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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. Mona Lisa Smile
    Director Mike Newell and screenwriters Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal should have uncorseted their own imaginations. The girls on display are all tightly stereotyped.
  2. American Assassin
    It gallops along quickly enough to keep us entertained, but not so quickly that we can’t see the seams of its creaky American Hero setup.
  3. Evening
    The film is based on a novel by Susan Minot--one of those books where the author doesn't deign to put dialogue in quotation marks for fear of dispelling the dreamlike mood. It works on paper, but Minot, who shares credit for the adaptation with fellow novelist Michael Cunningham, doesn't understand that screenwriting is the art of taking away.
  4. The Protector 2
    Slipshod and tiresome, The Protector 2 is more than a misfire, it’s a betrayal.
  5. Factory Girl
    It was probably hopeless from the start: The Warhol cosmos is too weird and complicated to lend itself to a conventional Hollywood biopic, and this one is conventional down to Warhol's first glimpse of his future "superstar" bouncing up and down vivaciously in tacky slow motion.
  6. The Son
    The ending may be heavily foreshadowed, but that doesn’t make the lead-up any less exasperating or what happens any less egregious.
  7. Whatever Works
    It's hard to get past the primitiveness of Allen’s fantasies.
  8. Extraordinary Measures
    Extraordinary Measures has a soppy piano-and-strings score, but the primal fear of loss sharpens every scene.
  9. Girl in Progress
    The movie goes soft. But it has the unpretentious energy and charm of a good YA girls' novel.
  10. The Sum of All Fears
    Movie has been upstaged by the sum of our fears. The staunch heroics, frantic presidential huddles, and hairbreadth rescues all seem tinny and escapist, too Cold Warrior–ish, for what's really going on now.
  11. The Pope's Exorcist
    It allows Crowe to have fun with the part of Father Amorth, but the film forgets to have fun along with him.
  12. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    The film is a hodgepodge, and it closes with a whimper. But along the way some lucid voices slip through.
  13. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    It also comes as little surprise that she (Fonda) knocks the part out of the park, even if the film around her leaves something to be desired.
  14. Colombiana
    Luc Besson's Jumping Frog Action Factory looks mighty lame in Colombiana.
  15. Justice League
    Like most “universe” movies, this one has about five beginnings and then segues into a round-up-the-team section that ought to have been sure-fire. But the banter has a droopy, depressed air, as if the actors know they’re coming from behind.
  16. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    In any case, the last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger. The movie's that primal.
  17. Firewall
    The director, Richard Loncraine, doesn't generate much tension in Firewall's first half...The standard-issue climax is pretty exciting, though.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    If the movie were just these two (Costner/Hurt), bopping around arguing and offing people, it would have been better than the unholy mess it turns into.
  19. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The emotional resolutions aren't pat, exactly. But they're not messy either, and for material this inherently volatile, that seems like a cheat.
  20. American Dreamz
    To keep his satirist’s street cred, Weitz chases the sentimentality with sour slaps at the audience. But for all its supposed outrageousness, American Dreamz has a soft center.
  21. The Possession
    It's a shame, though, that so many of The Possession's later scenes, particularly the exorcism stuff at the end, is mostly a grab bag of tired old scares. You might have convinced yourself, for a while at least, that this one was going to rise above the crowd.
  22. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    I've never seen a film in which what was actually onscreen seemed so irrelevant.
  23. By the Sea
    You keep watching not just because she and Brad and the Mediterranean are beautiful, but also because small, surprising details start to take on great importance.
  24. A Minecraft Movie
    It feels like a small miracle that the resulting film is so funny, lively, and light on its feet.
  25. The Paperboy
    It offers a deranged hodgepodge of tones and acting styles and strange mannerisms and affectations and narrative dead ends that feels like it was assembled by a committee of bipolar extraterrestrials.
  26. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    An unholy mixture of the banal and the bombastic.
  27. Taken 2
    The screenwriters go out of their way to prepare you for Taken 3: Serbedzija has more sons, and Kim's virginity is getting harder and harder to preserve.
  28. Detention
    You admire the movie for refusing to ever, ever slow down, but you also wonder what might have happened had Kahn dared to settle, even just a bit. Instead, what we get is a mad kaleidoscope of genre, with occasional glimpses into the mysteries of the exploding teenage heart.
  29. Hall Pass
    It's a terrific performance-and terrifying. Owen Wilson is aging: Where goeth my own youth?
  30. Flower
    I’ll give Flower props — in an age when so many teen movies are grasping so desperately for message-y topicality, it does the impossible, and manages to be about nothing at all.
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