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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. San Andreas
    Quite literally the blockbuster of the year.
  2. Catch and Release
    Grant's film plays like a two-hour episode of "Friends" intercut with "Seventh Heaven." Those sounds you hear are wisecrack, heartbreak, heartbreak, wisecrack, wisecrack.
  3. The Omen
    The Omen remake is creepily efficient. Unlike one of the newfangled horrorfests, it doesn't drown you in brackish atmosphere and surround-sound you with techno music.
  4. The Great Role
    A comedy about friendship, faith and the acting life, Le Grand Role is unabashedly corny and tear-jerking - and still quite likable.
  5. The Mexican
    This violently comic caper has some spunky charm going for it -- but has a lot of self-consciously hip, studied wackiness going against it.
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  6. Jersey Girl
    In Jersey Girl, Kevin Smith wears his heart on his sleeve - and on his pants, socks, boxers and backward-facing baseball cap.
  7. Fathers' Day
    He emerges stinking, and so, alas, does Fathers' Day. [9 May 1997, p.03]
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  8. 9 Songs
    It's the emotional equivalent of a big shrug.
  9. The Vow
    Ready-made for Valentine's Day, The Vow is, like the offerings at Cafe Mnemonic, a total sugar overload.
  10. Hot Rod
    Hot Rod never establishes its own personality.
  11. The Angry Birds Movie
    Don't get me wrong. Angry Birds doesn't depict any on-camera violence against person, bird, or pig. But there's a darkness at the heart of this movie that's hard to reconcile.
  12. Chain Reaction
    The formula in Chain Reaction is familiar, but at least it has been entrusted to a proven technician. [2 Aug 1996, p.03]
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  13. MacGruber
    Forte and company have managed to make crude and lewd dunderheadedness laugh-out-loud funny here and there, and that, I guess, is something of an achievement.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Light It Up
    Heartbreaking and sometimes dazzlingly effective, the film still has flaws -- most of them in a too-often-maudlin script.
  15. American Pie 2
    With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny.
  16. The Beach
    Whether he's smacking into an iceberg or flopping topless onto a sandy beach, DiCaprio is still maddeningly lightweight.
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  17. Anything Else
    On the plus side are engaging performances by Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci. On the minus side is . . . everything else.
  18. Shelter
    Despite its terrific performances and its great use of locations, Shelter doesn't have enough substance to hold your attention or linger in the mind for long.
  19. Total Recall (2012)
    Strip away the video-game visual effects, the endless chases and zero gravity shootouts, and Total Recall comes down to this: What is reality?
  20. The Last Castle
    If this melodrama has that haven't-we-met-before look, it's because it combines elements of "The Caine Mutiny" (Gandolfini's Winter is Queeg-like) with those of "Stalag 17."
  21. Riding in Cars with Boys
    It's the kind of film -- like Diane Keaton's "Hanging Up" -- that even as it dissolves narratively, still makes you dissolve emotionally.
  22. Paycheck
    There are chases that feel way too long, and dialogue that feels flat. Affleck and Thurman make a handsome duo, but there's no spark between the actors.
  23. Hocus Pocus
    Silly, but irresistible.
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  24. The Wolfman
    The Wolfman feels like a film reedited and reworked so many times it has lost all narrative rhythm and suspense.
  25. Dear John
    The film has two curious subplots and supporting performances that feel tacked on rather than organically part of it.
  26. Freedomland
    This tale of a white mother's kid gone missing in a black New Jersey neighborhood - and the tensions and news media attention that ensue - is pretty much pure jive.
  27. Final Destination 3
    Fortunately for us, they number these Final Destination scarefests. Otherwise, it would be impossible to tell them apart.
  28. Meet Dave
    Meet Dave isn't great, but it's good enough. And it proves once again that Murphy can do anything - even a PG comedy in which he isn't a donkey.
  29. Malevolence
    It's hard to understand what Malevolence is doing in theaters. If ever a movie deserved to go directly to DVD, it's this dreary horror treatment.
  30. Love in the Time of Cholera
    As one unfamiliar with the novel, I found it hard to tease out its meaning from this handsomely mounted, well-acted, aggressively elliptical adaptation.
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