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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Two for the Money
    Sports betting is a great subject for a movie, but Two for the Money is short on the number-crunching nitty-gritty.
  2. Management
    Isn't it time Steve Zahn grew up? Ever since the '90s, this walking quirk of an actor has pushed his dazed solipsistic zaniness (he's like Michael J. Fox’s hillbilly cousin), but he's 41 now, and it no longer looks cute on him.
  3. The Boss Baby
    Like many DreamWorks movies, The Boss Baby‘s most imaginative moments are the random asides.
  4. Nothing Like the Holidays
    The troubles are broad, the plot twists giant, and the performances cheery in this carol to ethnic pride in Chicago's traditionally Latino Humboldt Park.
  5. Murder by Numbers
    Even though Bullock engages in a climactic scene of blue-screen peril, she essentially cedes the match to the kids. In this mediocre murder case, their presence is the only thing that's really killer.
  6. A Perfect Murder
    I've seen far worse thrillers than A Perfect Murder, but the movie is ultimately more competent than pleasurable.
  7. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Knightley's Elizabeth becomes a pirate captain this time. You know a franchise has run its course when it has a buccaneer heroine who looks as if she'd hate to get her face smudged.
  8. Madea Goes to Jail
    It's a tale soggy with the kind of race/class lessons that Madea, the director-star's battle-ax alter ego, doles out far more handily (and entertainingly) in a single church-lady-from-hell zinger.
  9. How About You ...
    As the reigning inhabitant, Redgrave adopts the swanning gestures of Maggie Smith in this mild adaptation of a Maeve Binchy story.
  10. Boundaries
    It all bumps along, as road trips do, through silliness and boredom and occasional, unexpected charm. But Feste’s story never really gets the rhythms right, and Boundaries finally reaches the end of the road, feeling like nothing so much as a missed opportunity.
  11. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    The Stoning of Soraya M.'s drawn-out torture sequence is harrowing and lurid.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trash
    The child actors are all charming and refreshingly un-child-actory, and Martin Sheen is good as gruff, hard-drinking priest.
  13. After the Wedding
    If the script’s epiphanies don’t feel quite as shocking or profound the second time around, it’s still pleasing to watch these beautiful, troubled people move through their equally beautiful spaces: something borrowed, something blue — and with Freundlich’s careful alterations, something new.
  14. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    Shainberg reduces this most disturbing of all photographers to a portraitist of Halloween.
  15. Conspiracy Theory
    You're set up for when director Richard Donner -- who worked with Gibson on all three audience-pleasing Weapons -- switches the movie from a really interesting, jittery, literate, and witty tone poem about justified contemporary paranoia (and the creatively unhinged dark side of New York City) to an overloaded, meandering iteration of a Lethal Weapon project that bears the not-so-secret stamp of audience testing and tinkering.
  16. The Campaign
    Perhaps the best thing about the film is that it doesn't let those other players in the political process off the hook: the voters.
  17. My Policeman
    Policeman, as emotionally earnest and elegantly made as it is, mostly feels like a movie we've seen many times before: a pleasantly escapist two hours with pretty people in pretty clothes, madly sublimating their feelings until the final, luminous frame.
  18. Ticket to Paradise
    There's no doubt both actors deserve sharper, less silly material than this, but when they're playing beer pong in a Bali bar and drunkenly pogo-ing to House of Pain's "Jump Around," Paradise is almost, for a moment, a place on Earth.
  19. Garage Days
    There's something uniquely embarrassing about a rock & roll fable that is no more authentic (and no less coy) than an episode of ''The Monkees'' yet insists on presenting itself as the epitome of rebel-yell cool.
  20. Letters to Juliet
    Redgrave shimmers like one of Tuscany's magnificent cypress trees as an Englishwoman searching for Lorenzo (Nero).
  21. The Island
    The Island begins with a whimper of interest as a cool-hued, cautionary exploration of the ethics of cloning, and ends, in a hail of product placement, with a dumb bang.
  22. Lottery Ticket
    If Lottery Ticket had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot.
  23. The Ten
    Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
  24. You People
    The movie is much better when it relaxes its death grip on screenwriter-y punchlines and slapstick cringe and just allows its cavalcade of stars to act like actual, you know, people.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Blast from the Past
    As pleasantly plastic as its retro-chic sets.
  26. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    It's "Bewitched" meets "Fatal Attraction," with one funny bedroom scene, but it was a miscalculation to make Thurman the antagonist.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Step Up 2: The Streets
    In a sequel that features the original's Channing Tatum only in cameo, a Baltimore teen (Briana Evigan, very winning) enrolls at an arts academy, leaving her street-dancing pals behind. So far, ho hum. But when she decides to form a new crew with her classmates, Step Up 2 the Streets improves considerably -- and it doesn't skimp on cool pretzel moves.
  28. Welcome to the Rileys
    Rileys has been casually dubbed "Kristen Stewart's stripper movie," but the handle doesn't stick: Stewart may wear skimpy clothes and grind once or twice from the neck down, but from the neck up she's all hollow, bruised eyes, twisted little mouth, and classic, coltish K-Stew rebellion.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Charly
    The premise is certainly alluring. But director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant make a multitude of jaw-dropping choices.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 33 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runaway
    Starts with savvy concepts (televised mind control and man’s reliance on robots, respectively) and quickly devolves into sour, overwritten diatribes.
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