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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    DiCaprio provides one of those tailor-made Oscar turns - cocking his head at odd angles, twitching and gesticulating with childlike awkwardness, his face a mask of sweet innocence and uncontrollable tics. [4 Mar 1994, p.03]
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  2. Cars
    And did I mention that it's long? It's long.
  3. Broken Bridges
    Get the soundtrack; wait for the movie to come to CMT.
  4. Ip Man 3
    For all its grand promises, Ip Man 3 teeters uneasily among B-movie clichés.
  5. The Possession
    The Possession has none of the suspense that made Bornedal's morgue thriller "Deathwatch" such shuddering good fun. And despite the absurdly overwrought Bernard Herrmann-esque score, it has very few genuine shocks.
  6. The Tuxedo
    It's a fun gimmick -- the sartorial equivalent of those red shoes in the fairy tale that made an ordinary girl dance like Terpsichore -- if not an altogether fun movie.
  7. The Greening of Whitney Brown
    By turns pleasant and preposterous, The Greening of Whitney Brown is a reverse Cinderella tale for tweens.
  8. Ceremony
    The offbeat comedy is not entirely devoid of charm, but its derivativeness is almost embarrassing.
  9. Gray Matters
    Mildly diverting but slight, the screwball comedy Gray Matters changes it up, more or less creating its own genre, the curveball farce.
  10. The Monuments Men
    Alas, it's a throwback that's thrown its back out - limping along, trailed by battalions of stereotypes and ammo rounds of cliche.
  11. Cymbeline
    One of the most uncinematic pieces crafted by an otherwise fine stylist, Cymbeline befuddles with its ineffective blocking and lack of art direction.
  12. The Pacifier
    It's the sort of stuff younger viewers will love.
  13. The Watch
    Reality aside, The Watch is harmless enough - and even occasionally humorous, in a riffy, sketch-comedy kind of way.
  14. Knockaround Guys
    It has its moments of swaggering camaraderie, but more often just feels generic, derivative and done to death.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Breakin' All the Rules
    The cast, headed by the divine Jamie Foxx, is better than the material. Director Daniel Taplitz is better than the material.
  16. Source Code
    Gyllenhaal is particularly unsuited to this role, his saucer eyes flashing from calm to crazed.
  17. On the Line
    Peppy, painless and -- happily -- not altogether brainless.
  18. The Price of Milk
    Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.
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  19. Asylum
    Alternately tedious, cliched and unintentionally funny.
  20. What Lies Beneath
    Dumb, dumb, dumb - borrowing scare tactics from Hitchcock and other suspense masters, but forgetting basic story.telling essentials such as character development and logical exposition.
  21. Live by Night
    It's intriguing enough to suck you in, but confusing, fragmentary, frustrating.
  22. Beowulf
    Zemeckis, who blazed trails mixing live-action with animation in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," blazes not even a footpath here.
  23. Anything Else
    On the plus side are engaging performances by Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci. On the minus side is . . . everything else.
  24. Dear John
    The film has two curious subplots and supporting performances that feel tacked on rather than organically part of it.
  25. The Kid
    There's nothing Disneyesque about this bomb except the forced levity of its musical score.
  26. Standing Ovation
    The cast is full of fresh-faced unknowns ready for their close-ups. Most likely to succeed is Kayla Jackson, an almond-eyed dreamer, as Brittany, anchor of the Ovations and of her family.
  27. Shark Tale
    Where Finding Nemo suggested that under-the-waves adventure was limitless, Shark Tale suggests that this sea is over-fished. The krill is gone.
  28. To the Wonder
    "There's nothing here!" screams Romina Mondello - Kurylenko's Euro gal pal, walking the deserted sidewalks of this Anytown, U.S.A. Boy, truer words . . ..
  29. The Magnificent Seven
    Despite a great cast and several terrific action sequences, Fuqua's film is largely forgettable.
  30. Stuck on You
    Despite its penchant for the crude and lewd, is gooey in ways that have nothing to do with bodily fluids.
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