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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. The Legend of Zorro
    Banderas uses all his old wiles in this well-oiled, businesslike, quite clangingly violent sequel to "The Mask of Zorro."
  2. Irresistible
    In a world where a morning tweet can feel as dusty as the Dead Sea Scrolls by nightfall, it almost seems like madness to try to capture this current political moment on film.
  3. 27 Dresses
    27 Dresses is a movie geared to a pitch of high matrimonial-princess fever.
  4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    It’s a shame the rest of the soap-opera story doesn’t measure up to its stunts.
  5. Mouth to Mouth
    Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus.
  6. Masterminds
    Masterminds has been “coming soon” for so long it would put "Batman v Superman" to shame, but the end result is an entertaining comic thriller with physical showcases for many of Saturday Night Live’s best recent veterans.
  7. The Time Traveler's Wife
    Bana and McAdams are sweet together, with matching dimples and starry eyes, and we grow eager to see them remain in the same place. In the end, that's all there is to the movie, really. It's a time-travel fantasy in search of a cozy love seat.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Blade
    The action involves lots of second-rate martial-arts choreography (made even less thrilling by the video's pan-and-scan job), while the psychological conflicts are filled with unconvincing angst.
  9. Daylight
    Had Latura et al. paused for even a moment to acknowledge what they were doing, Daylight might have been a whole other ball of fire.
  10. Practical Magic
    A witch comedy so slapdash, plodding, and muddled it seems to have had a hex put on it.
  11. Black and White
    A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis.
  12. The Prince and Me
    In a series of endings, she, and the audience, are falsely promised that she can have it all. In other words, The Prince & Me is committed to the controversial American policy of No Fantasy Left Behind.
  13. Man on Fire
    The movie's mortal failing is echoed in the religious medal Pita gives Creasy in a gift of innocent, uplifting love: Finding heft or coherence within all the lugubrious agitation is a lost cause worthy of St. Jude.
  14. Silver City
    Silver City may be the mustiest political-conspiracy tale ever filmed; it's like "Chinatown" rewritten by Ralph Nader.
  15. Herbie Fully Loaded
    For those newbies, this update, starring peppery Disney re-do queen Lindsay Lohan as wannabe car racer Maggie Peyton, is as serviceable an introduction as any to the notion of a sentient set of wheels.
  16. The Game of Their Lives
    Coaching from the same playbook with which they made "Rudy" and "Hoosiers," director David Anspaugh and screenwriter Angelo Pizzo create a reverent fable.
  17. The General's Daughter
    The plot is a nonsensical mess -- which just caps off the ugliness.
  18. Heaven Is for Real
    Heaven is for Real has lots of sweet, Rockwellian imagery of small-town life and family high jinks. What it doesn't have is dramatic tension.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Giver
    It falls apart with a slapdash final act that doesn't work as drama or action and only serves to undermine Jonah's heroics.
  20. Ong Bak 2
    Jaa, mesmerizing as ever to behold with his pinwheel moves, also (co)directs for the first time.
  21. Wyatt Earp
    This strenuously dark biographical Western plays more like a choppy, self-important miniseries.
  22. Monogamy
    Irksome dither of an indie drama.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Empire Records
    The movie is too blatant a throwback to crass '80s teen fodder to really work.
  24. Blair Witch
    Blair Witch is the Hollywoodication of a film that defied the industry, and it works because of the profound respect for the original that hides beneath camera work that’s too good and a cast that’s too attractive.
  25. The Skeleton Key
    For anyone zombified by creaky thriller clichés, Skeleton is a fine little shot in the head.
  26. Hotel Transylvania
    It's the parental mush about trusting one's kid to make her own discoveries and blah blah blah (spoken in a Sandlerized version of a Dracula voice) that drains the movie of blood. What's left are platitudes, and Sandler singing a novelty song in a Transylvanian-accented falsetto.
  27. Rock of Ages
    Most of the numbers in Rock of Ages are flatly shot and choreographed, and they look as if they'd been edited together with a meat cleaver. With rare exceptions, they don't channel the excitement of the music - they stultify it.
  28. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    Older and sadder, Mulder and Scully are no longer sure they've got the energy to even ask if the truth is still out there. And it feels as if Carter is skeptical, too.
  29. The Good Guy
    One by one, each scene goes slack as the script struggles with Screenwriting 101 problems like who the main character is and what he wants -- not to mention why any of us should care in the first place.
  30. Like Mike
    Like Mike has the synthetically wrapped pseudo-charm of a perfunctory ''Flubber'' sequel.
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