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For 6,821 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,008 out of 6821
  2. Mixed: 3,655 out of 6821
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6821
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  1. The Call of the Wild
    A sentimental but solid dependable retelling of an oft-told tale, it doesn’t do anything radical with the material but gets by on well mounted set-pieces and Ford’s grizzled gravitas.
  2. Don't Worry Darling
    Pugh is superb, while Wilde confidently steps up to a bigger subject and budget to deliver a slick, beautiful film. It doesn’t quite stick the landing, but its flight to that point is fascinating.
  3. I Feel Pretty
    I Feel Pretty is an intermittently funny vehicle for Schumer’s talent that never really gets to grips with the ramifications of its high concept. Its heart is in the right place, but its head is somewhere else.
  4. The Mountain Between Us
    Two compelling leads and a mix of adventure and romance. It’s a pleasant experience, if not one that will linger long in the memory.
  5. Blues Brothers 2000
    Nothing Landis can do makes up for a limp plot bolstered by distinctly Cannonball Run-ish car smashes and an irritating sprog. And the movie's not even out in the year 2000.
  6. Black Nativity
    Despite the odd rip-roaring tune and some sturdy performances, this yuletide tale is as memorable as last year's sprouts.
  7. Night at the Museum
    This energetically charmless 'family' fantasy lies there dead on screen, occasionally twitching at a funny line.
  8. F/X2
    It's all totally farfetched and skates imperturbably over several questions of logic that will spring unbidden to the most accepting mind. But it's entertaining, inconsequential fun.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rock Dog
    You’ll long for a slightly smoother animation style (Pixar won’t be quaking in their boots), but this surprisingly fun yarn will undoubtedly have youngsters reaching for the nearest guitar.
  10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    This spoof vampire flick's sole joke is that the heroine (Kristy Swanson) is a blonde, L.A. airhead rather than a beefed-up stake-toter, mentored by Donald Sutherland's deadpan Watcher.
  11. The Proposal
    Despite good moments and likable leads, this lacks both heart and humour in a confection that smacks of the over-familiar.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Strangers: Prey at Night
    With its infuriatingly dim-witted characters and generic slasher movie feel, The Strangers: Prey At Night is a surprisingly tame and forgettable rehash. While its superior predecessor managed to boast chills, this only boasts clichés.
  13. Slam Dance
    A patchwork of a movie that ultimately knows where it's going, but doesn't really know how to get there.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    A turgid action sequel that loses sight of plot and characters in its humourless efforts to impress.
  15. Mary Magdalene
    An interesting new take on a very well-known tale and a praiseworthy act of revisionism, but one which doesn’t ultimately deliver on its early promise.
  16. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    Globe-trotting but not adventurous, action-packed but not remotely exciting, utterly overstuffed and completely paper-thin. Nuke it from orbit.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kiss Me, Guido
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shark Tale
    Although the vocal performances often amuse and delight, the overall design is charmless.
  19. Morgan
    It’s well designed and shot, but in service of a story that never coalesces into something intelligent or compelling.
  20. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Lazy but functional tween fare.
  21. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Slavishly follows every rule of the kids’ fantasy franchise genre, but it’s a well-executed and imagined world. Bet the sequel’s darker.
  22. Haunted Mansion
    Resembling a kids’-birthday-party remake of 1973's The Legend Of Hell House, this suffers from being not that funny or spooky. Its saving grace is a cast you’re happy to spend time with.
  23. Willow
    Willow is not without its charms - the effects are more than special, the set-pieces suitably epic but it just doesn't fulfill the promise of certain other fantasy films.
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  24. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    Domestic chills, body horror, paranormal scares and gore-drenched action combine in a very distinct but rather uneven — and at times contentious — take on a classic monster icon.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pink Flamingos
    John Waters was way ahead of his time with this corruscating '70s vision of small-town Americana.
  26. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Carrey's back on top slapstick form and brews up great chemistry with Leoni.
  27. Sgt. Bilko
    Not fractionally as clever or as fast-paced as the television series upon which it's based.
  28. Accepted
    Mildly amusing at best and a criminal waste of a great concept.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    While the characters sometimes feel roughly drawn, the casting is spot on.
  30. Chaplin
    Sir Richard Attenborough's long-in-the-making account of the life of Sir Charles Chaplin is a film you desperately want to like, but it emerges as a big, shiny, old-fashioned biopic that ultimately fails either to illuminate the genius of its subject or to excite as a story.
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