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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. Michael Jordan to the Max
    A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
  2. Flash of Genius
    The individual components of director Marc Abraham's David-and-Goliath drama are roundly unexceptional; the script, soft and teach-y; the performances, earnest.
  3. Brother to Brother
    First-time writer-director Rodney Evans makes a ballsy leap into historical fantasia, with heartfelt fervor outrunning stray moments of artistic gawkiness.
  4. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's “The Holiday.”
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Back to the Future Part II
    All in all, Future II is another fantastic voyage in a thoroughly entertaining contraption.
  6. I Origins
    It works its own sort of magic. After all, who doesn't want to believe that the soul does have a window, and that if it closes we might open it again?
  7. Casanova
    And if real eroticism is missing - this is a Disney movie, with bosoms heaving more in a gentle parody of heaving than in full desire - the great discovery of this Casanova is Hallström's recovered capacity for play.
  8. War Dogs
    A lot of what makes War Dogs work comes down to Hill, who is operating at maximum density here physically (he reportedly gained weight specifically for the role) but whose unhinged charisma also anchors the movie.
  9. Rubberneck
    The movie is scattershot (intense at some moments, slack at others), but it earns its docu-style creepiness, and Karpovsky's stretch as an actor is daring and authentic.
  10. The Equalizer
    It's the sign of an empty, depressing experience when the only tension is over Bob's choice to use a power drill or a weed whacker for his next kill.
  11. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh did a nice job of directing "Thor," but all he can do here is try to energize the recycled pulp of the script.
  12. Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is an odd amalgam, a top-heavy light entertainment that keeps throwing things at you and doesn't seem too concerned with whether they stick.
  13. The Intervention
    Tears are shed. Laughs are had. Some jokes land better than others. The script wobbles between heavy-handed and touching, but the result is a pleasantly nostalgic throwback that’s saved from its copy-cat tendencies by charismatic actors.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This is one of those follies that go beyond pesky, bourgeois notions of ''good'' and ''bad.''
  15. Cecil B. DeMented
    Has a few viciously funny moments.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Mississippi
    What with Goldberg’s somnambulistic nobility, and the fact that this is yet another civil rights movie in which the struggles of black Americans take a backseat to the heroics of wealthy white guys, Woods’ presence is the least of Ghosts‘ problems.
  17. The First Grader
    Plays more like a teaching tool than a dynamic drama.
  18. Dogfight
    For all the pitfalls it scrupulously avoids, Dogfight isn’t finally very interesting. It’s not just the movie’s plot that’s diminutive. The emotions seem small too.
  19. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    The film’s overall effect lets the person — not the condition — be the real story, one that’s worth sharing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Shockingly nonlinear, boasting a cast of the once great (Lugosi), the never-even-good (Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson), and the unbelievably motley (”psychic” Criswell, cinch-waisted Vampira), its 79 minutes are jam-packed with insanity, and those tin plates on strings that Wood tries to pass off as flying saucers are the least of its delights.
  21. Ezra
    The film is so committed to its view of Ezra as a pawn in the psychotic game of postcolonial Africa that he is never allowed, as a character, to become more than a pawn.
  22. Collaborator
    Donovan, acting with ironic reserve, hands the movie to Morse, who makes his character the kind of crank you can care about just because he's so abysmally lost.
  23. The Kingdom
    So shameless is The Kingdom, ignoring consequence and treating its audience like cash-dispensing machines with buttons to be pushed rather than thinking individuals willing to consider the reality of America's entanglement with the Middle East.
  24. Extraction
    Extraction mostly delivers what its swaggering trailer promises: international scenery; insidious villains; a taciturn, tree-trunk Aussie. And the comfort of knowing that the kids — or at least the one he came for — are probably alright.
  25. Save Me
    Even those of us who find anti-homosexual ''deprogramming'' to be hideously intolerant and naive may find ourselves oddly relieved that Mark is there (in a Christian rehab center).
  26. A Very Brady Sequel
    The most impressive thing about A Very Brady Sequel is the shrewd care that has once again been taken to evoke the look and tone of the endlessly repeated, ultimate ’70s family sitcom.
  27. Mufasa: The Lion King
    The visual effects and animation teams scale a monumental peak here, and their work, at least, is worthy of praise. But Nathanson’s screenplay is a spiral of ever-increasing peril.
  28. Minions: The Rise of Gru
    In a movie that only nominally needs to make sense, those little mango-colored agents of chaos — with their thumb-shaped bodies, jaunty overalls, and inscrutable dialect ("Who are these tiny tater tots and where did they get so much denim?" Gru marvels in his own esoteric accent) — are often the best thing on screen, a loopy confluence of Buster Keaton and Evel Knievel.
  29. Buffalo Soldiers
    A good satire that had the untimely bad luck to be about a U.S. soldier who will do anything it takes to party, except fight for the right.
  30. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into something quite heady in its own bottle.
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