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For 7,601 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Boomerang
    Boomerang, a sleek, confident and very funny urban comedy that may not entirely overcome Murphy's more discomfiting tendencies, but at least manages to put them to good use. [01 Jul 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. The Invasion
    Enough with the snatching, already.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Morgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
  4. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    Keener alone finds the truth between the lines of this routine affair. She can't do much about the lines she has to say out loud, but as all first-rate screen performers realize, words are only part of the story.
  5. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD.
  6. Justice League
    The breathtakingly bad Justice League, with its corny banter and terrible effects just might signify a return to that goofy Batman form.
  7. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness.
  8. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Sheridan's ensemble ensures that "Get Rich," the film, comes to life around the edges, if not at its center.
  9. Firewall
    This movie, an efficient time-passer at least until the plot starts obsessing over the fate of the family dog, is more into gadgets than people.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    cleverly conceived and professionally executed and to hell with that. It's a serial killer movie in the dime-a-dozen era of serial killer movies, with the selling point being that the murderer is played by a movie star. This way you'll like the guy.
  11. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Should have worked on our emotions like a scalpel, made us cry and bleed. But, though it's an affecting, polished film, it's not satisfying. [12 March 1999, Friday, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Maid in Manhattan
    The comedy part of the equation is awfully mild, however. This is a movie that aims for warm smiles rather than belly laughs.
  13. Life as a House
    This movie lets you feel something. Like George's house, if not his life, it's built well and full of heart.
  14. The Little Vampire
    An odd little ghoul too cleaned up to survive, a bloodless vampire movie that's mostly lifeless as well.
  15. Latter Days
    An odd mix itself, of contemporary sexual realism and unabashed romantic fantasy. If "Days" works, it's mostly on a sheer fantasy level.
  16. Evergreen
    The entire film is poorly lit, and the melancholy music, much of it from the wonderful Wilco spin-off band Autumn Defense, gives us the sense that things are getting heavy. But in the end, we observe more than feel.
  17. Love Me If You Dare
    It's a pitch-black, Grimm Brothers-style fable that enchants, frustrates and ultimately dares you to love it. Even if you don't, you'll be riveted.
  18. Valiant
    It's perhaps the first animated kids' film that can claim to be "based on a true story."
  19. American Dreamz
    Grant, playing a variation on Simon Cowell, resident meanie on "American Idol" and its inspiration, Britain's "Pop Idol," does what's required with seedy panache. Yet the characterization, both as written and acted, lacks a spark.
  20. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    The wastrel Sparrow ends up both overexploited and underpowered in this fourth outing.
  21. The Paperboy
    To say The Paperboy doesn't work is one thing; to say it's dull is a lie. This movie is berserk, which is more interesting than "eh."
  22. Unforgettable
    It's a uniquely feminine kind of villainy that's transfixed us since classical Hollywood, and Di Novi and Heigl understand it implicitly in order to execute it perfectly.
  23. Sniper
    The result is a strong, amoral action film. [29 Jan 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Click
    Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a screenplay about it.
  25. Blindness
    This film is very different: chilly, methodical, a slave to 10-ton metaphor as opposed to metaphoric provocation.
  26. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    It is a silly film about serious matters.
  27. Pride and Glory
    Full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating.
  28. Sweet Home Alabama
    This movie is phony, phony, phony -- from its Disneyland version of the Deep South to its pious lessons about the values of simple rural living.
  29. Jefferson in Paris
    But, as with any other Merchant Ivory film, this one provides pleasures beyond the ordinary. [07 Apr 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Upside Down
    Without a strong narrative engine, Upside Down ends up exactly where it shouldn't go: sideways.
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