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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
    Musical biopics usually replicate a star's rise and fall in depressingly predictable fashion. Hurray, then, for Mat Whitecross and his vibrantly eclectic take on what should feel like the same old story.
  2. Shake Hands with the Devil
    Spottiswoode relays this tragic story with respect and sadness. But Michael Donovan's script is stuffed with clichés, and Dupuis is unable to convey the depth of Dallaire's emotions.
  3. Daydream Nation
    Writer-director Michael Goldbach fills the story with too many distractions, but Dennings, known for "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist," is feline and fun.
  4. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Despite the presence of Jet Li, only the last half-hour of this chatty epic truly flies.
  5. The Maze Runner
    No, there’s nothing new here. But sometimes it’s enough to be merely entertained, rather than amazed.
  6. Iron Man 2
    Iron Man 2 sets gold standard for sequels thanks to Robert Downey Jr.'s Stark performance.
  7. The Muse
    No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  8. John Rabe
    Proudly matter-of-fact but, sadly, far from gripping.
  9. Cars 2
    This savvy and sensitive company has unapologetically made a movie for (very) young moviegoers.
  10. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    The cast hits the right notes. Fraser, switching between affable good sport and heroic goofball, clearly doesn't mind this stuff. He realized early on with "George of the Jungle," "Dudley Do-Right" and the "Mummy" movies that his B-movie build and persona is perfect for live-action cartoons.
  11. The Revenant
    By the middle of the second hour, you'll be wishing a zombie would just chomp off your head to end the pain.
  12. Cirkus Columbia
    Director Danis Tanovic never undersells the anger and tension in the family, yet while the emotional underpinnings feel raw, much of "Cirkus" also winds up spinning 'round to obvious, if uncomfortable, places.
  13. Right at Your Door
    The movie has an ironic and unpredictable ending, but it doesn't wash away the sour taste of Brad's behavior.
  14. Strangers with Candy
    The jokes are so sketchy and silly it quickly passes the point of wretched excess.
  15. Saudate for the Future
    It's sort of like getting off the plane in a strange place without a guide. We can figure it out, but it takes some work, and the music is more of a distraction than an aid.
  16. The Wildest Dream
    This National Geographic production mixes two amazing adventures, neither of them quite what you expect.
  17. Bubba Ho-tep
    Much of the film is sub-sophomoric, but Campbell and Davis give hilarious deadpan performances.
  18. Snow White and the Huntsman
    It's Theron who owns this film, imbuing her deliciously depraved Queen with furious pain and deep-seated fear.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Greetings from Tim Buckley
    For all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along.
  20. Coach Carter
    By turns funny, touching and genuinely inspiring.
  21. Assisted Living
    Greenebaum's tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.
  22. 1,000 Times Good Night
    Sadly, this gorgeous-looking adult movie plays out the same theme over and over, never going anywhere surprising. At least we have Binoche to guide us to hell and back.
  23. Brighton Rock
    Though he has a true appreciation for detail, Joffe has the scar-faced Pinkie so scurvy that Rose ought to run the minute she sees him.
  24. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    It's hard to complain about a pop culture phenomenon built on unabashed innocence. And anyway, we might as well get used to it: Neither the movie nor the passionate tween squeals at a recent preview leave any doubt that "HSM 4" is on its way - or that the inevitable "College Musical" will be far behind.
  25. The Great New Wonderful
    The stories are eye-opening and heartwarming at the same time, but you'll be moved less by empathy for the characters than by the summoning of your own emotional memories. This movie is personal.
  26. Confetti
    Like the average best-man toast, Debbie Isitt's amiable mockumentary has many funny moments, a few touching ones and some that fall just slightly flat.
  27. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    With the combo of Neeson’s natural solemnity and his action chops, “Tombstones” treads compellingly amongst lesser thrillers.
  28. Backstage
    Director Emmanuelle Bercot's film offers a fascinating account of how a vulnerable star might mistake fan worship for something real.
  29. Morning Glory
    This often-witty baby-of-"Broadcast News" tries hard to be liked, like the TV fluff it's built around. The news is that, often, it succeeds.
  30. The Last Kiss
    Paints itself into a corner from which it cannot escape. By the end, the movie is still in that corner, tossing out overlapping notes of hope and gloom and counting on viewers to write the ending they want. I'd leave the movie in the corner.
  31. The Tavern
    Won't change the world, but thanks to its casual intimacy, it was a risk worth taking.
  32. Sasayaki
    Surprisingly poignant, thanks to its enduring sense of tenderness.
  33. Up at the Villa
    All of Haas' movies have an air of weirdness and dread, and this one is no exception. But it's romantic as well.
  34. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Craggy oldsters Mick Jagger and James Coburn steal the show from the young uns in The Man From Elysian Fields, a mostly entertaining twist on the Faust story about a writer who sells himself cheap.
  35. Today's Special
    This full, sweet comedy, adapted by star Aasif Mandvi from an Off-Broadway play, has a city flavor and a wry take on familial obligations.
