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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. What If
    What If brings up the distinctions among wit, jokes and robotic banter, and this new romantic comedy has a bit of the first and a few of the second, but it's largely a case of the third.
  2. The Ref
    Some of LaGravenese's dialogue crackles, but it's a dry crackle, a hollow cough. And that's despite Leary-and in spite of Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey, two of the best actors around these days.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Russell, who looks younger with each movie, holds his own against the formidable force that is Dakota Fanning.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beautiful Losers
    On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
  5. Music and Lyrics
    Grant and Barrymore are very enjoyable together onscreen. Who would've guessed that Barrymore would turn into such a deft comedian?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sharkwater
    Probably ranks as one of the most frightening shark movies ever---but sharks are the victims.
  7. This Is 40
    It displays a growing sense of fluidity and craft [from Apatow]. ... But much of the script feels oddly dishonest and dodgy.
  8. Cruella
    What we have here is a smoothly crafted error in judgment.
  9. Nanny McPhee
    Nanny McPhee maintains a satisfying, all-ages balance between broad comedy and human warmth.
  10. Onegin
    Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.
  11. Wimbledon
    It's a harmless enough movie, and quite a good-looking one; Bettany and Dunst are an attractive enough couple, even if Lizzie has been written as a selfish little snip and he as a whining man-child.
  12. Strike Up the Band
    Energetic but unusually foolish "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" high-school musical, redeemed by the exuberantly talented Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland combo, as a couple of kids preparing jaw-dropping numbers (choreographed by Berkeley) for a Paul Whiteman radio contest. [12 Dec 1997]
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  13. What Happens Later
    What Happens Later is so deeply heartfelt, and so beautifully performed, that it stirs something within — a hope, not necessarily for an airport rendezvous, but for a moment of healing, the kind that everyone desires and everyone deserves.
  14. The Ant Bully
    It lacks a sharp look and satisfyingly fleshed-out story and compensates with one numbing round of insect- or human-based peril after another.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    The result is a feeling of standing in an OTB with lots of races from lots of places--too many stories calling for attention--instead of the Kentucky Derby, which for two minutes each year focuses the sports world like a laser.
  16. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    The film's occasional toe-dips into real-world politics, sectarian conflict and the horrors of war are demure and unruffling. What's missing is a point of view beyond Hallstrom's interest in making his actors look as attractive as possible.
  17. Viva
    The results are visually exacting if ideologically muddled. Biller's trying to find ways to make the old misogyny usefully ironic. But the acting is so amateurish, partly by accident and partly by design, that the film remains confined to an exercise in replicative style.
  18. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    A contemporary Russian movie that you could honestly call revolutionary, more for its style than its politics.
  19. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
    Ready or Not 2: Here I Come feels behind the ball, not ahead of the game, and unfortunately, this is no escapist, or even cathartic, horror romp. Read the news instead if you’d like a real scare.
  20. Novocaine
    By the end of Novocaine, it’s as if the filmmakers — who have talent, and who are now off and running in a commercial sense — forgot how their movie started: with Quaid and Midthunder getting the material and the screen time needed to hook an audience’s interest, before the jocular sadism commenced in earnest.
  21. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    Carter comes off as compassionate and intelligent. But the complex issues brought up in his book don’t get much more than a superficial debate.
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