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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Express
    Has Dennis Quaid really never played a college football coach before? With his handsome, craggy face and likable intensity, he was born for the job, and he's the main attraction in The Express.
  2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren't fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity.
  3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    In Die Hard With a Vengeance, McTiernan stages individual sequences with great finesse (there's a terrific bit with Willis and five thugs in an elevator), yet they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole.
  4. Lights Out
    This movie purposely inspires viewers to think about serious topics, and then disregards the consequences of doing so, undermining the whole enterprise. The final physical sensation is not terror or relief, but disgust.
  5. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
    With Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce now in the roles once occupied by Johnny Depp and the late Jean Rochefort, Don Quixote turns out to be a pretty typical Gilliam film: whimsically daffy, frantically overstuffed, and art-directed to within in an inch of its life. It’s often transporting, but even more often exhausting.
  6. Splinter
    A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment.
  7. (Untitled)
    The whole cast is museum quality, and the ''music'' performances are pitch-perfect in their dissonance.
  8. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Bouncy animation and catchy songs keep the film from tasting too much like spinach.
  9. The Safety of Objects
    The disciplined performances play against schmaltz, and the casting is inspired.
  10. Session 9
    A marvel of vérité nightmare atmosphere.
  11. Shanghai Knights
    This is an action-comedy sequel so indefatigably preposterous and farklemt -- as they say in certain Upper West Side saloons -- that it actually improves on the original.
  12. Gozu
    Not until the last 20 minutes does Gozu come fully alive. A man has sex with a seductive beauty, who then gives birth to...well, let's just say it's a sight that may take time to fight its way out of your head.
  13. Man on the Moon
    Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
  14. Leaves of Grass
    The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition.
  15. Men in Black III
    MIB3 is one giant leap for mankind because Josh Brolin shows up to play the younger Agent K. And he just nails the feat, triumphantly creating a riff on/homage to the Tommy Lee Jones-ness of K that goes much deeper (and funnier) than a simple imitation of drawl and speech patterns.
  16. Big Fish
    The movie is a gently overstuffed cinematic piñata, crammed with tall tales -- with giants and circuses and fairy-tale woods, plus a huge squirmy catfish, all served up with a literal matter-of-fact fancy that is very pleasing.
  17. Snowden
    It somehow manages to make a fascinating, utterly contemporary narrative feel like old news.
  18. Lawless
    Hardy, speaking in low, flat, almost musically macho tones, has the bruiser charisma of a caveman Kevin Costner. It's not the money he's clinging to - it's the freedom.
  19. Love and Other Catastrophes
    A slight romantic comedy about five winsome Australian university students who fret and joke about their romantic woes when not talking about movies and cinematic theories. Each has a charming quirk — one (Frances O’Connor) is a cute lesbian, another (Alice Garner) is writing a thesis on Doris Day — but none is deeper than a bag of Reese’s Pieces.
  20. Brothers
    Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it's lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought dramatic twists until it begins to creak under the weight of its presumed significance.
  21. 20 Centimeters
    Here's yet another self-consciously ''Almodóvarian'' confection, studded with small odes to the glory of self-creation.
  22. A Hologram for the King
    If it sounds like Hologram is basically about a middle-aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East, well, yes, it is that. But if you squint hard enough, it’s also a little bit more.
  23. Happy Death Day
    Happy Death Day is directed with vim, vigor, and heart by Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), and boasts a winning central performance from Rothe.
  24. The High Note
    The movie has its moments, some of them genuinely delightful. Still, there's a world where The High Note could have struck a stronger, deeper chord, and resonated.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Stepmom
    Older and younger movie star snipe and glare at each other with little subtlety, and little chemistry either. The two characters appear to be skirmishing only because they're supposed to by convention.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Thunderheart
    The movie boasts a number of shoot-outs and a car chase leading to the final showdown, but it’s more than just an updated cowboys-and-Indians picture, due in no small part to Apted’s grasp of the situation’s complexity.
  27. Eden
    Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension. Inevitably, with such an act, a few plates are bound to break.
  28. Prime
    Not one bit of the story tracks. But with these women in these roles, you're asking for truth?
  29. The Rock
    Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage inject tasty bits of personality into their roles.
  30. Jumanji: The Next Level
    Even if The Next Level doesn’t set a new high score, it still proves this franchise isn’t out of lives just yet.
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