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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. Chloe
    The film is Moore's story, and she acts the hell out of one sexy scene, but most of Chloe is plodding and drab.
  2. Wilson
    Wilson has some deliciously awkward laughs thanks to Harrelson’s curmudgeonly, childlike performance, but it zips right along without ever landing any emotionally resonant blows.
  3. Escape Plan
    Schwarzenegger, for one, seems to be having a hoot.
  4. Sleepers
    By the end, the main thing that's been abused is the audience's intelligence.
  5. Nabbeun namja
    Really, who needs a bad guy who's this guilty about being bad?
  6. Guess Who
    Guess Who, with its PG-13 putdowns, turns into the kind of love story that Hollywood feels most comfortable with: a buddy movie, salt-and-pepper variety. All that's missing is the cop car.
  7. Sex Drive
    Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.
  8. Daddy's Little Girls
    This latest market-savvy bit of circuit preaching is less cartoonish than Perry's previous big-tent revival meetings.
  9. Addicted to Love
    Commits the cardinal sin of too many modern movies: It never gives the audience a clue why any of these people were ever attracted to one another in the first place. [30 May 1997, p. 54]
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  10. S1m0ne
    The movie pretends to warn against such shallowness -- but flaunts its arousal at how exciting such a controllable world is for those with access to the software.
  11. The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
    After about 10 minutes, The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter feels borderline promising. After 80, it feels like a blown opportunity.
  12. Death of a President
    The movie IS a provocation, but not a glib or ideologically myopic one.
  13. Lucky You
    Really, all this movie is about is the joy of checks, calls, folds, rivers, and the acquired thrill of knowing what those words mean.
  14. Far and Away
    Far and Away looks like an epic, but it lacks flavor and texture. It's so predigested there's nothing left to chew on.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Old Man and the Sea
    Essentially, it’s a slow-moving, low-rent Moby Dick with portentous voice-overs and unconvincing process shots of Spencer Tracy in a studio tank. In fact, why director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) bothered to make it remains a mystery.
  16. Edtv
    The fact that Ed's life has been channeled into entertainment never achieves much tension or comic zest. That's because Howard thinks in cookie-cutter ''situations'' to begin with.
  17. The Good German
    The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
  18. Casper
    What’s depressing about the current Hollywood mania to literalize old cartoon series isn’t that a show like Casper is such bad source material. It’s that the movie version is like the cartoon without innocence — a fairy tale with the soul of a rerun.
  19. Demolition
    Jake Gyllenhaal’s wild-card performance is the only reason to bother with "Dallas Buyers Club" director Jean-Marc Vallée’s manipulative downer.
  20. 2012
    God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Great Balls of Fire!
    Winona Ryder is wonderful as the naive child bride. Dennis Quaid, as Lewis, mugs and struts in a colorfully unreal caricature, miming to new Jerry Lee renditions of classic tunes.
  22. Mystery, Alaska
    The enterprise might also be called ''Picket Fences on Ice."
  23. Paid in Full
    A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them, though Mekhi Phifer, playing a hustler who loves the life, is electric and true.
  24. The Reckoning
    The Reckoning, with a script by Mark Mills, demands close attention; it's a play of words and ideas crowding for consideration.
  25. Jackpot
    It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built.
  26. Loitering with Intent
    A snappy start gives way to an unfocused second half, which devolves into a walking tour of indie-film clichés that make the 80-minute run time feel overlong.
  27. The Sacrament
    West is a talented director and knows how to build suspense. But here’s a case where the truth wasn’t only stranger than his fiction, it was scarier, too.
  28. Don't Look Up
    Frankly, it's almost enough just to watch them all run around in states that range from manic panic to Zen serenity while McKay employs his usual coterie of meta tricks and treats. But it's hard not to long for the shrewder movie that might have been: Not just a kooky scattershot look, but a deeper truer gaze into the void.
  29. Raymond & Ray
    The whole thing is so airless and hollowly constructed, so full of mimed but unfelt feelings, that it's a relief to put this body in the ground and forever hold your peace.
  30. One Direction: This Is Us
    We're treated to what's essentially a slick, airbrushed promo reel of a bunch of genuinely sweet superstars who can't believe their dumb luck. That's charming. But it's also a little boring. What it's most definitely not is a documentary.
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