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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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Dark Matter
    Liu Ye is too inexpressive for his role's demands, and the movie doesn't build to his downfall: It just zaps itself there.
  2. Hart's War
    It may seem harmless, to some, that our movies have never entirely abandoned the land of Poitier-ville, but as Hart's War demonstrates, it's an insult that they haven't.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.
  4. The Emperor's Club
    A traditionally dressed, old-fashioned drama, starring Kevin Kline in the Robin Williams role -- is as much about the moral development of the adult as about his boys'. More so, maybe.
  5. K-PAX
    I rather like the whole mystic- crystal-revelations aspect of K-PAX, and the idea that even a psychiatrist of Jeff Bridges' handsome, American substantiality is open to notions of cosmic improbability.
  6. Jeepers Creepers
    Turns into a grab-bag freak show as desperate as it is arbitrary.
  7. The Mechanic
    As it is, The Mechanic is ham-fisted pulp, like Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" taking itself seriously.
  8. Son of a Gun
    Son of a Gun becomes a somewhat predictable but excitingly twisty heist film involving a double-dealing Russian heavy, a desperate femme fatale, and a fortune in gold bars. It has just enough muscle and style to make the familiar feel fresh.
  9. 7 Days in Entebbe
    The film comes to crackling life during the planning and climactic execution of the raid. And Padilha, the Brazilian director behind 2007’s "Elite Squad," knows how to stage these white-knuckle sequences, especially when he cuts back and forth between the on-the-ground tactical assault and a modern dance performance featuring one of the commando’s girlfriends.
  10. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    What’s strangest about this three-hour movie, though, is that despite some deadly slow patches, it still feels like an hour was cut from it, considering how characters develop off-screen. On more than one occasion, there are scenes that suggest deep and lasting relationships between people … that must have happened while the camera was somewhere else.
  11. Rio 2
    There are fun moments, especially with Kristin Chenoweth’s vampy poison dart frog. But with more evolved films like "The LEGO Movie" and "Frozen" in the animated ecosphere, overstuffed and gag-reliant time-passers like the Rio movies feel like a dying breed.
  12. Killing Zoe
    The idiocy of the plot is the tip-off that writer-director Roger Avary is really just interested in random displays of nihilistic decadence (e.g., heroin-shooting, prostitute-bashing, lotsa blood).
  13. Live by Night
    Live by Night is clearly Affleck’s love letter to classic pulp, and almost no noir touchstone goes unturned in its two-hour-plus run.
  14. Scary Movie 3
    Like its two predecessors, Scary Movie 3 is a hit-or-miss affair, but the gags that connect really connect.
  15. Oldboy
    In the end, the most impressive performance may be Spike Lee's. He uses skill without gimmickry, flash without fuss, to tap the mesmerizing soul of this pulp.
  16. Inkheart
    Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that she'd lend me some magic items from her closet.
  17. Return to Never Land
    There's always something to look at (an octopus holding his eyeballs aloft, the petulant Jane assaulted by pixie dust), but the story is weak tea.
  18. Scotland, Pa.
    Funny? Yes, but in its slapdash way, it sounds nuttier than it plays.
  19. Romance
    The movie is a footnote as well, a minor reference back to the days when people yearned for a cinema that was serious and erotic at the same time.
  20. Pitch Black
    So jaunty, so limber, and so visually self-assured that art peeks through where crap has traditionally made its home.
  21. Cake
    Aniston works so hard to avoid sentimentality that it's disappointing when it creeps into the film. Director Daniel Barnz casts everything in a blue-yellow light that oversells the melancholy mood.
  22. Angel-A
    Angel-A shows how director Luc Besson can be French in a way that even the French might despise...Quel ick. And très tedious.
  23. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Simon Pegg has what it takes, but he's saddled himself with a script (co-written by Pegg and Michael Ian Black) that Adam Sandler wouldn't have pulled out of his bottom drawer.
  24. Scoop
    A companion piece to "Match Point" that suffers all the more in comparison.
  25. The Exorcist III
    The Exorcist III has the feel of a nightmare catechism lesson, or a horror movie made by a depressed monk.
  26. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    There’s a real story of American heroism somewhere in here, but it’s diluted by Bay’s worst tendencies.
  27. The Judge
    What makes the film more than just a dusty Grisham retread is that the case (as compelling as it is) is merely the backdrop for a more emotionally engaging story about fathers and sons played, like a duet, by two virtuoso actors who give the film not only all they have but probably more than it requires.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jennifer 8
    A lukewarm thriller.
  29. A Lot Like Love
    A Lot Like Love is a lot like a romantic comedy, except that all that's keeping these two kids apart is the trivially insufferable movie they're in.
  30. Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)
    Ready to Wear is messy and vaguely nasty -- a blur with attitude.
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