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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. Shoot 'Em Up
    It sets a tone, all right. A lot of gamers (sorry, "filmgoers") may well enjoy writer-director Michael Davis' ultraviolent lark. It's not meant to be taken seriously. But films like this are worth taking seriously because they're genuinely cruddy and hollow and, yes, vile.
  2. Marked for Death
    Marked for Death is, even by the xenophobic standards of the recent action genre, uncommonly racist and misogynistic.
  3. Broken City
    For an hour or so, aided by the autumnal glow of Ben Seresin's cinematography, director Hughes maintains a firm handle on the story's turnabouts. Then the script goes a little nuts with coincidence and improbability.
  4. Big Bad Love
    There's a sass and bite to Winger's acting, a grinning intelligence, unabashed sexiness and total immersion that make her one of the movies' few hipster female stars.
  5. The Way of the Gun
    What pulls us along through the inky shoals of The Way of the Gun? Sheer style, plus the movie's refusal to play nice.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Good Boy!
    A tearily adorable canine valentine.
  7. The Grudge
    A master of atmosphere, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu leads his audience along on a celluloid leash to his pitch-black attic of horror, inviting each hair on the back of your neck to stand up.
  8. The Mummy
    Packs so much hell-for-leather action, gorgeous Moroccan scenery and eye-popping Industrial Light and Magic visual effects into its two hours that, after a while, I began to get tired of it.
  9. Bohemian Rhapsody
    It's the centrifuge around which the rather uneven film whirls, and Malek keeps it going with his sheer will and talent, aided by a parade of legendary Queen hit singles.
  10. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    It's not very funny, but your kids might like it.
  11. Gladiator
    The movie`s underlying message seems to be that racial harmony can best be achieved by allowing white boys to beat the stuffing out of minority kids- that`s what really earns their love and respect. There must be a better way.
  12. Hancock
    Not even Smith's charisma can mitigate the chaos that is Hancock.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Callas Forever
    Sometimes it's best to let sleeping divas lie.
  14. Antichrist
    I’m inclined to agree with a colleague who told me he could swing with Antichrist when it was simply unstable but couldn’t go with it when it turned insane.
  15. Bullet Train
    The spirit’s almost there to pull it off. But the movie does grind on.
  16. Four Brothers
    Proficiently made trash.
  17. Sleuth
    Caine and Law may not be playing human beings, but Pinter’s sense of humor is at least more interesting than Shaffer’s. Caine in particular appears to enjoy honing his cold-eyed stare.
  18. Amsterdam
    David O. Russell’s Amsterdam is very plush in the looks department. Enjoying the costumes and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s lighting and some of Russell’s shot designs will get you through it. But only if you don’t have to listen to it, or track it, or believe in the people on screen.
  19. Mars Needs Moms
    On the whole, I'd rather be on Pluto, which isn't even a planet.
  20. Django
    A more honest script might’ve supported Reda Kateb’s laid-back, medium-effective portrayal of Reinhardt more fully. As is, he’s depicted as an artist man floating through his awful times, living for the music.
  21. Flannel Pajamas
    Love can be a battleground, and, despite its homey-sounding title and gentle, almost nonchalant air, Jeff Lipsky's Flannel Pajamas gives us a series of messages from the front.
  22. Kalifornia
    Kalifornia is that deadliest of combinations: a pretentious B movie. It repeatedly smacks the viewer in the face and then pretends that it has some intellectual reason for doing so. [03 Sep 1993]
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  23. Downhill
    The themes that are unspoken, gestured at and repressed in “Force Majeure” are drawn out and made broad, obvious and slapstick in Downhill, which spoon-feeds the lessons of the dark-ish comedy and cuts short the plot for the easiest-to-digest ending.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Man Who Copied
    A sad, wasted movie.
  25. Bedazzled
    As for Ramis, he's no Stanley Donen. He can make us laugh, but he can't make a movie dance.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. China: The Panda Adventure
    The landscapes and backgrounds of the Min Valley and the Nanking Road, not to mention the cuddly pandas themselves, are the big-ticket items here.
  27. Harvard Man
    Toback's films deliver a lot of bang for the buck. He's one of the few serious and original directors who can mix group sex and talk of existentialism; a fast-paced basketball sequence cut with scenes of Mafia members plotting a hit; and an in-class philosophy lecture stylishly edited with Alan's memories of a contradictory in-bed discussion.
  28. Harrison's Flowers
    A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war, with battle scenes that have the immediacy and impact of the famed opening sequence of "Saving Private Ryan."
  29. Poltergeist II: The Other Side
    Poltergeist II offers no fresh hooting interest. To put it simply, there is nothing to like about Poltergeist II.
  30. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    By using the author's name [Branagh] sets us up for something closer to the text of the Gothic thriller than James Whale's classic 1931 horror film. But Branagh's version is too respectful and ultimately, well, lifeless.
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