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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Willard
    You're just sitting there, somewhere between mildly amused and fairly bored, watching the filmmakers squander Hollywood's most eccentric character actor and a lot of very fine specimens of the order Rodentia.
  2. Mail Order Wife
    Completely deranged, and the portrait it paints of our beloved country depicts a dangerous place full of neurotics and obsessives. But lots of fun, with porn, booze, backyard barbecues and elaborate revenge schemes!
  3. Reign Over Me
    A very gentle picture, intended to soothe us, not to jolt or shock us. But it's so gentle that it lacks any discernible energy; sometimes it seems there's barely enough tension in the story to keep the images from sliding off the screen.
  4. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    This is the kind of movie where most people know what they want and are pretty sure what they will get, that being “more of the same, please.”
  5. The Yes Men Are Revolting
    The great strength and great weakness of the Yes Men, not to put too fine a point on it, is that they’re a couple of dorks. Their props, costumes and supporting materials are invariably crude – but they are sincere and unafraid, or at least unafraid enough to brazen it out.
  6. Cool It
    Lomborg has clearly been stung by the suggestion that he's a front man for know-nothingism, and Cool It is an agreeable and partly successful attempt to repair his image.
  7. Rush Hour
    The movie seems to proceed from somebody's notion that it would be hilarious to see a black guy and a Chinese guy working together.
  8. Broken English
    Despite its schizophrenic nature and often disagreeable characteristics, Broken English has flashes of something. You might say it has an integrity of purpose, if not of execution.
  9. White Oleander
    Maybe it's only half of what it could be, but at least it's a healthy half. And in this era of mainstream cookie-cutter moviemaking, that's a feat in itself.
  10. Matchstick Men
    Matchstick Men isn't even remotely intricate; it's not even particularly interesting.
  11. The To Do List
    This is definitely a formula movie, lovingly and even obsessively so, made by someone who obviously enjoyed “American Pie” and numerous other raunchy-sweet teen sex comedies of the ’90s, and wished they existed for girls.
  12. Freeway
    With one foot in the grind house and one in the art house, the smarts in Freeway are more than equal to its visceral kick.
  13. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the only Bond film that gets beyond the dirty boy’s-book spirit of the series to a core of real emotion. It also has what are probably the best action sequences of any 007 adventure.
  14. Stuart Little
    Highly amusing for grown-ups, too.
  15. Frida
    A romance for the deeply romantic, which means that some people will certainly view it as cynical.
  16. Magic Mike XXL
    This isn’t a perfect movie, but it might be the perfect summer movie for 2015.
  17. The Soloist
    A triumphant movie about failure.
  18. Ladies in Lavender.
    The sort of small, independent-minded picture that so much of American indie cinema strives, and often fails, to give us. It's a conventional picture, but it feels so deeply alive that it's practically a novelty.
  19. Vice
    Bale’s performance is absolutely letter perfect, and he disappears into the role.
  20. Sleeping Beauty
    I found it gorgeous, opaque and disturbing in roughly equal portions, but it was a riveting experience all the way through.
  21. The Weather Man
    There are moments when Cage (with his perpetually worried eyebrows) and Caine (with his inherent emotional elegance) carry the picture admirably enough.
  22. Traitor
    Pearce may be the other big star in Traitor, and while his performance is serviceable, it doesn't cut deeply. Taghmaoui, as a radical motivated by moral certainty, is the real actor to watch here.
  23. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    Full of imaginative, outrageous and egregiously insulting 3-D gags.
  24. Blue Crush
    Offers the most intense visual experience I've had at the movies all year.
  25. Welcome to Collinwood
    A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so beautifully fall flat, or wither and die because of indifferent timing.
  26. Laurel Canyon
    Cholodenko and her actors pull it off; the performances here are like a wary ballet, ruled as much by the mysterious magnetic attractions and repulsions these characters feel for one another as by anything so dully explicable as psychology or standard rules of social conduct.
  27. Capitalism: A Love Story
    This is a love story, all right, but it has less to do with the flaws of capitalism than it does with Moore's unwavering fondness for the sound of his own voice, and for what he perceives as his own vast cleverness.
  28. Secretariat
    I enjoyed it immensely, flat-footed dialogue and implausible situations and all. Which doesn't stop me from believing that in its totality Secretariat is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    She's So Lovely
    This movie isn't just stupid, it's offensive in its stupidity.
  30. Wall
    An important human and artistic testament -- a calm meditation on something no one can consider calmly.
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