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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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    • 63 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    Part I is more disappointment than disaster. It merely rolls along like something off an assembly line. Untouched by human hands.
  2. Piranha 3-D
    Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding.
  3. The Ring Two
    You have to admire Nakata's skill at letting the dead run free while hinting that we may have more to fear from the living. With a braver step in that direction, this middling movie would ring more than box-office bells.
  4. Wilson
    Missed opportunities hobble the film as a whole, but Harrelson is in there pitching his best game. That alone is a sight to see.
  5. The Five-Year Engagement
    Drags and sags at 124 minutes. Luckily, the movie never runs on sitcom empty. How could it, with a terrific cast.
  6. Out of the Furnace
    It's the bruised history of these brothers that gives Out of the Furnace its beating heart and the power to grip you hard.
  7. Veronica Mars
    It's Bell – riding high with the Disney-animated "Frozen" and Showtime's carnal-fixated "House of Lies" – you want to follow anywhere. Bell is irresistible, and she makes us care.
  8. Shrek Forever After
    It's a fun ride. What's missing is the excitement of a new interpretation.
  9. Bad Influence
    Bad Influence will do in a pinch if you're starved for intrigue. For a while, it's nasty fun watching Michael sink into depravity. Erotic and spine tingling, this thriller has undeniable allure. But Bad Influence lacks daring, moral ambiguity and the pleasures of the unexpected, the elements that might give it distinction.
  10. The Bourne Legacy
    Gilroy stages two riveting shootouts involving Marta at work and home. And there's a killer chase scene in Manila as the bad guys try to knock Aaron and Marta off their speeding motorcycle. It's all sound and fury signifying nothing except a desperate need to feed a franchise.
  11. American Made
    It's all true – but so what? American Made may be fact-based but that doesn't stop it from feeling monumentally generic, like you've seen it all before (Blow, Sicario, The Infiltrator, War Dogs, TV's Narcos ... the list goes on).
  12. The Campaign
    The jokes never go deep, the toothless bites at the system leave no marks. It's only the wild-card energy of Ferrell and Galifianakis that keeps you on the ticket.
  13. I'm Still Here
    Affleck's provocative, postmodern take on JP as half-joke, half-victim is the damnedest plunge into the dark heart of our "reality" culture since Sacha Baron Cohen invented Borat.
  14. Earth Girls Are Easy
    Forgive the airhead plot that hinges on a spaceship crash-landing in the swimming pool of a Valley-girl manicurist, played by Geena Davis. The fun comes from Temple's protean visual wit and the irresistible charm of Davis, who just won an Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist. The agreeably tacky Earth Girls earns points for warmth, color and high spirits.
  15. Untamed Heart
    The Rain Man-Dying Young elements in Tom Sierchio’s script are pitfalls that Slater dodges with a wonderfully appealing performance. His love scenes with the dazzling Tomei have an uncommon delicacy. But it’s Tomei and Perez who give Untamed Heart its bouyant wit. Their friendship could have sustained an entire movie. It’s certainly the best part of this one.
  16. 2 Days in New York
    Delpy is boundlessly appealing. And Rock is acerbic fun, notably in the imaginary debates he stages with Obama. But the frenzied cross-cultural gags take the piss out of the real subject: how blood ties can turn love into a battlefield.
  17. Lawless
    Lawless is a solid outlaw adventure, but you can feel it straining for a greatness that stays out of reach. There's even a prologue and an epilogue, arty tropes signifying an attempt to make a Godfather-style epic out of these moonshine wars. Not happening.
  18. Alice in Wonderland
    Still, even Disney and a PG rating can't bury Burton's subversive wit. Like Carroll, he's a master at dressing up psychic wounds in fantasy.
  19. Insidious
    Here's a better than average spook-house movie, mostly because Insidious decides it can haunt an audience without spraying it with blood.
  20. For a Good Time, Call...
    In a rare instance of truth in advertising, the movie actually is a good time.
  21. On Chesil Beach
    She's glorious, as she always is. But even Ronan can't totally cut through the academic stuffiness that comes with this posh literary adaptation.
  22. Find Me Guilty
    Sadly, Lumet's skill at bringing out the juice in actors isn't enough to save the film from overkill.
  23. John Carter
    John Carter bites off more than even Woola can chew, but it's built on something rare: wonder instead of Hollywood cynicism.
  24. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This Brooks is a comedian who forgets the golden rule of "know your audience." He thinks he'll get his laughs if he keeps doing the same act with better lighting.
  25. Last Days
    Van Sant, following "Gerry" and the superb "Elephant," is on the same elliptical quest. His journey is labored but undeniably hypnotic.
  26. The Paperboy
    This hot mess got booed by the snobs at Cannes, but there's no denying its profane energy.
  27. Point Break
    What saves Point Break from wipeout is Kathryn Bigelow's direction. Though the film lacks the formal beauty and allure of her Near Dark and Blue Steel, Bigelow keeps the action percolating in high style.
  28. Silent House
    "Paranormal Activity" has been here before, of course, but Silent House springs tangy new tricks, and Olsen is a primo scream queen.
  29. Junior
    Ah-nuld’s swollen belly is the joke — the only one — but director Ivan Reitman (Dave) takes it for a few deft spins.
  30. The Zookeeper's Wife
    What makes the film worthwhile, despite its flaws, are those scenes of human and animal desperation that encapsulate the horrors of war.
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