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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. Detachment
    It's nice to see righteous anger in a movie. If only the education drama Detachment knew what to do with it.
  2. Running with Scissors
    A reasonable facsimile of a perversely funny book whose odd characters are given life by a terrific cast.
  3. Central Intelligence
    Even the obligatory blooper reel after the film isn’t as funny as it should be.
  4. Last Holiday
    It's too bad there's so little of LL Cool J as the secret object of Georgia's fantasies. He'd make a funny, nimble, sexy romantic lead with just a bit more screen time.
  5. Insidious
    Insidious doesn't feature the lazy, home-video-style terror of "Paranormal Activity," thankfully. But it's also pretty normal activity for a ghost story.
  6. The Iron Lady
    While The Iron Lady fails as a biography, it succeeds incontestably as a showcase. Streep captures Thatcher's voice and mannerisms and then pushes further, creating a three-dimensional character rather than simply offering a technically deft impression.
  7. Once in the Life
    As urban gangster drama, Once in the Life is way below mundane, and Fishburne's direction exceeds the rookie jitters.
  8. The Princess Diaries
    Prepubescent girls might get a few safe giggles while others around them are yawning.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Madame Bovary
    Sophie Barthes directs this gloom-laden English-language version of Gustave Flaubert’s novel. The tragedy accelerates impressively, but the well-acted film doesn’t leave us wiser about the enigmatic, ever-doomed figure at the center of things.
  10. The Longshots
    It also has another watchable turn from Ice Cube, and, as with his previous films, the rap artist-actor leads by example.
  11. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    This eye-rollingly bad movie is silly, sluggish and miscast.
  12. The Devil's Double
    Dominic Cooper gives a riveting dual performance in The Devil's Double, but the movie is a relentless one-note drama that loses its momentum halfway through.
  13. Hacia la oscuridad
    The Colombian tourist board won't be too happy about Antonio Negret's intermittently compelling thriller, which presents his native country as a cesspool of corruption and violence.
  14. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    And now, just as Bella Swan (Stewart) embraces her own eternal power, Breaking Dawn, Part 2 expands with a full intensity of force, stronger and more epic than the films that led to this impactful finale.
  15. Nicky's Family
    Hokey reenactments of the war years do the film no favors, but it’s worth sticking them out to witness a humanity that never could be faked.
  16. The Sea
    Dysfunction seeps from every pore of this family, and the anger and ugliness of the characters overwhelm not just the story but the movie's stunning National Geographic location.
  17. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The idea that every animated feature from Disney is an instant classic officially springs a leak with the noisily disappointing Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
  18. Secondhand Lions
    A predictable outcome is not bad if it's fun getting to it. But this story is so lamely conceived and presented that it's a grind.
  19. Dopamine
    Billed as the first film to go from conception to the big screen within the Sundance program, Dopamine is an amiably slight independent film that probably should have gone directly to the Sundance Channel.
  20. Ping Pong Summer
    This sweet, offhanded but lovingly observed remembrance is a real kick. It takes us back to the way things used to be, especially for 13-year-old guys, and specifically in the arcade rooms of 1985, filled with upright video games with glowing screens and big-haired girls in neon.
  21. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    Bieber's world - at least as edited for mass consumption - is a refreshingly wholesome universe, where a young superstar is good-natured and grateful, says grace before every meal, and spends all his free time on the tour bus tweeting. He also likes to hug, a lot.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slow Learners
    Even if this movie isn’t fresh, it’s often amusing.
  23. Casa de mi Padre
    It's an unfunny Spanish movie that worked best as a two-minute trailer.
  24. 300
    It's impossible not to be moved by its nearly nonstop visual assault.
  25. Race to Witch Mountain
    While "Escape" was superior in story, "Race" does commit to an impressive scope. What it is, really, is a big-studio popcorn flick that just happens to be made for tweens.
  26. Any Given Sunday
    While the football sequences are carefully constructed, the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football.
  27. Off the Hook
    Unlike most inner-city stories that come out of Hollywood, this feels like the real thing.
  28. Mother of Tears
    At 67, maestro Argento's taste still runs toward bloody entrails and eye-gougings, but Asia's sexy sour-lemon smile is underused in his movies.
  29. Goya's Ghosts
    Although the period feeling is convincing, Forman doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants to say about this intensely complex era - and that leaves his cast floundering.
  30. Valentin
    Noya is a natural actor, and there are genuinely sweet moments between him and the adults. So, why did Agresti feel the need to pour so much added sugar down our throats?
  31. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    A personal documentary on a family member. The question is, who -- outside of friends and family -- would want to watch it? The answer...is ... beyond me.
  32. Little Secrets
    Treu and screenwriter Jessica Barondes may not have their ears to the ground that's trod by real kids, but as they did with their previous film, "Wish Upon a Star," they're allowed to dream.
  33. The King Is Alive
    It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Splendor
    A fair amount of laughs and a spunky dose of charm from the three leads, which adds up to some meaningless, if perverted, fun.
