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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. Second Best
    A guy flick, but I can't imagine many male viewers actually identifying with Elliot or his friends. The depression would be unbearable.
  2. Man in the Chair
    We'll overlook the clichéd predictability of their partnership and note that Plummer, and M. Emmet Walsh as his lonely friend, are a pleasure to watch.
  3. Man of the Century
    Almost corny enough to be hip.
    • New York Daily News
  4. Walking Tall
    The only thing to be said for it is The Rock. I've never seen the guy wrestle, but as a movie action hero, he's the real deal.
  5. The Inbetweeners Movie
    After much fumbling, the snicks and giggles of adolescence grow wearying yet again.
  6. Delivery Man
    Most important, he’s got Vaughn, whose mix of silliness and sincerity is an ideal anchor for the broad premise. Vaughn is one of those actors who tends to autopilot his way through too many mediocre projects. When he goes all in, though, it’s impossible to resist his charm.
  7. Barely Lethal
    This mashup of a teenage assassin lark and high school misfit comedy misses the chance to add a supercool heroine to pop culture.
  8. Faster
    Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is overhyped as Billy Bob Thornton is slow and steady.
  9. The Center of the World
    It's only when he (Wang) slows down and allows the characters to connect emotionally that his movie's unflinching honesty takes your breath away.
  10. Kikujirô no natsu
    When Kikijuro goes soft, the film falls apart, with him becoming a slapstick clown, mugging shamelessly to entertain Masao and the audience.
  11. Plunkett & Macleane
    Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    It Runs in the Family
    The family's all here and surely, with all their accumulated years of wisdom, they should have been able to distinguish a cloying script when one fell into their hands.
  13. Manhattan Night
    Writer and director Brian DeCubellis bathes the screen in dark shadows and provides fluid pacing. If you like your entertainment pulpy — and don’t mind swallowing cliches along the way — this “Night” is worth a look.
  14. Funny Games (2008)
    A patronizing, self-satisfied piece of work, Funny Games is Michael Haneke's way of chastising us for blindly following the traditional rules of entertainment.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Walking with the Enemy
    While a noble, inspiring story, the filmmaking is blunt rather than intelligent.
  16. Gaudi Afternoon
    Gaudi Afternoon, adapted from Barbara Wilson's novel, is a setup for a smart ensemble comedy, and the cast delivers in hilarious deadpan style.
  17. Head of State
    A tepid amalgam of other, similarly themed movies.
  18. Into the Storm
    Once Quale and writer John Swetnam get their generic setup out of the way, they can loosen up and treat the tornadoes like the villains they are. The effectively simulated storms, with their massive wreckage, start to feel like monsters stalking the heroes.
  19. Double Team
    It's a mad whirl, and Rodman his hair changing color like a traffic light seems right at home in it. [4 Apr 1997, p.49]
    • New York Daily News
  20. The Raven
    This wannabe Sherlockian thriller is like a night spent at Madame Tussauds, watching mannequins strangle other mannequins.
  21. We're the Millers
    The “Millers” script — it took four writers to cobble together something that seems so slight — hits too many obvious notes between the moments when Aniston can strut her stuff.
  22. The Hangover Part II
    Phillips sticks so close to the formula of his original that even the characters are given to saying things like, "I can't believe this is happening again."
  23. The Game Plan
    Director Andy Fickman seems to have thrown everything into this artificial comedy, in the hopes that something might stick. Almost nothing does.
  24. Along Came Polly
    Stiller and Aniston have zero sexual chemistry. But they have impeccable comic chemistry in a movie that features some stellar bits of business.
  25. Hey Bartender
    Skip the movie and go buy yourself a drink instead.
  26. The Ring Two
    An uneven story undermines this horror franchise, despite high-quality performances by Naomi Watts and David Dorfman.
  27. The Caveman's Valentine
    Offers a dazzling showcase for Samuel L. Jackson.
  28. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    What's here is a glimpse not into how far people will go to win a reality TV show, but how far greedy writers and producers will go to degrade, debouch and enrich themselves.
  29. Mia and the Migoo
    Shares a spiritual link to the Japanese works of Hayao Miyazaki but lacks his films' narrative drive and magical overlay.
  30. Unknown
    It all comes together at the end, logically and with a twist. But it's not a game that allows the audience to play along. When the story is controlled by whatever memories the writer and director choose to put in the characters' heads, you're always on the outside looking in.
  31. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It's all angst and no adventure, a lot of fury and little fun.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This Is Where I Leave You
    They say any group is only as strong as its weakest link. Well, the weak link in This Is Where I Leave You is the film in which the appealing cast members are stuck.
  33. Connie and Carla
    Nia Vardalos carved herself a niche with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" in 2002, and she's still furiously digging away at it with the screechy, unpleasant comedy Connie and Carla.
  34. The Village
    The Village is Shyamalan's weakest story, and its ending - whether or not you're surprised by it - is a genuine clinker.
