists involving family, history, murder, and death, The Abandoned limps into a nebulous kind of horror netherworld, peppered with painfully long tension-building sequences and unimaginative dialogue.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transcendence
    There’s a lot of intelligence in Transcendence. Ironically, almost all of it feels artificial.
  30. Trade
    Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking.
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