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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. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    The movie's smooth to the point of blandness, but its faces really do tell a story. And having Gere's silverly mane share the same film with Strathairn's is almost too much fabulous hair for one diversion.
  2. Southpaw
    So look for (Francis) at the 2000 games in Sydney, which may provide a more heated ending to this lukewarm story.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Compromising Positions
    There's a good movie lurking somewhere in Susan Isaacs' script of her comic murder mystery novel "Compromising Positions" but neither Isaacs nor director Frank Perry has found it. [30 Aug 1985, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dopamine
    The moody, distinctively San Franciscan Dopamine has other charming little touches -- its humor, its characters, its city life -- that make you want the film to succeed. It doesn't entirely; it's more likable than it is good.
  5. The Young Black Stallion
    There are two good things to say about The Young Black Stallion" It's beautifully shot, and it's short.
  6. Born in China
    The message stays firmly on spiritual questions about the circle of life, but doesn't educate or leave the audience with a call to action about how to personally act to protect these animals, and that feels like a missed opportunity.
  7. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    The movie may lack a lot of things, but it doesn't lack comic timing--or, in its own way, a nose for the news.
  9. Gibel Otrara
    If you are looking for an abundance of eye-gouging, flesh-burning, blood-oozing and head-chopping, not to mention cauldron after cauldron of boiling oil, than THIS is the movie for you. [05 Jul 2002, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Drive
    Drive begins extremely well and ends in a muddle of ultraviolence, hypocrisy and stylistic preening, which won't be any sort of deterrent for those who like its looks.
  11. Gladiator II
    Truly, this is a movie dependent on managed expectations and a forgiving attitude toward its tendency to overserve.
  12. Spun
    Makes you want to run home and shower, but Rourke's performance gets under your skin.
  13. Ocean's Twelve
    Likable as it is, suffers from that modern big-movie vice: overkill.
  14. Moonfall
    First hour: pretty lousy and not much fun. Second hour: pretty lousy but more fun, and the movie has the benefit of getting stranger and stranger as it gyrates.
  15. Flicka
    A modernized version of that great sentimental horse movie, 1943's "My Friend Flicka," and it comes with the shiny trappings, high professionalism and glamorous accessories you might expect...Something is missing though.
  16. Sylvia
    It's a dreary movie about a dreary character, offering little insight into her poetry or the mental illness that ultimately conquered her.
  17. Winter's Tale
    Despite the actors, who at least get some swell clothes to wear, Winter's Tale is a bit of a soul-crusher itself.
  18. Poltergeist III
    Poltergeist at this point is a brand name without a distinctive product to sell-no vivid characters, no unique situations, no look or meaning of its own.
  19. Bad Moms
    Bad Moms keeps settling for less than it should, given the talent on screen. It's lazy, and tonally indistinct; half the time you wish it went further, and risked something with the Kunis character. The other half of the time you may find yourself frustrated with the puerile caricatures filling in the margins.
  20. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Doesn't know how to do what I think it's trying to do.
  21. Moving Violations
    Another slapstick comedy from the folks who created Police Academy by ripping off the comedy style of Airplane. [22 Apr 1985, p.4C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Leatherheads
    Sidelined by a script that plays like an imitation of another era’s artifacts. It’s an oxymoron: a mild screwball romance.
  23. Bottle Shock
    Wine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but Bottle Shock is held together only by Alan Rickman.
  24. The Foreigner
    Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    If only they had allowed their characters to develop naturally after those first mismatched meetings, Km. 0 might have ventured into more intriguing territory.
  26. Of Mice and Men
    If anything, this new film version is cornier and more conventional than the first screen adaption of the novel. [2 Oct 1992, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Veronica Mars
    Most of the clues in Veronica Mars pertain either to Internet sex tapes or the various surveillance uses of the latest tablets. Anybody who works in tech support will probably enjoy the film a tad more than I did.
  28. Sex and the City 2
    I enjoyed these characters more when they were rich, rather than obscenely rich, when their self-involvement and life crises had one foot on planet Earth -- and when they weren't all gussied up like Mae West in "Sextette."
  29. Bang Rajan
    Might be best described as Thailand's version of "The Alamo."
  30. Blow Dry
    A cute, well-acted film that tries to mix tones sharply.
    • Chicago Tribune
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