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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. The Bounty Hunter
    The Bounty Hunter does give Christine Baranski, as an Atlantic City entertainer and Mama Aniston, another opportunity to enthrall us with her drag-queenliness.
  2. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Berlinger has approached Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with intelligence and even a bit of thematic heft. But, frankly, the cheap thrill is gone.
    • Boston Globe
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
  4. Spun
    Because Spun is so plotless it's almost avant-garde, we're meant to be delighted with its assortment of set pieces.
  5. Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor sounds like a rediscovered blaxploitation movie or a name near the top of the NFL draft.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    When actors are as great as De Niro and Pacino, watching them in a movie like Righteous Kill is deadly.
  7. The Addams Family
    Ultimately, the film's self-censoring will to sweetness and innocence is even more fatal than the flimsiness of the plot. [22 Nov 1991, p.33]
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  8. One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
  9. Meet the Spartans
    The best thing in Meet the Spartans is the swift kick in the bombast it delivers to the oh-no-not-us homoeroticism of "300."
  10. 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.
  11. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    With a plot devoid of suspense and characters without complexity, Rand's iconic line elicits merely a yawn, or a shrug.
  12. White Noise
    Unfortunately, a screenwriter’s fealty to the source material is often the kiss of death. Some things are just not translatable from a reader’s mind to a more objective and visual medium like film.
  13. November
    Offers cliches instead of chills.
  14. Two Weeks
    Creaky, earnest melodrama.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freakonomics
    An attempt to turn the 2005 nonfiction bestseller into a high-energy docu-romp, Freakonomics is a misconceived botch.
  16. In a Better World
    The movie is swept up in earnest self-importance.
  17. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    How funny that Pryce, a tweedy Brit playing a bad guy, should be the one person doing anything remotely heroic for this dud.
  18. Friendship
    Robinson’s dedicated commitment to the bit is a given, but the bit is so one-dimensional that Craig stops being believable or human.
  19. Starbuck
    Bertrand does his jelly-belly best to keep Starbuck a comedy. But even the broadest shtick can’t prevent a movie that features a Busby Berkeley-style group hug from becoming a male weepie. Or a testimonial to Planned Parenthood.
  20. Summer Catch
    The screenplay, with its relentlessly schematic characters saying relentlessly schematic things, is so moronic that it makes you long for a documentary on the real Cape League.
  21. Blackhat
    Unfortunately, Mann also leans on ill-fitting story elements that he might easily and smartly have avoided, and the movie’s rhythms and credibility pay for it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Name Is Bruce
    Perhaps because Campbell is a purist at heart, My Name Is Bruce is as awful as anything he has done - a broadly silly gore comedy in which no gag is too cartoonish to be indulged in at least once and preferably three times.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to Mooseport
    It's a disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Slammin' Salmon
    When is a comedy not a comedy? When it’s not all that funny.
  25. Hannibal Rising
    For better and worse, the movie is more attractive and competently assembled than its schlock peers. That's refreshing, but it hardly excuses the appalling lack of suspense, intermittent tastelessness, or shockingly low camp quotient.
  26. Spare Parts
    Aside from the clever punning of the title, Spare Parts ends up as jury-rigged and programmatic as Stinky, the robot in the movie. And, unlike Stinky, it is dead in the water.
  27. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
    Almost nothing works in this movie.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lone Ranger
    The greater embarrassment is that so many millions of dollars have been wasted on an entertainment that feels so smug, so pointless, and so thunderously empty.
  29. Thunder and the House of Magic
    Thunder falls into the common mistake of many children’s films — it underestimates its audience.
  30. Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
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