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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. American Pie
    I'd appreciate toilet humor more if it weren't so often so unimaginative.
  2. Cold Mountain
    Cold Mountain is a romance, refreshingly free from the taint of any political realities other than the "War is hell" variety. It's also completely juiceless.
  3. Larry Crowne
    I'm not quite saying that the unabashed squareness and silliness of Larry Crowne are negatives. They're almost admirable in themselves, and certainly constitute a selling point.
  4. Raising Helen
    If a couple who belonged to the Christian Coalition, or your maiden aunt, or George and Laura Bush were looking for a reassuring night out, Raising Helen would fit the bill nicely.
  5. Lost Highway
    Here, Lynch has traded some of his disturbing originality for noir formula and schticky weirdness.
  6. The Conjuring
    As a ninth-generation descendant of Abigail Faulkner, a convicted Salem witch who only escaped execution because she was pregnant at the time, I call down a terrible malediction upon the people who made this entertaining but indefensible movie.
  7. The Prestige
    The Prestige is a trick box with too many false bottoms. Ultimately, the last one simply gives way -- leaving us with a hole, and a little residual darkness, but not much else.
  8. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The movie's ridiculous good humor -- laced with just enough barbs to keep it from going soft -- suggest that it's been made with some thought and care. I often found myself laughing in spite of no one, not even myself.
  9. The Replacement Killers
    The Replacement Killers has a plot -- barely -- but no story.
  10. Red State
    It's a charming if conspicuously unfinished film, a half-riotous, half-idiotic send-up of the teen horror genre with a vaguely hip political twist.
  11. Cold Creek Manor
    Feels very nicely made, at least until it falls apart: By its midpoint, you start to recognize that it has acute creepy-thrilleritis, which means that it promises us some things at the beginning that it has no intention of actually following up on.
  12. Jackie Brown
    If Jackie Brown lost 45 minutes, it might have been a snazzy entertainment. As it is, it wears out its welcome well before the end.
  13. The In-Laws
    This In-Laws isn't a disaster, it's just not very good.
  14. The Royal Tenenbaums
    Anderson's other hallmarks here are brilliant gags that deflate in the execution, potentially interesting characters that end up so flat they feel as if they'd been cut out of paper, a plot that's all setup and no story.
  15. Anywhere But Here
    Despite its stellar leading ladies, Anywhere But Here is still a predictable generation-gap drama.
  16. Catch a Fire
    Catch a Fire just doesn't spark.
  17. Sweet Home Alabama
    A good-natured but massively flawed little comedy.
  18. 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.
  19. Management
    Management is ultimately undone by its own bland idiosyncrasies. It's nothing but a mismanaged opportunity.
  20. Creation
    Some questions just can't be answered by science, and the quandary of why Creation is so poundingly dull is one of them.
  21. Adam
    Beyond that educational element and the delicate performances of Dancy and Byrne, I found Adam dramatically limp, predictable and in a curious way even retrograde.
  22. Captain Phillips
    Not far below the surface Captain Phillips is also an unpleasant and uncomfortable experience, a film that’s not entirely happy with itself.
  23. Beautiful Losers
    Alternately winsome and irritating documentary.
  24. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    There's a reason why Looney Tunes cartoons were six minutes long. Stretched out over an hour and a half, they're wearying.
  25. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    This is a highly enjoyable summer thrill ride with an action heroine who likes to be on top, literally and figuratively.
  26. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Nothing but plot and production values, and there's barely a laugh in it that isn't quashed.
  27. Last Days
    It's a meticulous nest of interlocking elements, not at all haphazard. But in its unrelieved bleakness and singularity of vision, it supplies very little in the way of conventional movieness.
  28. Red Dragon
    If you buy the overprocessed headcheese of the serial killer as refined genius, you'll love Red Dragon. Or maybe not. Even Hannibal Lecter devotees may lose patience with this picture's grandiose, self-serious ponderousness -- that's Lecterese for, "It's kind of boring in patches, actually."
  29. Admission
    The movie’s just too boring and middlebrow.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
    There are some yucks in this ludicrous movie, but what was amusingly imbecilic at 20 inches becomes simply simian at 20 feet. To paraphrase SCTV's fishing louts, some things just don't blow up real good.
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