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For 7,603 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: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Saving Mr. Banks
    Director Hancock knows a few things about directing crowd-pleasing heartwarmers, having made "The Blind Side." This one wouldn't work without Thompson.
  2. Beauty and the Beast
    The problems here, I think, are weirdly simple. The movie takes our knowledge and our interest in the material for granted. It zips from one number to another, throwing a ton of frenetically edited eye candy at the screen, charmlessly.
  3. X-Men: First Class
    Still, the deadliest single element in this film can be traced not to Bacon's character, but to composer Henry Jackson, whose music seems determined to kill us all with waves of dramatic nothingness.
  4. The Prince of Tides
    Part Oscar bid, part vanity project and all pretty silly. Only Nick Nolte, as Tom Wingo, the psychologically blocked Southern high school teacher who is Conroy's protagonist, transcends the circumstances to deliver a performance of skill and commanding sympathy.
  5. Alien: Covenant
    It's a maddeningly uneven picture, with an action climax staged and executed with the air of a contractual agreement.
  6. Monsters University
    No better or worse than the average (and I mean average) time-filling sequel cranked out by other animation houses.
  7. School Ties
    Nobly intended and about half baked, School Ties is a slightly glorified ``Afterschool Special`` that might function as an introduction to the evils of anti-Semitism for sheltered teens.
  8. Deadpool
    The movie's far from dull. But first-time feature director Tim Miller's film serves as critique as well an example of what ails the superhero movie industry.
  9. The Courier
    It zigs when it might zag (unless you’re already familiar with Wynne’s life story), and “The Courier” becomes something much more dark, complex and moving.
  10. Men
    The film is organic, all of a piece and, for Garland, somewhat on the nose and didactic. It’s also haunting in ways you can’t easily categorize.
  11. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    Lord and Miller are two of a small handful of Hollywood screenwriters whose style is instantly identifiable. They’re adept at flicking a dozen jokes in different directions in the same minute of screen time. If “Lego Movie 2” tries too much, and gets lost in its own messages about familial cooperation, that’s the price of their brand of invention.
  12. The Matador
    Works remarkably well as a stylish and unconventional buddy flick--cruising along with wit and wisdom.
  13. Maudie
    Maudie works valiantly, and not entirely convincingly, to suggest a happy-ish marriage, all things considered.
  14. The Town Is Quiet
    The movie may not be as toxic and ultimately hopeless as Todd Solondz's "Happiness," but it also fails to find humor, dark or light, in anything.
  15. Panic Room
    Fincher has a dazzling command of visual storytelling.
  16. Bad News Bears
    The new Bad News Bears may not make you cheer, but it should provide laughs and a good time. Isn't that what some movies are all about?
  17. Young Sherlock Holmes
    The production is first-rate in all technical ways imaginable, but the villain that Holmes and Watson chase is not worth their intellect or time or ours.
  18. The Living End
    The Living End is not a movie even vaguely interested in attracting a wide public. It's a movie meant to please its own niche audience, and at that it seems likely to succeed.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Timecode
    The movie world could use more stunts as entertaining and innovative as this one.
  20. Good Night Oppy
    Despite the somewhat bland nature of the storytelling — it’s not like this documentary is pushing the boundaries of the form — it’s an incredible true story told with care and skill.
  21. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
    Good movies can take us to faraway places; great movies usually take us inside the human mind. "Jo Jo Dancer" is a great confessional movie.
  22. Mortal Thoughts
    In lesser hands, Mortal Thoughts could have been another well-intentioned, star-studded lesson about how women tolerate and rebel against physical abuse. But as directed by Alan Rudolph, the film is more of a nightmare of half-baked schemes hatched by dim-witted characters. [19 Apr 1991, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Wild Grass
    It is craftsmanship incarnate and the embodiment of tonal unpredictability.
  24. Twisters
    The biggest distinction between the first “Twister” and the new “Twisters” is one of conscience: This time, Kate, Javi and Tyler wrestle to varying degrees with how much of their time should be spent on their own pursuits versus helping tornado victims clean up after the latest round of misery.
  25. Dan in Real Life
    As a director Hedges is smart enough to allow his actors to share the frame and interact and let the material breathe.
  26. Get Him to the Greek
    Extremely raunchy, Get Him to the Greek is also very funny
  27. Oh, Canada
    Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls
    "The Movie" is bigger, brighter and boomier on the big screen than the series is on cable, but is it any better? The short answer is no, but that's not necessarily bad.
  29. The Art of Self-Defense
    Stearns grapples with notions of gender, violence and identity. But in this mannered, ironic take, his punches don't land hard enough to leave a mark.
  30. Saving Face
    Younger viewers might be annoyed with Saving Face for not being more in-your-face progressive and edgy. Older audiences will be happy that it's not.
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