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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. In Too Deep
    A weakly scripted shambles.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grumpy Old Men
    Relaxed, valedictory, exquisitely titled, Grumpy Old Men feels like an odd couple's last hurrah.
  3. The Mauritanian
    Director Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) gives the movie both the global sweep of a thriller and the more granular details of a procedural, though in the end hardly any of it takes place in a courtroom.
  4. Imaginary Heroes
    Nothing in Imaginary Heroes rings true, least of all a plot that lightly combines domestic abuse, adulterous pregnancy, teen bisexuality, job abandonment, and a possible case of Mysterious Movie Disease. These are not ordinary people. Or real ones.
  5. Multiplicity
    Ramis’ talented, underused SCTV colleague Eugene Levy makes a brief, welcome appearance as a nuttily dim cement contractor, but he’s a zany interlude in an otherwise muted, unzany tale.
  6. Aladdin
    The ever-quickening half-life of pop culture has gotten so short that we’ve now officially entered the era of diminishing returns. It’s the new normal. What’s old is new again — but not quite as good as you remembered it. Aladdin is…fine, but it has no real reason for being beyond, you know, capitalism. A whole new world, it’s not.
  7. Keeping Mum
    She's no Mary Poppins: Maggie Smith is more like a cheery Angel of Death in the light black comedy Keeping Mum, one of those dutifully daft British diddles (complete with Rowan Atkinson as a vicar) that, except for the blunt sex talk, might have been constructed decades ago.
  8. Piranha 3-D
    I call Piranha 3D ''exploitation,'' rather than a quality scare movie, because it serves up well-timed gross-outs instead of genuine suspense and because the movie has no pretense of providing character, plot, acting, or dialogue that's anything more than boilerplate.
  9. Emancipation
    [Smith's] conviction carries Emancipation a long way, elevating what is essentially a B movie to the realm of something better than its outsize premise: a blunt instrument, maybe, but a brutally affecting one too.
  10. Ma
    Even as the story descends into full bloody camp at its crescendo, Spencer holds the more ludicrous plot threads together.
  11. Lost and Delirious
    Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.
  12. Vanity Fair
    It borders on perky -- a duller, safer tonal choice for the story of a conniving go-getter whose fall is as precipitous as her rise.
  13. Tea with Mussolini
    The film values quips and declamations over natural conversation (or an explanation of how such intelligent women could have been so blind to world events).
  14. De-Lovely
    De-Lovely is something dishy and rare: a biopic about a happy, and even enchanted, man.
  15. Monster Hunt
    The plot is even more nonsensical than it sounds, but the monsters’ high-energy antics and the humans’ martial-arts skills make for a delightfully bizarre adventure romp.
  16. Palindromes
    Then there's Todd Solondz's Palindromes, which is that rare event: a memorable provocation.
  17. Lilo & Stitch
    It’s less a Hawaiian rollercoaster ride and more a winsome, feel-good flick about what it is to find one’s family— and to, in turn, be found.
  18. Lost Highway
    Lost Highway has scattered moments of Lynch's poetry, but the film's ultimate shock is that it isn't shocking at all.
  19. Narrow Margin
    Narrow Margin, despite a sturdy turn by Gene Hackman as a cynical assistant DA, is a thinly scripted procession of train-movie clichés.
  20. Apres Vous (After You)
    Suicidal depression has rarely looked so amusing.
  21. Hysteria
    Whenever Rupert Everett appears as a rich fellow who distinctly does not fancy ladies, it's a hysterical history lesson of the hilarious variety.
  22. We Are Marshall
    We Are Marshall has little of the bone-crunchingsincerity of the recent pigskin rouser "Invincible." This one is more like Unconvincing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Phantom
    Yet the raiders-of-the-lost-bones plot and period detail remind us that post-Indiana Jones, a cliff-hanger needs action more blockbuster than lackluster, plus dialogue better balanced between winking kitsch and comfort-food corn.
  24. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    I'm confounded by the fact that, aside from the Pevensie siblings and their nicely obnoxious cousin, absolutely everything and everyone aboard the Dawn Treader looks one-dimensional.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Penguins of Madagascar
    Aims primarily for the kiddies, racing from one frenetic action sequence to another like some haywire Walter Lantz cartoon.
  26. She's the One
    In the end, we never know why anyone is the one for anyone. And this qualifies as a filmmaking problem, at least for us here on Earth.
  27. The Hudsucker Proxy
    For all its technical bravado, The Hudsucker Proxy is an unsettling contradiction, a ''whimsical'' fable made by acerbic control freaks. It's a balloon that won't fly.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Better Angels
    It feels more like a poem. Or, at times, a symphony. But it's much less effective as an actual movie.
  29. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    It's a Marvel spectacle that manages to deftly balance razzle-dazzle, feel-it-in-your-gut slingshot moments of flight and believable human relationships. There's psychological weight to go with all of the gravity-defying, webslinging weightlessness.
  30. Focus
    Has a topsy-turvy sense of injustice.
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