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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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    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Apollo 18
    Contains nothing original or over-the-top enough to make it a real scream fest. For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.
  2. Something Borrowed
    I don't know whether she's (Hudson) drunk, stoned, or simply out of her mind, but if it weren't so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hangover Part II
    If not better, a Part II always has to be bigger. In the case of The Hangover Part II, that means raunchier, nastier, darker. It also means much more predictable, which is ruinous.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since "Green Lantern."
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Riding Hood
    A laughably inept series of adolescent poses trying to pass itself off as a movie.
  6. Zookeeper
    As for other voices, the most notable are Adam Sandler, whose capuchin monkey wears out his welcome pretty quickly; Maya Rudolph, whose jivey giraffe comes perilously close to aural blackface; and Nick Nolte's gorilla.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conan the Barbarian
    As for the movie itself, it's tolerable.
  8. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
    Alba, meanwhile, is again ridiculously shoehorned into a comedy gig, although she does have an amusing opening bit spying while nine months pregnant. If only diaper bomb gags weren't the inevitable follow-up.
  9. The Apparition
    To those of us in the audience who might be strangers in paranormal precincts, it looks suspiciously like a séance.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hobo with a Shotgun
    Hopefully the last, of the fake trailer spinoffs of 2007's "Grindhouse." It makes last year's "Machete" look like "The King's Speech."
  11. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Even by the unambitious standards of some children's movies and many movies that star Caine, this one has a difficult time making a case for itself as anything other than an adventure in baby-sitting.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Raven
    A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 19th-century Baltimore, this riff on the final days of the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other masterpieces of the macabre might qualify as literary desecration if it weren't so silly.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Butter
    Butter dearly wants to be a hot-button social satire that plays rough with sacred cows: Midwestern power-moms, the religious right, race, sex, you name it. Mostly, it wants to be an Alexander Payne movie from the 1990s. "Citizen Ruth," say, or "Election." Instead, it's a shrill, cartoonish mess.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Horrible Bosses
    I say kill off everybody else and bring back Farrell for the sequel.
  15. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    Jeff Who Lives at Home devotes so much of itself to mocking the loneliness and personal shortcomings of these characters that once it stops jabbing and turns serious, you start laughing.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Irish Drinkers
    All the good intentions in the world can't save White Irish Drinkers from playing like the baldest of retreads.
  17. There Be Dragons
    In fairness, putting holiness onscreen is an enormous challenge. It can be done, as several directors have shown, most notably Dreyer and Bresson. Bad enough that Joffe is the poor man's Lean. He's also the nonbelieving man's Dreyer and Bresson.
  18. Beautiful Boy
    There's just very little in Beautiful Boy that feels fresh or new or truly raw. The houses, that title, every emotion, even the false moves: They're all generic.
  19. Johnny English Reborn
    After a fast, funny start, the new sequel, Johnny English Reborn, proves to be more of the same.
  20. Battleship
    If only there were more genuine rah-rah fun involved, instead of just endless, thudding, seen-it-all-before mayhem.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That's My Boy
    Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
  22. Our Idiot Brother
    It's all emotionally counterfeit, and that bogusness infects the comedy.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    I Don't Know How She Does It
    Occasionally veers so far into absurdity that it manages to make its central character - capable, smart, working mom Kate Reddy - look like a nitwit.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of Getting By
    If the director had brought any toughness of perspective - or at least the self-lacerating humor of 2002's "Igby Goes Down,'' still the reigning champ of screwed-up-Manhattan-prepster films - we might be able to digest George's follies without cringing.
  25. American Reunion
    The directors don't know how to make this new plot funny or infectious. Most promises of comedic pleasure go as unfulfilled Stifler's T-shirt. This movie hasn't a clue where to begin the donation process.
  26. Man on a Ledge
    You could cast this movie with potato chips and still get cheers when one of the bad guys is cuffed. It doesn't matter that none of it is to be believed.
  27. Safe
    Writer-director Boaz Yakin delivers his conflicting elements mostly as intended, and with obvious ambition. But he fails to take care of certain fundamentals - most problematically, coaxing out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and young newcomer Catherine Chan.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Movie 43
    The line between gross-out humor that's inspired and the kind that's witless is fine indeed, and Movie 43 obliterates it with poop and movie stars.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    It's a working illustration of what differentiates movie stars from TV stars. When we buy a ticket for a George Clooney movie, it's because we want to see George Clooney (or Emma Stone or Tom Hanks or whomever). The real stars of "Glee," on the other hand, are the characters, not the actors.
  30. 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.
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