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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. Random Hearts
    Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
  2. Barbershop
    So often loose and funny that you'd have to be pretty stingy not to get some pleasure from it.
  3. Better Than Sex
    It could be funnier, sharper, more probing, but at its best it is sexy, and that's always something to celebrate.
  4. Mad City
    It has, at times, a loopy, edgy humor and moments of genuinely affecting pathos. But somehow the combination doesn't add up to anything.
  5. Capote
    While the filmmaking overall suffers from a kind of tasteful, low-key blandness, Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Capote keeps the blood coursing through it. He's the bright, chilling spot of color at the center of an otherwise beige movie.
  6. Nine
    All of these women, and Day-Lewis too, sing and dance vigorously and enthusiastically throughout Nine, and the results are spotty, though you can't accuse anyone of not trying.
  7. The Nativity Story
    I have to hand it to Hardwicke: I was a lot less bored by The Nativity Story than I feared I'd be.
  8. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Prince Caspian is elaborate filmmaking, all right. It's the magic of the human touch that's missing.
  9. The Wedding Singer
    Frank Coraci's '80s-nostalgia comedy is predictable and unevenly paced, and it lunges too often for the easy joke.
  10. Town & Country
    It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.
  11. Towelhead
    This third-act redemption raises Towelhead several notches, but it still ends up feeling like a well-acted and well-intentioned after-school special, a long way from the vividness and texture of Ball's television work.
  12. Sacco and Vanzetti
    A bit pedantic, but thorough and interesting throughout, a must for history buffs.
  13. 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.
  14. Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
    Offers an intriguing, and profoundly frustrating, view of the New York underground hero whose 1962 erotic fantasy "Flaming Creatures" paved the way for Andy Warhol, John Waters, the "queer cinema" explosion and pretty much anybody who's ever made a movie starring his friends in weird Salvation Army outfits.
  15. Kinky Boots
    A sweet-tempered, mildly entertaining picture.
  16. For Colored Girls
    Perry never solves the stage-to-screen translation problem. But the path he has chosen is as intriguing as it is irksome, and it works better than you might expect.
  17. Shooter
    The picture might be entertaining if it didn't take itself so seriously.
  18. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    It's a noble undertaking. But why isn't it a better movie? Told in scattered fashion, the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject. Part of the problem is the narration.
  19. The Siege
    If The Siege frustrates anyone, it should be the moviegoers who turn up expecting the kind of clean resolution that action movies thrive on.
  20. Everybody's Fine
    This is the kind of work a great actor does when he's not preoccupied with giving a great performance. Its very casualness is its big selling point.
  21. Teeth
    This is going to be a notorious film that young audiences will be daring themselves to see, but it's actually funnier, darker and more troubling before it turns into a carnival of repeated dismemberment.
  22. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Ends up being nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing.
  23. Human Nature
    The second movie by "Being John Malkovich" writer Charlie Kaufman is even weirder than his first.
  24. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    It's an ambitious, uneven, surprisingly talky melodrama.
  25. A Home at the End of the World
    At the movie's end, nuance is all we have left; beyond the admirable efforts of some of the actors, the picture leaves behind nothing so human as a fingerprint.
  26. The Forgotten
    Begins as a perfectly reasonable thriller and ends up rather an inane one.
  27. How to Train Your Dragon
    Beyond its easy-on-the-psyche message, the picture is reasonably pretty to look at.
  28. Buffalo Soldiers
    A pleasingly disreputable trifle.
  29. Still Alice
    Aided by witty and understated work from Baldwin and Stewart and the capable direction of Glatzer and Westmoreland, Moore does her utmost to pull Still Alice toward the realm of meaningful social drama. Let’s put it this way: It’s a way better movie than it ought to be, but not good enough to escape its pulpy, mendacious roots.
  30. In Good Company
    Pleasurable.
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