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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. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    The film sweeps us up like a thriller, forcing us to at least ask whether terrorism like the ELF's (which targeted property, never human lives) might ever be justified.
  2. Black Dynamite
    Along the way, Black Dynamite blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema deconstruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high.
  3. Body Snatchers
    Body Snatchers is inky and somber, with some of the creeping bad-dream naturalism of George Romero’s Living Dead films.
  4. Lemming
    The movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal, with the squirmiest attack-of-nature tableau since Willard.
  5. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    Effective horror relies on the actualization of some deep-seated cultural fear, but Ouija: Origin of Evil supplies only ineffective clichés and half-hearted attempts at franchise building.
  6. Lee Daniels' The Butler
    As Cecil, Whitaker is mesmerizing. The actor seems to shrink into his imposing frame, summoning a performance of quiet, bottled-up force.
  7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Enlightenment is good, Dai acknowledges. But the movie's more provocative assertion is the notion that ignorance was also a kind of bliss.
  8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    That sense of déjà vu is at once this Harry Potter's balm and its limitation: many charms, but few surprises.
  9. Alone with Her
    Intriguing creepout.
  10. Closer
    The last thing Marber's quartet of modern miserables needs is to be admired; they are the very worst of average people, but on screen they have become the very best of the baddest.
  11. Shampoo
    There’s a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue.
  12. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
    Gazzara struts like a polyester peacock, playing a doomed nightclub owner in debt to the wrong people.
  13. Foxes
    It’s really one of the very first, very early Gen-X movies (the true first one, to me, is 1978’s terrific Over the Edge), and I was struck all over again by the freshness of what it captured: these four prematurely jaded adolescent girls, led by Jodie Foster as the sensible one, living like baby adults, cut off from their parents and the past, bonded only by attitude, consumerism, and the pop-culture decadence they share.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
    Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is simply the closest any TV or movie incarnation has ever come to the spirit of the original Batman comic books.
  15. In the Valley of Elah
    It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home, and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals.
  16. The Debt
    The Debt is basically an entertaining riff on "Munich." It's about a (fictional) operation of top secret Israeli revenge, carried out by three highly trained agents whose plan goes off the rails in ways that are more fascinating than the mission itself.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    For a movie that's mostly a plotless mix of old sci-fi flicks and Bowie-esque gender-bending, Rocky Horror continues to charm. That's due in part to the honest delight we take in the freedoms this movie so cheerfully flaunts.
  18. My Best Friend
    An unlikely comedy charmer.
  19. The Client
    The movie keeps you occupied, but in a processed, unexciting way.
  20. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
    You still feel that every delirious allusion, every snidely on-the-mark observational quip, is tickling a different part of your cerebral cortex. Yet the movie lacks the manic highs of the show’s best episodes; it’s a bit too rote and becalmed.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Land of the Pharaohs
    Joan Collins and her pointy bras are a hubba-hubba hoot.
  22. Father of the Bride
    The screenplay, by Matt Lopez, leans bright and broad, but there are sweetly specific moments scattered throughout, from a whisper-fight over dominoes at the local social club to the frequent snatches of Spanish woven into the dialogue.
  23. Mr. Malcolm's List
    Despite the source material's similar popularity, though, the movie drags, a confluence of silly plot points and mile-wide archetypes with too little natural chemistry between its ridiculously good-looking leads.
  24. The Good Lie
    It's a deeply touching story about survival, perseverance, and hope.
  25. Gay Sex in the 70s
    The director, Joseph Lovett, wants us to ask if there's such a thing as too much freedom, and he has the sobriety to say yes -- and no.
  26. The Great Debaters
    The Great Debaters is like one of those sentimentally revved youth-sports-team crowd-pleasers. This time, though, the sport is debating, and the setting is an elite black college in Marshall, Tex., in 1935
  27. The Bay
    One hell of a creepy little eco-horror picture.
  28. Puss in Boots
    Puss in Boots is beautifully animated (with 3-D that adds nothing), but the film is so mindlessly busy that it seems to be trying to distract you from the likable, one-note feline swashbuckler at its center.
  29. Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    Chesney makes an art form out of strolling down the catwalk while singing. He turns each song into a blissed-out journey homeward.
  30. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Mostly, the joy comes from watching Reeves and Winter on screen, two holy fools just doing their best to bring light and love and non-heinous riffs — and remind the bleary-eyed citizens of 2020, perhaps, of a simpler, sweeter world gone by.
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