  35. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Takes the worst and most annoying elements of the first film and treats them like grand assets.
  36. Chandni Chowk to China
    With musical numbers and fight scenes as big as its heart, director Nikhil Advani's action-comedy really does sample it all.
  37. The Answer Man
    This two-bit echo of "The Accidental Tourist" is a preachy pill that wastes the genial, funny Jeff Daniels and the criminally underused Lauren Graham.
  38. The Bronze
    The Bronze isn’t a brilliant game-changer, just a funny and filthy diversion.
  39. Jobs
    Entertaining and smart, with a great, career 2.0 performance from Ashton Kutcher.
  40. The Libertine
    Not since Philip Kaufman's 2000 "Quills," the story of the Marquis de Sade, have we had so debauched a literary and movie hero, and Johnny Depp plays him with the relish of an actor who has made odd-ball characters his specialty.
  41. The Losers
    The Losers is simply a lot of low blows, telegraphed each and every time.
  42. Southland Tales
    Southland Tales does have enough energy and audacity to suggest significant potential. But was it ready for public consumption? The answer is no. It's as simple as that.
  43. Life Happens
    Director Kat Coiro - who co-wrote with Ritter - spices up the formula just enough to keep us watching, while Bosworth adds versatile edge to the BFF banter.
  44. Sex with Strangers
    You never know what these people are going to say or do, but you're pretty sure it will be whatever they want to.
  45. The Operator
    In its unleashing of relentless, cosmic retribution, The Operator is not unlike the recent "Joy Ride."
  46. Gasoline
    Stambrini puts so much weight on shock value, she overlooks the matter of emotional resonance.
  47. Snow Falling on Cedars
    A prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy movie.
  48. America's Sweethearts
    The result is a back-lot studio tour that's not exactly good-natured, but terrific fun and it gives the ensemble cast plenty of clowning opportunities.
  49. Killer Elite
    When Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham unite for an action thriller, we should be able to expect something special. Or at least memorable. Instead, Killer Elite gives us ordinary.
  50. Dudley Do-Right
    Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
  51. Steve + Sky
    For everyone who has been waiting on a movie in the Ghent dialect, your patience has paid off. Happily, Felix Van Groeningen's low-budget romance is also sly - if utterly superficial - fun.
  52. Blood
    While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life.
  53. The Wendell Baker Story
    A shiny shell of a movie, "TWBS" is pretty to look at, and occasionally fun to watch. But ultimately, it's an exercise in futility - for the participants, who can do so much more, and the audience, which deserves so much better.
  54. The Giant Mechanical Man
    Grace, especially, gives a turn that could be a twerpy cousin to Tom Cruise's character in "Magnolia"; Fischer's dead-eyed responses to this Mensa-member/player who think he's book jacket-hot are priceless.
  55. Firehouse Dog
    If Firehouse Dog was on cable, where it belongs, it would make a passable diversion from homework or chores. But a kid would have to be pretty desperate to leave the house - and waste allowance money - for this modest distraction.
  56. A Piece of Eden
    All the full-blown wackiness turns a rather sweet movie into one that's decidedly overripe.
  57. Under Suspicion
    There is undeniable pleasure in watching these pros at work, but the murky depths of the soul can make for a dreary two hours.
  58. Malibu's Most Wanted
    An unerring sign of the awfulness of Malibu's Most Wanted is a series of the least funny outtakes ever appended to a movie's closing credits.
  59. Racing Stripes
    The special effects here are surprisingly smooth, and everyone seems to be having fun.
  60. Eagle Eye
    See, everyone complains about humans in movies but no one does anything about it, so it fell to Eagle Eye to make everything laughably, ridiculously fake.
  61. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials does pretty well. It finishes respectably on a scale between “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (fizzle) and “The Empire Strikes Back” (aces!).
  62. Backwards
    As her boss and boyfriend, an impressively good-natured James Van Der Beek adds a professional sheen to what otherwise feels like a vanity affair.
  63. Step Up Revolution
    Anyway. Here's what matters: The dance scenes are great. While no more revolutionary than the "political" plotline, the flash-mob concept does allow for more creative choreography than this series has seen in some time.
  64. Anamorph
    The long shadow of David Fincher's "Seven" falls on Anamorph, a moody, ultimately unexciting thriller.
  65. Looking for Kitty
    Offers moments of striking insight amid the inevitable self-indulgence.
  66. San Andreas
    San Andreas is a disaster — literally. That’s not to take a piece out of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. His charm and family-man-style fearlessness as the movie’s star is the only saving grace in this thuddingly repetitive, badly written crash-a-thon.
  67. American Pastoral
    Alightly boring, but slightly moving film.
  68. Madison
    There isn't a scene, an action or a character that rings true, yet the narrative summary of the events that inspired it is a matter of record.
  69. Catch and Release
    Really, women drag their husbands and boyfriends to films like writer-director Susannah Grant's emotionally bogus Catch and Release and I feel their pain. They should get a free Boys Night Out pass every time they make the sacrifice.
