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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    Some of Hart’s set — including jokes about his security team and an inspired recounting of a disastrous trip to a dude ranch — is hilarious. And his profane outrage is often funny enough to sell the weaker writing.
  2. Big Game
    There are parts of “Escape From New York,” “Air Force One,” “Cliffhanger” and countless Luc Besson movies strewn about. Big Game doesn’t stomp on their memory, but like an overenthusiastic fan, it does smother them with amateurish zeal.
  3. Samba
    With the tender love story, charming comedy and underlying point of shared humanity all getting equal standing, directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache earn the benefit of the doubt. You won’t be bored.
  4. Duck
    The thin, whimsical story is really better suited to a short film, but Hall deserves a lot of credit for carrying off such unusual material.
  5. Astro Boy
    Looks so great, it may take a while to notice it's a clunky political parable wrapped in a tonally confused fairy tale.
  6. Year of the Fish
    David Kaplan's sweet, if superficial, fairy tale won't change the world, but it makes nice use of its setting (Chinatown) and visual style (rotoscope animation).
  7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.
  8. Metroland
    Bale fails to make Chris a character compelling enough to stand out from that heavy dose of '70s clothes and hair.
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  9. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Real films breathe, alive with imperfections, accidents, with everything that Lee's worked so carefully to guard against. Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk is long, all right, but only half-alive — as careful as a diagram, as chilly as a statue.
  10. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    The script is merely serviceable and too reminiscent of similar fantasy tales. But kids will instantly relate to the gentle Soren, while watching wide-eyed as he faces each challenge.
  11. Stick It
    Peregrym's performance as fiery, troubled teen Haley Graham is a triumph of charisma over technique.
  12. Eight Legged Freaks
    Neither particularly funny nor especially scary. But it's so cheerfully silly, you may just have fun with it anyway.
  13. The Big Tease
    One of those bright ideas for a TV sketch that convinces someone it's too good to waste on the small screen. It's not.
  14. The Heart of Me
    It has the feel of those romantic movies of the '40s that no one thinks are made anymore.
  15. The Awakening
    This stately chiller owes a lot to 1960s British flicks like "The Innocents" and "The Haunting," but unfortunately heads towards cliches with every step.
  16. Approaching the Unknown
    Approaching the Unknown would be more of a solid premise if it were not touching down so close to last year's "The Martian," with its similar themes, bigger effects budget and superior script.
  17. Marley & Me
    If characters talking to dogs and dog reaction shots are some of your favorite things, add some stars to this review.
  18. The Hollars
    The cast, led by John Krasinski, who doubles as director, has its own fight against the lame and contrived script by Jim Strouse.
  19. Can't Hardly Wait
    Flunks the freshness test.
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  20. Red Sparrow
    People who crave a movie about a secret agent with her own sexual agency — and a mission to give male predators exactly what they deserve — are going to want front-row seats. And a sequel.
  21. Carrie
    Where Sissy Spacek seemed otherworldly and haunted in De Palma’s film, Moretz (“Hugo,” “Kick-Ass”) is sadder. She’s a terrific young actress.
  22. The Artist and the Model
    Much like “La Belle Noiseuse,” the 1991 Jacques Rivette film it resembles, this contemplative drama washes over you.
  23. The Guardian
    At its best when its heroes race furiously toward their missions, most of which involve jumping out of a helicopter into surging waves.
  24. In Time
    Sadly, for 99% of its running time, this muddled sci-fi drama is filled with enough overplotting, bad acting and riddle-speak dialogue to stop a clock.
  25. Bounce
    After a few movies in which Paltrow was in danger of becoming a caricature of herself, she's back in rare form.
  26. Barenaked in America
    Ought to suit fans just fine.
  27. Tokyo Eyes
    This amped-up Japanese thriller is a fairly diverting tale of romantic and cultural alienation.
  28. Charlie's Angels
    An update with a jolt of sheer exuberance.
  29. A Love Divided
    If it weren't based on a true story, you might suspect Sydney McCartney's A Love Divided was created by a panel of militant Irish Protestants.
  30. Seamless
    Fashion is something you either get or you don't, and whether you'll want to lay down $10 for Douglas Keeve's insider documentary depends entirely on whether you'd spend your last few bucks on the new issue of Vogue.
  31. Redacted
    Like "Lions for Lambs," Redacted is more significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution.
    • 52 Metascore
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    5 to 7
    Nostalgia only works if the audience buys into the act. As a writer-producer for “Mad Men,” Levin should know this.
  33. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies delivers the goods with tongue in cheek, if not Bond's tongue in someone else's cheek.
  34. White House Down
    Perhaps afraid that watching a symbol of liberty repeatedly go boom isn’t enough, Emmerich and screenwriter James Vanderbilt add family drama, an attack on Congress, a plane crash and the possible nuking of the Middle East. What isn’t tonally jarring ends up shatteringly inept.
