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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. For Love or Money
    Michael J. Fox seems a lot breezier and smarter than what's surrounding him in For Love or Money. It's an old-fashioned romantic comedy that's a little too old-fashioned as it clanks through its plot. [1 Oct 1993, p.52]
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  2. A Journal for Jordan
    Journal is Canedy’s story, but it’s Michael B. Jordan’s movie. Stalwart, quietly forceful, he seems positively . . . Denzelian.
  3. The Bucket List
    In The Bucket List, Nicholson is human-ish. And Freeman is so human.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mystery Team
    Mystery Team is a guilty pleasure - a deeply dumb movie made by pretty smart people.
  5. The Family
    Not known for subtlety, Besson gets the expected laughs, and then some. He also exercises an unwonted finesse, not only with the allusions, but also with variations on the “f” word that, if not poetic, are at least funny.
  6. Crooked Arrows
    The story is unique and engaging enough to transcend the uplifting sports-underdog formula.
  7. Fred Claus
    Fred Claus sells you something you didn't know you wanted: a Vince Vaughn Christmas movie. Vaughn is not the hook. Neither is the holiday. The script, by Dan Fogelman, is smarter than that.
  8. From Paris with Love
    This is the sort of asinine action exercise that needs a star to blow up cars and leap from rooftop to rooftop with gusto.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trapped
    Bacon makes an appropriately detestable villain; unfortunately, he's the most interesting character here. As for Love, well, this puts her one career rung closer to ''Hollywood Squares.''
  10. Underworld
    As murky and derivative-looking as the film is, it moves with an authority that pummels you into submission.
  11. Queen of the Lot
    It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie, and the closest Jaglom has come to brilliant satire. It also explains why this woman is just chatting on a countertop and not Jay Leno's couch.
  12. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    He concocts a climactic war that flattens downtown Chicago. Bay is such a little boy's director. You know he picked that city because it's the one with the best rock-'em-sock-'em street names. Wacker! Wabash!
  13. Crazy People
    Although Crazy People would have been snappy fun in the '30s, or really wacky in the hands of a Preston Sturges in the '40s, it's pretty flaccid and pedestrian in Tony Bill's hands, not crazy enough. Still, it's on to something with those parodies. [11 Apr 1990, p.43]
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  14. Leave It to Beaver
    The humor in Leave It to Beaver is doggedly bland, with a conventional story line that's no more inventive than watching four episodes of the TV show scrunched together and interwoven. [22 Aug 1997, p.F6]
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  15. Jungle 2 Jungle
    Jungle 2 Jungle is surprisingly bearable. [07 Mar 1997, p.D5]
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  16. Madea's Witness Protection
    Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen.
  17. The Haunting
    By placing all its faith in production design and high-powered computerized effects, and not enough where it really matters, namely character and atmosphere, The Haunting relegates itself to the slag heap of embarrassing claptrap. [23 July 1999, p.D4]
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  18. The Perfect Game
    Much like a Sox starter struggling for the first couple of innings before settling down, The Perfect Game takes a while to get to the parts worth cheering.
  19. Along Came a Spider
    Efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian.
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    It's bigger, noisier, shinier, and dumber, and it has no earthly reason to exist.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aliens in the Attic
    Aliens in the Attic is conveyor-belt family product, an action/adventure/sci-fi/comedy made from the bland corporate DNA of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. It appears designed for families who never leave the mall.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    A pox upon history and an insult to the 16th president of the United States. It's that, of course - actually, that's the point - but this joyless, deafening cinematic headache commits a different crime. It's a sin against entertainment.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Orphan
    The best part of Orphan is the outstandingly lunatic plot twist that kicks in just as you're checking your watch and hoping they'll wrap things up. This development - I'd love to tell you, but you wouldn't believe me - boosts the movie into overdrive for a final 20 minutes of happy, disreputable mayhem.
  24. RoboCop 2
    RoboCop 2 isn't brain-dead, and perhaps that should be enough in this summer of pummeling sequels. But it isn't. Not in an action movie. [22 June 1990, p.43p]
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  25. The Last House on the Left
    Like the current hit "Taken," Last House 2009 packs a vicarious jolt that might feel cathartic to certain moviegoers.
  26. Persuasion
    The solid cast cements over the more noticeable cracks in the story. The result is a pleasant diversion that’s worth a rental.
  27. Fire in the Sky
    Fire in the Sky, the latest abducted-by-aliens movie, is no Close Encounters. It's hardly any encounter at all. [13 Mar 1993, p.10]
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  28. Next
    A watchably absurd popcorn flick about a man who can see two minutes into the future.
  29. High Tension
    The horrible anticipation he [Aja] builds is derailed by a gimmick that makes the twist in, say, ''Fight Club" seem perfectly logical. To say more would be to ruin the movie, and why should I do that when its own makers have done it for you?
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take Me Home Tonight
    Completely unoriginal, sure, but watchable and even likable.
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