  36. Last Chance Harvey
    This mundane romantic comedy is notable for one reason only: its leading couple.
  37. Horrible Bosses
    All those who have to drag themselves to work every morning will surely find some comfort in Seth Gordon's cheerfully outrageous revenge comedy, Horrible Bosses.
  38. First Love
    The movie exaggerates a common dynamic between men and women.
  39. Mama
    If you're going to have a ghost in your movie, it might be a good thing to present a viable alternative to that ghost. Mama, however, presents a battle between two not very good options before crumbling like a sheet on a string.
  40. The Company You Keep
    Though consistently engaging, Redford’s latest directorial endeavor does feel like a plea. You can almost hear him coaxing us to learn from the past, even as we rush into the future.
  41. Everything's Gone Green
    The dialogue does have Coupland's characteristic snap, but like its mellow hero, the movie takes the easy route just a little too often.
  42. Forks Over Knives
    Hey, isn't summer a good time for a salad?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Michael Jordan to the Max
    We get zilch on what kind of human being he is.
  44. Cet amour-là
    Dayan's weakly structured biopic Cet Amour-là is, to be kind, less than inspired. But as a showcase for legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau, it's a tour de force.
  45. Dark Blue
    Creates a hellishly evil portrait of a police department in which every white cop is either a racist thug or an enabler, and every black cop a disgusted observer or crusading hero.
  46. Two Men Went to War
    The veteran Cranham and young Bill play their incompatible characters with dead-pan aplomb, and Derek Jacobi adds heft as Churchill's chief intelligence officer.
  47. Disappearances
    The film is lovely to look at, but makes not a lick of sense.
  48. Flash of Genius
    It's not a lightning show, but "Flash" still shines.
  49. Brother to Brother
    Evan succeeds in drawing a parallel about the lack of racial and sexual tolerance in both eras, but Perry's inner turmoil is nowhere near as interesting as the lively flashbacks.
  50. G.I. Jesus
    Passion this profound can't help but make an impact.
  51. You've Been Trumped
    First-time director Anthony Baxter jettisons all pretense of impartiality, without adding any of the intelligent outrage of his evident influence, Michael Moore.
  52. It's Complicated
    Baldwin and Streep do make the most of the situation, and their sparky chemistry provides the only real draw.
  53. little man
    But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.
  54. I Origins
    Cahill, who did the equally heady, intriguing drama “Another Earth” (2011), keeps the tone consistent. He makes certain his cast walks a savvy tightrope, keeping things taut.
  55. Casanova
    A period romp that tries too hard.
  56. War Dogs
    War Dogs may not reach "The Big Short" levels of resonance, but it clearly channels that Golden Globe-winning dramedy's newsreel aesthetic and lampooning of the Bush administration's policies.
  57. Rubberneck
    The film works better as an uncomfortable character drama than as a murky family mystery, which Karpovsky deepens with some psychobabble. Still, a nicely sinister and shuddersome effort.
  58. The Equalizer
    The movie is tense and coiled for its first hour, then becomes routine in its second half.
  59. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh, taking advantage of his experience helming 2011’s “Thor,” shows an allegiance to the genre he’s working in; both as director as co-star, he pours on the menace.
  60. Sherlock Holmes
    Downey has a winning take on Holmes: He's always on.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Intervention
    With her directorial debut, Clea Duvall could have used just a little bit of an intervention. Many things in The Intervention work, but a bit more comic relief would have taken the edge off her overdependence on melodrama.
  62. Cecil B. DeMented
    Not so much a movie as a self-contained world for like-minded people who wear their outsider status on their sleeves.
  63. The Art of Amália
    An unabashed celebration of her (Amalia) distinctive voice.
  64. Skins
    Eyre offers a merciless, affecting portrait of reservation life, but his relevant themes eventually wash away in a sea of unnecessary sentimentality.
  65. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
  66. The First Grader
    Director Justin Chadwick ("The Other Boleyn Girl") shows admirable restraint bringing this true story to the screen, and Litando does much with glimmers of emotion and wells of dignity.
  67. Opal Dream
    Though there are no Montys, full or otherwise, the finale will lift you up.
  68. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    It would have served the film well if more time and focus was devoted to Michelle's life today and how she's managing.
  69. Ezra
    There’s no questioning the sincerity of the filmmakers or the urgency of the subject matter, but the clumsiness with which this harrowing story of a child soldier in Africa may wear you out long before the puzzle is put together.
  70. Collaborator
    Hartley fans will certainly see his influence, especially in dialogue and movement that are so precise as to feel choreographed.
  71. The Kingdom
    Berg has an excellent eye for violent extravaganza and the action - especially a 10-15 minute set piece midway through - is as cleansing as a high colonic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3 Hearts
    Charged by dynamite performances and Bruni Coulais’s ominous score, this romantic tragedy is more gripping than most thrillers.