  35. Man of Tai Chi
    The fights are strong (though the 49-year-old director’s are slo-mo), and the surface is calm. Say “Whoa!” if you like, but it’s cool.
  36. The Nativity Story
    As dull and inert as the ink used to print the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that informed Mike Rich's script.
  37. Anger Management
    Has hell frozen over? Not only is Jack Nicholson starring in a buddy movie alongside Adam Sandler, but of the two, Sandler's low-key approach is preferable.
  38. Stonehearst Asylum
    Stonehearst Asylum, Brad Anderson’s adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story, is undeniably preposterous. But if you accept the grandly Gothic insanity here, there’s a lot of fun to be had.
  39. Formosa Betrayed
    Only viewers wondering if James Van Der Beek has finally outgrown "Dawson's Creek" will be at all satisfied by this dreadful police procedural that contains good history lessons and bad TV-cop-show drama.
  40. The Protector
    While the story's silly, the stunts, choreographed by Jaa and popular Thai filmmaker Panna Rittikrai, are spectacular.
  41. The Ordeal
    A Belgian "Deliverance," Calvaire (The Ordeal) not only treats us to a few good scares, it also teaches us that Europe has its own rednecks.
  42. LUV
    The first half of the movie is painfully tense, drawing us into a relationship that we desperately want to see work. But the screenplay lets its characters down, as it devolves into platitudes and melodrama.
  43. Down with Love
    Doesn't so much crackle as pop. It has enough double entendres to fill a D-cup, but it has a premise that would have burned a hole in the screen in 1962, when its story is set.
  44. XX/XY
    An ongoing problem is the complete lack of chemistry between the leads.
  45. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Lightweight, inoffensive fare, as bland as a sleepwalker under a hypnotist's spell.
  46. Hollywood Dreams
    It's not unusual for a Henry Jaglom film to fall into a black hole of narcissism, but he has outdone himself with his latest, a satire on Hollywood's unshakable self-absorption.
  47. The Holiday
    A harmlessly cheery confection.
  48. Black Snake Moan
    At heart, "BSM" is no different from the midnight movies of the '60s and '70s that reveled in a head-spinning blend of blatant exploitation, provocative racial commentary and overwrought performances.
  49. The Good Doctor
    Bloom's watchfulness and brittle seriousness anchors The Good Doctor, even as it wanders away from reality and into its own bizarre world.
  50. The Magic Gloves
    He may earn his living as a cab driver, but the blank hero of Martín Rejtman's sardonic Argentinean comedy is perfectly content to hitch his way through life.
  51. Blackhat
    Unfortunately, Mann’s newest film, Blackhat, fails to connect.
  52. Comet
    Sam Esmail’s fractured romance is beautifully shot and creatively structured, but he never gives us a single reason to root for his mismatched couple.
  53. Three Days of Rain
    The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
  54. Dorian Blues
    The buoyant McMillan is a charming presence, but he's entirely miscast as a character described as moody and angry.
  55. The City of Your Final Destination
    Ivory appears most concerned about creating a mood, and in this regard he's successful. But Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's surprisingly bland screenplay, based on Peter Cameron's novel, feels half-finished
  56. Remember
    See Remember. You won't regret it — or forget it.
  57. Fay Grim
    While Fay Grim is too uneven to win Hartley many converts, it is laced with enough intelligence and wit to remind longtime fans why they were drawn to his unique vision in the first place.
  58. Blade II
    Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story.
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  59. The Independent
    Dumb fun is the best way to describe The Independent, and I mean that as a compliment.
  60. Get Over It
    A charmer with an attractive cast and an excellent soundtrack.
  61. The Mothman Prophecies
    Gere, who's credited with keeping the project alive for years, has never thrown himself quite so fully into a role, and Pellington tells the story without a hint of skepticism. I suppose he had no choice. If you're going to treat poppycock as history, you had better believe it.
  62. Made-Up
    Like picking out a family at random and walking into their house during dinnertime. Sure, their conversations are fascinating to them. But to you, it's just boring, meaningless chatter.
  63. Greendale
    The film's only dialogue is composed of Young's songs lip-synched and acted out by the cast. This makes for a very literal, somewhat stilted experience.
  64. Little Manhattan
    What a treasure - a funny, tart, romantic comedy about tweens suffering the pangs of first love. It makes the cityscape an essential part of the romance, like a junior, vintage Woody Allen.
  65. Insidious: Chapter 3
    You jump out of your skin the first few times the skeleton pops out at you. By the end of the ride, you’ve gotten a good look and it’s not so much scary as hokey.
  66. Who Do You Love
    The music will keep you in your seat, but there's so much more to this story. If only they'd gotten it right the second time around.
  67. The Switch
    His (Bateman) performance is fun. Too bad The Switch is not.
