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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Body Snatchers
    The new Body Snatchers is the most graphic of all, featuring more overt violence and decomposing flesh than the other two films combined. But it sorely lacks the focus and resonance of its predecessors.
  2. xXx
    It's hard to hate a movie, even one this droolingly crass, that knows how to laugh at itself.
  3. S.W.A.T.
    What we have here is a model for the paint-by-numbers, perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick. An original idea would die for lack of oxygen in S.W.A.T.
  4. Street Kings
    The acting? Common and the Game score as baddies, but Hugh Laurie as an acid-tongued internal-affairs cop is disappointingly just House without the limp.
  5. Sherlock Holmes
    Ritchie is all about the whooshing and headbanging, leaving no space between Holmes' words to savor their meaning. Downey is irresistible. The movie, not so much.
  6. The Glass Castle
    Hollywood has a knack for sanitizing books that deserve better. In the case of The Glass Castle, it's a damn shame.
  7. The Comedian
    It plays like an opportunity missed.
  8. Wonderland
    Character gets sacrificed for just another true-crime drama.
  9. Oliver Twist
    It's unlikely audiences will be echoing a starving Oliver's most famous line: "Please, sir, I want some more."
  10. Alien: Romulus
    Does it tick off the boxes of what we’ve come to expect from this series? Yes. Does it add up to more than The Chris Farley Show of Alien movies? Well … let’s just say no one may be able to hear you scream in space, but they will assuredly hear your resigned sighs in a theater.
  11. About Time
    Like a doggie in a window, this romcom relentlessly wags its tail so you'll fall in love and take it home. Not this time, puppy.
  12. Welcome to the Rileys
    The actors and admirably sensitive director Jake Scott (son of Ridley) can't compensate for Ken Hixon's long slog of a script.
  13. Along Came a Spider
    Alex Cross has been neutered on film, deprived of his sexuality, his family, his friends.
  14. How to Make a Killing
    If nothing else, How to Make a Killing is an abject lesson in how to hire the right person to salvage your movie.
  15. Malice
    Perhaps director Harold Becker thought flashy acting could distract us from the gaping plot holes. Becker gets so intent on confusing us, he forgets to give us characters to care about, the way he did in Sea of Love with Al Pacino. Malice is way out of that classy league. It’s got suspense but no staying power.
  16. The Limits of Control
    Even the great ones hit snags. With The Limits of Control, Jim Jarmsuch gets tangled up in his own deadpan.
  17. Catch and Release
    Gray says she hates fishermen who catch and release: Getting jerked around hurts the jaw. See this movie and you'll know the feeling.
  18. Casanova
    Ledger's comic flair is a big plus in a film that is fanatically busy and fatally sexless.
  19. Love, Gilda
    You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. You’ll leave still loving Gilda. The movie, not so much.
  20. I Think I Love My Wife
    Mixing Rock with ooh-la-la turns out to be as appetizing as chalk and cheese.
  21. In the Cut
    The result, sadly, is a mess.
  22. Our Idiot Brother
    Our Idiot Brother comes off as a blueprint for a smart script no one really made. Now that's what I call dumb.
  23. Frida
    Hamstrung by a script that seems determined to stop at all the big moments in Frida's life (she died in 1954 at age forty-seven) without giving anything time to resonate.
  24. The Son
    The film is moving. It’s also a bit reductive. The flaw is in the way that one enables the other.
  25. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    With Del Toro's name in the credits, standard chills aren't enough. We want imagination to run riot.
  26. What Lies Beneath
    The scares are Hichcock hand-me-downs.
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  27. Hyde Park on Hudson
    The actors can't perform miracles. Hot dogs are served in the final scene, but trust me, Hyde Park on Hudson is no picnic.
  28. The Mechanic
    The result is just good enough to pass as an action flick you watch with the forgiving gaze that comes from too many beers and too little sleep.
  29. Magic Mike
    Magic Mike slowly degenerates into a simplistic cautionary fable. I didn't see that coming from a sharp observer like Soderbergh.
  30. The Cable Guy
    Carrey knocks himself out trying to make The Cable Guy different, then neglects the quiet, telling moments that would make it real.
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