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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. Extraordinary Measures
    It's a nice, feel-good story with an appealing cast and strong production values.
  2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Bill Condon returns fans' love and gives them exactly what they have shown they want. That is: uneven storytelling, maudlin dialog and decidedly one-note performances, even from the big names in the cast.
  3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    Best of all, here there be fun.
  4. The Paperboy
    This is the kind of film that feels like a dream - but not in the good way. Rather, it resembles a dream in that it is made up of disjointed, loosely connected bits of surrealist craziness - ideas that might have seemed interesting in the twilight hours but that don't come close to standing up to the light of day.
  5. Sniper
    What on Earth is Tom Berenger doing in a picture as awful as "Sniper"? [2 Feb 1993, p.D7]
    • New Orleans Times-Picayune
  6. A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    But artistically interesting only takes a film so far. What it needs are laughs- - or at least a compelling narrative. It's got neither -- with the result being a film that arrives as dead as a certain parrot from a certain skit. One of the funny ones.
  7. Intruders
    There's a germ of a good story there, and Intruders isn't without the occasional tense moment. But unfortunately Hollowface is as undeveloped as the other characters in Intruders, which is the film's biggest flaw of all.
  8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    To put it in Austen terms: They will not have the pleasure of understanding what Steers is trying to do here.
  9. South of the Border
    Sure, it's an interesting scene as he (Stone) chews the fat with Raul Castro, and coca leaves with Bolivia's Evo Morales. But his South of the Border can't be taken seriously, muchacho -- and if you think it can, well, I've got a primo cigar factory in Havana to sell you.
  10. Hesher
    There's meaning, great meaning, in Susser's wonderfully oddball little film.
  11. The Expendables
    I love a good, brainless action flick as much as the next alpha male, but this time I had a whole lot of trouble laughing along.
  12. Cherry
    If nothing else, Cherry proves Holland has a lot more to give us when his web-slinging days are over.
  13. Oz the Great and Powerful
    Is all of that to say that Oz the Great and Powerful comes even close to matching the timeless, iconic stature of 1939's "The Wizard of Oz"? No, of course not. That's not just a once-in-a-lifetime cultural phenomenon, but a once-in-many-liftimes one.
  14. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    This is a movie that -- in addition to being exceedingly well-cast and surprisingly well-shot -- is gleefully inappropriate and indulgently crass at every turn.
  15. Kidnap
    The bottom line is that, while Kidnap isn't without its hiccups, it's another fun bit of Berry badassery -- and certainly better than the film's rocky history to this point might suggest.
  16. Hotel Transylvania 2
    Where's a wooden stake when you need one?
  17. Delivery Man
    As a modest bit of feel-good entertainment, Vaughn and Delivery Man mostly deliver the goods.
  18. Mia and the Migoo
    A cast of American actors -- including Matthew Modine, Whoopi Goldberg and Wallace Shawn -- were hired to provide recognizable voices for the English version of the film. They fulfill that requirement, too: Their voices are, indeed, recognizable -- though little more.
  19. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    This is a movie that, to its detriment, takes itself very, very seriously for most of its running time.
  20. The Bronze
    Built on an interesting idea -- but which, unlike Strug, can't quite stick the landing.
  21. Jobs
    He was a charismatic leader and the greatest salesman the industry ever saw. He also was a very vocal spokesman for the graying counterculture -- crediting his high-tech success to Zen Buddhism, Dylan songs and acid trips.
  22. Redemption Road
    A message movie that struggles mightily to make an impact but never comes close to capturing the gritty realism on which any blues singer builds his career.
  23. 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.
  24. All I See Is You
    By the time All I See Is You works its way toward what should be an emotionally charged conclusion, most reasonable audiences will have likely already checked out. All they'll see is their wristwatches, as they count down to when the whole misjudged exercise is over.
  25. Night School
    While the improvised interplay of the talented cast -- especially between Hart and Haddish -- help keep things moving along, watching Night School ends up largely being an exercise in waiting for something genuinely inspired to happen. It never does.
  26. Total Recall (2012)
    There's a lot of eye candy in what ends up being a slick, breathless and at-times enjoyable sci-fi update. Unfortunately, it's what Wiseman forgets to do that makes the biggest difference in his film -- and which keeps it from becoming much more than a glossy missed opportunity.
  27. The ABCs of Death
    There's no sense of pacing here, as would be the case in a single feature-length narrative in which a wise filmmaker would vary the intensity level. Instead, what we get is a ceaseless visual and emotional assault. That makes for an exhausting movie-going experience. This is by no means a feel-good film. This is a feel-bad film -- and at times a feel-icky film.
  28. The Wolfman
    Anthony Hopkins still does elegant menace better than anyone.
  29. Dear John
    The ending of Dear John feels manufactured and patently false. Seyfried tries to sell it, but you can tell that she's having a hard time believing the words coming out of her mouth.
  30. The Three Musketeers
    Those who like their swashbucklers to resemble, say, the farces of Jim Abrahams and the brothers Zucker, will be in good hands with David Loughery's obvious sight gags and anachronistically "hip" repartee. The only real wit in sight is supplied by Curry, who does what he can to give viewers some respite from the picture's relentlessly giddy brand of schmaltz. [12 Nov 1993, p.L25]
    • New Orleans Times-Picayune
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