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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. J. Edgar
    J. Edgar turns out to be one of the worst ideas anybody's ever had, a mendacious, muddled, sub-mediocre mess that turns some of the most explosive episodes of the 20th century into bad domestic melodrama and refuses to take any clear position on one of American history's most controversial figures.
  2. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    This is an ambling, relaxed talking-head docu in the grand European style.
  3. Deja Vu
    To believe Déjà Vu, or even to pretend you can actually follow it, you'll need heavy-duty gear -- harness belt, spelunking helmet, a great deal of rope, PowerBars for sustenance. A little coffee wouldn't hurt, either.
  4. Change of Plans (Le code a changé)
    Change of Plans may not be earth-shattering cinema, but it's masterfully structured and edited (by Sylvie Landra) with a first-rate cast.
  5. Cocaine Cowboys
    An exhaustive, exciting and ultimately exhausting history of how that white powder, and the Colombian crime lords who imported it by the hundreds of kilos, transformed the culture and economy of Miami, for good and for ill.
  6. We Own the Night
    An intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda.
  7. Signs
    Once again, the filmmaker gets incredibly wobbly at the end of his story, and his resolution of both the alien incursion and of Graham's crisis of faith feels more like a cheap trick than the product of a genuine belief in anything at all.
  8. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Given the choice between a movie that's better structured and only half as funny, I'd take The Spy Who Shagged Me (or its predecessor, for that matter) any day.
  9. A Very British Gangster
    Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre's film is fairly standard British TV product, closer to a glorified "60 Minutes" segment then to cinematic art. But never mind -- its subject is, as he might say, feckin' amazing.
  10. Legally Blonde
    Witherspoon's sophisticated-pixie brilliance practically makes the movie, and her easy, confident, curvaceous carriage doesn't hurt, either -- she's the thinking guy's cupcake, maybe because her mind is just as supple as her curves.
  11. Moonlight Mile
    A dazzling true-life comedy that might be the funniest movie about grief ever made.
  12. The Dead Lands
    Once you get past an awkward and artificial beginning and roll with the movie’s crazy rhythm, The Dead Lands is also a blast, and one that delivers an unexpected emotional wallop along with gore, thrills and spectacular scenery.
  13. Savages
    Savages is enjoyable in a way that's almost but not quite intentional camp; it's like eating a dinner made by a 7-year-old, with cake for every course, interspersed with Jell-O, Pepperidge Farm goldfish and chocolate sprinkles.
  14. Mission: Impossible
    Director Brian De Palma is having too much fun zipping around curves and hitting the accelerator to slow down. He's a supremely confident engineer, and if you're game enough to make a jump for it and hold on, he offers the giddy excitement of watching the ground rush by beneath your dangling feet.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Independence Day
    A colossally dumb epic that happily traffics in third-hand imagery and ideas while feeding its audience maintenance level doses of humor, adrenaline and spectacle.
  16. Confidence
    A long plod to the finish line. It's a movie about a long con that, like its leading man, has no wit or style to speak of.
  17. Sliding Doors
    At least entertaining enough to keep you amused for an hour or two.
  18. Limitless
    Begins as pseudo-realism before descending into weird and mangled wank-job fantasy.
  19. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World unquestionably “delivers.” It feels like a hit; it offers a professionally crafted blend of blandness, predictability, watered-down cultural commentary and manufactured excitement.
  20. Rubber
    Mostly it's got a barely tolerable level of metaness.
  21. We Are Wizards
    It's highly enjoyable even if (like me) you're not much of a Potterphile.
  22. The Shape of Things
    This might be the edgiest film of the year -- if the year were 1982.
  23. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Barbershop 2 is like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry.
  24. I, Robot
    I, Robot strives to be so many things that it ultimately falls away to nothing, a heap of expensive metal parts.
  25. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    It's an ambitious, uneven, surprisingly talky melodrama.
  26. Heights
    As enjoyable as Close is, Heights as a whole is a mannered simulation that only occasionally and accidentally feels like real New York life.
  27. Definitely, Maybe
    May be the first midlife crisis movie for Generation X.
  28. What If
    What If could be the breakthrough film that underappreciated Canadian director Michael Dowse (“Goon” and “It’s All Gone Pete Tong”) has been waiting for, and at any rate it’s a sparkling screwball highball, perfect for a late-summer weekend.
  29. Beautiful Losers
    Alternately winsome and irritating documentary.
  30. Music and Lyrics
    It may be slight, but it's also buoyant and pleasurable, partly because the leads make the whole thing feel like a spontaneous duet. Lawrence trusts them to carry the picture, without feeling the need to throw in a lot of extraneous fluff.
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