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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. Regarding Henry
    The movie has a few jokes, but it could have used some of the canny, real-world logic that made Rain Man so convincing (and funny).
  2. A Good Year
    Nothing more than a bad harvest.
  3. The Box
    It's no coincidence that The Box plays like the world's murkiest Twilight Zone episode. It's loosely based on ''Button, Button,'' a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote some of the series' greatest scripts.
  4. RED 2
    The best thing about RED 2, like its predecessor, is its lightness of tone. Too many movies with comic-book roots come on too seriously, even when the comics themselves have a loose, fast, jocular wit about them.
  5. The Whole Nine Yards
    A convoluted ''dweeb meets the Mob'' farce in which everyone is trying to kill everyone else, but it's the movie that's the real corpse -- albeit a busy, twitching one.
  6. Boarding Gate
    This one is just murk.
  7. Failure to Launch
    If you like Kathy Bates movies, you'll probably be frustrated with this one, since as Tripp's mother, the invaluable character actress is made to whipsaw between playing sappy domestic slave to her son's laundry and salty, overly sexual wife.
  8. Shooting Fish
    Wafer-thin, content-light, structure-wobbly, and whimsy-heavy.
  9. The Girl Next Door
    "Risky Business" had a great opening act and then descended into contrivances. This genial cardboard knockoff is contrived from the start but gets better as it goes along.
  10. Tales from Earthsea
    He does an okay imitation of his father's languidly matter-of-fact dreamscapes, but it's hard to deny that a certain vitality is missing in Tales From Earthsea.
  11. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb has one thing going for it that even many of this season's prestige films don't: It's kind of fun, unembarrassingly, and not least of all because the people who made it look like they had a good time doing so.
  12. He's Just Not That Into You
    He's Just Not That Into You turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good.
  13. The Matrix Revolutions
    Among its better tricks, Matrix Revolutions finally gets the love-story subplot of Neo and Trinity in the right proportion.
  14. In the Land of Women
    Combines hugs and ''pain'' and dialogue so fakey-cute it makes your ears hurt.
  15. In the Heart of the Sea
    Howard’s film, for all of its storytelling skill, technical polish, and rousing high-seas sequences, never quite casts the spell it should. It’s too polite to give us a real feeling of life or death. Its sense of danger is watered down.
  16. Bad Teacher
    We're just watching a film try to pass off misanthropic blunt-wittedness as "edge."
  17. Frankie & Alice
    It's just a matter of time, flashbacks, many costume and accent changes, some more jazz, and a triggering tune on the radio before the truth can set Frankie, and the audience, free.
  18. Lions for Lambs
    The tiny scale and armchair talkiness mark the movie as a bit of a folly, an act of idealistic hubris in today's commercial marketplace, yet that's its (minor) fascination too.
  19. The Architect
    Every character in The Architect is crazily stuccoed with crisis.
  20. Lies
    Someone has finally done it -- made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama.
  21. Bittersweet Motel
    It's like Woodstock without the mud, and it leaves you feeling clean.
  22. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    At once brasher and more frivolous, she's a lot less compelling fighting for the welfare of lab-test animals than she was crusading for her own dignity.
  23. Heartbreakers
    Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.
  24. Flight of the Phoenix
    Refreshingly, it's actually about action, albeit arbitrary action, and how it defines us and keeps us alive.
  25. Ladder 49
    Aside from the awesome flames and pyrotechnic scenes of crisis, danger, and part-of-the-job bravery, the movie is a quiet salute; it does its job.
  26. Burlesque
    Earnestly ersatz down to every spangle, dance move, plot turn, and line of hokum dialogue, Burlesque is a showbiz pic for these American Idol times - a time when we agree to pretend that mediocre mimicry of better artists is good enough to keep us entertained. We agree to pretend that quality is in the eye and ear of the undemanding beholder.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Mirror Crack'd
    An adaptation of an Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery, with Angela Lansbury as the sweet little old sleuth, it has the vitality of a vicar, yet it’s enormously campy fun.
  28. A Cure for Wellness
    Narratively preposterous and probably an hour too long, it’s the year’s first big howler. It could have been DeHaan’s "Shutter Island," but instead it’s just Gore Verbinski’s latest self-indulgent mess following "The Lone Ranger."
  29. Restless
    Annabel and Enoch learn from each other, even as time ticks away and the end draws near. Weeping is invited, but by no means required.
  30. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    Like its predecessor it’s an unremarkable placeholder until the next "Mission: Impossible" flick comes along.
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