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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 0.5 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. Footloose
    Footloose 2011 is harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough.
  2. Jason Bourne
    Through it all, Damon keeps us glued to the war going on inside Bourne's head. It's a brilliantly implosive performance; he owns the role and the movie. It's a tense, twisty mindbender anchored by something no computer can generate: soul.
  3. Stan Lee
    That’s the Lee you get in this near-hagiography: a peek at the man, a whole lotta the myth, and almost none of the messiness. Definitive isn’t the goal here, clearly. Printing the legend on a splash page is. It’s less a doc than a Stan Lee infomercial.
  4. Victoria and Abdul
    Lucky for us, Dench and Frears pick up the slack and turn slim pickings into a fun time at the movies. But Victoria & Abdul could have been oh so much more.
  5. Boston Strangler
    It may hint that the bad guy at the center of if all wasn’t the primary villain. But the movie does prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is its own worst enemy.
  6. Pirate Radio
    The boat nearly sinks from character overload, and Curtis brakes when you most want him to gun it. But there’s no denying the comic energy of the cast.
  7. The Reader
    Winslet's fierce, unerring portrayal goes beyond acting, becoming a provocation that will keep you up nights.
  8. Freaky Tales
    The first-person passion is genuine. The form its being presented in feels slightly secondhand.
  9. The Firm
    Director Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in "Three Days of the Condor". But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack's elephantine Havana.
  10. Stoker
    Stoker is Park's darkly funny, deliciously depraved riff on Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt."
  11. Trouble with the Curve
    Eastwood and Adams are just so much damn fun to watch.
  12. Defiance
    For all the film's flaws, this is a war story told with passion about a band of brothers that still has the power to inspire.
  13. Nerve
    There's a killer idea circling this tricked-up teen thriller, which is more than you can say for most summer movies. But the idea never lands because Nerve lacks the, well, nerve to follow through on its convictions.
  14. Eternity
    Hard to ding something for wanting to be a cult rom-com so badly, especially when it’s so well-acted.
  15. The Highwaymen
    The best thing about The Highwaymen by a long shot is seeing Costner tap back into that Gary Cooper mode he once perfected and add older, wiser touches to it.
  16. 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.
  17. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    Rogen and Byrne are crazy fun company.
  18. The Mule
    The Mule is more character study than "Dirty Harry: The Emeritus Years." It’s the detours on the road — the stops along the way that show an old man dealing with the dim possibilities of change near the end of his life — that reveal this drug-mule-in-winter drama as a deeply personal reckoning.
  19. Shrek Forever After
    It's a fun ride. What's missing is the excitement of a new interpretation.
  20. 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.
  21. Beloved
    What is surprising -- remarkable even -- is that Beloved arrives onscreen with a minimum of dull virtue, gagging uplift and slick Hollywood gloss.
  22. Unleashed
    Li is action poetry in motion. Damn them for spoiling our popcorn fun with salty tear-jerking.
  23. Biutiful
    Shot hand-held with a poet's eye by Rodrigo Prieto, the film is relentless but as riveting as the world a remarkable actor lets us see through Uxbal's eyes. Bravo, Bardem.
  24. The Dictator
    The Dictator leaves you laughing helplessly. It starts at outrageous and rockets on from there. Screw the occasional sputter.
  25. Quantum of Solace
    It delivers the popcorn goods, but it ignores the poison eating at Bond's insides. Killer mistake.
  26. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington digs so deep under the skin of this complex character that we almost breath with him. It's a great, award-caliber performance in a movie that can barely contain it.
  27. Danny Collins
    Pacino is irresistible. Whether strutting onstage or wrestling with his drug-fueled demons, he doesn't skimp on Danny's human limits. With nine Lennon tunes on the soundtrack and a new song for Danny to express his creative reinvention, this hilarious and heartfelt movie is an exuberant gift.
  28. Come Play
    There are much worse things than semi-stylish, slightly generic horror films, especially those channeling the sort of moody children’s-lit work of authors like Maurice Sendak (an alt-title: Where the Wild Things Scar?) in the name of creepiness. There are also better movies to seek out in the name of mining childhood for nightmare fodder.
  29. The Midnight Sky
    The Midnight Sky is a good example of a movie that sells itself short by trying to be one thing — serious, heavy, emotional — when, by all available indicators, it should be more of a thriller, or more ridiculous, or at the very least more fun.
  30. Snakes on a Plane
    It's not so bad that it's good. It's so bland that it's boring. Not even worth a hissss.
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