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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 1.1 points 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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    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Chelsea Walls
    As for Hawke's direction, if there is any, it certainly isn't apparent. The shots are frequently bland and uneven, and the players act as though their only instruction was ''Just show up at the set and remember your lines.'' At least they seem to have gotten that much right.
  2. Basic
    Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
  3. Dead Silence
    This new movie is a more credible, less grisly act of filmmaking , but it's a less compelling exercise. It doesn't have the ruthless moral reasoning of the first two "Saw" pictures, however grotesque and specious that reasoning was. But it does have a plot that revolves around a ventriloquist and her demon doll.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Big Momma's House 2
    Completely unnecessary but painless, like dentistry performed by mimes.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10,000 BC
    So, yea, it is a stinker. But it is prophesied that in six months time you shall come across 10,000 B.C.’ in the land of Pay-Per-View. And you shall say: ‘‘Pass the popcorn.’’
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zoolander 2
    This needless sequel amps the silliness to DEFCON-4 levels of frantic surrealism and overstuffs the running time with famous faces. It’s a pop quiz instead of a movie, and it’ll be dated by tomorrow morning.
  7. Valentine's Day
    This is many lousy movies for the price of one.
  8. The Girl
    Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
  9. Snow Day
    Takes a vacation from quality.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About the Benjamins
    All About the Benjamins has: flash, cash, and enough videogenic eye candy to make ''Miami Vice'' look like ''Little House on the Prairie.''
  11. 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.
  12. Safe Haven
    A movie that passably ambles along in generic-melodrama mode before finally insulting audience intelligence one time too many.
  13. Ice Age: Collision Course
    The riot of color here brings to mind what the makers of “Ice Age” delivered with “Rio,” which in turn reminds us that these animators certainly aren’t just one-trick talents. Could be time for them to show us some new ones.
  14. The Real Cancun
    Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie.
  15. Point Break
    For all the adrenalizing positives in this reworked Point Break, inadvertent silliness remains
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Undead
    In Undead, sadly, rigor mortis has set in.
  17. Town & Country
    Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
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  18. Elektra
    As she sashays, mirthlessly, from one thankless confrontation to the next, it's unclear why anyone would find Garner any more deserving of stardom than certain mannequins.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Mr. Destiny
    There's many a comedy to be made about money and the way it changes us and our perceptions, but Mr. Destiny - which wastes agreeable performances by Ron Lovitz and Bill McCutcheon as well as the principals - isn't it. [12 Oct 1990, p.33p]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mummy
    Because the movie’s carrying a heavy load of corporate expectations, it gets pulled in different directions by competing agendas before eventually collapsing into incoherence.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacation
    What’s interesting about Vacation is that it holds on to the original’s acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they’re front-loaded.
  22. Love Hurts
    Love Hurts is an absolute mess, but its hero almost saves the day.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lifeguard
    Writer-director Liz W. Garcia depicts Leigh’s quandary with a heavy hand that gets heavier as the movie goes on, ending with one of those portentous freeze-frames that worked in “The 400 Blows” and never since.
  24. The Bubble
    In his last movie, The King of Staten Island (2020), Apatow was stretching, both emotionally and tonally, and it largely worked. Here he isn’t, and it doesn’t.
  25. My Best Friend's Girl
    There's a cheap thrill in watching Hudson defuse Cook's pig antics with some foulness of her own.
  26. Jonah Hex
    The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie.
  27. Collateral Damage
    Schwarzenegger's mortality for the first time suits him.
  28. Diamonds
    Sadly unworthy of Douglas.
  29. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
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  30. Raise Your Voice
    The movie's enthusiasm is as indelible and shiny as the lip gloss its star wears to bed.
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