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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. Lions for Lambs
    Dull plod.
  2. Pain & Gain
    Yep, it's all fun and games until someone gets brutalized repeatedly. Before you can avert your eyes, it's Katie, bar the door and break out the chain saws.
  3. Elizabethtown
    An unmitigated, inexplicable, unforgivable flop.
  4. The Substitute
    It's a crudely entertaining argument for redeploying the U.S. military into our schools. [19 Apr 1996, p.05]
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  5. Man on Fire
    It is a good hour too long, although it does boast Christopher Walken.
  6. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Sadly, the combination of gauzy photography and cheesy music gives the film the aura of a fragrance commercial.
  7. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    A case of a yummy yarn spoiled by cheesy visuals.
  8. Blackhat
    A moody cyber-noir with not much on its mind but looking good, Blackhat is a must-see if you like your dialogue (romantic, dramatic, subtitled Cantonese) peppered with techspeak.
  9. Inglourious Basterds
    Less a Holocaust retribution fantasy than a messy homage to war movies, and to movies, period.
  10. The Dukes of Hazzard
    Manages to rocket along at full speed. At the same time, however, the movie feels as if it's not going anywhere at all.
  11. Lucky You
    I watched this movie thinking that it used the idea of taking a chance on cards as a metaphor for taking a chance on love. I was dead wrong.
  12. What We Do Is Secret
    Despite a terrific performance from Shane West, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Crash, Secret is a chronology, not a biopic.
  13. 47 Ronin
    An odd mix of stiff and sumptuous.
  14. The Greatest
    Brosnan, who finds the truth in his character, is quite affecting. And Mulligan, gamely defining a surprisingly undefined young woman, is like a sunbeam piercing the gloom.
  15. Jungle 2 Jungle
    There's nothing in Jungle 2 Jungle that hasn't been treated with more flair and imagination in dozens of other movies. [07 Mar 1997, p.03]
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  16. The Mystic Masseur
    A haunting allegory about the rise and fall of a figure who possesses powerful charisma, if weak karma.
  17. Plunkett & Macleane
    Cheerful mishmash.
  18. Hannibal Rising
    What Hannibal Rising is, mostly, is a hoot.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kangaroo Jack
    This salt-and-pepper buddy movie set in the scenic environs of downtown Brooklyn and the Australian bush is a crowd-pleaser -- for the elementary-school set.
  20. Radio
    The real Radio, and the real coach -- seen together in the movie's feel-good epilogue -- deserve better.
  21. Blindness
    Murky and grainy, and showing human beings at their grimmest - thievery, rape, betrayal, murder - Blindness is no barrel of laughs. But it IS a barrel of pretentious metaphorical musings.
  22. Allied
    Allied comes off like a highlight reel that mimics the look and feel of a whole school of great films, from "Casablanca" to Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious."
  23. Dancer in the Dark
    A movie that by turns is wincingly awful and heartbreakingly fine. It boasts an unforgettable performance by Björk.
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  24. Jailbait
    Claustrophobic and overwrought, Jailbait is an unpleasant excursion into gay panic mitigated somewhat by performances that are hard to shake.
  25. Miss Sloane
    A disquieting and ultimately disappointing political thriller.
  26. Darkness Falls
    Stephen King without the snap, David Lynch without the kink, teen horror without the teen hormones, Darkness Falls falls apart in a crescendo of creepy-crawly hoo-ha. It's more like Darkness Kerplunks.
  27. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Whenever Andrews - that incarnation of the sensible and the sensitive - glides on screen, PD2 sparkles.
  28. Wild Hogs
    Isn't as jaw-droppingly awful as its trailers suggest.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Firecreek
    Shy sheriff Stewart comes up against mobster Fonda and his gang of outlaws; not as good as this pairing should have been. [02 Jun 1994, p.E04]
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  30. Get Carter
    A thuddingly dull remake of the 1971 crime drama starring Michael Caine.
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