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For 1,505 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Before Night Falls
Lowest review score: 0 Movie 43
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 776 out of 1505
  2. Mixed: 461 out of 1505
  3. Negative: 268 out of 1505
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  1. The Congress
    The first half of “The Congress,” while still fascinating, does suffer a bit from keeping its focus on the gripes and accusations between Hollywood actors and producers...Once the Philip K. Dick-meets-”Inception” second half kicks in, the implications grow more universal.
  2. Eden
    The remarkable storytelling that eventually emerges in Eden is something you should see, providing you feel that you can stomach it.
  3. Spring Breakers
    It’s shallow, it’s boring, it’s poignant, it’s clever, it’s poorly acted, it’s intentionally poorly acted, it has no story, it has marvelous scenes, it is artful, it is hallucinatory, it is shoddily put together. All response is valid.
  4. World War Z
    An efficient and effectively exciting globe-spanning zombie thriller.
  5. Laggies
    Superbly written, handsomely made and full of terrific performances, Laggies is Shelton’s best film to date.
  6. Zero Charisma
    Directors Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews create a great framework for the epic nemesis battle, but also know when to pull back to keep the movie grounded in reality.
  7. Boiler Room
    Mostly this film skims by on the surface, its conflict and climax visible from the opening five minutes.
  8. Sugar Town
    A wry, rambling, smart comedy.
  9. Happy, Texas
    What makes the film ultimately successful, though, is the outstanding comic talents that inhabit it, especially Zahn and Macy.
  10. Iron Man 3
    Downey, Jr. remains a rightfully cherished smartass figure, having as much a ball with Black’s one-liners as he had in “KKBB,” and he sells Tony’s newfound post-traumatic vulnerability more credibly than the film does.
  11. Alien: Resurrection
    So campy that it almost plays like a sendup of the series. It is to Alien what "The Bride of Frankenstein" was to other 1930s Frankenstein movies, and it even shares some of the same themes.
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  12. Dogma
    A surprisingly adult exploration of religion refracted, as always, through (Smith's) insistently pop-culture kaleidoscope.
  13. 42
    A kind and decent film, but doesn't add to Robinson's legacy.
  14. Outside Providence
    Entertaining as it often is, Outside Providence feels as if it were a collection of installments from an unusually raunchy television series.
  15. Godzilla
    The best thing about this new Godzilla is that it spares no expense or effort to deliver big, burly IMAX-ified action... The worst thing about this new Godzilla is how that’s the best thing about it.
  16. Begin Again
    A film that inserts banal plot devices and endless cutesiness in place of where the “good parts” should be.
  17. Saving Grace
    Coy, cutesy, sentimental, and shamelessly manipulative.
  18. Southpaw
    It's the hardships that led to Atlanta -- and that he faced after -- that make his story so compelling.
  19. The Gift
    Blanchett projects a wounded dignity that anchors her character even when the film slips into silly hokum; she's never less than fantastic, and as such manages to keep the film on course.
  20. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Has a soundtrack crammed with infectious music gleaned from fairly surprising sources.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American History X
    Despite a cheap, Hollywood ending and despite Kaye's kooky campaign, X is a killer.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Veronica Mars
    The winks and nods to fans are deliciously satisfying.
  23. The Claim
    This director's (Winterbottom) reach is impressive, but this time it doesn't quite grasp.
  24. Finding Forrester
    One of those hybrid projects: a major studio film, big star, homely storyline, but tempered by an indie director working in his own idiosyncratic style.
  25. The Banshee Chapter
    Where The Banshee Chapter thrives is the overwhelming claustrophobia of the film.
  26. Despicable Me 2
    Despicable Me 2 is fun, especially near the culmination. Structural issues aside, it’s impossible not to like these characters, all of them, rendered with love, always entertaining even when the story around them doesn’t make much sense.
  27. The Golden Bowl
    Were the casting stronger, the film -- would have had a better chance of transcending its lack of subtlety.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    U-571
    One sour note is Richard Marvin's derivative score. It's just awful and often pulls the movie down.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    About Last Night
    It’s funnier than it has any right to be, really.
  30. Mumford
    It's witty, entertaining, often funny as hell and even, at times, surprisingly wise about the human condition.
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