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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Danny Deckchair
    It's a soothing stoner tableau, a fine dropout fantasy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sabrina
    The new Sabrina is both pokier and gauzier than the original.
  3. The Arrival
    The Arrival looks and feels awfully small and cheap. In that way, the movie does feel like those science-fiction classics of the ’50s. But back then, sweaty heroes didn’t utter lines of ’90s dialogue like ”I look like a can of smashed a–holes.”
  4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The early-’60s styles are chic, the Euro locales are swank, and the music cues (including a nod to Ennio Morricone’s Once Upon a Time in the West score) are fantastic. Too bad the plot and the lead performances are so lifeless.
  5. The Brave One
    Everything about Foster's ocular intensity is riveting, but little in this hushed vigilante drama makes sense.
  6. Wolf Creek
    Wolf Creek, an unusually crisp and boldly shot "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" knockoff, looks as ancient and patterned as a druidic ritual.
  7. 39 Pounds of Love
    In moments that have nothing to do with representing the weight of love (whatever that is), the film comes alive: when Ami Ankilewitz isn't a symbol - just a man who, for instance, loves a woman.
  8. Miss Julie
    Director Liv Ullmann's PBS-pretty adaptation of the 1888 August Strindberg play lacks brio but is compelling thanks to its three tough performers.
  9. Minions
    If Minions were a toy, you’d hide its batteries.
  10. Real Steel
    Real Steel is directed by "Night at the Museum's" Shawn Levy, who makes good use of his specialized skill in blending people and computer-made imaginary things into one lively, emotionally satisfying story.
  11. War Machine
    It’s a smart, sharp spitball of a film, but it would’ve been better with a smaller, subtler hammer.
  12. For No Good Reason
    The British illustrator’s process of creating his surreally deranged, truth-to-power cartoons is fascinating, but the rest of the film lacks the same mad spark.
  13. Unknown
    The movie whips up a big old puree of ingredients borrowed from other cinematic recipes.
  14. The Rum Diary
    To the audience, this stuff seems like awfully old news. We're supposed to be witnessing the birth of a great journalist, but Hunter S. Thompson, as his career went on, got swallowed up by his mystique as an outlaw of excess. In The Rum Diary, that myth becomes an excuse for a movie to go slumming.
  15. Ramona and Beezus
    On the other hand, this proud graduate of the School of Cleary Classics wishes that, like the young heroine herself, Ramona and Beezus dared more often to color outside the lines.
  16. Frank & Lola
    Shannon’s intensity is the best thing Frank & Lola has going for it. And it’s almost enough to make it work.
  17. Breaking and Entering
    However admirably Minghella urges a break from complacency and an entry into a state of local/global compassion, his characters are position holders rather than people.
  18. Bamboozled
    Nothing Lee has done is as flashy or as mucked up as Bamboozled.
  19. Hereafter
    The signature Eastwoodian music that the director lays over the proceedings - piano tinkle, guitar pluck, and an echo of Rachmaninoff out of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter - can't hold the assemblage together.
  20. Death Becomes Her
    The trouble with Death Becomes Her isn’t that its comic vision is too dark but that it has no shadings, no acerbic glee. Zemeckis gives nastiness such a hard sell he forgets to take any delight in it.
  21. The Minus Man
    With no climactic showdown and no comforting revelation of motive or reassuring psychoanalytic diagnosis, the nerve-rattling potential of this sly, paranoia-inducing story may sink in only later.
  22. CQ
    Coppola, who has made clever music videos, including the one for Moby's ''Honey,'' clearly had a lot of fun detailing the mod cheesiness of this intergalactic period piece, though the satire would have been more ticklish if ''Austin Powers'' hadn't gotten there first.
  23. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    There are instances when the filmmaker tries for Western iconography and settles for ''Full Monty'' ingratiation.
  24. Men of Honor
    Educational and upstanding, a little overacted and more than a little overdramatized. But it's honorable.
  25. Phone Booth
    It's an energetic stunt of a movie, and it wants to make us sweat like it's 1974.
  26. The Anniversary Party
    As a work of art, the movie, shot quickly on digital video, is genial enough if unrefined.
  27. The Ladykillers
    A lot of good actors have gone to work for the Coens and ended up looking like puppets, but Hanks is too clever for that. He knows that he's playing a concoction rather than a human being.
  28. Troy
    The result is a pageant long but not deep, noisy but not stirring, expensive but not sumptuous.
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