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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. Jack the Giant Slayer
    A director as talented as Singer (“The Usual Suspects,” “X-Men”) should be working to raise popcorn movies to a higher level. Instead, this uninspired effort feels like a colossal letdown.
  2. Death at a Funeral
    You must really love a movie if you decide to remake it just three years after its release. But unless you also intend to improve upon the first attempt, what's the point?
  3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    It never stops for a minute, yet it never goes anywhere. And much as it promises to take you to a thousand planets, it can’t find one sign of intelligent life.
  4. Desierto
    Some of the characters' fate might be left in a frustratingly open-ended fashion, but Cuéron has created an impressive edge-of-your-seat thriller set within a fantastic outdoors environment.
  5. Asylum
    Asylum is as dark as Dracula's mood on a moonless night, and people suffering from depression should think twice before opening the coffin. This thing would put off Mary Poppins.
  6. A LEGO Brickumentary
    As Corporate promotional videos go, this one snaps together right out of the box. As a movie, it can be as annoying as stepping on a stray LEGO brick with your socks off.
  7. The Legend of Pale Male
    You won't find a tale more true to our city than the extraordinary history of Pale Male. It's just unfortunate that Frederic Lilien's documentary is as clunky as his subject is graceful.
  8. Birthday Girl
    It's a slight, old-fashioned B movie, the last thing you would expect from an actress coming off a breakout year, but it has a charm and freshness we don't see much these days.
    • New York Daily News
  9. Fleeing by Night
    The many opera scenes are so beautifully mounted, they make up for the moments when the story veers toward melodrama.
  10. Le divorce
    The French may be guilty of some bad behavior, but that's no reason to punish them with the shapeless, deceptively crass Le Divorce, a Merchant-Ivory production in which all things Gallic are reduced to quirks of snobbery, misogyny and haute selfishness.
  11. Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    A light-footed comedy that suggests that for even the most desperate, love is just around the corner.
  12. Kaaterskill Falls
    Due to budget constraints, the movie is necessarily rough around the edges. But directors Josh Apter and Peter Olsen have a sure grasp of how to maintain a mood that chills long after the movie is over.
  13. Mamma Mia!
    On the scale of modern musical adaptations, it's not a disaster of "The Producers" proportions. But it is missing the razzle-dazzle of a success like "Chicago."
  14. Think Like a Man
    If you can look past the annoying quirks, you'll probably have a good time. As Steve says, sometimes, it pays to compromise.
  15. Snitch
    Snitch is like watching an elephant on ice: inelegant, but you admire the effort.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    She's All That
    Well, it's not that hard to predict how this comedy with a little emotional depth will end. And that's not such a terrible thing, because She's All That delivers a lot of charm and quite a few nice comic touches. [29 Jan 1999, p.68]
    • New York Daily News
  17. Aquamarine
    It's not the best "Little Mermaid" movie - it's totally predictable and its trio of tweeners squeal at a pitch that could break glass. But it's also a bubbly confection about best friends, crushes on preening lifeguards, grrrl power and shades-of-blue fashion tips.
  18. My Date with Drew
    There are times, to be sure, when Herzlinger's antics threaten to swing from cute to cloying. But the few missteps are gently redeemed by an unexpectedly charming finish.
  19. God's Pocket
    Gritty, funny, rich adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel.
  20. Everyone's Hero
    Whoever wanders into the theater should leave a winner.
  21. Irreversible
    Once you're past THOSE scenes, and come to know the context and characters involved, you'll find something both deeply humanist and emotionally complex.
  22. Risen
    In the end, you get a Sunday morning sermon when what you really want is a Saturday midnight screening.
  23. Transporter 3
    Statham could do these movies in his sleep by now, so he gets credit for offering up so much dry wit. In fact, while Rudakova makes a painful acting debut, Statham appears more engaged than he has in a while.
  24. Saint Ralph
    The real miracle here is that the hard-working cast manages to turn McGowan's script into an intermittently touching tale.
  25. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    A few well-timed laughs and a lot of filler.
  26. The Road to El Dorado
    Pretty much a road to nowhere.
  27. Left Luggage
    Krabbe attempts to stuff too many themes and subplots into the story.
  28. DysFunktional Family
    The whole nutty crew finds it rollicking good fun to see themselves lampooned. But there is an unmistakable sorrow behind the humor.
  29. What Lies Beneath
    There is one good, legitimate scare in Robert Zemeckis' quasi-ghost thriller What Lies Beneath, and that's just not enough for a movie that lasts more than two hours.
  30. The Liberator
    Even Ramírez cannot liberate this movie from a clichéd script.
  31. Nobody Walks
    It's a naive example of the transformative powers of a 23-year-old let loose amongst the dullards. Whoa.
  32. Casino Jack
    The trouble starts with the casting. The usually reliable Kevin Spacey never quite gets a handle on Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew devoted to unorthodox business methods.
  33. In Our Nature
    A mopey indie family drama like In Our Nature can't quash "Mad Men" star John Slattery's charm no matter how badly it tries.
