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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. 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.
  2. Rendition
    If these new, allegedly topical movies are to make us feel anything -- to move us toward any action or even just toward any fresh realization -- they need to at least seem alive on the screen, instead of just courting our polite, measured applause.
  3. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    The nice thing about seeing so much time, money and effort go into a bland film is that it makes you appreciate truly inspired filmmaking even more.
  4. La Vie en Rose
    Dahan's filmmaking damn near sabotages the performance.
  5. Bee Movie
    Just another ambitious, lavish animated adventure, pretty enough to look at, but ultimately foundering on the weakness of its script.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Albino Alligator
    Could have been a decent psychological portrait; it ends up being a fairly weak thriller.
  7. When in Rome
    When in Rome may fall flat in places, but at least it hasn't had all the personality manicured out of it.
  8. Bait
    It's long. Long movies almost always mean the audience member has time to think, and in this context that's not a good thing.
  9. The Bone Collector
    There's only one good reason to see The Bone Collector, and her name is Angelina Jolie.
  10. The Era of Vampires
    It's a sloppy, fun, late-'80s style Hong Kong action flick full of pogo-dancing zombies and voracious vampires who look vaguely like Siamese cats with spoiled cottage cheese cooked onto their faces.
  11. Brassed Off
    Herman isn't sure if he's doing a big-statement picture or a tiny treasure of a comedy, and his confusion throws Brassed Off off balance.
  12. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    This is a really lively, fun and high-spirited comedy. If you leave after half an hour.
  13. Iron Man 2
    Yes, yes, yes, Downey is blasé, intelligent and hilarious as Tony Stark -- what do you expect me to say? -- but I'm convinced that sticking with this character much longer won't be good for him.
  14. The Devil Wears Prada
    Probably supposed to be half fashion fantasy, half satire of the fashion world. What a drag that it's not enough of either.
  15. Head in the Clouds
    It's fun, but it isn't believable for a minute.
  16. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the Apatow formula faithfully enough. All that's missing is charisma -- the je ne sais quois that makes us fall in love in the first place.
  17. The Walk
    The Walk is much less than the sum of its parts, except when the parts are so good you can’t ignore them.
  18. Filth and Wisdom
    A charming but silly love letter to a vanished era of urban bohemia?
  19. The Perfect Score
    An eminently defensible light entertainment, peopled with characters that are easy to like and care about.
  20. The Interpreter
    The Interpreter is so intent on reminding us that it's a QUALITY piece of work that it forgets to give us the very thing we thought we came in for: a story.
  21. Trainwreck
    Trainwreck is not very good, but Schumer is frequently amazing in it. Officially, her fans will not be disappointed; not far below the surface, it’s a bummer.
  22. The World Is Not Enough
    If Bond long ago became part of your fantasy life or your pop iconography, then the anticipation of a good Bond movie would probably survive even if The World Is Not Enough were worse than it is.
  23. Jarhead
    Mendes doesn't care about people -- he's too busy making his art. And with Jarhead he pulls off, effortlessly, what so many pro-and antiwar individuals since Vietnam have tried so conscientiously to avoid: His movie is antiwar and anti-soldier.
  24. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    More ambitious than its predecessor. It's also more cluttered and less fleet: The light, pleasingly casual quality of the first picture has evolved into something forced and metallic.
  25. War Dance
    It's the film's reassuring, almost hypnotic visual rhythms, along with its Hollywood-like narrative structure -- which is closer to "Drumline" or "Bring It On" than to most documentaries -- that make it bearable.
  26. Mission: Impossible II
    Even the most spectacular things Woo unleashes here feel strangely impersonal.
  27. Fight Club
    But imagination and energy are often not enough. On balance, this is the dumbest of the entries in Hollywood's anti-consumerist new wave.
  28. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Redford glances too lightly off the story's racial questions. You could call that approach "eminently tasteful" if you're looking for a nice substitute for "wimpy."
  29. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
    I'd have no problem with the element of rampant, half-wacky speculation at the outer edges of physics in these movies if they came labeled as such.
  30. Whole New Thing
    Whole New Thing comes unglued toward the end, spiraling into melodrama without ever escaping its whiny, indie-rock soundtrack.
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