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On average, this publication grades 2 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. The Menu
    The movie loses some momentum in the final third, and tends to over-egg its caricatures of all these platinum-card fools and clueless masters of the universe. But its appetite for destruction is also too much fun in the end to refuse: a giddy little amuse bouche for the apocalypse to come.
  2. Holes
    Honoring the literary ground beneath it, spotted yellow lizards and all, the movie Holes is easy to dig.
  3. Cookie's Fortune
    In theaters, the lazy haziness of this Southern ensemble comedy made the story feel like it was stuck in the mud.
  4. The Big Lebowski
    Nearly everything in The Big Lebowski is a put-on, but all that leaves you with is the Coens' bizarrely over-deliberate, almost Teutonic form of rib nudging.
  5. Thank You for Smoking
    Cynical and cheerily merciless.
  6. Heretic
    Never has pondering theology been so devilishly entertaining — and amen to that.
  7. Pete's Dragon
    If your kids can get through the first five minutes of Pete’s Dragon (which rank right up there with the shooting of Bambi’s mother on the Disney trauma-o-meter), then you won’t find a sweeter family film for the waning days of summer.
  8. Factotum
    It's too bad that the film was directed by the Norwegian minimalist Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories), who makes a fetish of building scenes around silence.
  9. The Good Girl
    Only pretends to care about good people who sometimes do bad things. In fact, it hasn't got time for the pain.
  10. Intolerable Cruelty
    With Intolerable Cruelty, though, something scares me: I cannot detect a heartbeat of feeling, no matter how close I press a stethoscope against the star machinery of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
  11. Tropic Thunder
    It's raunchy, outspoken -- and also a smart and agile dissection of art, fame, and the chutzpah of big-budget productions.
  12. Disgrace
    Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble.
  13. The Birdcage
    Enchantingly witty.
  14. Koch
    As a politico, Ed Koch loved power a little too much. But as a leader, he was a storybook embodiment of New York's contradictions, which is why his chapters in the city's saga loom so large.
  15. Good Will Hunting
    Stuffed--indeed, overstuffed--with heart, soul, audacity, and blarney. You may not believe a minute of it, but you don't necessarily want to stop watching.
  16. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    The way that the movie eventually manages to bridge all those multiplicities and pull them into focus feels both obvious and ingenious.
  17. Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Ambitious, beautifully animated, and clever to a fault, Ralph Breaks the Internet breaks free of the pitfalls of most sequels by never forgoing heart for the sake of bigger franchise pyrotechnics.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    October Sky
    Duller than rocket science and more reliant on formulas.
  19. Mad Dog and Glory
    Mad Dog and Glory turns out to be a light-spirited urban fairy tale. Despite occasional flashes of violence, its atmosphere is one of moonstruck romanticism.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ring
    The only movie for which Hitchcock claimed sole writing credit isn't particularly captivating — it's a relatively standard boxing movie with a textbook love triangle at its center.
  21. Red Eye
    A good measure of the movie's white-knuckle fun comes from Craven's old-hand familiarity with the way thrillers tick.
  22. Trumbo
    That's Trumbo's message -- that the true victim was America.
  23. Men Go to Battle
    The shaggy, semi-focused but assuredly offbeat debut film from Zachary Treitz (co-written with House of Cards actress Kate Lyn Sheil) blends the Civil War with Mumblecore for one of the year’s most authentic trips in the way-back machine.
  24. Travelers and Magicians
    The (mild) intrigue of Travellers & Magicians is that its central figure, Dondup (Tshewang Dendup), rolls his eyes at Buddhist karma.
  25. My Brother Is an Only Child
    The movie is a veritable scrapbook of tropes from the heyday of art film. Maybe that's why it feels gauzy and quaint. Yet time passes pleasantly.
  26. Dolls
    As an exception to the norm, Kitano doesn't appear this time, confining himself merely to writing, directing, and editing.
  27. Tangled
    There's also a Disney den of big, comically dumb-looking bad guys who turn sweet when Rapunzel sings to them. Because Happily Ever After never goes out of fashion
  28. Edge of Tomorrow
    Despite its terribly unimaginative title, Edge of Tomorrow is a surprisingly imaginative summer action movie.
  29. The Opportunists
    Skillfully made, yet the film would have been better if it had tapped a bit of that Walken madness.
  30. Superstar in a Housedress
    In Superstar in a Housedress, Curtis remains frozen in his flamboyance. The most resonant parts of the movie are, oddly, the interviews with his fellow glam bohemians.
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