  34. Summer Storm
    There's nothing truly new to be found here, but Kreuzpaintner treats Tobi's confusion with respect and gentle humor, making this an especially sensitive coming-of-age/coming-out story.
  35. The Walker
    Schrader's main interest is not in the mystery, per se, but in the political intrigue of incestuous Washington, where conflicts of interest are the norm and morality is indeed relative. The points are well-taken, but Harrelson's performance often gets in their way.
  36. Finding Amanda
    Tolan writes regularly for smart shows like "Rescue Me," but his best instincts deserted him when he set his sights on the big screen for the first time.
  37. The Pill
    While their story is feather-light, Khoury and his actors have each type down perfectly. Worth seeing with friends, but you won't want to make a date night out of it.
  38. Rough Night
    At its best, the movie turns gender roles on their heads. While the girls party very hard, bride-to-be Jess’s fiance Peter (Paul W. Downs) spends his stag party tasting wine with his buds. Moreover, people can surprise themselves — and do things they don’t expect.
  39. Blind Date
    It's about watching two always-fine actors do a lot with very little.
  40. The Hard Word
    I may be wrong, but I think Guy Pearce is wearing Nicole Kidman's false nose in The Hard Word. Whatever it is that's on his face, it looks like a dead cod and won't win him an Oscar.
  41. Johnny English
    There weren't enough good laughs for me to recommend it to anyone other than the most devoted Beanheads.
  42. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    Wild West Show would have really been something if Vaughn had taken a few of his fellow Frat Packers with him - say, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Steve Carell - instead of the struggling unknowns.
  43. White Irish Drinkers
    There's an unexpected appeal to John Gray's modest drama, emanating from its center.
  44. Mademoiselle C
    As vanity projects go, this one’s unusually well-made — as any portrait of an iconic stylist ought to be.
  45. The Promotion
    There's still a lot to like here, but ultimately the movie reflects its hapless hero a little too well. While we're constantly rooting for it to succeed, the finish line seems forever out of reach.
  46. Private Peaceful
    Fans of PBS, history and a certain kind of old-fashioned moviemaking may fall in.
  47. Savage Grace
    "Grace" may be based on a true story, but barely a moment in it feels real.
  48. Me Before You
    The film belongs to Clarke. Her warm and winning star turn lifts this checklist chick flick.
  49. Free Zone
    The movie works best as a car's-eye travelogue of Jordan. And the three women might be good company on another, less stressful trip. Say to the Caribbean.
  50. The Fountain
    It's often maddening, because of its structure, and some of its visuals are pretentious nonsense. But, as a story of undying love, it's certainly unique.
  51. Moog
    Moog mostly has the amiable, 70-ish inventor recounting his story, from his teen years as an electronics whiz in the Bronx to his development of a smaller, cheaper synthesizer.
  52. Eros
    When the producers of Eros, a triptych of short stories about eroticism and desire, described what they wanted from Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, American Steven Soderbergh and Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni, they must have written the memo in Chinese. Only Wong attempted something sensual.
  53. All the Little Animals
    Hurt is slumming in an unchallenging role.
  54. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Typical of road comedies, it's a pastiche of sketches.
  55. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    Descends with dismaying speed into clichéd Southern melodrama.
  56. The Accountant
    The problem is that endings matter. I was thrilled at watching more than an hour of Ben Affleck playing Christian Wolff as a socially awkward, arithmetically gifted, martial arts expert sharpshooter. But then the plot devolved into nonsense for the final stretch, leaving me wanting to garnish the filmmakers' wages.
  57. Jim Brown: All American
    We never really learn what Lee thinks of this man, other than that he is worth every second of a 130-minute documentary.
  58. A Letter to True
    The resulting movie is a mixed bag, not quite a documentary and yet as "true" to Weber's fascinations as a dog named True can be to his master.
  59. Oyster Farmer
    The realistic scenes of oyster farming and the beauty of the Hawkesbury River lend this movie a degree of fascination that its taciturn, beer-swilling characters can't provide.
  60. My Blueberry Nights
    A stunner of a movie. But all those gorgeous images never add up to a full picture.
  61. White Bird in a Blizzard
    Having carried the mediocre smash “Divergent,” Shailene Woodley now uplifts another underwhelming teen thriller. This one’s as tiny as that one was huge.
  62. Broadway Idiot
    The movie can’t help feeling like a vanity affair — a shot of novocaine, instead of a letter bomb.
  63. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    In the end, Phantom needed more human and less digital scale. The magic of "Star Wars" lay in Lucas' ability to play the human comedy in a fantastic future. With Phantom, he has brought the series to the brink of total artificiality, the future as a video game.
  64. Holly
    Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution.
  65. Predators
    Predators tries to spice up the hunt-or-be-hunted thesis, but from the get-go, director Nimrod Antal's movie has nowhere to run.
  66. Hotel for Dogs
    Even the youngest viewers, not to mention their parents, will appreciate the buffoonish villainy of the dogcatchers (still useful villains more than half a century after "Lady and the Tramp"), and the movie's nice anti-kill shelter message is as it should be.
