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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 Time
    The movie, I'm sad to report, has a majorly disappointing follow-through. It turns into a noisy, squalling chase movie.
  2. Our Brand Is Crisis
    The comedy here isn’t very funny and the drama isn’t very sharp.
  3. Kill the Poor
    As an overwrought, overacted drama, Kill the Poor is negligible.
  4. Redacted
    For all of De Palma's studious multimedia trickery -- a valid, even inspired idea -- Redacted is so naive it's an embarrassment.
  5. Bounce
    Watching Bounce, you look at him (Affleck) and believe how much he's got at stake, and you look at Paltrow and know why.
  6. Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is finally Cameron Diaz's movie. Her Natalie has a heart as insecure as her body is smokin'.
  7. 5 to 7
    While the film has an undeniably sexy glow, it’s too earnest and sappy by half. Fortunately, Frank Langella and Glenn Close drop by as Brian’s disapproving parents.
  8. Brannigan
    Still, with everything working against him, the Duke manages to be an old-school badass and stick it to those fancypants Brits.
  9. Tomorrow Never Dies
    The film forgets that Bond's most dangerous actions have always been his quietest ones, in which he uses his charisma to turn his enemies against themselves.
  10. White House Down
    Skip it, and you'll be depriving yourself of one of the summer's most satisfyingly stupid pleasures.
  11. The Nativity Story
    The Nativity Story is a film of tame picture-book sincerity, but that's not the same thing as devotion. The movie is too tepid to feel, or see, the light.
  12. Anger Management
    The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.
  13. Like Father
    The movie’s arc is too conventional by half, but the appeal of the two main actors keeps it (sorry) afloat, maybe more than it should.
  14. Absolute Power
    Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Protector
    It's silly, at times laughable, sure, but Jaa has a reckless, bone-cracking grace that transcends the film's triviality.
  16. LUV
    The rapper and actor Common has become a highly skilled screen star, but this touchy-feely dud does him wrong.
  17. The Devil's Own
    In this quiet, absorbing, shades-of-gray drama, a kind of thriller meditation on the schism in Northern Ireland, we get the story of not one but two powerfully opposing heroes.
  18. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
    What makes it more than a slick impersonation of sociopathy, though, is the layers he peels — Bundy’s desperation, his endless calculations and longing for connection. He also has some great interplay with John Malkovich, as the Tallahassee judge who engages in a sort of folksy, combative back-and-forth with him in court that nearly verges on buddy comedy.
  19. Malice
    The only thing that makes this ludicrous botch even borderline watchable is Alec Baldwin’s enjoyably supercilious performance as a leering stud surgeon who thinks nothing of belting back shots of bourbon before going in to perform an operation.
  20. XX/XY
    Emotional presence and a sophisticated understanding of commitment-phobia (as something other than a comedic punchline or an excuse for sex scenes) distinguishes this intense, contained drama, as does the unforced, sensual, and sensitive cinematography of Uta Briesewitz.
  21. The Wood
    A genial story of friendship among three young African-American men that gets far on charm even when the cinema technique falters and stalls.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It feels wrong; the entire machinery of the movie seems to be rotating around Woody Allen's vanity. He remains a canny (if, in this case, hollow) film craftsman, but by now we know him far too well to be asked to find him adorable.
  23. Down with Love
    Could have used more of the shimmering elegance of the Day-Hudson comedies. Those movies had a true sparkle. This one's a likable piece of costume jewelry.
  24. Hollywood Dreams
    Jaglom's scruffy style doesn't carry it through. He puts enough toxic insincerity on screen to singe, though.
  25. The Holiday
    The dialogue has a perky synthetic sheen, and with the exception of Diaz, Meyers brings out the best in her actors.
  26. Black Snake Moan
    Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.
  27. Mr. Right
    The ludicrous action-flick plot slows to a crawl whenever Kendrick and Rockwell aren’t on screen.
  28. Blackhat
    Occasionally, Mann shows flashes of the sort of springloaded action set pieces he was once hailed for, like a shoot-out during a religious parade. But mostly they just come off as warmed-over parodies from a onetime master aping his own style.
  29. Yardie
    Yardie is a sprawling drug-world saga, but whatever narrative flaws it has are helped out by an infectious selection of dub-heavy reggae tracks and an authentically gritty sense of period and place.
  30. The City of Your Final Destination
    Lovely to look at -- and languid to the point of stultifying torpor, as interesting characters make speeches to one another about life, love, and literature.
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