  35. She's One of Us
    Alnoy's unnerving mood piece is spare and atmospheric, even funny. The movie is accomplished, but gets hung up on arty composition.
  36. Scream 4
    After a promising start that uses Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell to perfection, they settle into their old stomping grounds as if they'd never left - and that turns out to be a letdown.
  37. Water for Elephants
    The primary drawback is the lack of chemistry between the leads, Reese Witherspoon and "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson.
  38. Dead Man's Shoes
    This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
  39. X-Men: Apocalypse
    Once again, it's Evan Peters' Quicksilver who steals the movie whenever we see his powers in action, maybe because they've found a unique way to showcase them. There's even a fun but unnecessary tangent involving another popular "X-Men" character.
  40. Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
    Sadly, the film gets mired in traditionalism, something the man himself always railed against. But worth a look for seeing intellectual bravery (still) at work.
  41. The Monuments Men
    There’s great repartee between its cast of this “based on a true [but forgotten] story” of World War II. Yet the film overall isn’t colorful enough.
  42. The International
    The International almost seems like a Monty Python spoof on spy-game thrillers in which the phrase "secret agent" is constantly replaced by "banker," resulting in lines like, "...If I die, 100 other bankers take my place."
  43. Rudderless
    William H. Macy has pitch-perfect instincts as an actor. As a movie director, he’s bound to do better than his first feature, this big-hearted, nicely paced but ho-hum character study.
  44. The Producers
    If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus.
  45. Felony
    Strong acting all ’round helps, but unfortunately this is just a slow ride to nowhere.
  46. Nacho Libre
    The sweetness of Nacho's nature, along with Black's unselfconscious physical enthusiasm, turn all this into a live-action cartoon, with the ring violence having no greater consequence than a Wile E. Coyote fall from a high place.
  47. Triple 9
    When the story does wrap up, it's all too little, too late, and far too long. Which given everything stuffed into it, just leaves the super-sized Triple 9 triply disappointing.
  48. Everything, Everything
    The twist ending both saves and hurts the film. The last few minutes are a bit clichéd, if not uplifting, but what gets Maddy there is heartbreaking and infuriating.
  49. Epic
    Even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow.
  50. Romeo Must Die
    This is not for the Merchant-Ivory crowd, but action fans will feel their pulses quicken.
  51. Blow
    Ends up a portrait through a rose-colored lens, turning a social parasite into a Greek hero.
  52. Rat Race
    The movie is over in a breezy 112 minutes, but it may be another half-hour before your sides quit aching.
  53. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Lane...is as stunning and changeable as that Tuscan countryside. Without her, this movie would be irksome, pandering as it does to stereotypes, including that of the American woman who goes abroad for easy sex with limpid-eyed hunks.
  54. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Starts out as fresh as your popcorn, but turns stale before you finish it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Snake Eyes
    A dicey thriller visually, De Palma kicks off the movie on quite a roll, but the story craps out. [7 August 1998, p. 57]
    • New York Daily News
  56. The Nines
    It's an intricate, at times incoherent, but often funny and consistently fascinating trio of stories with the same actors in different but related roles.
  57. Janie Jones
    Writer-director David M. Rosenthal fills this dewy road-trip movie with too many cliches. From the glimpses we get of Shue's character, that may have been a more rockin' story.
  58. Safe House
    Safe House devolves into unexciting action scenes that feel left over from the "Bourne" flicks and are peopled with cloak-and-dagger stereotypes.
  59. Peeples
    Director Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote the screenplay, seems to have relied pretty strongly on Perry for guidance. In particular, she rejects any notions of subtlety, either in the comedy or the weirdly heavy-handed messages about masculinity.
  60. The Interview
    Real-life geopolitical blunders aside, The Interview generally hits its marks. And every time it does skid into juvenile idiocy — with too much scatological humor, for instance, and an overuse of “you-go-bro!” attitude — it follows it with a stride or two toward uproarious meta-satire.
  61. RoboCop
    The remake of the 1987 cult actioner Robocop is a misguided failure — not only because its retooled half-man/half-machine hero now has emotions, but also because its “fear the machines” message winds up feeling creaky.
  62. Saint Laurent
    Fashion junkies and junkie junkies are the only audiences likely to enjoy Saint Laurent.
  63. Touching Home
    There's a fine line between labor of love and vanity project, and this blandly earnest tale straddles it.
  64. Linsanity
    This nothing-new-here documentary presents basketball’s onetime celebrity point guard in unguarded moments. But the result is banal and fawning, with Lin coming off as a pious, charmless subject.
  65. Beautiful Creatures
    Who could have predicted that one day we would long for the relative subtlety of “Twilight”? Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures is so outrageously florid, Bella and Edward’s baroque courtship looks understated by comparison.
  66. Cockneys vs Zombies
    The oldsters are feisty — a gun-totin’ granny is played by Pussy Galore herself, “Goldfinger’s” Honor Blackman — but the shtick’s as flat as old ale. It is bookended, though, by two seriously great songs.