  67. Just Wright
    The chemistry between the leads is more cozy than sexy, but the biggest issue is Latifah's noticeable - and admirable - discomfort with the rom-com clichés found throughout Michael Elliot's screenplay.
  68. Morning Light
    A Disney movie about a Disney project, this slick sailing documentary feels a little too self-promotional, almost like an attraction you might stumble into at Epcot. But at least it turns out to be a fairly wild ride.
  69. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    It's the first mainstream gay movie that feels totally comfortable in its shoes.
  70. The Transporter
    Kinetic, meaningless and fun.
  71. Assassination Tango
    The story line is frustratingly haphazard, spreading out in several directions without ever focusing on one.
  72. The Young Black Stallion
    Stallion" has gorgeous cinematography with spectacular landscapes - plus a lazy script, forgettable performances and regrettably uninspired direction.
  73. My Mother Likes Women
    The Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling.
  74. Ender's Game
    Ender’s Game, the book, may have a special place in pop-lit. The movie, however, is as special as a migraine.
  75. Half of a Yellow Sun
    Those who only know Chiwetel Ejiofor from his quietly powerful work in the Best Picture-winning “12 Years a Slave” should see him here — to experience his range.
  76. Holy Rollers
    Eisenberg - seemingly in every other movie nowadays - gives his best performance since 2005's "The Squid and the Whale" in a film that dramatizes a fascinating New York story.
  77. Breakfast with Scot
    With witty throwaway bits and Cavanagh's fast delivery, "Scot" gets away with a third-act dip into hearts and platitudes. Otherwise, it's refreshingly snarky and quick.
  78. The Expendables 2
    "2" works harder to land punches, but when it does, it provides the kind of fun it's fan base hopes for. But expectations, and targets, are lower all around.
  79. Star Trek: Nemesis
    There comes a time when the future looks old, and that's where "Star Trek" finds itself on the time-space continuum.
  80. Birth
    It's corny, plodding, implausible and - on occasion - seriously creepy. At the same time, it contains a couple of this movie year's most sublime sequences, and features one of Nicole Kidman's bravest and best performances.
  81. Meet Monica Velour
    The deepest chord is hit by Cattrall, who almost manages to wipe away the memory of "Sex and the City 2."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    The real stunner of Worlds Away is how it could afford to use so many Beatles songs.
  83. The Call
    No one’s winning any awards for The Call. But at least the award winners know how to make it worth our while.
  84. Going the Distance
    This empty, immature romantic comedy ultimately feels as if it's filled with all the hot air that separates New York and San Francisco, yet still manages to be a suffocating bore.
  85. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    As dumb as "Mike and Dave" can get, it's a surprisingly fun summer comedy and icing on the (wedding) cake for fans of the raunchiest of humor.
  86. Lucía, Lucía
    The attempt to make this intimate movie more exciting is misguided; we can find plenty of manufactured thrills at the multiplex. What's wrong with a little quiet, old-fashioned charm?
  87. Union Square
    A moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one.
  88. The Brown Bunny
    It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation.
  89. Ellie Parker
    Shot on digital video, made on the run whenever Watts was available between gigs, the movie is a pointless, tedious eyesore.
  90. Campfire
    A good movie that could have been better, Joseph Cedar's sensitive Israeli drama falters when he trades sociological observations for political ones.
  91. The Night Listener
    Casting Williams in this thriller, adapted from Armistead Maupin's novel, was a bigger mistake than the actor's performance.
  92. Lovelace
    While “Lovelace” falters a bit, it remains a memorable, unflinching indictment.
  93. Hardcore Henry
    Stupid as a bag of hammers and twice as loud, Hardcore Henry sounds like the title of the worst Kissinger bio ever. Actually, it's an action movie that feels more like you are trapped in a video game. A really, really bad video game.
  94. Parkland
    Perhaps it’s inevitable that the movie works best not while we’re watching fictional recreations, but when we see real footage or hear actual broadcasts.
  95. John Carter
    What director Andrew Stanton has brought forth from Burroughs' limited, hoary source material is actually kind of fun.
  96. Misery Loves Comedy
    Explaining humor is usually like boiling water — it evaporates. But the funny folks in actor Kevin Pollak’s well-structured doc can actually break down what they do.
  97. Mulholland Falls
    Nolte does his standard lovable-lug routine with his usual ease and assurance, though a more daring producer might have allowed Madsen, stranded again in a second-banana role, to step up to the lead. This crafty, insinuating actor has been ready for his closeup for a while now. Can't somebody make him a star? [26 Apr 1996, p.47]
    • New York Daily News
  98. Taken
    Neeson's better than this. You can't watch him here without thinking, Geez, every fight-choreography session could have funded "Love, Actually." This bash-the-door-down action scene likely took as long to film as "Kinsey." That gunfight required more stunts than all of "Schindler's List."
  99. My Sister's Keeper
    Patric and Baldwin react to all the morbidity with restraint, and Vassilieva keeps her bald head high. But they won't be able to help this barefaced vulgarity earn any terms of endearment.
  100. Step Brothers
    So that's three snickers, not counting the Bush quote, 'cause including that one ain't fair, man.
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