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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 Education of Charlie Banks
    There's enough sweetness, and enough just-under-the-surface intelligence, in The Education of Charlie Banks to suggest that Durst may have a future as a filmmaker.
  2. The Other Boleyn Girl
    The most sterile of bodice-rippers, a genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust.
  3. Cowboys & Aliens
    The movie never makes much of a case for its own existence; it's a mediocre western clumsily welded to a mediocre alien shoot-'em-up, and if you allow yourself to think about its treatment of history for as long as one second, you'll feel insulted.
  4. Behind Enemy Lines
    Sometimes stylish flashiness can be fun, and the movie does have a terrific, bleached-out, ice-blue look. But anyone who cares about what actors do has a right to be distrustful of a director who puts more emphasis on the look of his movie than on the performances.
  5. The Four Feathers
    Hoary epic of British Empire valor and cowardice, remade for seventh time, remains rot, old boy.
  6. Mickey Blue Eyes
    An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
  7. Alfie
    The difference is that Michael Caine delivered the impossible; Jude Law can't.
  8. Where the Money Is
    Lacks any layers beyond its own amiable inconsequentiality. It needs the spark of the distinctively American slapstick craziness that has distinguished Frye's previous work.
  9. Cassandra's Dream
    Cassandra's Dream, an earnest meditation on greed, desire, murder and class struggle, is one of Woody Allen's funniest movies in years -- except Allen doesn't know it.
  10. Kidnapped
    My eyes never left the screen and my attention never wandered; in a restricted, technical sense of the term, Kidnapped is a masterpiece. But I make no claims for its moral value or for any cathartic or redemptive qualities.
  11. Guess Who
    The super-duper whiteness of Ashton Kutcher is funny. Just not funny enough.
  12. S1m0ne
    It's not merely that these subjects have already been satirized to the point of ultimate tedium; more importantly, Simone just isn't very funny.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Addicted to Love
    Has the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
  14. Death of a President
    Range has a marvelous feel for the clichés and conventions of TV-news documentary, and the tone of mournful elegy he strikes here is both convincing and -- believe me, I'm shocked to be writing this -- moving.
  15. Lucky You
    Even if you think you know where Lucky You is headed, there's something pleasurable about watching it unfold, maybe chiefly because Hanson isn't trying too hard.
  16. Edtv
    Bleach out the colors, backdate the wardrobes, insert Gary Cooper and Rosalind Russell and you've got one of Frank Capra's lesser films.
  17. The Good German
    With The Good German, Soderbergh -- generally a terrific and creative filmmaker -- apes a style, and a way of seeing, that he clearly doesn't understand. It feels like a hit to the stomach.
  18. 2012
    2012 is totally, certifiably nuts, without being quite as off-the-wall kitschy as Emmerich's last special-effects extravabanzoo, "10,000 BC."
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mystery, Alaska
    There's no buildup, just emotional peak after emotional peak.
  20. Beauty Remains
    Hu, a Chinese-American immigrant who made a mid-career switch from business to filmmaking, approaches these characters with genuine passion and compassion, and her evident talent shines through the timeworn material. Acting by all three principals is tremendous.
  21. Al Franken: God Spoke
    For me, Franken is funniest at his least guarded and his most incorrect, and as he inches toward becoming a politician himself, we get less and less of that.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gang Related
    Best described as not too bad. Much of the time, though, it's pretty terrible.
  23. TRON: Legacy
    That's the culture we live in, where the once-proscribed Pleasure Principle has become iron law and where the recycled, bloated, fish-belly emptiness of something like TRON: Legacy carries boredom to extravagant new heights.
  24. Sidewalks of New York
    Isn't much more than a student film made by a talented amateur who's in over his head. Burns has a decent eye and a breezy sense of pace, and he'll make better movies if he remembers where he came from.
  25. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    An offshoot of a popular computer game, is really all about inducing visual awe. And for the first few minutes, it does.
  26. The Thing
    I'm delighted to tell you that the new Thing was made by people who understand what the horror audience wants and don't treat it like a bunch of brain-dead children. Mirabile freakin' dictu.
  27. The Fifth Estate
    This movie isn’t terrible enough to derail the “Sherlock Holmes” star’s upward trajectory toward pop-culture domination, but Cumberbatch’s subtle and intriguing performance as the inscrutable Aussie loner behind WikiLeaks is surrounded by a plodding and minor melodrama that’s ludicrously ill suited to the material.
  28. Texas Killing Fields
    It's an intriguingly murky B-movie that should satisfy genre buffs.
  29. Shoot 'Em Up
    The picture is just a catalog of strained camera moves and preprogrammed gags, with no wit or style.
  30. Big Bad Love
    It's made with an accurate and loving, but also wary and squinty-eyed, view of the South. If only the movie hung together better overall.
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