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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. The Way Home
    Director Lee has a true cinematic knack, but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly, unabashedly on its sleeve.
  2. Out of the Furnace
    Affleck, in particular, finds something fierce and noble in uneven material and in his character's rage. He's not like any other actor in American movies.
  3. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
    It’s the best film he’s made in years.
  4. Pitch Perfect 2
    It's a two-hour lesson in how to act like a frenemy to your alleged friends. And it's not funny enough.
  5. Mistress
    The satire is finally too thin and familiar (and not just from The Player - most of the observations here have been staples of the Hollywood comedy since the early '30s) to support the movie's pervasive tone of sourness and disgust. [21 Aug 1992, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Piercing
    What a deliciously demented and disturbing drama Nicolas Pesce's Piercing is, dripping with gore and laden with forbidden innuendo.
  7. A Coffee In Berlin
    The film's surprising, enveloping jazz score is often deliberately at odds with Niko's moody outlook.
  8. Dear Frankie
    Doesn't revert to hairpin plot twists or other dramatic trickery to hook us in; Auerbach simply lets us live with her characters-which, it turns out, is reward enough.
  9. Little Jerusalem
    The film, both light-hearted and serious, suggests that freedom comes more easily within restrictions--and that's true of Albou's approach as well.
  10. Atomic Blonde
    It's a shame, because Atomic Blonde is a visual cinematic delight. It's not that it's all style, no substance. But it doesn't seem to know what to do with its substance, and ultimately, Atomic Blonde becomes a film that's all dressed up with just nowhere to go.
  11. I'm Your Woman
    Hart and Horowitz map this hero’s journey onto her growth as a mother, her empowerment proving to be a source not just of strength, but love — a rare commodity in a crime flick.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cachorro
    The audience gets all of the love, with none of the guilt. It's enough to give you faith in family dramas again.
  13. Vitus
    A Swiss movie that flirts back and forth between the French and German sensibilities at play in that nation.
  14. How She Move
    Mainly it’s a very solid dance picture, which is the point.
  15. Anna Karenina
    At its most frantic the cutting and staging here veers perilously close to Baz Luhrmann "Moulin Rouge!" territory for comfort. ... I'd rather have seen Wright's carefully elaborated production on a stage, instead of in a movie partly on a stage.
  16. Bad Influence
    The main performances are fine; it's the script that's cheap. [09 Mar 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    The four stars of Sisterhood are back for this smart, confident second act, based on novels by Anne Brashares.
  18. Friends with Benefits
    I enjoy both Timberlake and Kunis; just this side of manic, they seem right together.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wild Safari 3D
    One caution: If you get motion sickness, beware, as much of the ride is bumpy and there's some hill-climbing and -descending that some might find disturbing, even in the comfort of an IMAX theater seat.
  20. Sade
    A fine, handsome-looking costume drama that works best as a historical account of a brutal era. But as a portrait of the Marquis de Sade, it is not titillating in the over-the-top manner of "Quills."
  21. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is the happiest surprise of this summer so far, a children's film from Walt Disney Productions that effortlessly renews the best tradition of that studio's live-action features.
  22. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    The result is both a success and a disappointment. It's Kind of a Funny Story, divided into neat little daylong chapters in Craig's stay, lacks the staying power and bittersweet layering of "Half Nelson" and "Sugar."
  23. Reel Paradise
    Since Reel Paradise doesn't make the mistake of lionizing Pierson while it keeps up with him and his family, the results stay with you, like memories of an unexpected and surprising vacation.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    As Nirvana's Kurt Cobain acknowledges in the opening quote, without the Pixies there would be no "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
  25. Howl
    It's well-crafted, but I wish the film showed us an additional dimension or two of the central figure, who once said the great challenge in writing, any kind of writing, is "to write the same way you are."
  26. Les Miserables
    The camera bobs and weaves like a drunk, frantically. So you have hammering close-ups, combined with woozy insecurity each time more than two people are in the frame. Twenty minutes into the retelling of fugitive Valjean, his monomaniacal pursuer Javert, the torch singers Fantine and Eponine and the rest, I wanted somebody to just nail the damn camera to the ground.
  27. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Accomplishes what "Snakes on a Plane" did not: It offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title.
  28. Spy Game
    If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm and pizzazz.
  29. Two Brothers
    There's something simple yet miraculous about watching these beautiful animals interact with the wild and each other, even if their actions are being manipulated for the sake of drama. Annaud has taken his film's message to heart: He knows when to get out of nature's way.
  30. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    The movie may lack a lot of things, but it doesn't lack comic timing--or, in its own way, a nose for the news.
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