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For 7,797 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. A Bad Moms Christmas
    What follows is another slapstick dose of hard-R ridiculosity with a soft-nougat center, but it also passes the Bechdel test maybe better than any other film this year, and its older generation of stars are too smart not to go to town on their stock roles.
  2. Breakfast of Champions
    A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
  3. The Replacement Killers
    Between cycles of gunfights and glowering, Yun-Fat displays some of the dignity and suave good looks that account for his star status (without much chance to show his wit).
    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Barnyard
    It feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from "The Lion King."
  5. Arthur Newman
    The way Firth embodies the character, with a robot stare and a flat affect that expresses each thought as a kind of minimalist hologram of emotion, he's playing a cipher who pretends to be a different cipher. How indie-ironic!
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is "Agent Cody Banks" played British and kinda straight -- that is, as straight as you can when your villain, who dispatches foes with a giant jellyfish, is played by a toothpick-chomping Mickey Rourke in purple eye shadow.
  7. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    It's one of those woozy Jungian art jobs, a series of elliptical, nearly wordless vignettes that are meant to strike a universal symbolist chord. Director Mike Figgis frames the movie with his baroquely contemporary documentary-like version of the Fall.
  8. Blank Check
    Because I’m not a 9-year-old boy, however, this story of a kid who acquires a blank check, cashes it for a million bucks, spends it all, and learns that having stuff isn’t nearly as satisfying as having a father’s love comes across as a calculated, mechanical production owing much too much to Home Alone.
  9. Suburbicon
    The movie does get some fun gory mileage out of its cracked-Pleasantville premise; but mostly it feels like broad farce madly in search of a cohesive center, and a soul.
  10. Courageous
    How you like Courageous - an overtly Christian-targeted production about four police officers learning lessons about God and family - will likely mirror how you view church: It's either an overlong ordeal filled with talky sermonizing or an uplifting communion with your deity and values.
  11. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
    Any tension created during its key moments completely evaporates once the lights come back on. The Woman may be back for another fright, but Angel of Death doesn't haunt like it should.
  12. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    King Arthur could have been a rollicking blast. Instead it’s just another wannabe blockbuster with too much flash and not enough soul.
  13. Bubble Boy
    After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Clue
    This screwball comedy turned a rainy-day board game into inspiration — and attempted to answer the question of what Colonel Mustard has up his sleeve.
  15. Splinterheads
    Splinterheads, which aims to be a quirkier "Adventureland," never rises above mildly amusing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lionheart
    By never fessing up to its own bloodlust, Lionheart is, at bottom, chickenhearted.
  17. Knowing
    If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
  18. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    The movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable. Perhaps Jules Verne can explain the science of that.
  19. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    While George Lopez, Cheech Marin, and Paul Rodriguez are funny men, it's amazing how boring these Latin-shtick cutups can be when none of them gets a single good line.
  20. Larry Crowne
    It's easy enough to accept the romantic-comedy luck of the two finding each another. It's much tougher, and ultimately useless, to buy everything else about this fairy tale of self-reinvention in a stalled economy.
  21. Memory
    The whole thing is so wrapped in leaden dialogue and B-movie cliché that by the last weary, bloodletting hour, you'll envy Alex's ability to forget.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    John Tucker Must Die
    Astonishingly (and offensively), the witless ending comes down harder on the women than the cad.
  23. Mad Money
    Latifah coasts on grit and verve, and Holmes has a goggle-eyed sweetness, but it's Keaton who rules.
  24. Godzilla 2000
    Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.
  25. Next Friday
    Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
  26. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    As sociology, it's skin-deep, but if you're a parent or preparing to be one, you might see yourself in a few of these folks and have a good time doing so.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    Since Barker’s baroque prose visions are too complex for the gore-hound market, they’re bound to be watered down into this kind of bilge.
  28. Black Adam
    Black Adam is what happens when artists say they want to go dark but don't really have the stomach for it. Cue scenes of humorless mid-air wrestling, shake vigorously, wait for the sequel.
  29. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    It's well-executed technocratic action fluff. But it did leave me buzzed rather than drained.
  30. Best Laid Plans
    An inept low-budget thriller.
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