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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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  1. Anaconda
    There’s a real identity crisis going on here. I can’t tell if director Tom Gormican is making a new horror comedy based on the original movie, a straight remake, or a feature-length fan fiction controlled by its characters.
  2. Christy
    The writing is coy when it should be direct, and the characterizations of the main antagonists are so broad that it reduces Martin to victim-like status.
  3. The Moment
    Unfortunately, director Aidan Zamiri and his co-writer Bertie Brandes are equally bad at mockumentaries and generating suspense.
  4. How to Make a Killing
    How to Make a Killing should be a lot more fun than it is. The murders are poorly staged and unfunny, and Powell’s performance is so one-note and smug that you can’t root for him even if you think his killing spree is justified.
  5. Marc by Sofia
    I suppose that if you’re familiar with the designer and his history, you’ll find this movie entertaining. But there’s nothing here for newbies or those wanting to know more about its subject. I found little of use, so it was a long, dreary slog to get to the end credits.
  6. When in Rome
    It winds up being predictably charmless and forgettable, even as a travelogue or iPod download.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lovely Bones
    The Lovely Bones, then, is something special: A spectacular, cringe-inducing failure as both a book adaptation and a film.
  8. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Grant and Parker stand around as if they're waiting for someone to yell, "Cut.'' He's in one movie. She's in another. Neither is any good.
  9. Law Abiding Citizen
    Like a lot of action-movie directors, Gray lacks the imagination to view the art of cat-and-mouse as more than a chance to play with state-of-the-art war technology.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Couples Retreat
    Everything about Couples Retreat feels plastic, though: the jokes, the trees, the extras, the attitudes. It’s dumbed-down entertainment aimed at a dumbed-down audience - the comedy equivalent of a McMansion.
  11. The Fourth Kind
    The Fourth Kind doesn’t build, instill, or maintain an audience’s fear. It just spends 98 minutes trying to prove that what you’re watching actually happened.
  12. Taken
    Taken? You bet.
  13. Babylon A.D.
    When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Informers
    You come away with only the memory of Christie, the film's perfect California blonde, lying insensate on the beach in the final ravages of AIDS - a potent and frightening image the rest of The Informers can't live up to.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss March
    A sex comedy that appears to have been made by people who've never actually had sex.
  16. Mindhunters
    It's hard to have sympathy for a movie that tosses in the old shower sneak-up sequence or allows its characters to speak as obviously as possible while standing in a pool of red liquid.
  17. 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.
  18. Are We There Yet?
    This gnarly and illogical little sitcom is bound to make any adult reconsider that next outing with the kids.
  19. The Wedding Date
    Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.
  20. Be Cool
    Barely any of it is funny, and if a minute of it is meant in mockery, few of the darts ever find the board.
  21. Dot the I
    A deplorable piece of cynicism whose only point of interest is Gael Garcia Bernal's accent
  22. The Ring Two
    Scares up few chills.
  23. The Amityville Horror
    The latest cannibalization of a popular older horror film.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Lot Like Love
    ''Love" doesn't have a plot so much as it has a concept, scribbled in crayon.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    One could forgive a budget this threadbare, performances this amateurish, a plot this tortuous if the 3-D effects passed the cool test. Sadly, watching ''Adventures" is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses.
  26. Fantastic Four
    What the movie lacks most is a real sense of adventure.
  27. The Cave
    It's ultimately just a rigorous personal training film made by people who don't seem to like movies or the people who go to them.
  28. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The fun of these movies is that Linney often seems too refined for such greasy junk, but there she is anyway, hamming it down as it were.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    HellBent
    A genre cheapie from its digital-video camerawork to its Casiotone soundtrack to its bland, buff cast, the movie is a cultural watershed in a dry gulch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thing About My Folks
    It's a family comedy-drama that wants to pluck the heartstrings but keeps getting tangled in its own tinny sentiment.
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