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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. The Nines
    The movie never fails to be crisply written and cannily delivered, but it's way too steeped in TV-culture inside jokes for its own good, and August's attempts to suffuse the whole thing with ontological or theological meaning are ultimately pretty dumb.
  2. An Unfinished Life
    The picture is outrageously predictable and somewhat poky, but there's also something admirably bold about the way it so adamantly demands we swallow its hokum.
  3. Big Trouble
    Such a feebleminded, good-natured comedy that it actually makes you laugh with that timeless gag of somebody pretending to cough while calling someone else a bad name.
  4. Revolutionary Road
    This is a movie about two people in pain; the last thing they need is for Mendes to turn his cool camera on them. But that's all Mendes knows how to do. He's a clinical director, and whatever feeling he puts into a movie is measured out in careful quarter-teaspoon increments.
  5. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Should have been either a whole lot worse or a whole lot better than it is: If it were worse, we could simply toss aside the things that are fun and entertaining about it and not even think twice. And if it were better -- well, we'd have fewer complaints all around.
  6. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    The overblown and overlong version of Percy's adventures largely fails to capture the quirky allure of Riordan's books.
  7. The Mummy Returns
    Everything the first "Mummy" was fun for not being. It's loud and chaotic, jammed with effects that don't wow us precisely because they are trying so hard to wow us.
  8. Wish I Was Here
    If you liked “Garden State” — or if you hated it, for that matter — you pretty much know what you’re in for with Wish I Was Here.
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Gets more cluttered and confused as it moves along.
  10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    The picture throws off no feeling, not even the misanthropic kind; at best, it manages a dull, throbbing energy, as if Burton were dutifully pushing his way through the material instead of shaping it.
  11. A Perfect Murder
    A Perfect Murder is more like a handful of anemic ice cubes floating in a lukewarm puddle.
  12. Friday the 13th
    This Friday the 13th is glossy, good-looking garbage, acted out by a cast of big-chested androids (male and female alike) and with the original series' rough edges smooved over. It's reasonably entertaining.
  13. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    So captivating to look at that you can almost forget there's virtually nothing to it.
  14. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    Isn't so much a movie as a tract, a parable in which the charred wisdom of its characters is much more significant than the intricacies of their lives.
  15. The Brothers Bloom
    High-style goofballing and globetrotting can get you pretty far, but maybe not as far as Johnson wants us to go.
  16. Neighbors
    Just a string of ludicrous excuses to get from one outrageous comedy set-piece to the next.
  17. Eight Below
    This is one of those lazy, lukewarm pictures that's even more disappointing than a purely bad one, and for one glaring reason: How could Marshall, his writers, and even his actors have let these dogs down so badly?
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Beneath its drab veil of self-seriousness, Mr. Brooks is nothing but just plain silly.
  19. Like Crazy
    I really don't understand why anybody thinks the wispy, bittersweet tale of long-distance love in Like Crazy is any big deal. Seriously, I liked this movie better last year, when it had Drew Barrymore in it and was called "Going the Distance."
  20. Tadpole
    The big problem with it is that the setup is treated as just that, a scheme around which many things that are intended to be funny (but aren't very) are packed like ice around a fish.
  21. Connie and Carla
    Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle.
  22. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Amid the infoglut that surrounds us, Gibney's film feels too much like more noise. Is it telling the most important business story of our lifetimes, or is it just another fantastical yarn, crammed into the schedule after Scott and Laci Peterson, but before Charlemagne and the ancient Peruvian astronauts?
  23. 8 ½ Women
    Some viewers may find this movie sexist or misogynist simply based on its premise, but it's a mistake to take Greenaway's symbolic narratives too literally.
  24. Two Weeks Notice
    Grant takes every stupid line and makes it funny, just by underplaying.
  25. The Reader
    The Reader feels weighty, all right; but it's an unsatisfying kind of weight, and Fiennes' presence, as the grown-up Michael, doesn't help much.
  26. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Overburdened with knowingly charming touches. It's waterlogged with whimsy.
  27. San Andreas
    Considered as pure spectacle, San Andreas is gripping and effective.
  28. The Hammer
    If you liked "Rocky Balboa" you should be in good shape, since it's exactly the same movie, just aimed at a teeny-tiny-bit younger demographic and with an affectless leading man who avoids hambone acting by not acting at all.
  29. Inkheart
    Graced with so many fanciful touches and features such a marvelous assortment of U.K. and American actors that it seems almost unjust that the final product is so curiously lacking in magic.
  30. Bobby
    Just when you think you've got a handle on the central characters in Bobby, yet more of them appear: The thing is a little like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera."
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