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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 3.3 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. I Dreamed of Africa
    Consist of little more than people arguing or clambering in and out of dusty Land Rovers.
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  2. New York Minute
    Plays like "Sixteen Candles" meets "Beetlejuice." Yet for all the film's frantic pace, this plot plods, even for 'tweens at whom this suburban-girls-take-Manhattan fantasy is obviously targeted.
  3. Soul Plane
    A raunchy spoof of the disaster-movie lampoon Airplane! - does everything to get the laugh. And in the way that a broken watch is right twice a day, a shotgun comedy like this one occasionally hits its target.
  4. Sleepover
    That a detente between the cliques is unthinkable, that they could never eat at the same table, is one of many assumptions that makes Sleepover such a downer.
  5. Leap Year
    Usually Amy Adams can work all kinds of magic with her wide-eyed gaze and wistful smile. But these attributes aren't assets here, they are distancing devices.
  6. The Punisher
    For such a formulaic vigilante film, The Punisher has a far better cast than it deserves.
  7. The Wedding Date
    A vaguely creepy and mildly diverting rom-com.
  8. The Ex
    Some of the most tasteless and un-PC comedy in the film is also the funniest - Farrelly Brothers-style humor that plays off the Bateman character's physical limitations.
  9. The Sweetest Thing
    The ads for The Sweetest Thing promise that if you loved "There's Something About Mary" and "My Best Friend's Wedding," then you can't miss this latest Cameron Diaz vehicle. Well, miss it.
  10. Not Another Teen Movie
    A raunchy romp through the peeping-Tomism, potty humor, raging hormones and social humiliation that are standard issue in the Hollywood high-school sex comedy.
  11. Chapter 27
    Judah Friedlander and Lindsay Lohan are striking, respectively, as a Lennon paparazzo and a fan creeped out by Chapman.
  12. Play It to the Bone
    This is no "Raging Bull."
  13. Down to Earth
    What Rock fans will sorely miss in Down to Earth is the earthiness and outrageous hilarity of his stand-up act.
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  14. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The film quickly turns unintentionally, and unrelentingly, awkward.
  15. Paranoia
    Hemsworth, who is Gale Hawthorne in "The Hunger Games" and the brother of the Hemsworth who stars as "Thor", has maybe one arrow in his acting quiver - he can look engaged.
  16. Independence Day: Resurgence
    While the plot is dumb and the script is worse, watching aliens explode in spectacular fashion isn't the worst excuse to spend to two hours in air-conditioning.
  17. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    A brazen, earsplitting, eye-popping, oddly satisfying action extravaganza, though it veers wildly off-target in its second hour.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Masked and Anonymous
    Isn't a good movie, at least by any conventional definition of the word good. But it's not a bad movie, either. It's a Bob Dylan movie.
  19. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    This isn't a movie, it's an animatronic theme-park ride - an artificially processed, easily digestible treat for kids.Ho, ho hum.
  20. Warcraft
    Just because you can come up with names such as Azeroth, Durotan, Orgrim, and Grommash Hellscream doesn't mean you're J.R.R. Tolkien, people.
  21. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Muniz is quite winning as a plucky teen who is constantly being thrown into situations over his head. But the usually reliable Anthony Anderson e-mails in his performance as Cody's handler.
  22. Beyond Borders
    My advice: Skip Beyond Borders and write a check to the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders.
  23. Land of the Lost
    Not exactly a hundred million dollars' worth of classic comedy.
  24. Swordfish
    It's hard to say with certainty whether it's insufficient plot or insufficient interpretation that's responsible for Travolta's waxwork performance.
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  25. Price of Glory
    Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Alex & Emma
    Reiner, who made "This is Spinal Tap," "The Sure Thing," "When Harry Met Sally" -- memorable movies all -- has made this silly slice of Lean Cuisine. And that, in the end, makes Alex and Emma an utter tragedy.
  27. Plastic
    Identity theft and credit-card fraud never looked as exciting or sexy as in Plastic, a frothy little heist movie from Britain that starts off with great promise, only to devolve midway into an empty derivative shell of a film.
  28. The Perfect Holiday
    Sappy script. Cheesy supernaturalism. Tired satire.
  29. Someone Like You...
    An altogether enjoyable ride.
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  30. Broken Bridges
    Get the soundtrack; wait for the movie to come to CMT.
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