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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. Jet Lag
    It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood.
  2. People I Know
    As it is, the story collapses like a bad tip to Liz Smith. Still, there's something brash, retro, and even stupidly touching about all the chatty mania, and the way Baitz and Pacino get off on paranoia, conspiracy theories, and the lure of 1960s idealism.
  3. The Hunting of the President
    The film is a sobering chronicle of the depressing circus of persecution and pseudo-scandal that was the Clinton years. But why did the President provoke such ire? A movie with insight into that might actually feel new.
  4. Human Traffic
    The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
  5. The Fighting Temptations
    Makes shameless use of tried-and-true elements -- but it's hardly the same old song.
  6. A Time to Kill
    A slick, synthetic, self-important drama that thinks it is saying more than it is simply because of its subject matter.
  7. Paranormal Activity 2
    Even when nothing is happening, the often dead-silent shots tend to grow scarier the more you look at them.
  8. The Dead Don't Die
    It’s a film that lazily whistles past the graveyard as it brings that graveyard back to ravenous life.
  9. Shorts
    More like a summer-camp theater project than a studio movie.
  10. Sinister
    I knew perfectly well, after a while, what Sinister was going to scare me with. But I got scared anyway.
  11. The Tale of Despereaux
    Too bad the story's such a mess.
  12. Alice in Wonderland
    In the film's rather humdrum 3-D, the place doesn't dazzle — it droops.
  13. A Wrinkle in Time
    A Wrinkle in Time hits that unfortunate un-sweet spot common to big-budget science-fiction/fantasy, where the spectacle feels more summarized than experienced.
  14. The Big Year
    The more I sat through it, the more it won me over in its very benign high-concept way. It's like "City Slickers" remade for the Discovery Channel.
  15. Book Club
    In an industry that defines “mature audiences” as anyone old enough to vote, a movie centered entirely on women over 65 — a sex comedy, no less — feels like some kind of small Hollywood miracle.
  16. Blackbird
    The last 15 minutes are frankly devastating — catharsis, thy name is ugly-cry! — but it all feels a little manipulative and thinly told in the end; Nancy Meyers reset in the key of tragedy.
  17. Beowulf & Grendel
    A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.
  18. Alpha Dog
    Cassavetes throws in everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer -- slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split screens.
  19. Mister Lonely
    None of the faux icons comes close to being a character. Instead, they are contrasted with a group of nuns who skydive without parachutes. Could this possibly be a metaphor for Korine's filmmaking? It certainly goes splat.
  20. When Brendan Met Trudy
    The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
  21. George of the Jungle
    Hits you on the head until you laugh.
  22. Save the Last Dance
    This wan, formulaic teen movie from ''Metro'' director Thomas Carter is afraid to pump up the volume on its own interracial, hip hop Romeo and Juliet story, lest it challenge even one sedated viewer or disturb the peace.
  23. Ella Enchanted
    The hoot and giggle of a girl-power fairy tale blended from potions of ''Monty Python,'' ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,'' and ''Shrek.''
  24. The Blind Side
    A feel-good movie that never stops feeling good. The film is based on a true story (it was adapted from a nonfiction best-seller by Michael Lewis), but you never feel that Hancock has honestly captured what's true about it.
  25. Soul Surfer
    Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie.
  26. Ava's Possessions
    Krause’s deadpan wit, coupled with the inspired scenes at Spirit Possessions Anoymous, make Ava’s Possessions a fun, fresh take on a genre staple.
  27. Mousehunt
    The charms of Evans (from 1995's oddball Funny Bones) and Lane (who's at his best playing to the balcony) are lost in all the detailed hubbub.
  28. Alita: Battle Angel
    This manga adaptation is a tired science-fiction odyssey, with bland digital effects piled onto a sappy non-story that feels like a two-hour elevator pitch for a 70-film franchise.
  29. The Book Thief
    It would make for a pretty ghastly pageant if not for smart, understated turns by Watson and Geoffrey Rush as the charmingly Teutonic couple who rescue both Liesel and a stranded Jew (Ben Schnezter) — not to mention the movie itself — with honorable matter-of-factness.
  30. Delicacy
    The two stars appear to be as bewildered by the turn of events as we are.
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