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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. Captain America: Civil War
    I personally find the Russo brothers’ lightning-fast action scenes difficult to process — it’s as if cinema editing now exceeds the speed of human brain functions — but they’re undoubtedly exciting and skillfully constructed.
  2. The Truth About Charlie
    As utterly disastrous movies go, this one's really got something.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Addicted to Love
    Has the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silent House
    As it stands, the picture's primary subject is its style; the promotional materials give as much space to the trickery ("a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot") as they do to rising leading lady Olsen.
  5. I Heart Huckabees
    Feels weirdly impersonal; very little love, or even true thought, shows up on the screen.
  6. End of Days
    For the most part it's a blast.
  7. I Am a Sex Addict
    This film is an inevitable product of our age, and enjoyable, right up to whatever your ickiness threshold is.
  8. Clay Pigeons
    I wanted to take these two characters somewhere else and make a real movie about them...But Vaughn provides so many spooky, hilarious, unhinged moments, you won't mind sitting through it.
  9. The Weight of Water
    It's an intelligently made (and beautifully edited) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the Hollywood pipeline without a hitch.
  10. Snakes on a Plane
    While Snakes on a Plane barely stands up as a movie, it definitely qualifies as an event.
  11. A Single Man
    It doesn't matter if the movie around Firth is a good one or a lousy one: Either way, I wouldn't be able to explain how an actor could come up with a performance as subtle, in both its heartbreak and its magnificence, as this one is.
  12. The Good Girl
    Never quite establishes its own identity, and when you remember it in two years it's likely to be that movie you saw that you kind of liked with that girl in it, what's her name, from TV.
  13. Scream 4
    It's almost really cool, without quite being really cool.
  14. Circumstance
    As to the question of whether Circumstance is actually a good film, or just one with an important story to tell, a high degree of difficulty and some hot all-girl action, I think the verdict is mixed.
  15. Shrek
    Am I alone in thinking that computer animation is the work of the antichrist?
  16. Pride and Glory
    What makes the characters in Pride and Glory real -- and raises the movie above the standard corrupt-cop fare -- is their capacity to live and die in shades of gray.
  17. Medicine for Melancholy
    So subtle and subdued that it nearly undercuts itself. I'd describe it, in fact, as a film that doesn't quite work -- but the way it doesn't work is so distinctive and so interesting that it marks Jenkins as an exciting new face on the American indie scene.
  18. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    This is a parlor trick, but it's a hell of a good one.
  19. Writer of O
    An elegant but muddled affair, worth seeing despite (and maybe because of) its own split personality.
  20. Citizen Koch
    Citizen Koch is kind of a mess. But it’s a mess well worth discovering for yourself.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Thanks largely to its cast, however, it's transmuted into an utterly puerile 90 minutes that fit the brain-dead zeitgeist of Labor Day weekend in a snug and mostly pain-free manner.
  22. 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.
  23. The Silence
    In the end The Silence is more like an intriguing work of misdirection than a great crime film, but it has a dreamlike and disturbing undertow you won’t soon forget, and Odar is unquestionably a director to watch.
  24. 22 Jump Street
    22 Jump Street is the good-natured, sloppily rendered pile of balderdash for that moment, a movie that’s immune to all criticism and not worth bothering to dislike.
  25. Earth
    There's nothing in Earth that's as moving as the sight of the mother penguin "grieving" for her chick in "March of the Penguins." You can applaud Earth for not jerking tears. On the other hand, an occasional tear isn't such a bad thing.
  26. Breaking Upwards
    That whole meta-biographical aspect doesn't bug me much because everybody who's ever written or directed a romantic comedy is drawing on their own emotional experience; this one's just a little more obvious about it.
  27. The Green Hornet
    Entirely watchable and often pretty fun, in a mishmashed, patchy kind of way.
  28. Big Daddy
    It's a concept not without its sweet appeal -- if only it were a little wittier, I might actually be convinced.
  29. Eagle Eye
    LaBeouf shambles through the movie with an endearingly lost quality -- his savoir faire is of the hangdog kind, but it pretty much works. And Monaghan, with that upturned nose and those mischievous eyes, always looks like a woman in search of trouble.
  30. The Human Stain
    It's melodrama that rises to the complexity of art. The Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama. Its smallness is simply crushing.
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