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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. Johnson Family Vacation
    Boring, mediocre movie.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hot Chick
    Faris is delightful, in fact, and she steals the movie right out from under Schneider.
  3. The Collector
    Another helping of egregious slicing and slashing.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peppermint
    Garner bulls her way through the film with determination and a minimum of facial expressions, like someone who’s been told to clean up something awful and just wants to get it over with. So what if Charlize Theron did it better in “Atomic Blonde,” last year’s female-led brawler that is in every conceivable way superior to Peppermint?
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    New in Town
    You've seen New in Town before, and you've seen it done better. Still, it's a sweet-hearted bit of anemia, pleasant and obvious, and there are a few honest laughs to it.
  6. Timeline
    The trouble with the movie is basically everything. It's long, sloppy, and -- to both the quantum-physics ignorant and informed -- steadily implausible, never exciting in either its skill or its ludicrousness.
  7. Eye of the Beholder
    Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Driven
    When the film predictably limps across the finish line, you're left with the impression your time would have been better spent sitting in traffic.
    • Boston Globe
  9. Undiscovered
    It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
  10. Answers to Nothing
    None of what we see is at all credible.
  11. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    Compared with last time, the returning team of director Steve Pink and writer Josh Heald practically doodle the gang’s motivations and worse, their surroundings.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    The problem with the "Alien vs. Predator" series is that the humans keep getting in the way.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    This is one schlockfest that may be enjoyed more by casual viewers than by hard-core fans, since writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson breaks with the established mythology of both properties whenever he feels like it. Like it matters.
  14. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
    • Boston Globe
  15. How High
    The biggest problem, ironically, is that even though the plot and the action center on smoking pot, it's not enough of a stoner flick. The concept of getting stoned isn't amusing; watching stoned people is.
    • Boston Globe
  16. L.A. Twister
    Serves up a silly story and clunky dialogue that gets better than it deserves from Jennifer Aspen as Lenny's would-be girlfriend.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Somewhere in Time
    Somewhere in Time is a glossy, flossy and intermittently interesting piece of kitsch which, with more sensitive craftsmanship, could have been one of the more dazzling screen romances of the year. It's too bad that it's held down by its more overt commercial impulses. [7 Oct 1980, p.1]
    • Boston Globe
  18. Pathfinder
    Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"
  19. The Quiet
    Too confused to provide any thrills, even indecent ones.
  20. Scary Movie 2
    Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.
  21. Fool's Gold
    A tedious adventure-romance.
    • 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.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rock the Kasbah
    Rock the Kasbah is a pandering, poorly assembled botch that thinks it’s playing fair by Afghan popular culture but only manages to add insult to the countless other injuries inflicted upon that country. If it were any worse, they’d be screening it as evidence at The Hague.
  24. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Though not everyone agrees, Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” came close to finding the secret for making a movie about the secret of happiness. Peter Chelsom’s Hector and the Search for Happiness tries hard, but fails. Miserably.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Force of Nature
    Force of Nature lives up, down, and sideways to all those demands; it’s hardly a great film, but it keeps you watching, and only partly in disbelief.
  26. Just My Luck
    This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here.
  27. Snow Dogs
    Harmless, if witless, stuff for the kids.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Pulse
    If Pulse is unsurprising as a horror movie (come on: chalky, soul-sucking freaks again?), as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cellphones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot.
  29. The Best of Me
    Isn’t fate a funny thing? Especially when Nicholas Sparks makes it up. Filmmakers love to adapt his stuff because he puts together narratives riddled with contrived coincidences and implausibilities meant to seem like the workings of providence when in fact they are the creations of a hackneyed mind.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anatomy of Hell
    Despite all that onscreen turgidness, Anatomy of Hell is itself so much a matter of the mind that it never rises above theory.
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