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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. Warfare
    That the specific task at hand in Warfare is so vague is a good reminder that though this happened 20 years ago, there are people right now who have been ordered to enforce political will with violence, and this savagery will likely repeat for all time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Watch on the Rhine
    Lillian Hellman’s WWII potboiler Watch on the Rhine feels dated.
  3. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    For young people looking for something to do besides doomscrolling, you could do far worse. For those old enough to have seen the first one in theaters, this'll be a decent one to stream later in the year.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    East of Shanghai
    The director's handle on visual storytelling remains strong, but at this point, he hasn't quite figured out how to direct dialogue, which is a massive problem for a movie with so much talking.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Strauss' Great Waltz
    Decently crafted, but somewhat stiff and unremarkable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Secret Agent
    It's pleasant to see a story that highlights the pointless absurdity of war and espionage, although some of the jokes are pretty mean-spirited.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Topaz
    Though one of his later films, Topaz suffers from unusual pacing that drags for long stretches, but it also features exemplary Hitchcock suspense sequences, including a brisk escape set piece in Copenhagen and an impossibly tense scene in Harlem.
  8. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Has all the CGI sorcery of a Harry Potter pic, but none of the magic.
  9. Dear John
    Ironically, they make the bond between John and Savannah look so natural that the ''dear John'' turn in their relationship makes even less sense than it does in the book.
  10. The Lovely Bones
    A sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens.
  11. Youth in Revolt
    Timing is everything. And Youth in Revolt is late -- arriving not just at the tail end of the star's sell-by date for this particular kind of character, but more importantly at the tail end of the intended audience's attention span for an inconsequential Sundance-y tale of sexual coming-of-age.
  12. Whip It
    The movie is Drew Barrymore's directorial debut (she also plays fellow Hurl Scout Smashley Simpson), and it's clear she's more attuned to grrrlishness than real athletic power.
  13. Pandorum
    How brazenly can one film rip off "Alien," "I Am Legend," and, somewhat oddly, "The Poseidon Adventure"?
  14. Brothers
    Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it's lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought dramatic twists until it begins to creak under the weight of its presumed significance.
  15. Armored
    Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD.
  16. Extract
    Couldn't Mike Judge, with his acid wit, have come up with a better title for a suburban-schlub comedy than ?Extract?
  17. Amelia
    A frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen.
  18. Taken
    Propulsively outandish thriller.
  19. The Devil's Rejects
    Zombie doesn't pretend to be on the side of the victims. He makes no bones about his identification with the sexy outlaw serial killers.
  20. Blood Diamond
    There is every reason to learn about the link between jewels and death, by all means, but no reason to try to disguise a term paper as entertainment.
  21. The Notebook
    You know what you want to see if you want to see The Notebook...You want to see girls in pretty 1940s dresses, soldiers in stirring World War II uniforms, handsome automobiles and equally handsome Southern landscapes. You want to see romance overcome adversity.
  22. My Sister's Keeper
    Their message (Cassavetes and screenwriter Jeremy Leven) in My Sister's Keeper? Cancer sucks, but there's always the balm of beach scenes and an emo soundtrack.
  23. Death at a Funeral
    By the end of Death at a Funeral's effortful farce about busted British propriety, you may feel that peculiar facial ache that comes from wishing to laugh with no really satisfying release.
  24. Mindhunters
    What does satisfy is the pleasantly becalming presence of "Deep" costar LL Cool J. He's fast becoming Liv Ullmann to Harlin's Bergman.
  25. Coach Carter
    Jackson, though, does lend this earnest formula flick a core of conviction.
  26. Assault on Precinct 13
    Volatile yet fairly lunkheaded.
  27. Hide and Seek
    Hide and Seek, despite early signs of higher goals, is a factory-standard box of shocks.
  28. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a harmless little ''ex-po-tition'' (to use a Pooh-ism). Still, making this your kids' first Pooh experience would be like weaning them on New Coke.
  29. Constantine
    The movie is ornate, arbitrary, and fetishistic, too, with the added challenge of being hell to follow for those without access to crib notes. Intellectually, I can admire the emphasis on visual style over plot clarity.
  30. Be Cool
    The hell of it is, Be Cool is tepid entertainment that could be cool if it spent less time entertaining us as if we were demanding a definition of rhythm.
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