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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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  1. Mean Girls
    As it did in 2004, Mean Girls is a playground for a melange of fresh, new talent for whom we hope the limit does not exist. Did we really need another film version? No. But it’s pretty grool that the one we got is such fun.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Roving Mars
    The mission is an impressive coup for NASA - these scientists are smart! - but it doesn't quite slam-dunk as a fully satisfying IMAX experience.
  3. Tortilla Soup
    At times, the movie smacks of a standard-issue Hollywood chick flick, especially in the obligatory scene where the women bond by singing and dancing in a kitchen (to Doris Day's ''Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'').
  4. The Legend of 1900
    It's usually a good idea to avoid anything billed as ''a fable,'' but The Legend of 1900 offers almost enough merits to warrant an exception
  5. I Am Chris Farley
    The film—skillfully helmed by Brent Hodge and Derik Murray and featuring talking-head testimonials from family members, friends, and costars such as Mike Myers and Bob Odenkirk—heralds "Tommy Boy" as definitive and notes how winning a romantic lead Farley is in "Coneheads".
  6. Ask the Dust
    The movie lacks even the misplaced fervor of obsession. It's lifeless kitsch.
  7. First Snow
    First Snow is essentially a short story with a metaphysical twist, but Pearce puts his fears more up front than any actor I can think of.
  8. Hope Gap
    If Bening’s genteel British accent sometimes feels a little wobbly, her character is by far the most vivid force in the film.
  9. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    I'm holding the filmmaker responsible for getting us all back again - to feelings of excitement and delight. Vital as they are, Gollum and Bilbo can only do so much to keep us enchanted. Is Jackson able to sustain the magic in two more installments? I peer into Tolkien's Misty Mountains and embrace the journey.
  10. Shrek the Third
    I love the princess squad.
  11. The Finest Hours
    An intermittently affecting, sanded-edge adventure that feels as if it trundled off the studio production line back when Eisenhower was in office.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Three Faces of Eve
    What seemed steamy in 1957 — a reasonably frank look at mental disorder and repressed sexuality — is today the stuff of Oprah.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Aurora Borealis
    Lewis, in particular, is a charmer; it's a loss that she never became an A-lister. And Jackson is, as always, earnestness itself. The movie would be a quality guilty-gloopy pleasure if it weren't so deadly overlong.
  14. The Tree
    A symbol of the lost father, it looms, protects, and also wreaks havoc when a big branch collapses onto the house. Mostly, it's the expression of a movie that's content to stand still.
  15. The Seagull
    The Seagull is lush and dreamlike, leaving the drawing room for lake, field, and forest. Though we lose some of Chekhov’s claustrophobic talkiness, the dense poetry of his language, Mayer fully captures Chekhov’s sharp humor.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    City of Ember
    The story, which follows two kids who try to save their burg from blackouts, isn't well-executed, losing itself to unclear mythology and sci-fi gibberish.
  17. The Night Before
    In its own druggy, dick-pic way, it’s also a pretty endearing tribute to male friendship — hammy and crude and more baked than a fruitcake, but with a sweetly squishy holiday heart at its center.
  18. Hotel Artemis
    Writer-director Drew Pearce must have done something right to get a cast like this to sign on for what is essentially a loving, highly stylized homage to the kind of camp apocalyptia John Carpenter used to make; the only thing missing here is an Ernest Borgnine cameo and Kurt Russell scowling in an eye patch.
  19. Undisputed
    Undisputed is a shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
  20. Kiss of the Dragon
    This is all grimy, guy on guy fun, right down to the fevered, bad English dialogue.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Myth of Fingerprints
    The first-rate cast is wasted serving up this melodramatic turkey.
  22. American Pie
    A lively, disposable hybrid of the sincere and the synthetic.
  23. May
    Though ultimately too waterlogged with student-film self-seriousness to revel fully in its low-rent joie de cleaver -- nevertheless taps into a furious atavistic energy that reflects well on the filmmaker and his fully committed cast.
  24. Ocean's Twelve
    What's on screen is lazy, second-rate, phoned-in -- a heist in which it's the audience whose pockets have been picked.
  25. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Best of all, a revisit with Jedi makes a viewer appreciate spectacle, presentation, mythology -- that, and the power of a bitchin' helmet to speak volumes in a language even an alien can understand. [Special Edition]
  26. Freakonomics
    As a movie, Freakonomics is like Jujubes for the brain - it starts to get cloying halfway through the box.
  27. Away We Go
    A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen.
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