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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. The Last Gladiators
    He tells his story honestly, but with no great sense of self-awareness or insight.
  2. The Wolverine
    Good thing the Aussie star has the role down to a science, since the rest of The Wolverine is a howler.
  3. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Director Stefano Sollima, who cut his teeth on Italian TV mob dramas, is good at building suspense. He fills the screen with striking images, too -- night-vision raids, heat-signature tracking, eye-in-the-sky surveillance.
  4. The Karate Kid
    It has heart and a good kick.
  5. An Amazing Couple
    Given the grim events, the buoyantly goofy An Amazing Couple has the effect of laughing gas pumped through the vents in a funeral hall.
  6. Emmanuel's Gift
    Yeboah is so levelheaded about his own accomplishments that the swelling score and emotional narration from Oprah Winfrey feel embarrassingly sentimental.
  7. Morlang
    The movie ever so slowly builds to a startling finale, one that puts new meaning into passive-aggressive relationships.
  8. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Half amusing and half appalling, Matthew Vaughn’s shameless spy caper Kingsman: The Secret Service is ultimately done in by its own hypocrisy.
  9. Otelo Burning
    This crisp, involving South African drama comes at you in waves, changing course and tone expertly.
  10. Funny People
    Gets old fast.
  11. Videocracy
    Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is an ideal documentary subject, but Erik Gandini's jumbled take on Berlusconi's corrupting influence quickly shifts from good idea to wasted opportunity.
  12. The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
    The film winds up as a chronicle of uneasy forgiveness.
  13. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    In the end, The Man Who Invented Christmas is an enjoyable enough diversion. It’s no humbug. Just pleasantly ho-hum.
  14. Pandaemonium
    Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
  15. Ultimate X: The Movie
    In a feat of truly impressive cinematic finesse, Hendricks manages to capture every possible angle, from below a soaring motorcycle to atop a speeding luger's helmet.
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  16. The Emperor's New Clothes
    In a hilarious bit of actorly sleight-of-hand, Holm (who is not new to the role of Napoleon, having it played it twice before) slips effortlessly from emperor to impostor.
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  17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    The Swedish edition, which ends with this bleak finale, is downright grim.
  18. The X Files
    Truth is, it' not very good.
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  19. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
    Without a satisfying resolution, the movie ultimately sheds very little light on its own subject.
  20. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    Garlin, like Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine in "Marty," is good company, even when his out-of-control eating and self-loathing threaten to overwhelm him.
  21. SPECTRE
    Craig is cruelly efficient. Dave Bautista makes a good, Oddjob-like assassin. And while Lea Seydoux doesn’t leave a huge impression as this film’s “Bond girl,” perhaps it’s because we’ve already met — far too briefly — the hypnotic Monica Bellucci, as the first real “Bond woman” since Diana Rigg.
  22. Femme Fatale
    Sexy, witty, energetic and gorgeous, but it is as stripped of the human element (in some of its production design, as well) as a minimalist Calvin Klein store.
  23. Asphalt Zahov
    More than the sum of its parts.
  24. Luminous Motion
    An ambitious film that sticks with you long after you have left the theater -- because of both what it achieves and what it does not.
  25. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Greenwald has created a crisp historical document that is worth your time, even if the information in it was not worth the President's.
  26. Ghostbusters
    The all-new, mostly female Ghostbusters reboot is in theaters, full of terrific special effects, icky green slime, a horribly haunted Manhattan and, yes, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. But the big laughs you’d expect from a "Bridesmaids" reunion of director Paul Feig and stars Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy never materialize.
  27. Them
    If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.
  28. Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
    Yoichi Sai's movie may be a bit tough for young viewers, but it is gentle and illuminating.
  29. Our Idiot Brother
    Despite a pleasantly laid-back demeanor, you wish it would just get focused.
  30. 9
    Shane Acker's underwritten but beautifully animated debut is both an ode to technology and a warning against it. Perhaps unintentionally, the film itself echoes those themes.
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