  68. Kill Your Idols
    Most interesting are the founding mothers and fathers of this movement, who first appear amusingly nostalgic and eventually grow exceptionally bitter as they complain about the packaged and ambitious nature of artists today.
  69. Gridiron Gang
    The Rock commits himself admirably to this trite tale, but by the end, even his enormous shoulders buckle under the weight of so many clichés.
  70. Pusher (2012)
    Refn's version was successful enough to inspire two sequels; at its best, this effort will push Coyle's career a little further along in the U.S.
  71. Boulevard
    It may not be one of his finest roles or one of his more memorable films. But in its own way, Boulevard may be one that says the most about him.
  72. The Lake House
    The time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched, and virtually absent a sense of interior logic.
  73. Deadfall
    If Deadfall had more life, it might have been about more than just its wannabe edge. Ruzowitzky, whose 2007 film "The Counterfeiters" won a Best Foreign Film Oscar, understands the movie's simple plan. But it nonetheless puts us into a big sleep.
  74. Bean
    Nevertheless, Bean has been a huge hit in Europe, where it opened last summer, and it may contain enough laughs to work here. Well enough, one hopes, to produce a funnier, sharper, better crafted "Bean 2." [07Nov1997 Pg.63]
    • New York Daily News
  75. Beefcake
    This movie's attempt to reinvent Mizer as a First Amendment hero isn't as effective as its triumphant display of beefcake, which is, after all, the movie's raison d'etre.
  76. Cotton Mary
    An unsubtle allegory about a way of life withering on the vine.
  77. That's the Way I Like It
    Cannibalizes "Saturday Night Fever" for everything from structure to plot, but does it adorably.
  78. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Popcorn-buyers, beware: This is no "Shrek," with raucous adult humor sailing over the heads of wee ones. This is "Sesame Street"-level, with white hats, black hats and simple moral messages.
    • New York Daily News
  79. 47 Meters Down
    What unfolds is a smart, tense nail-biter that’s bound to leave some clinging to the shoreline this summer.
  80. The Next Three Days
    It's laughably, eye-rollingly absurd.
  81. Maggie
    Its creepy atmosphere aside, Maggie is a slog of the living dead.
  82. The Woman on the 6th Floor
    Philippe Le Guay's carefully-tailored crowd-pleaser does have its pleasures, even if originality is not among them.
  83. Bomb the System
    The first feature from Adam Bhala Lough is brashly passionate in its desire to express the power and validity of graffiti art. But it's also preachy and single-minded, populated by a world of sympathetic heroes and hissable villains.
  84. London Boulevard
    Had the film stood still more often, its stylish gambit would have worked better.
  85. The Hills Have Eyes
    As with all ensemble horror movies, your first challenge is to guess which of the Carter kin will survive to destroy the creatures killing them, and in what order the family members (and their pets) will fall.
  86. Murder on the Orient Express
    The new Murder on the Orient Express isn’t a whodunit. It’s a why’d-they-do-it. Why make a new version of a perfectly good old movie if you’re not going to do anything new?
  87. Nanny McPhee Returns
    This dour, hyperactive family film is joyless, overly busy and starchy.
  88. [Rec] 2
    This Spanish sequel to a 2007 cult hit uses the way-overdone conceit of videotaped terror.
  89. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
    This great-looking, often spellbinding film also shows Lee’s sometimes pervasive theatricality threatening to chomp into the story. But the swirling strangeness of “Sweet Blood” makes it his most mesmerizing work since the underrated “Bamboozled” (2000) and “25th Hour” (2002).
  90. Bring It On
    Clever, slightly edgy fun.
  91. Center Stage
    Don't like archetypes? Wait till you meet the cliches.
  92. Possession
    What Possession reminds us more than anything is that love is more exotic at the safe remove of history. The irony is that LaBute is more at home chronicling the present, yet that's where this movie falls apart.
  93. House of Fools
    Something less than a gem. It has a brilliant lead performance from Yuliya Vysotskaya as Janna.
  94. Serendipity
    The lightweight bauble is perfect entertainment for now.
  95. Ghost River
    Even Isabelle Huppert Lite is more profound than the best work of most other actresses.
  96. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    It's killer, dude! [17 October 1997, p. 52]
    • New York Daily News
  97. Gracie
    A nicely confident Schroeder strides though the movie as if it's a masterpiece, and Mulroney is equally charismatic. But they can't quite save Gracie from feeling like a vanity project that will appeal mostly to middle-school soccer teams, and various extended members of the Shue family.
  98. Dark Water
    This is a quieter, more psychologically dense movie, where the payoff is sometimes no payoff at all - for instance, Tim Roth plays a cut-rate divorce lawyer whose own weirdness (he seems to live out of his car) is never explained.
  99. Ghost in the Shell
    While it offers some new ideas, the movie also suffers from the same pacing problems of the original.
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