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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. The Human Stain
    The Human Stain is heavy going. It's the flashes of dramatic lightning that make it a trip worth taking.
  2. Teen Spirit
    You can kill the vibe of Minghella’s film with nitpicking, but Fanning rides the movie home to glory. She is simply sensational.
  3. Southpaw
    Amazingly, Gyllenhaal never cheats on his character's sense of dignity. Against the odds, he keeps you in Billy's corner. That's a champ.
  4. Instant Family
    It’s a shame that Instant Family reduces the complexity, pain and joy of parenthood to a multiplex-palatable family comedy. The real story is probably far more interesting … and hopefully funnier.
  5. Shirley
    The film may offer a Cliff Notes history lesson and a scrapbook take on a life, but it does make you wish Shirley was still around, talking truth to power right now and offering one more aspirational example for those who might step up and disrupt.
  6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The film feels overstuffed and way too familiar, with Burton repeating tricks from his greatest hits (think Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands). And the fun runs out much before the film ends. But stick with it just for those times when Burton flies high on his own peculiar genius.
  7. Run Ronnie Run
    Though the material isn't up to Mr. Show's high standards, some great laughs abound.
  8. Thor: Love and Thunder
    For something so reliant on dramatic engagement in addition to spectacle and giggles, Love and Thunder feels oddly unengaging; even the love and death aspects often feel like cold transmissions from distant sources.
  9. Madagascar
    Less like "Shrek," meaning hilarious and heartfelt, and more like "Shark Tale," meaning manic and exhausting, Madagascar will keep kids distracted without transporting them to wonderland.
  10. The Burnt Orange Heresy
    What a bummer that a movie that paints itself as a scintillating, sexually-charged, art-world thriller ends in a swamp of failed intentions.
  11. Titus
    Taymor's visual and visceral flair makes Titus a grabber.
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  12. Hannibal
    It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around.
  13. Code 46
    What doesn't spark is the love story. Morton still seems soggy from her "Minority Report" role as a drenched pre-cog. Who wants romance in a future where glum is the word?
  14. Iron Man 2
    Favreau supplies the go-go-go that makes the movie stratospherically entertaining, even without 3-D. But it's the promiscuously talented Downey who adds the grace notes that make Iron Man 2 something to remember.
  15. The Muse
    Built on a slender, one-joke whimsy -- and a tough one to buy into, at that.
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  16. Cars 2
    Lasseter is back behind the wheel, and you can feel his love for all things automotive in every frame. No humans blot this anthropomorphic romp. Cars do all the talking.
  17. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make "The Love Guru" funny) but it sure works here.
  18. Cold Pursuit
    The fans show up for this kind of movie to watch Neeson knock heads with bad guys, and Moland lets him rip. There’s no dawdling over sentiment. If you want to see a snowplow used as a weapon of mass destruction, you’ve come to the right movie.
  19. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
    The something extra comes with watching Black and Blanchett match wits, especially the former; he radiates his signature comic moxie with glimmers of the dramatic chops he demonstrated in movies like "Bernie" (2011) and this year’s "Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot."
  20. First Knight
    Whenever Zucker stops piling on battle scenes as if he were directing Braveheart, his film casts a romantic spell.
  21. Charlie Says
    If nothing else, Charlie Says puts Van Houten, and to a lesser extent her sisters in crime, in the center of their own story.
  22. Snow White and the Huntsman
    Snow White and the Huntsman is definitely a missed opportunity. Sanders was on to something in taking the Snow White tale to its most menacing extreme.
  23. Greetings from Tim Buckley
    Badgley, best known for playing "lonely boy" Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, is a revelation. He wears his role like a second skin.
  24. Finch
    The whole thing feels so stiflingly familiar that you wonder what has more spare parts, the robot or the movie it’s in.
  25. Coach Carter
    This afternoon-TV special trying to pass as a real movie earns an extra half star solely for Samuel L. Jackson, who brings his usual fire to the role.
  26. 1,000 Times Good Night
    Binoche never falters. She's the film's fire and grieving heart.
  27. The Quiet One
    To watch The Quiet One at this particular moment in time is to feel that not only is this a highly subjective take, but that you’re being a little jerked around here. Even the most diehard Stones fan is bound to leave feeling a little conflicted. It’s a documentary that lives up to its name in all the wrong ways.
  28. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    If you're gay and/or eight years old, HSM3 is the movie event of the year.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The People Under the Stairs
    Since this is a movie about deranged racists driven by a virulent strain of midcentury Christian moralism to keep children in cages while conspiring to disenfranchise the poor, that’s not going to work. Everything that happens in this movie could happen next month and it would be a one-day cable-news story that Fox would probably not cover.
  30. The Dinner
    There are bumps along the way, transitions from one medium to another will do that, but this filmmaker and his fierce foursome won't be done till they take a piece out of you. It's a gripping psychological thriller with a sting in its tail.
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