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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 0.6 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. The Libertine
    This one-of-a-kind spellbinder from first-time director Laurence Dunmore is not afraid to shock. Depp is a raunchy wonder, especially in a time-capsule-worthy opening monologue.
  2. The Losers
    As an action fix to hold you before the summer explosions start, you could do worse than The Losers. It’s no more than an efficient time-killer.
  3. America's Sweethearts
    Chockablock with things we're not supposed to notice: that Roberts is wasted; that she and Cusack have no characters to play, so it's virtually impossible to understand why she loves him or vice versa; that the script provides comedy without bite and romance without resonance.
  4. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite pretends to be fact-based and true to its 1980s period. Just know it's all baloney.
  5. Night Swim
    Night Swim eventually runs out of places to go, but not before it weds some sneaky character development to a few good, solid jump moments. It might not find an audience, but it deserves one.
  6. Eagle Eye
    Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is?
  7. Under Suspicion
    Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
    • Rolling Stone
  8. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    This lumbering retread, subtitled The Legend of Curly's Gold, is mostly old ground slavishly covered. There are wider gaps between the jokes this time, and the slick style of British director Paul Weiland, best known for commercials (Schweppes, Heineken), can't disguise the fact that he's selling stale goods.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Larger Than Life
    One might think that a movie featuring Bill Murray, Matthew McConaughey, Janeane Garofalo and an elephant couldn't be all that bad. Think again. This is a terrible, terrible movie.
  10. San Andreas
    There's nothing to keep the pulse alive after the first quake. Peyton throws in a second quake and a tsunami, but after a while buildings tumbling into the ocean are just a bunch of pixels turning everything into visual mush and leaving audiences in a digital stupor.
  11. American Pastoral
    American Pastoral, Roth's magnum opus, needed a film revolutionary on the order of Paul Thomas Anderson, Alejandro González Iñárritu or the Coen brothers to re-imagine it for the screen. McGregor's timid approach does no one any favors, including Roth – and especially the audience.
  12. 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.
  13. The Tempest
    I found myself wishing that Taymor would turn off the sound and fury and let The Tempest speak for itself. My wish wasn't granted.
  14. The Omen
    Not since Gus Van Sant inexplicably directed a shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock's "Psycho" has a thriller been copied with so little point or impact.
  15. The Mexican
    Promises a road movie of blissful comic romance and delivers a series of dramatic dead ends.
  16. The Animal
    Reeks like something produced from a squatting position.
  17. Jersey Girl
    Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of "Gigli" territory. But it's close.
  18. The Vow
    The Vow is a sopping hankie of a romance for women who love to suffer and the men who love them.
  19. Bob Marley: One Love
    Director Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) does his duty by delivering eureka moments, a few greatest-hits sequences, some personal drama. The result is a perfectly functional look at a legend, one that will definitely make you want to put Exodus back into heavy playlist rotation. It’s still not enough.
  20. Hot Rod
    I laughed, then I wished it was funnier, then I just wished it would end.
  21. Antebellum
    Bolstered by the strength of its admirable and talented cast — which includes Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Jena Malone, Tongayi Chirisa, and Jack Huston — the movie is good at getting a good number of ideas going at once.
  22. The Angry Birds Movie
    There's no denying the movie's high spirits or its irresistible invitation to shake your sillies out.
  23. Equals
    Equals is really about possibility in a world gone cold from insisting that things can't change. Sound like any place you know?
  24. The Girl in the Spider's Web
    The Girl in the Spider’s Web, directed with gun-to-the-head urgency by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe), settles for being a tension-packed, go-go-go thriller that will pump adrenaline into your nervous system for nearly all of its suspenseful if implausible 117 minutes.
  25. MacGruber
    How the hell can you take an SNL skit that runs 90 seconds and stretch it to a 90-minute feature? Sounds excruciating. But MacGruber breaks the jinx by putting the skit in the context of a 1980s action movie and creating its own brand of explosive lunacy.
  26. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    This misbegotten sequel to 2014’s not-so-hot Maleficent is a torturous exercise in brightly-colored monotony that chokes on repetitive screenwriting, amateurish directing, paycheck performances and digital hardware for a heart. Kids under five (months) might be fooled, but sentient filmgoers know a scam when they see one.
  27. American Pie 2
    A slipshod sequel that looks tossed together over a weekend by people who couldn't care less.
  28. Anything Else
    Because Allen hasn't lost his knack for slapstick with a sting, Anything Else hits its mark more often than not.
  29. The Beach
    Colorful and exciting, as far as it goes. But Boyle and Hodge pull back on their usual wit and grit.
    • Rolling Stone
  30. The Long Kiss Goodnight
    Geena Davis and her director and husband, Renny Harlin, recover from their "Cutthroat Island" fiasco in grand style, and screenwriter Shane Black ("The Last Boy Scout") juggles jolts and jokes with a mad fervor that almost earns him his $4 million salary.
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