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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. Walking with Dinosaurs
    However well-intentioned the movie may be, it spills over with flat cutesy humor, making a slog out of an experience that should be filled with wonder.
  2. Unforgettable
    It sounds like the movie itself: contrived, implausible, derivative, and — even though both the first-time director Denise Di Novi and screenwriter Christina Hodson are women — misogynistic.
  3. 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.
  4. The Garfield Movie
    The somewhat inappropriate story won’t matter to youngsters who’ll be hypnotized by a color scheme so bright you need sunglasses to view it.
  5. Final Destination
    Starts by cheating death and ends by cheating us.
  6. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
  7. Vanilla Sky
    May not emerge as the biggest disaster of the holiday movie season, if only because we haven't yet seen all the other year-end films. But it is a huge high-energy misfire, bringing Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Crowe to earth with a thud.
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Space Chimps
    Short, cheap, weird, and passably diverting.
  9. Gamer
    For long stretches of the PlayStation-minded Gamer, the action does drag.
  10. Catwoman
    Watching [Berry] run around in that getup I felt embarrassed, the way I do for people who put on makeup before climbing a StairMaster -- it's too much.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casa de mi Padre
    It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness.
  12. Armageddon Time
    The self-congratulatory, back-patting nature of this film is what makes it so insulting.
  13. Dune: Part Two
    Just as in the first film, I was put off by the white-savior narrative (Stilgar’s fervent belief quickly becomes grating), and the Hans Zimmer score that sounds as if Arrakis were in the Middle East rather than space.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Naked in Ashes
    The film pulls off the remarkable feat of immersing a viewer in their world without providing any insights whatsoever.
  15. Baggage Claim
    “You don’t need a man to define you!” Very true, and so much for feminism. The rest of the film takes a long, convoluted, predictable, and mostly unfunny route to prove that the opposite is the case.
  16. Flanders
    A powerful film of suffering and sacrifice and desperation. But it's vacuous, banal, and, where its mix of sentiment and grisliness is concerned, rather despicable.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Filth and Wisdom
    Worst of all, the movie's simply not very shocking. Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    My Bloody Valentine
    Lussier stages his movie not so much around nail-biting moments as novel ways to fling entrails at his viewers. But if you take pleasure in such mindless gore, there must be worse ways to spend 100 minutes.
  19. 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.
  20. Joe
    Joe is one more in the line of Southern Gothic miserabilism that includes “Winter’s Bone” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” films that many have praised but some find condescending.
  21. The Purge
    The problem with high concepts like this is cooking up a story and characters to go along with it.
  22. Three to Tango
    Trips early and never gets up off the floor.
  23. Treasure
    Julia von Heinz’s direction can’t handle the film’s tonal shifts, and the screenplay (co-written by von Heinz and John Quester) centers on two very poorly written leads who clash in ways that are supposed to be comedic but are mostly infuriating.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    The producers - Fox Films and the usually reliable Walden Media - have tried to gin up the story for multiplex audiences. They've succeeded in making a movie for no audience at all.
  25. Captain America: Brave New World
    While Lumbly brings a refreshing amount of Black anger and cynicism to his performance, Mackie is stuck in a kumbaya mode designed to not offend white viewers. It may be a brave new world, but it’s the same old story.
  26. 21 and Over
    Among the ingredients “21” is missing: the infectiously random silliness of a Zach Galifianakis, the smug hunkiness of a Bradley Cooper, and any sort of Vegas-y gloss whatsoever.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That's My Boy
    Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
  28. A Question of Faith
    Writer and director Tim Disney raises a provocative point about how radical and inconvenient true faith can be.
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  29. Freedomland
    An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is.
  30. Species
    Although Species benefits from a new generation of computer-generated visuals, it can't hold a tentacle to Alien. Alien was more old dark-house thriller than sci-fi. Species turns into just another day in the LA pest-control biz. [07 July 1995, p.28]
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