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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. Leap Year
    It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve Leap Year, but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    Almost but not quite as obnoxious as its title. Little kids will love it. You’ll need a hazmat suit.
  3. Ninja Assassin
    It’s like Bob Fosse night at the martial-arts studio. Most of the killing here is done with bladed throwing stars that, like the ninjas themselves, arrive from nowhere. They appear to have been used to edit the film as well.
  4. Gamer
    For long stretches of the PlayStation-minded Gamer, the action does drag.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Planet 51
    Young children and adults with high pain thresholds will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    2 1/2 hours of tumescence disguised as a motion picture.
  7. The Good Guy
    It’s network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jennifer's Body
    Jennifer’s Body falls into the dispiriting category of dumb movies made by smart people, in this case a glibly clever writer and a talented director who think a few wisecracks are enough to subvert the teen horror genre.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knowing
    Starts off mildly ridiculous, ascends to the full-blown ludicrous, and finally sails boldly off the edge of the absolutely preposterous.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Slightly better than it should be. For Tucker Max, this possibly represents a triumph.
  11. The Proposal
    Neither (Bullock/Reynolds) brings out anything good in the other, and watching them try hurts the eyes, the tummy, and the libido.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Limits of Control
    Jarmusch has come up with a dud.
  13. P.S. I Love You
    Blithely inept.
  14. Hide and Seek
    Ignore the hype. You won't find anything startling or memorable in the derivative Hide and Seek.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pacifier
    JUST worth your children's time, and hardly worth yours.
  16. Black Cloud
    But this film, with its many cliches and borrowed substitutes for creativity, suggests his (Schroder) career in the boxing arena might have peaked with ''The Champ."
  17. Nina's Tragedies
    Gabizon never establishes a consistent tone or point of view. Instead, we hop from one episode to the next, with no momentum and no reason to care about these people.
  18. Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
  19. House of D
    House of D, is like the kind of sticky greeting card you'd find on CBS some Sunday nights.
  20. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Isn't all wrong. But even at its very best, it's just all right.
  21. House of Wax
    For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude.
  22. 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?
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bewitched
    Bewitched presents a phony and cynical look at how Hollywood might make or remake a television show. It's as grating, laughless, and narcissistic (though, to its credit, not as cruel) as that new Lisa Kudrow show-within-a-show-within-a-show, "The Comeback."
  24. Lila Says
    Lila is all come-ons without any charm.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Undead
    In Undead, sadly, rigor mortis has set in.
  26. November
    Offers cliches instead of chills.
  27. Red Eye
    A one-trick action thriller that feels like a poor cousin of an episode of ''24." Call it ''12."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valiant
    The top-secret message this pigeon is carrying reads ''Wait for the DVD."
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man
    Dreadful.
  30. Just Like Heaven
    Just Like Heaven suggests that a post-coma Elizabeth might understand what life is truly all about. Of course, if being alive means having to live in this movie, maybe she was better off the way she was.
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