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For 1,128 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Gleason
Lowest review score: 0 Double Dragon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 497 out of 1128
  2. Mixed: 552 out of 1128
  3. Negative: 79 out of 1128
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  1. Crisis
    While Crisis can fairly be criticized as emotionally cold, with its heavy and humorless story generating more sympathy for its characters than empathy, there’s no denying its timeliness, offering a compelling look at what will certainly be remembered as one of the most underplayed tragedies of our time.
  2. Brooklyn's Finest
    This isn't the kind of film that will leave audiences in awe of clever writing. Rather, it will leave them thinking how much Fuqua wanted to make a movie version of "The Wire."
  3. Shorts
    A satisfying dose of wild imagination and unbridled silliness.
  4. Me and Orson Welles
    The result is an often-screwball jaunt that isn't without its fun moments.
  5. Jumping the Broom
    These characters are so likeable, and so well-portrayed, that it's easy to go along with it all.
  6. Restless
    As clearly calculated and self-consciously cutesy as it is, it's also tender and meaningful stuff -- and far more watchable than other recent attempts to capture the existential angst of adolescence. ("The Art of Getting By.")
  7. Eat Pray Love
    I've got a fourth verb to add to the comma-challenged title of Julia Roberts' how-to-be-happy travelogue, Eat Pray Love. How about "edit"?
  8. Lorna's Silence
    It boasts strong acting and a nice dose of suspense.
  9. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    Getting two biographies on the same person in such a short window is unusual. What's even more unusual is that both suffer from the same flaw.
  10. Big Miracle
    What Kwapis does do, however, is nicely handle the film's whale of an emotional payoff.
  11. Shame
    It's easy to be interested in the characters' lives -- as tragic as they are -- but it's not nearly as easy to become emotionally invested in them.
  12. The Secret of Kells
    Don't expect there to be a run on Secret of Kells action figures any time soon.
  13. Love at First Sight
    It goes down far more easily than the budget-friendly tripe so often passed off as a romantic comedy here in the streaming era.
  14. My One and Only
    If there's a prevailing problem with director Richard Loncraine's bit of period fluff, it's that many of the characters encountered along the way are a touch too cartoonish to resonate meaningfully with audiences.
  15. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    One major reason it succeeds is because of 11-year-old actress Bailee Madison, who brings a wonderful believability to her role as the girl at the center of the film.
  16. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    All along, though, I was struck by an even stronger feeling, that I was sitting in on somebody else's therapy session. That's not a comfortable feeling -- and that makes Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close considerably less rewarding than it should be.
  17. How Do You Know
    How do you know when a romantic comedy just isn't working? Key indicators are that your audience doesn't get goose bumps in the inevitable third-act reunion. They don't get misty-eyed. In short, they don't really care.
  18. Contraband
    What we're left with is a movie that is about as nourishing as the Junior Mints and nachos available at the theater snack bar. But, then, many a Friday night dinner has been made of far less.
  19. London River
    There isn't a whole lot of nuance in writer-director Rachid Bouchareb's unapologetically political movie. As such, it doesn't take much brainpower for a viewer to stay a step or two ahead of his plot the entire way.
  20. !Women Art Revolution
    These women deserve to have their voices heard, and this film finally lets them have their say.
  21. Terri
    Leisurely paced and plot-challenged, it's too unique and kindhearted to be outright disliked, but it's not the kind of film you can get too close to, either.
  22. Sanctum
    Once the real story hits its stride, it's easy to get lost in Sanctum.
  23. Unforgivable
    It is, in its best moments, an interesting exercise for Bullock — and a just-passable diversion for audiences in the mood for something a little more gritty and somber than a repeat airing of It’s a Wonderful Life or some other feel-good holiday standard.
  24. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    Best of all, here there be fun.
  25. Rubber
    It's a fun one to talk about -- if only for the opportunity to shake your head in amused disbelief at what you just saw.
  26. The Channel
    A morality play, this is not. What it is, though, is a sturdy bit of the kind of well-formed, well-conceived regional cinema we don’t seem to get enough of anymore.
  27. Cowboys & Aliens
    A film that is neither great nor horrible. Favreau does enough things right in Cowboys & Aliens to churn out a mostly enjoyable bit of mindless summertime action, just not enough to come close to rivaling his 2008 crowd-pleaser "Iron Man."
  28. Dinner for Schmucks
    It's probably best not to think very hard about any of it -- just dummy up and laugh along.
  29. The Princess
    For all of the faults one can find with Kiet’s film, she’s also exactly the kind of hero many American women probably need right now.
  30. Blues Brothers 2000
    Though it suffers from the late John Belushi's absence, John Landis's deliberately corny "Blues Brothers 2000" is a decent sequel to his cult comedy of 1980. [06 Feb 1998, p.L24]
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