  67. Seeing Other People
    Attempts a coolness quotient it can't pull off.
  68. 800 Bullets
    Take away the violence, ribald humor and salty language, and 800 Bullets is actually a touching tale about family, love and honor.
  69. Highwater
    There are plenty of outrageous characters, several surfing celebrities and a few truly compelling stories.
  70. The Age of Adaline
    Plausibility, shmausibility. This is pretty schmaltz done right.
  71. Love, Marilyn
    This well-intentioned but clumsy attempt to get into the head of one of the 20th century's most famous women remains full of hot air.
  72. The Golden Compass
    Represents the year's biggest gamble - and it delivers the year's biggest and most ambitious fantasy.
  73. A Walk in the Woods
    “Natural” perfectly describes Nolte’s performance, too. With his growly voice and bear-like aura, he might be dismissed as a walking sight gag, but don’t let that fool you. Nolte’s way with a joke is nimble, and his delivery is spot-on.
  74. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    The special effects remain startling, and in your face. But there's nothing new here, and what's old feels like less. The corporate villains seem to have wandered over from "Rampage." The humor has vanished.
  75. First Descent
    We've seen this story before, and the thrill is gone.
  76. Cherish
    As it is, while Tunney is undeniably lovely to look at, she's just not that much fun to be around. And for 100 minutes, she's all we've got.
    • New York Daily News
  77. Windtalkers
    The strength of Windtalkers is in its occasional, all-too-short respites from battle, when Enders is struggling with his demons and Yahzee is trying to understand his aloofness.
    • New York Daily News
  78. An American Rhapsody
    Heartfelt but often plodding and awkward, the movie feels like a somewhat subpar Sunday night TV movie.
  79. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
    If a black-metal band ever made a 107-minute music video, this visually striking but otherwise ludicrous epic is probably what it would look like.
  80. Mammoth
    The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of "Babel," its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson.
  81. La Soga (The Butcher's Son)
    There's nothing about Josh Crook's cop saga that will strike you as new, but he and his talented lead do build an epic feel into this gritty tale of corruption.
  82. The Short Game
    Some parents are mellow, and others have instilled emotional problems in their children. This less-than-illuminating work resembles the spelling-bee doc “Spellbound,” only with a promise of high-end endorsements and far more pampering.
  83. The Neon Demon
    Presumed to be Nicolas Refn's foray into the horror genre, but apparently, no one bothered to tell the filmmaker that.
  84. Top Gun
    The flight sequences in “Top Gun” may arouse aerial buffs. Still, this movie approaches its subject in such juvenile, superficial way that it’s clear the producers were merely in a hurry to cash in on Hollywood’s new wave of Rambo-style patriotism.
  85. Contraband
    Only Wahlberg rises above the muck; everything else here feels buried in concrete.
  86. The Brothers Grimm
    The result is a bit of a mess: sometimes delightful, sometimes tedious, always creative.
  87. Cesar Chavez
    Just as the migrant workers of California deserved better treatment from their bosses, the man who won the labor dispute deserves better treatment than this film.
  88. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    Yes, there are good moments from a team of veteran British actors, but overall, this return visit to the 2012 gray-set rom-com is deadly dull.
  89. Self Medicated
    The vision of him pretending to be a sullen teen is a distraction the movie never overcomes.
  90. Five Dances
    Though the film’s untested cast struggles with the drama, and the sketched-out story is often banal (there are several amateurish calls-to-mom scenes), the presentation of a specific city subculture is etched from the heart.
  91. Feast of Love
    You'll find more authenticity listening in on conversations at your corner diner. But this is a gentler alternative, especially if you prefer your coffee with extra cream and sugar anyway.
  92. Trust Me
    Every actor probably dreams of creating his or her ideal role. So kudos to Marvel movie stalwart Clark Gregg (“The Avengers,” TV’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) for actually doing it, as writer, director and star of this indie drama. If only we could extend our congratulations to the project itself.
  93. Due Date
    Like the direction, the script veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination.
  94. How to Be Single
    This smart, raunchy comedy is a movie aimed at women. Full of frank, just-us-girls talk about men and wicked gags about drunken sex and intimate "landscaping," it's probably a poor choice for date night. But it's a great pick for girl's night out.
  95. Girl, Interrupted
    Unusual in that it spotlights a common but largely unsung variety of teenage female angst.
  96. The American Astronaut
    The best part of this proudly absurd experience is the music.
  97. 21 Years: Richard Linklater
    There are great clips and good insight, and it’s all as loose and cool as an Austin night out.
  98. The Baxter
    Modest and polite. That's not a ringing endorsement of Michael Showalter's good-natured comedy, but there are enough laughs in it if you're willing to settle.
  99. Adam's Apples
    Jensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another.
  100. The Man with the Iron Fists
    The movie plays things relatively straight, acknowledging clichés without the winking irony in which modern homages usually indulge. As such, it's giddy fun - a well-made genre picture that sends up its influences even as it clearly reveres them.
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