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For 3,962 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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  1. Insidious
    The thing is scary as hell when it's all creaks and thumps and doors swinging open. Then come the explanations, the special effects, and the inevitable feeling of been-there-been-­bombarded-by-that.
  2. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
    What truly distinguishes Last Voyage of the Demeter, beyond its thick atmosphere of dread, is its gleeful cruelty, the delicious mean streak with which it sets up its suspense set pieces and its kills.
  3. The Iron Lady
    Shallow but satisfying, largely because of Meryl Streep and her big fake English teeth and gift for using mimicry as a means of achieving empathy.
  4. Madame Bovary
    Look closely and you may see that this madame is alive in all sorts of ways. At least for its first half, this is a textured, haunted, remarkably empathetic film.
  5. After the Hunt
    After the Hunt might be confused, and it might even be unsatisfying — but it also refuses to coddle anyone, and that feels like some sort of victory.
  6. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    As uneven as Ridley Scott’s career; at times, it seems to be a journey through the director’s greatest strengths and weaknesses. The good news is that his strengths eventually win out; the bad news is all the awkward storytelling and botched character interactions we have to wade through to get to the good stuff. Once we do, though, Exodus is a hoot.
  7. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    It’s enough to make me wonder if this series might still have a few decent tricks left up its sleeve. We’ll see. This movie’s a bust, but I’ll let myself remain hopeful.
  8. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp.
  9. A Working Man
    The villains in this movie aren’t merely cruel and sadistic; they’re also profoundly stupid and incompetent, which actually feels closer to the way things tend to be in the real world.
  10. The Spy Who Dumped Me
    It’s tough to sustain a story line this thin for two hours, and the movie runs down at the two-thirds mark.
  11. Secondhand Lions
    The only saving grace is that Caine and Duvall don’t overdo the southern-coot stuff.
  12. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    This sensationally engineered promo film makes Justin Bieber look like a true force of nature.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Watcher in the Woods
    This so-called “children’s film” selects a variety of phobias and stitches them into a patchwork of shimmering terrorscapes and half-baked ideas about secret societies, the occult, and, of course, dirt-bike-racing in rural England. In other words, it’s perfect.
  14. Be Kind Rewind
    The funniest things in Be Kind Rewind are not the many moments in which Mike and Jerry look like Ed Wood’s worst nightmare, but when the pair finds expedient ways to do for pennies what would take Brett Ratner millions and be less expressive to boot.
  15. Mother of Tears
    The first two thirds are gangbusters, with marauding bands of tarted-up young witches who look only slightly less scary than Lindsay Lohan and her pals on an average night.
  16. X-Men: Apocalypse
    Watching Apocalypse, you don’t feel as if every character is being set up for his or her own spinoff. They complement one another. They need one another. The overflowing ensemble nature of the enterprise is the whole point.
  17. The Monuments Men
    It’s a graceful, engaging film — I enjoyed it. But it could have been called "The Tasteful Dozen."
  18. The International
    It's good enough that you forget how much better Brian De Palma could do it. The rest is a slow road to nowhere, less clunky than "The Interpreter" but bogged down by its own cynicism.
  19. Nacho Libre
    The movie is semi-infantile camp but often riotous.
  20. Beckett
    Director Filomarino is onto something here. The warm intimacy of the movie’s early scenes is replaced by such shocking brutality by the end that the violence feels like an emotional correlative, a blood ritual of sorts.
  21. Triple 9
    Given the movie’s bloody stew of greed and sadism, its unbalanced frames and ear-scraping soundscape, its moral tidiness can bring a smile to your otherwise appalled face.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Object of My Affection
    If the woman’s love is obsessive and needy, the story becomes stupid and painful, and that is what happens in The Object of My Affection, the Stephen McCauley novel that has been adapted for the movies with disastrous panache by playwright Wendy Wasserstein and director Nicholas Hytner.
  23. Epic
    For all its attempts at wonder and spectacle and play, Epic is mostly a slog.
  24. Blow
    It downplays the effects of George's drug trafficking, not so much on himself and his cronies as on the wrecked lives of the generation of customers we never get to see.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Snake Eyes
    I can't think of another movie that starts so brilliantly and ends so miserably as this one.
  26. Peeples
    Pleasant, if inane – helped along by a likable cast that’s clearly having fun.
  27. The Interview
    If Amy Pascal loses her job over this, it will be an outrage. The only thing about which we disagree is The Interview. She hated it; I think it’s a blast.
  28. RoboCop
    It’s a rare “reboot” that transcends its studio’s money-grubbing. It has some Big Ideas.
  29. Beautiful Creatures
    I enjoyed this piece of southern-fried screwball Gothic whimsy (with jolts of CGI spell-casting for the multiplex crowd) so much that I’m sad to admit that it’s nowhere near as potent as "Twilight."
  30. The Intern
    The Intern degenerates into a series of monologues about ambition and relationships and having it all. As the speeches pile up, our goodwill dissipates, and so does the film’s magic.
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