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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. Cosmopolis
    I just wish Cronenberg hadn't adapted the book on his own. Behind the camera, he does remarkable things, turning Packer's limo into what Cronenberg himself has described as an upscale version of "Das Boot." But the playlets constituting the whole are thick, stubbornly undramatic affairs; the verbiage is lumpy, self-conscious.
  2. Just Mercy
    What’s missing, I think, is a sense of human complication within an inhuman judicial sphere. While Foxx works wonders, especially in his scenes with Jordan, Just Mercy rarely gets under the skin or behind the eyes of McMillian.
  3. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The Hunger Games has completed its tasks well and met fan expectations.
  4. Tina
    The film doesn’t seem particularly interested in who Turner is as an artist, or her creative inclinations and musical instincts.
  5. Reunion
    In adapting the novel by Fred Uhlman, Pinter has created a screenplay that slogs along in a predictable, perfunctory manner and has fashioned a dramatic ending that's too tidily honed.[14 Apr 1991, p.6C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. A Quiet Place
    My favorite moment, an encounter between Regan and one of the monsters in a cornfield, plays with sound and image and tension, creatively. Other bits are more shameless.
  7. Brubaker
    Robert Redford stars as a reform-minded prison warden fighting for his life against a corrupt prison system. Competent but dreary. [11 July 1980, p.8]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Festival in Cannes
    Makes compromises itself, but only because of its small budget and its director's mixed dark-and-rosy vision, at once cynical and sentimental. Yet at least it has a vision -- of both life and cinema.
  9. Red Hook Summer
    It's a scramble, marked by the unruly variety of visual strategies Lee prefers.
  10. The Croods: A New Age
    Because the movie starts at an 11 and doesn’t let up, the runtime feels overly long. However, the voice performances are excellent, especially Cage, who brings his signature sense of yearning pathos to Grug the Neanderthal.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Grumpy Old Men
    Two old people doing old people things, talking about old people stuff, and eating old people food. Sound interesting? Grumpy Old Men is a film that manages to be one of the scariest things I have ever seen. [28 Jan 1994, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Love the Hard Way
    Writer-director Peter Sehr displays obvious directing talent, especially in his use of nonlinear love scenes. He shows the coupling, the approach and release all at once, out of order, mixing the entire seduction ritual into one fluid montage.
  13. Southpaw
    Does it succeed? Sort of. It helps if you don't mind your boxing movies made up of massive granite chunks of previous boxing movies.
  14. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    If Hollywood is really a dream factory, then it's the movie moguls and movie stars who live that dream to the hilt. In the late 1970s few lived quite as large as Robert Evans.
  15. Femme Fatale
    The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself.
  16. Peter Rabbit
    The animation technology is top-notch, but the gentle spirit of Beatrix Potter's books is subsumed into a chaotic, violent mayhem, manically soundtracked to the day's hits.
  17. The Wedding Guest
    The Wedding Guest ultimately just fails to gel into something captivating.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Barney's Great Adventure
    In what may well prove a Titanic for tykes, Barney's sweetness gets spiked with some welcome wit in Steve Gomer's classy direction of Steven White's screenplay. [16 Apr 1998, p.6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Four Brothers
    Proficiently made trash.
  20. The Descent
    You either go for a movie like this or you don't. But though I didn't like it much, I've got to admit that The Descent is a nerve-jangler.
  21. 3:10 to Yuma
    The acting is its chief strength. Russell Crowe brings a cocky charisma to Ben Wade.
  22. Vengo
    Filled with dazzling moments, Vengo never quite reaches the heights those moments promise.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    Under normal circumstances, too many comics spoil the show.
  24. Trust
    His (Schwimmer) film deserves some attention for the remarkable performance from Liana Liberato as Annie.
  25. Dark Blue
    Unlike the intrigue and winding switchback of moral mysteries that defined "L.A. Confidential," Dark Blue travels on flat, predictable terrain.
  26. Junebug
    Sometimes one performance makes a film worthwhile, and Junebug has one: an astonishing, moving portrayal of down-home innocence and optimism by Amy Adams.
  27. The To Do List
    Uber-raunchy but pretty interesting as sex comedies go.
  28. Is This Thing On?
    Other scenes work better, like a joyous birthday party, and a school concert, and there’s an affability layered throughout Is This Thing On? that makes it more of a hangout movie about a tepid midlife crisis than forward-moving drama.
  29. Fay Grim
    Strikes me as something of an elaborate mistake, a wasted opportunity and a script Hartley should have discarded. But I liked it anyway.
  30. Molière
    Moliere transforms into a fuller piece whenever Morante takes center stage.
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