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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. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    What this arid and arty exercise offers is the opportunity for a bunch of actors, many of them tethered to TV series, to deliver theatrical monologues pulsing with misogyny and narcissism. It's like second-rate Neil Labute.
  2. Miracles from Heaven
    Well-intentioned if cloying, Miracles from Heaven has an appealing cast and an accessible take on spirituality.
  3. School for Scoundrels
    Despite the appeal of cobra-eyed Thornton and bunny-nosed Heder, Scoundrels trips early, and often.
  4. Kate & Leopold
    For the first half-hour I, too, demurred. And then the irresistible force that is Hugh Jackman -- or was it his swoony Leopold? -- swept me off my seat and into the movie.
  5. Boys Life 3
    Not up to the freshness and inventiveness of its predecessors.
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  6. A Slipping-Down Life
    While the movie is content to be merely atmospheric, the performances convince you that here are two misfits who might be a perfect fit.
  7. Joyful Noise
    Though one wishes Graff's eye were as developed as his keen ear, he elicits rafter-raising musical performances from Latifah, Palmer, and Jordan that are irresistible fun.
  8. Rush Hour 3
    By no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures.
  9. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    This movie feels like it has a million jokes, and every single one arrives with a lethal thud.
  10. Last Man Standing
    Willis is always on target, but Last Man Standing is an aimless excuse for the kind of action at which Hill undeniably excels. [20 Sep 1996, p.03]
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  11. Committed
    Krueger's comedy doesn't always spark, but its underlying intelligence - not to mention Graham's eyes - shines through.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. The Ninth Gate
    Begins to take on a striking resemblance to the infamously bad "Eyes Wide Shut."
  13. Love & Sex
    Feels thoroughly canned.
  14. Pearl Harbor
    A script with the most underdeveloped characters and spectacularly realized visuals since "Titanic."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. The Jacket
    The Jacket is both a genre movie and a symptom, a gothic treatment of Gulf War syndrome.
  16. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Given this swoon-inducer, Summit Entertainment would be well-advised to set up fainting couches in the multiplex lobby and provide smelling salts to those who need them.
  17. The Legend of Tarzan
    The set pieces are fun, if not as spectacular as those in Jon Favreau's adaptation of Kipling's similar "The Jungle Book." And the plot moves at a nice pace.
  18. Henry Poole Is Here
    Handsomely photographed by Eric Schmidt and nicely underplayed by the actors, the film relies too much on its jukebox soundtrack to convey mood.
  19. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Completely unappealing people.
  20. Hostage
    Hostage may well be the first action flick cited both for child abuse and audience abuse. In a singularly sadistic and degrading way it has something to offend everyone.
  21. Walking Tall
    A dull, drab and pointless rehash, Walking Tall ironically manages to diminish the Rock's stature as both a leading man and an action star.
  22. Angels in the Outfield
    The kind of saccharine exercise that ought to do wonders for the cause of atheism. [15 July 1994, p.03]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Delivery Man
    Delivery Man, with its democratic band of half-siblings and its feel-good view of humankind, is what it is: a reproductive remake that will make you laugh. More than once or twice.
  24. Faster
    Tillman, who made a splash last year with his hip-hop hit "Notorious," does a nice job of calling into question the assumption, shared by most genre films, that vengeance is the only right course of action.
  25. The Center of the World
    Where Mike Figgis' film, with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, bore deeply and darkly into emotional territory, The Center of the World turns out to be just as fake as its setting.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  26. Kikujirô no natsu
    No one has done the journey quite like Takeshi Kitano in Kikujiro
  27. Plunkett & Macleane
    Cheerful mishmash.
  28. Funny Games (2008)
    Watts, who is one of the film's executive producers, brings a taut intelligence to the proceedings, but her character, like Roth's, is more archetype than actual person.
  29. Uncle Nino
    A creaky, cliched, feel-good family drama about learning to stop and smell the roses - and planting a vegetable garden while you're at it - Uncle Nino is shameless, sappy fare.
  30. Into the Storm
    Hollywood's latest entry in that tried-and-true genre, the disaster movie, is . . . well, it's like . . . a totally gnarly roller-coaster ride!
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