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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. Annabelle
    Each time a character gets tossed in the air by some manifestation or another, the effect is cheesy. Still, I've seen worse. For the record, the violence in Annabelle is far less copious and sadistic than the stuff in the Denzel Washington movie everybody's going to.
  2. Monster's Ball
    A serious movie made by seriously talented people, and I never quite came 'round to it.
  3. Focus
    It's a good film but an over-obvious one. I wish I'd liked it more.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Gemini Man
    Gemini Man isn’t bad, but two Will Smiths — when one of them’s computer-animated — somehow feels like 66-75 percent of a real movie.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Krush Groove
    A perennial problem with music-oriented movies is that the excitement of a live performance so seldom translates successsfully to the screen, and rap is no exception. There are plenty of big names involved in Krush Groove, but the music alone isn`t able to carry the film, and the plot certainly can`t.
  6. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
    Musical bio of the early 20th Century dance team; their weakest. [03 Nov 2006, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Office Christmas Party
    Office Christmas Party, which delights in a grotesque carnival of the worst behavior, and still has its heart firmly in the right place.
  8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
    Even if Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour represents a triumph of novel distribution more than a triumph of the concert-movie form, its impact will be fascinating to chart.
  9. Me Myself I
    Far too self-absorbed a picture.
  10. Skin Deep
    There is one hilarious sight gag involving prophylactics, and one can't argue with the film's sobering message, but otherwise Ritter's character is mostly a bore. [3 March 1989, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Superman Returns
    Superman Returns has everything going for it except surprise.
  12. Eragon
    Eragon is a bit cheesy, but I rather liked it. It's sincere cheese... The special effects -- which include glowing-eyed heroes and villains, and flights over the mythical land of Alagaesia depicted in "dragon vision" -- are refreshing in their slightly out-of-date air.
  13. How to Make a Killing
    Ultimately, Ford hedges his bets with How to Make a Killing, and lands in an unsatisfying no man’s land.
  14. Shallow Grave
    There's something in Shallow Grave that is admirable, beyond its obvious display of youthful talent. [24 Feb 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil.
  16. 200 Cigarettes
    Very much a looking-back movie; its most obvious model is "American Graffiti." But if you know that particular slice of early '80s Manhattan, you may be as amused as I was. [26 Feb 1999]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Man of Steel
    Snyder films the violence in Man of Steel the way he films most of the rest of the picture: Like a man chasing tornadoes and not even trying to keep subjects in frame. It's a choice, and not a bad one, necessarily — the Smallville farm scenes, in particular, respond well to the approach — but by the end it's a visually limiting one.
  18. An Affair of Love
    Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Battle of the Sexes
    The performances of Holly Hunter and Ron Silver had something Stone’s and Carell’s lack: true drive and animal energy, a sense of athletic competitors who mean business even when they’re kidding, or saying they are.
  20. Gracie
    Dermot Mulroney takes the largest male role, that of the driven ex-soccer star and patriarch of the onscreen family. From certain angles he looks like a Shue too.
  21. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    The script is just so-so, but Ball’s directorial eye, clear in the first “Maze Runner” film though largely AWOL in the second, saves the third and final adventure from its own bloat.
  22. Hamlet 2
    The film, which really is sloppy, slips around in terms of tone and goes every which way.
  23. Straight Outta Compton
    When the songs themselves take center stage the movie works. What remains in the wings constitutes another, fuller story.
  24. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    Some aspects of the film are quite entertaining. Garmadon is a great character, especially as voiced by Theroux (his pronunciation of Lloyd as "Luh-Loyd" doesn't get old).
  25. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
    The tweaks are interesting, even if they can’t do anything about larger narrative frustrations.
  26. Lucy and Desi
    The relationship at the film’s center remains a combustible mystery.
  27. Broken English
    Cassavetes, who wrote the script, proves her skill with actors in this woozy push-and-pull of slurred compliments and shaky hopes for whatever lies beyond the next day.
  28. Betsy's Wedding
    As it is, Betsy's Wedding is pleasant fluff when Alda isn't on the screen. [22 Jun 1990, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    How you respond to the totality of Exodus: Gods and Kings will, I suspect, relate directly to how you responded to Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" from 2010. Square, a little heavy on its feet, much of that film held me, even when its bigness trumped its goodness. Same with this one.
  30. Life or Something Like It
    It's dispiriting to see Jolie wasting herself (and a good supporting cast) on a story that requires little more than an average pretty actress who can wear clothes well and laugh and cry on cue.
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