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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Moonfall
    First hour: pretty lousy and not much fun. Second hour: pretty lousy but more fun, and the movie has the benefit of getting stranger and stranger as it gyrates.
  2. Flicka
    A modernized version of that great sentimental horse movie, 1943's "My Friend Flicka," and it comes with the shiny trappings, high professionalism and glamorous accessories you might expect...Something is missing though.
  3. Sylvia
    It's a dreary movie about a dreary character, offering little insight into her poetry or the mental illness that ultimately conquered her.
  4. Winter's Tale
    Despite the actors, who at least get some swell clothes to wear, Winter's Tale is a bit of a soul-crusher itself.
  5. Poltergeist III
    Poltergeist at this point is a brand name without a distinctive product to sell-no vivid characters, no unique situations, no look or meaning of its own.
  6. Bad Moms
    Bad Moms keeps settling for less than it should, given the talent on screen. It's lazy, and tonally indistinct; half the time you wish it went further, and risked something with the Kunis character. The other half of the time you may find yourself frustrated with the puerile caricatures filling in the margins.
  7. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Doesn't know how to do what I think it's trying to do.
  8. Moving Violations
    Another slapstick comedy from the folks who created Police Academy by ripping off the comedy style of Airplane. [22 Apr 1985, p.4C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Leatherheads
    Sidelined by a script that plays like an imitation of another era’s artifacts. It’s an oxymoron: a mild screwball romance.
  10. Bottle Shock
    Wine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but Bottle Shock is held together only by Alan Rickman.
  11. The Foreigner
    Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    If only they had allowed their characters to develop naturally after those first mismatched meetings, Km. 0 might have ventured into more intriguing territory.
  13. Of Mice and Men
    If anything, this new film version is cornier and more conventional than the first screen adaption of the novel. [2 Oct 1992, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Veronica Mars
    Most of the clues in Veronica Mars pertain either to Internet sex tapes or the various surveillance uses of the latest tablets. Anybody who works in tech support will probably enjoy the film a tad more than I did.
  15. Sex and the City 2
    I enjoyed these characters more when they were rich, rather than obscenely rich, when their self-involvement and life crises had one foot on planet Earth -- and when they weren't all gussied up like Mae West in "Sextette."
  16. Bang Rajan
    Might be best described as Thailand's version of "The Alamo."
  17. Blow Dry
    A cute, well-acted film that tries to mix tones sharply.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hot Rod
    Sure, it's funny, mainly because it's utterly absurd and meandering.
  19. Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday commits a lot of sins; luckily, it has Curtis and a few others to cover them up.
  20. Man on a Ledge
    The supporting players in Man on a Ledge bring more to the party than the leads, and my suspension of disbelief seems to have gotten hung up in traffic while attempting to cross the suspension-of-disbelief bridge from the Brooklyn side.
  21. Louder Than Bombs
    Louder Than Bombs never quite comes together. You keep waiting for it to gel, but it just drifts along until it drifts away.
  22. Beaches
    Beaches is a melodrama in the original sense of the term: a drama with music. And as long as the melo is handled by Bette Midler, who performs half a dozen songs, Beaches can`t be all bad. But the drama, as transacted between Midler and Barbara Hershey, is pretty dreadful.
  23. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    The only thing this film has going for it is its improbable title and title song about four fighting turtles changed into upright, man-size creatures by exposure to radioactive wastes.
  24. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    It’s a morose sort of screwball comedy with heart, and right there that’s three elements going in related but separate directions.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everybody Says I'm Fine!
    Rahul Bose's pleasant little flick, could have been much more than just fine had the director taken more risks. Instead, this movie pulsates with lost opportunity and unanswered questions.
  26. Faster
    Dwayne Johnson leaves his lovable self behind in the violent but bland Faster.
  27. The Experiment
    For all its slickness, is an R-rated version of "Survivor," "Big Brother" or any number of reality-TV shows that present voyeurism as entertainment and exploitation as insight.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dust to Glory
    Filmmaker Dana Brown's major error is that he doesn't just shut up and get out of the way.
  29. Bewitched
    An uninspired misfire of a TV-series knockoff that, despite its great cast and smart filmmakers, never manages to scare up much magic.
  30. Behind Enemy Lines
    A pumped-up, flag-waving, outrageously hokey and ridiculous -- but sometimes incredibly exciting -- war movie.
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