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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. The Perfect Storm
    It's shocking, considering the talent involved, the The Perfect Storm looks and feels fake.
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  2. Beowulf
    Zemeckis springs so many pow 3-D surprises you'll think Beowulf is your own private fun house.
  3. The Humbling
    The Humbling is a dark dazzler shot through with mirth and delicious malice. But be warned. It is not Roth's novel.
  4. White Boy Rick
    While it doesn’t fall prey to grabbing the GoodFellas brass ring and turning into just another story of crime and irony, the film isn’t saying much about the Reagan-era War on Drugs, the hypocrisy that characterized it or the notion that crack was really cocaine cut with pure capitalism that you have not heard before.
  5. Breakfast on Pluto
    In substance and style, the movie is more than a few tears short of Jordan's "The Crying Game." But Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.
  6. Spider-Man 3
    There are delicious bits aplenty in Spider-Man 3 for those who care to notice.
  7. Mission: Impossible II
    Keeps the pulse pounding without sacrificing laughs or logic.
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  8. Unbroken
    Jolie has an army of craftsmen in her corner, notably camera poet Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men). But it's her vision that gives Unbroken a spirit that soars. In honoring Louis' endurance, she does herself proud.
  9. Into the Forest
    Rozema's minimalist approach pays dividends until a final third hobbled by overdone effects and a thrashing musical score. Too bad. The story being told on the faces of Page and Wood had eloquence and power enough to hold us rapt.
  10. The Living Daylights
    Dalton has training in classical theater; he has pedigree, looks, class. But as Bond he is – face it – dull as dirt. Too much spoofing is bad (see Moore), none is deadly (see Dalton).
  11. The Shallows
    While this nailbiter sure as hell ain't swimming in the same classic waters as "Jaws," it gets the jolting job done.
  12. Italian Studies
    For a long stretch, Italian Studies turns this trip down memory-loss lane into a low-wattage livewire, an unpredictable stroll into the unknown. Its hero will slowly, eventually come back around to remembering her life before the reset. The movie itself, however, is unforgettable from the jump.
  13. Waking the Dead
    Gorden teases out some affecting scenes, but not enough to carry a film that promises more than it delivers.
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  14. A Home at the End of the World
    How many movies these days leave you wanting more? The funny and heartfelt Home is a small treasure.
  15. Outlaw King
    Outlaw King does stumble. Its tension-and-release game is not exactly tight, and its dramatic rhythms have a way of losing the beat.
  16. Lemon
    You can accuse Lemon of a lot of things. False advertising in the title, however, is not one of them.
  17. I Smile Back
    Silverman, digging so deep into her character that we can feel her nerve endings, is like nothing we've seen before. She's fierce and unerring. No showing off; she just is. This is acting of the highest caliber.
  18. Tower Heist
    There's not much to say about a jerry-built caper comedy, except that this one has timeliness on it side, and some first-rate clowns.
  19. 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.
  20. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    Talk about beating a dead orc. In dutifully completing his prequel trilogy to his three-part Lord of the Rings triumph, director Peter Jackson has sadly saved the worst for last.
  21. Don't Move
    The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.
  22. All Is True
    Branagh’s performance is a triumph of ferocity and feeling that shuns Shakespeare the literary rock star to find the flawed, touchingly human man inside.
  23. Anywhere But Here
    Formula mother-brat stuff...It's only the deft teamwork of Portman and Sarandon that keeps the triteness at bay.
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  24. The First Wives Club
    The movie, from the 1992 best seller by Olivia Goldsmith, isn't deathless art. But as pure entertainment, this witty revenge romp is sinfully satisfying.
  25. Godzilla vs. Kong
    The plot of Godzilla vs. Kong matters far less than the basic fact that it’d be a much better movie if it stuck, firmly, to its title.
  26. Go for Sisters
    With the help of Hamilton, Ross and Olmos, sublime actors who radiate grit and grace, Sayles has made Go for Sisters a movie that stays inside your head long after you see it. It's a keeper.
  27. No Hard Feelings
    Not even J-Law off the nice-young-lady leash can save something this lazy and desperate to offend, however. The movie simply isn’t on her level. Or really much of any level at all.
  28. Doctor Sleep
    Doctor Sleep relies way too much on borrowed inspiration and eventually runs out of — pardon the word — steam. But this flawed hybrid and King and Kubrick still has the stuff to keep you up nights.
  29. The Contender
    Until The Contender slips into partisan politics and platitudinous piety, it's a lively, entertaining ride.
    • Rolling Stone
  30. J. Edgar
    Even when the film trips on its tall ambitions, you can't shake it off.
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