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For 7,609 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 1.5 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: 5,113 out of 7609
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7609
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7609
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  1. Rush
    It's big, brash and dramatically it goes in circles. The first two may be enough for most people, especially if they're into Formula One racing, to overlook the third.
  2. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    An epic unhinged, and while its best sections suggest a Loony Tune done by Sam Peckinpah and Emilio Fernandez, "Mexico" needs to be even crazier than it is.
  3. Map of the Human Heart
    Ward's ambitions for this project far outstripped the intentions and capacities of its screenplay.
  4. Brain Donors
    A string of slapstick sequences at the end of Brain Donors...finally unleashes its potential for subversive hilarity. But the wait is long and not altogether compensated by Turturro's smooth delivery.
  5. White Christmas
    Chirpy, bland, slightly maudlin Christmas musical comedy. [21 Dec 2001, p.C5]
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  6. Nacho Libre
    The film is easy to take and easy to forget, even with Black running around Oaxaca in turquoise wrestling tights.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Great Ziegfeld
    For sheer lavishness, attention to detail, honesty of purpose, The Great Ziegfeld is to be commended. Where the picture falls down - hard! - is in its fulsomeness. [15 Apr 1936, p.21]
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  8. The Homesman
    This one's a margin Western. Frustratingly uneven, rarely dull.
  9. The American
    The movie is a paradox. It's ostentatiously restrained. You cannot say Corbijn lacks rigor. You can, however, say that when a talented director's approach too precisely mirrors the tightly calibrated performance strategy of his leading player, a movie risks stalling out completely.
  10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    This one's a step down from the original.
  11. Adrift
    They never quite got the script right, but director Kormakur toggles well enough. And Woodley sees it through.
  12. Sweet Dreams
    The point is: When Sweet Dreams' as it is now constructed, is over, we remember and are intrigued more by Charlie Dick than by Patsy Cline, played by Jessica Lange in a performance that comes up short when necessarily compared with Sissy Spacek`s tour de force as Loretta Lynn in ''Coal Miner`s Daughter.''
  13. A Quiet Place: Day One
    If it has the edge over the 2018 and 2020 movies, the reason is simple though her talent certainly isn’t: Lupita Nyong’o.
  14. The Good Liar
    The Good Liar takes its sweet time to pick up steam and pulls its punches in places where it could have been even darker and more daring. Erring on the side of caution isn’t exactly the approach one should take when it comes to suspense thrillers.
  15. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    The second film lingers less determinedly on the degradation of Lisbeth and concentrates more on moving the narrative furniture around. The relationship between the main characters is the glue holding the balsa wood together.
  16. Reindeer Games
    This new heist movie by the great thriller director John Frankenheimer flails around like its own dysfunctional gang of casino robbers.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Anything But Love
    The film wears its heart--and its nostalgia--on its sleeve, but while it's clearly made by people who love old Hollywood musicals, it never stoops to being just a vehicle for smug genre references.
  18. Spirit Untamed
    Spirit Untamed is a sweet film with a moving message about embracing family, heritage and most importantly, yourself, just the way you are, even if that means bravery and recklessness often go hand in hand.
  19. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The filmmaker's access was impressive, the results moderately entertaining.
  20. A Christmas Carol
    Jim Carrey is good as Scrooge. There’s surprisingly little shtick in his performance.
  21. Jurassic World
    Bailed out by a few good jolts, Jurassic World gets by, barely, as a marauding-dinosaurs narrative designed for a more jaded audience than the one "Jurassic Park" conquered back in 1993.
  22. Monte Carlo
    Unlike a few other well-drilled young actress-singers we could name, such as the one whose name rhymes with "Riley Myrus," Gomez knows how to relax on camera.
  23. Unfinished Song
    There's something off in its scenes of Arterton's romantically unlucky loner showing up at Arthur's home, in the rain, distraught. If the movie weren't so determined to placate, you'd think you're in for a daring exploration of an affair between a 30-something emotional cripple and a 70-something sexy beast, unchained at last.
  24. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    Code Unknown is a film you think more than feel. Though each scene is executed close to flawlessly, the cumulative effect is often oppressive. But at the center of the film -- the real reason it was made -- is Binoche, one of the genuinely radiant presences in movies today.
  25. Clay Pigeons
    The movie seems so convinced of its own entertainment value that it has neglected to factor in the elements that make a comedic thriller more than just a facile exercise -- i.e., suspense, tension, heart. Being amused by plot turns is not the same as caring, and Clay Pigeons never inspires you to grab your armrest or catch your breath. [25 Sept 1998]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Kicking & Screaming
    It's Ferrell who is the vehicle, a mow-you-down comic engine, and everyone else is just along for the ride in this marginally effective, starkly unoriginal family comedy.
  27. Bombay Eunuch
    A short film with a unique subject matter. But you won't soon forget its people, its places or its sad, surprising revelations about all the sexes.
  28. The Truth About Charlie
    Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his "Charade" remake, but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh.
  29. Jumanji: The Next Level
    The pleasures of Jumanji: The Next Level are not visual or story-based, as they revolve around the ability of each of our stars and their abilities to do impressions.
  30. Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Coppola has raised the stakes, promising the definitive version of the vampire story. What he has created, however, is fresh and original yet boring, an exercise more in art direction than storytelling. [13 Nov 1992, p. C]
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