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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Home for the Holidays
    Foster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides.
  2. Morning Glory
    A tart, terrific comedy that gives Harrison Ford his best and funniest role in years.
  3. Viper Club
    Rage, not righteousness, is the mode here, but the muted, disbelieving, draining kind. Simple answers aren’t on the menu.
  4. The Last Kiss
    Director Tony Goldwyn tries for the lyrical melancholy he brought to "A Walk on the Moon," but as Michael waits for days on Jenna's porch getting drenched (as irritating a scene as any in recent cinema), only the most rabid chick-flick fan will fail to notice that it's the movie that's all wet.
  5. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Jagger the actor is someone you want to see again. Eat your heart out, Madonna.
  6. Up at the Villa
    It's fun to see Sean Penn portray a playboy, like Bogart in "Casablanca," who hides his true heart behind a layer of cynicism.
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  7. Wrath of Man
    Statham is always worth watching. But it’s in its closing scenes that this particular vehicle, Wrath of Man, earns its keep.
  8. Horrible Bosses
    Here's a hit-and-miss farce that leaves you wishing it was funnier than it is. Why? Because it wussies out on a sharp premise.
  9. Mama
    Chastain digs deep, going beyond the call of scream-queen duty to find the passion that gives horror a pulse.
  10. The Company You Keep
    There's enough plot to stuff a miniseries, but Redford never loses sight of the human drama. Martyrdom is not conferred, nor is reinvention equated with redemption. Drawing skillfully on a first-rate cast, Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
  11. Them That Follow
    The swerve into bizarre melodrama in the final third knocks the film permanently off course, reducing a potentially rich examination of religious extremism into a missed opportunity.
  12. Dark Blue
    A film of wounding power. It stays with you.
  13. Burden
    Wobbly but well-intentioned broadside against racism.
  14. Flash of Genius
    Kearns' conflict is readable in Kinnear's every word and gesture. His performance is worth cheering.
  15. It's Complicated
    You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
  16. Unfinished Song
    Stamp's award-caliber performance as a closed-off man on the brink of turning into stone is a miracle of subtlety and feeling. This is acting of the highest order. Redgrave partners him superbly, bringing warmth and nurturing humor to a role she refuses to play for easy tears.
  17. Casanova
    Ledger's comic flair is a big plus in a film that is fanatically busy and fatally sexless.
  18. War Dogs
    War Dogs is that rare contemporary comedy that knows how to make a laugh stick in your throat.
  19. The Equalizer
    The material shows its age when McCall goes all "Taxi Driver" to save a teen hooker (a scrappy Chloë Grace Moretz) from her pimps. But Washington and director Antoine Fuqua, who teamed for the actor's Oscar-winning role in 2001's "Training Day," keep the action humming.
  20. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has no personality of its own. It's a product constructed out of spare parts and assembled with computerized precision. It's hard to care when Jack turns operational and becomes a CIA robocop. The movie feels untouched by human hands.
  21. Sherlock Holmes
    Ritchie is all about the whooshing and headbanging, leaving no space between Holmes' words to savor their meaning. Downey is irresistible. The movie, not so much.
  22. Immaculate
    The only thing this second-rate scarefest truly succeeds in doing, however, is giving Sweeney a hell of a showcase.
  23. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This new take on horror is more of the bloody same.
  24. Cecil B. DeMented
    DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.
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  25. Dogfight
    Dogfight doesn’t sum up an era; it merely romanticizes it. What could have been an incisive movie about alienation deteriorates into a conventional romance.
  26. The Kingdom
    Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom.
  27. Extraction
    No judgments here if you just want to hang back and let nonstop gore, gunfire, and explosions numb you into submission. Take that, COVID-19.
  28. Mufasa: The Lion King
    What the true legacy of Jenkins’ addition to the catalog may end up being, however, is a template for honoring the past while still managing to move things a few steps ahead. The circle of life, indeed.
  29. Buffalo Soldiers
    Adapting Robert O'Connor's novel, director Gregor Jordan slaps us with keen wit and purpose.
  30. Rising Sun
    The flaws don't cripple what is a fiercely funny, exciting and provocative detective story about the crimes of corporate culture — crimes that transcend race and geography.
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