  70. The Tempest
    Less the opulent retelling she (Taymor) intended and more like a high-minded midnight movie, filled with Ricky's-style costumes, black swans, sprites that flit across the screen and a cave filled with boiling beakers.
  71. The Omen
    Rent the original. It tells exactly the same story, with a better cast and with special effects that are as good or better.
  72. The Great Role
    Director and co-writer Steve Suissa misses every opportunity to go deeper, either for laughs or pathos.
  73. The Animal
    Judging by the audience reaction -- there is apparently something funny about the idea of a man trying to hump a goat in heat.
  74. The Mexican
    Flails about desperately for a genre to call home.
  75. Jersey Girl
    It might have been a marketing nightmare, but if Lopez and Tyler had switched roles, it would have been a better movie.
  76. Fathers' Day
    At least Williams and Crystal, old pals off the screen, seem to be enjoying themselves.
  77. 9 Songs
    Michael Winterbottom nakedly goes where no "respectable" director has gone before - to sex and beyond! His provocative 9 Songs is the first movie by a director of Winterbottom's standing to depict real, uncensored sex between its lead actors.
  78. The Vow
    As the world's most chipper recovering coma patient, McAdams is a beautiful blank. There's not a single moment when her character feels real, or as if she genuinely has anything at stake. So it's a good thing Tatum steps up to add a little depth to this unabashedly lightweight venture.
  79. Hot Rod
    In fairness, the new movie from the Lorne Michaels machine does have its amusing moments. It's just most of them can also be found in "Napoleon," "Talladega Nights," "Eagle vs. Shark," and any installment of "Jackass."
  80. Le Chef
    Daniel Cohen’s genial French comedy is as airy as a soufflé. Alas, it’s not nearly as satisfying.
  81. The Angry Birds Movie
    The Angry Birds Movie is just fowl.
  82. Chain Reaction
    Chain Reaction never develops a sense of mounting energy. The action sequences are thinly conceived and too spread out by dramatic filler (mainly involving the crises of conscience of Morgan Freeman, as the project's enigmatic chief fund-raiser) to create much momentum. [2 Aug 1996, p.45]
    • New York Daily News
  83. Sorry, Haters
    So misguided as to be genuinely mystifying, Jeff Stanzler's queasily blended political psychodrama isn't simply a lousy movie. It's also a lousy movie that boldly exploits the events of 9/11.
  84. MacGruber
    To call MacGruber"a total bomb is a bit much, but this comedy-action flick sure feels like it was put together with gum, shoelaces and a couple of sticky Twizzlers.
  85. The Shaggy Dog
    There are many delightful movie techniques out there available for making animals appear to speak, so it's too bad The Shaggy Dog doesn't use any of them.
  86. American Pie 2
    Pie 2's greatest asset is the rare, infectious amiability of its cast of characters and the actors playing them.
  87. The Beach
    There's only so much meaningful interplay you can get out of a beachful of slackers and some tanning oil.
  88. Anything Else
    The worst performance in a film that diminishes even the talented Stockard Channing is given by Allen. He's never written a more unpleasant, vapid or irredeemable character for himself, and he makes it worse by overplaying.
  89. X Games 3D: The Movie
    Unfocused and underwhelming.
  90. Chaplin of the Mountains
    Some of the locations and scenes of indigenous musicians make this trip a tiny bit worthwhile. But only a bit.
  91. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    You won’t find anything new here: the sequel is basically a retread of the original, in which Scott delivers the strongest emotional moments, while an amusingly over-the-top Smith perpetually breaks the tension.
  92. All I See Is You
    Inside the endlessly dull, oh-so-serious All I See Is You there’s a short, fun, trashy movie dying to get out. And dying. And dying.
  93. Sherman's Way
    Unfortunately, this strained comedy relies entirely on clichés and contrivances to tell the story of Sherman.
  94. My Best Enemy
    The script relies on too many unlikely twists, but Bleibtreu manages to sell them all.
  95. Wish I Was Here
    One problem with “Wish” is that Braff tries to cram so much into it, no scene ever exists for its own sake, to establish rhythm or help us know these characters outside of the ongoing family crises.
  96. Total Recall (2012)
    There's something sadly poetic about a movie dealing with disappearing memories that vanishes from your mind while you watch it.
  97. The Last Castle
    I don't know why Redford and the white-hot Gandolfini signed on for this fiasco, but the give-and-take between them is the film's sole pleasure.
  98. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Needs someone to roll down a window and let in some fresh air.
  99. Suspended Animation
    Since the movie's sensibility ranges from the preposterous to the absurd, there are few genuine frights.
  100. Paycheck
    The story, adapted by Dean Georgaris, doesn't come within a light year of science-fiction plausibility, and after a while Woo gives up trying to sell it and reverts to the action choreography that made him a master of Hong Kong martial-arts movies.
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