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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 0.4 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. Breathe
    Does the script by William Nicholson sometimes hit the sentiment pedal too hard? It does. But look at the tale it's telling.
  2. Death of a Unicorn
    It has homicidal fantasy critters, lots of sharp and pointy horns, and absolutely no teeth.
  3. The Brothers Grimm
    If you're a Gilliam junkie, as I am, you go with it, even when the script by Ehren Kruger (The Skeleton Key) loses its shaky hold on coherence.
  4. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    Dench and Nighy are class personified. The secret here is merely to luxuriate in the pleasure of their company.
  5. Due Date
    Recipe for nutso fun: Mix Zach Galifianakis with Robert Downey Jr. Apply the same mold John Hughes used for "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." Have Todd Phillips stir with wack-ass abandon. Don't worry about missing ingredients, like plot. Serve to an audience ready to lap it up.
  6. How to Be Single
    Though Wilson is always reason enough to see a movie, she’s stuck here in a fluffball that plays like warmed-over subplots from "Sex and the City."
  7. Jack the Giant Slayer
    It's a bloodless, gutless piece of PG-13 fodder, geared to go down easy. That it does. It practically evaporates while you're watching it, lulling when you most want it to levitate.
  8. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    It's as gorgeous as anything the French filmmaker has made and as empty as a Trump tweet.
  9. Bird Box
    The haunting, hypnotic, palm-sweating score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross promises way more than the film delivers. By the way, the birds in the box are meant to set off alarms when the monsters approach. They see way more than we do, which is part of the problem. Why should birds have all the fun?
  10. Birthday Girl
    Keep your eye on Kidman, whose kinky, kittenish performance turns unexpected emotional corners that pull you up short.
  11. Le divorce
    Acted with relish by a note-perfect cast -- a romantic comedy of true sophistication. There's a sting in every laugh.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    My Best Friend's Wedding
    Julia Roberts glitters like gold dust, and she is ideally partnered with Rupert Everett, who gives a witty, wicked, bust-out performance.
  13. Mamma Mia!
    Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to Barcelona since 1999.
  14. Project Power
    Whatever this eye-popping head trip lacks in plausibility, it makes up for in flash and a sense of a world spinning off its axis.
  15. Fixed
    Fixed should have been, by any measure, the fix we needed in terms of balls-out hilarity about neurotic, sex-crazed creatures, or even just a parable from an animation godhead about humans being just as beholden to animal instincts as our four-legged friends. Instead, we get a wildly uneven, totally obvious, and often painfully unfunny 80 minutes.
  16. Skyscraper
    What you get is, regrettably and rather surprisingly, something that’s a lot less exciting than the sum of those particular parts.
  17. Irreversible
    It would be easy and convenient to dismiss Irreversible as blatant sensationalism. But Noe's bruising film is too artfully crafted to write off as exploitation.
  18. Risen
    So Risen joins the swelling ranks of faith-based films that pander to audiences instead of serving them.
  19. What Lies Beneath
    The scares are Hichcock hand-me-downs.
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  20. Casino Jack
    Spacey holds center. He's a bonfire.
  21. The Grinch
    The Grinch offers a solid service to anyone with kids in need of a nap under a blanket of bland.
  22. Poison Ivy
    Though Poison Ivy is more than whoopee, audiences may find the movie easier to get off on than to get into. But why settle for the usual walk around the exploitation block when Shea offers a wild ride with the top down into uncharted territory?
  23. Dumbo
    This live-action re-imagining of Disney’s 1941 animated classic may be the sweetest film Tim Burton has ever made. It’s also the safest.
  24. Rough Night
    The women in Rough Night are terrific company. They never wear out their welcome. You can't say the same for the movie.
  25. What Just Happened
    There are funny scenes, nicely directed by Barry Levinson. Other stuff, involving De Niro's ex-wife (Robin Wright Penn) and their daughter (Kristen Stewart), are not much of anything. It's a tossup. Your call.
  26. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart.
  27. Johnny English
    Aussie singer Natalie Imbruglia gets to play the babe, nothing more, but she does that brightly. The rest of the movie is a dim bulb.
  28. White Irish Drinkers
    The performances are uniformly terrific, finding the specific details that create a universal truth.
  29. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    It’s the human devastation that gets short shrift in a movie that turns the hot, hilarious, out-for-blood Bernadette into the thing she hates most: conventional.
  30. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    There are tiny glimpses of someone who has genuine chops behind the camera, almost but not quite enough to make you think that, given more time and focus, he could have made something out of these spare parts. Or maybe, just maybe, this whole botched Operation is designed to make his older, possibly lesser work look better.
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