  73. A Very Brady Sequel
    The performances are all on-target. Shelley Long and Gary Cole reprise the lady and her fellow, with Tim Matheson as the interloper, Christine Taylor as the hair-obsessed Marcia and Jennifer Elise Cox as Jan, the mouth-breather.
  74. Buffalo Soldiers
    Though the film, adapted from a novel by Robert O'Connor, is obviously trying to reference "Catch-22," it is far too dark and violent to be funny.
  75. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    This is a crazy, gorgeous, disturbing, darkly comic horror story about an early-18th-century Frenchman born in a Paris fish market without any odor of his own but with a sense of smell that would make a pack of bloodhounds wail with envy.
  76. The Commuter
    As it speeds along, the film delivers its share of popcorn-style entertainment, curves and thrills. But it stalls due to plot holes and murky storytelling, willful inaccuracies (like an invented Upper East side train station), wasted talent and conductor’s cap tips to better railway-based movies like “Strangers on a Train,” “The Fugitive” and “Unstoppable.”
  77. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Not a single moment of creativity or intrigue is to be found in the big-screen debut of the Disney Channel's most popular sitcom character.
  78. Hidden in Plain Sight
    Though Army officials vigorously defend the school, after watching so many grim interviews with victims of the school's alumni, agreeing with Smihula's skepticism is finally unavoidable.
  79. The Escapist
    The splintered viewpoints help with the monotony, but from the taunting of new inmates to the cell-block sadist, we've gone through all this before, right down to the final twists.
  80. Leaving
    The class issues make them pariahs, the love scenes belong on Cinemax After Dark, and the emotions writer-director Catherine Corsini believes are so adult are clichéd. Still, Scott Thomas is beguiling as usual, the one expected thing that's welcome here
  81. G.B.F.
    The subject matter calls for ruthless observation, but his candy-colored pop vision has more in common with “Glee” than, say, “Heathers.” He’s aiming for a stinging WTF, but winds up with a fairly mild LOL.
  82. Die Another Day
    As strong on action as it is weak on the interpersonal stuff. If Bond can get a new car for each episode, how about some new pickup lines?
  83. 7 Chinese Brothers
    Jason Schwartzman does the full Bill Murray in 7 Chinese Brothers.
  84. Dark Blue World
    It's the banal romantic triangle that inspired Sverak ("Kolya"), who obviously didn't see "Pearl Harbor" in time to stop himself.
  85. Breaking Upwards
    Best of all is the well-used West Village setting, which feels like the perfect backdrop for a slightly offbeat love story.
  86. Scream 3
    For the initiated, the third time's a charm. For everyone else, it's just a scream.
  87. An Everlasting Piece
    Coming from a big shot like Levinson, An Everlasting Piece feels like a gently amusing but undeniably minor diversion that, for whatever reason, needed to be gotten out of his system.
  88. Concussion
    Concussion is a melancholy affair which keeps its lead character at a distance, making for somewhat frustrating viewing. But the reserved tone also makes this movie worth an afternoon visit.
  89. Escobar: Paradise Lost
    Director Andrea Di Stefano’s filmmaking debut has a spotty sense of urgency, but we get to know neither Nick nor Escobar, so both the innocence and the fiery threat lack impact.
  90. Game 6
    There are funny bits strewn throughout Game 6, and it's good to see Keaton in a meaty, nonshowy role for a change. He has the chops when he's not mugging.
  91. Fever Pitch
    Relationship comedy like this is mother's milk to Drew Barrymore, who, as usual, is adorable and perfect.
  92. In the Land of Blood and Honey
    It is how the film never loses sight of the closeness of the combatants, turning national intimacy into a tragic casualty.
  93. Winter Passing
    An odd little movie with artistic aspirations and a bare touch of comedy that offers sights you never expected (nor hoped) you'd see - like Will Ferrell playing it straight (more or less) and Zooey Deschanel drowning an innocent kitten.
  94. Across the Universe
    Julie Taymor says the idea for her Across the Universe was "to create an original musical using only the songs of the Beatles." That's like saying you're going to create a new element using only gold.
  95. Harsh Times
    The result is an angry, violent mess of a movie with a central character threatening to implode right on the screen.
  96. Jackass 3-D
    Ten years into the "Jackass" franchise, it's obvious the well is starting to run dry. Then again, if you show Johnny Knoxville an empty well, he'll jump in headfirst. After packing it with writhing snakes.
  97. A Knight's Tale
    With its cheerful hailstorm of anachronisms and classic-rock soundtrack, there's nothing medieval about it.
  98. Human Nature
    Fresh and often very funny, and it makes its point that when our native urges conflict with social norms, the former shall give in to the latter, or else.
    • New York Daily News
  99. A Dirty Shame
    All trash, all all the time, a run-on burlesque of lust.
  100. Return to Paradise
    Directed with great skill and intelligence by Joseph Ruben, Return to Paradise, is a rare thing among today's movies a drama of conscience. [14 Aug1 998, Pg.51]
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