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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. Brad's Status
    When he finally learns to settle into the moment, to find contentment in the things he already experiences, it's a beautiful and quiet revelation, rendered with Mike White's singular sensitivity and gentle touch.
  2. Apollo 18
    Many will find Apollo 18 silly and derivative. It is. Yet it's also a break from the usual hyperbolic, down-your-throat brand of silly and derivative scare movies.
  3. Spies in Disguise
    A strange tonal mashup that turns the hypermasculine and hyperviolent world of glamorous spies, in the vein of James Bond or “Mission: Impossible,” and turns it into kid-friendly family entertainment.
  4. The Rum Diary
    There isn't a sophisticated or "adult" perspective to be found in The Rum Diary.
  5. World War Z
    The stakes are high and the excitement's there and the results, as previously stated, are messy but fairly entertaining.
  6. Play It to the Bone
    Fghting your heart out at the end of this movie can't win the prize or the crowd.
  7. Amen.
    Costa-Gavras' powerful, awkward Amen is a dramatically uneven historical thriller.
  8. Penelope
    I wish it were truly special instead of an interesting near-miss.
  9. Becoming
    There’s no way to experience Becoming apolitically, not now. You don’t have to consider it first-rate documentary filmmaking of any sort to feel something watching it.
  10. The Losers
    The movie is ALL revenge, all the time
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Guardian
    Sometimes you want to buy an extra-large popcorn and settle in for a big budget Hollywood blockbuster replete with entertaining explosions, undemanding dialogue and completely unrealistic action sequences. If all that sounds like gloriously uncomplicated fun, The Guardian is your movie.
  12. The Commitments
    It looks like director Parker, who can be quite ambitious (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise), is coasting this time, merely reworking his big hit, Fame.
  13. Silverado
    Silverado is a completely successful physical attempt at reviving the western, but its script would need a complete rewrite for it to become more than just a small step in a full-scale western revival. [10 Jul 1985, p.5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Boiling Point
    Despite its title and promotion suggesting explosive action, Boiling Point is an almost leisurely thriller. It has less to do with Wesley Snipes' inner roilings than with writer-director James B. Harris' cool, sardonic view of criminology. [21 Apr 1993, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Only the Strong Survive
    The frustrating part is that Only the Strong Survive includes at least as many mundane moments as soul-stirring ones -- and the film isn't much more than a collection of moments.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    At least the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is fun -- but only as long as you don't expect much. Take it from me: The ride is better.
  17. Project X
    The drama is predictable, and the confrontations lack rational dialogue. In other words, this is just of the sort of movie that a 9-year-old would probably enjoy. [1 May 1987, p.A]
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  18. Late Night
    Amiable if frustrating picture.
  19. The First Purge
    The latest “Purge” is an erratic, fairly absorbing and righteously angry prequel.
  20. Winter Passing
    It's just OK. Not great. Not awful. Not particularly memorable. Not entirely forgettable. Just OK.
  21. Knives and Skin
    A different editing rhythm (and a less narcotic musical score) would substantially change the personality of this movie, for better or worse.
  22. The Apprentice
    It’s an actual, conflicted and sporadically insightful film, dramatizing what made Trump Trump at an especially impressionable period in his rise.
  23. Arctic Tale
    Watching bear cubs and walrus pups struggling to survive against increasingly tough odds, and on ever-slushier ice shelves, has both its shamelessly manipulative side and its dramatically necessary side, as handled here. This proves one thing: Unlike global warming, some stories really do have two sides.
  24. Rounders
    Lazy, predictable and even dumb about what happens away from the tables. [11 Sept 1998]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Him
    This movie looks so good, it’s tempting to overlook things like character, story and theme. As a purely sensorial experience of sound and image, it’s sensational. As a searing examination of the body horrors of football, fandom and fame, it’s weak.
  26. The Armstrong Lie
    The Armstrong Lie gets going, and gets pretty good, when Gibney is able to focus on the 2009 Tour de France itself, a race fraught with old rivalries and backstage dramas. It's the movie he set out to make in the beginning, after all. But getting there is tough going.
  27. Lady Jane
    There`s nothing really seriously wrong with the movie, save for the casting of Elwes. Lady Jane simply states and restates its premise, and then it`s over in a predictable manner.
  28. The Promotion
    Then there's screenwriter Steve Conrad. He's interesting. He likes his protagonists to suffer a little en route to finding a better place, and not in the usual sitcomic ways.
  29. Bullhead
    Schoenaerts is often affecting and just as often scarily intense. The film's intensity, by contrast, beams on and off.
  30. Unforgiven
    Individual scenes work, but the movie seems overstuffed-why is the Harris character necessary-and halting.
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