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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. Snowden
    What's your take on Edward Snowden: A patriot deserving of a presidential pardon? A traitor deserving of execution, as Trump believes? Something in between? In Snowden the movie, in which a fiercely committed Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the title role, Oliver Stone removes all doubt. He's Saint Edward.
  2. Jobs
    Jobs is a one-man show that needed to go for broke and doesn't. My guess is that Jobs would give it a swat.
  3. The Oath
    In trying to show what a heartless heap our partisan world has become — and could be heading towards — The Oath suddenly just turns into a mess of its own. This is not what we signed up for.
  4. Set It Off
    The four actresses supply enough humor and heart to light any movie’s fuse, even this cliched retread of Thelma and Louise. Like the characters they play, the sisters deserve better.
  5. Simon Birch
    Admirers of Irving's sprawling tome are sure to find Birch a botch.
  6. Criminal
    Here's the problem: The movie was made just four years ago by Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky. It is called "Nine Queens," and it is vastly superior to this blah U.S. remake from director Gregory Jacobs.
  7. Assault on Precinct 13
    By playing it safe, the new Precinct leaves the audience sorry and restores thirteen to its place as the unluckiest number.
  8. Life
    Let's hope that Ridley Scott follows his own blueprint better in the upcoming "Alien: Covenant." The dull and derivative Life is no competition. It's DOA.
  9. An American Pickle
    Still, a movie that even glancingly grapples with questions of ethnic and spiritual identity, past and present, is hardly hack work. It’ll do in a pickle.
  10. Hitch
    Will Smith has an easy charm, and this labored romantic farce works it hard. Too hard.
  11. Wet Hot American Summer
    Lulls aside, Wain and Showalter deserve camp kudos for getting the details right.
  12. Mean Girls
    Most of the student body quivers in Regina’s presence, and the movie seems to tremble in awe of Rapp’s ability to make you think she’s not a Queen Bee but the Queen Bee. Her limits don’t exist. You wish the rest of Mean Girls rose to meet her.
  13. Bee Season
    Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
  14. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I.
  15. Dicks: The Musical
    You can’t accuse Dicks: The Musical of phoning in a half-assed take on material that demands you bring the big-dick energy or GTFO. But there’s a big difference between being loud and rude and being hilarious, cutting, or even clever. The movie keeps it up for a good long while. It could just use a few more inches.
  16. Now You See Me 2
    If you fell for the 2013 original — and surprisingly, many did — then Now You See Me 2 has got your number. For the rest of us, however, this longer, louder sequel adds up to what one character calls "a sack of nada."
  17. The Life of Chuck
    Hiddleston’s soft shoe gives you a glimpse of how the ordinary can become extraordinary. The movie surrounding it, however, seems determined to make the extraordinary seem as bumper-sticker simple and banal as humanly possible.
  18. Love and Monsters
    This is a perfectly fine postapocalyptic mash-up that really is just the sum of its parts, and nowhere near a gleeful, shriek-inducing whole. For some, that might be considered a feature. For the rest of us, it’s most definitely a ginourmous, gaping-jawed bug.
  19. The Lion King
    What’s missing? Let’s start with intangibles such as heart, soul and the faintest hint of originality.
  20. Head of State
    Doesn't seem directed at all; you half expect the actors to crash into each other. Still, give me the attempted satire of Head of State over the racial stereotyping of "Bringing Down the House" anyday. You can feel a mind at work when you watch Rock.
  21. Endings, Beginnings
    Though the movie stalls frequently before it finds its balance, Woodley makes us care.
  22. The Brothers Grimsby
    It's the strafing satire that's MIA.
  23. You People
    The film can’t figure out if it wants to be a love story or social commentary, and ends up doing neither very well.
  24. This Boy's Life
    De Niro's decision to make Dwight a loony from the get-go throws the delicate symmetry of the story out of whack.
  25. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The film ultimately gives in to a case of TV-movie blahs.
  26. The Switch
    It's subpar sitcom.
  27. Alita: Battle Angel
    Now, after a deluge of comic book epics and other CGI-filled sci-fi fantasies, the movie feels like it’s way past its sell-by date. Alita: Battle Angel looks ready to rock, but time has sucked the life out of the party.
  28. The Extra Man
    Kline finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.
  29. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Just soak up that Tuscan sun and wonder when Lane will get another movie, like "Unfaithful" or "A Walk on the Moon," that will let her really shine.
  30. Murder Mystery 2
    These are movies for those who find the Knives Out franchise too sophisticated and droll, red meat for the Sandler faithful. It’s a movie of small ambitions tailor-made for the small screen. It is exactly what you think it is.
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