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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. Think Like a Man
    If anything, Think Like a Man, the awkward but intermittently amusing black-centric ensemble film built out of comedian Steve Harvey's self-help bestseller "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" deserves a gold star for its generous portrayals of Caucasians.
  2. Seventh Son
    It’s a thoroughly incoherent, generally inane and surprisingly entertaining tale of witches and monsters and what legendary film critic Joe Bob Briggs calls “beast fu,” all set in a sub-Tolkien, sub-“Game of Thrones” pseudo-medieval universe.
  3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    Funniest in its first half, when you're not quite sure where it's going, and drags in the second, by which time you realize it's going nowhere.
  4. Secret Window
    Instead of taking us someplace we fear to go, Secret Window leads us to a place we've already been -- we know it so well, we could write the book on it ourselves.
  5. Howl's Moving Castle
    The plot of Howl's Moving Castle meanders so listlessly that its details become less and less charming.
  6. Conviction
    Ultimately, though, it's a little schizo, like a depressed dude in a clown suit, or a Theodore Dreiser novel hopped up on not enough happy pills.
  7. Love's Labour's Lost
    Love's Labour's Lost is flawed, but Kenneth Branagh remains our greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.
  8. Running with Scissors
    Baldwin brings so much lumbering weariness to his role that we can't help feeling something for his character
  9. Knight and Day
    Roy is like a meta-Cruise or a Cruise pastiche; even the disturbing, stalkerish aspects of his character seem as if they were constructed from tabloid stories about the actor's marriage, his religious affiliation, his sexual identity.
  10. Animal Factory
    You come away with the sense that you should have come to care (or at least to know) more about its central characters than you do.
  11. The Giver
    The initial setup for the story is engaging enough, but Noyce and cinematographer Ross Emery have shot the whole thing in generic digital fake black-and-white, so it looks like a late-‘90s TV commercial for a soon-to-be-recalled compact car.
  12. The Chronicles of Riddick
    Thoroughly enjoyable, but not because it's any good.
  13. Le divorce
    Kate Hudson gives the best performance in the movie, though she seems always on the verge of being funnier and dirtier than she's allowed to be. Elsewhere the cast is accumulated for their cachet more than for any role they're given to play. Some of the casting makes no sense.
  14. Beerfest
    Mediocre raunchy comedy.
  15. Analyze That
    The most surprising thing about the movie is the clumsiness of Harold Ramis' direction. Ramis has never equaled the work he did on "Groundhog Day."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Fat Liar
    Generally succeeds. But with just a bit more effort the movie might have been funnier and a lot more fun.
  17. Reservation Road
    Dour, ponderous picture.
  18. Conspiracy Theory
    Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.
  19. Blue Jasmine
    The whole experience of watching casts of talented and over-eager actors try to make sense of his (Allen) nonsensical scripts becomes increasingly strained and bizarre. I’ve felt that way about recent Allen movies I mostly enjoyed, like “Midnight in Paris” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” and it goes double or triple for Blue Jasmine.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spice World
    There are several non sequitur subplots woven together -- and that, along with a dearth of acting talent, is Spice World's biggest flaw.
  21. Guinevere
    It doesn't take Rea long to decide that he's more interested in extending his record for Longest Acting Career Sustained on One Expression, and he's back to his baggy-eyed, hangdog look.
  22. Haven
    A trashy thriller of the kind that used to make up the second half of double bills in crumbling downtown theaters, circa 1977.
  23. 17 Again
    It's often breezily entertaining.
  24. The Bachelor
    The only thing more disappointing than a truly awful film is a merely weak one that has some really fun moments.
  25. Freedomland
    Freedomland, overall, could have been so much better. But Moore, even in a performance as patchy as this one, is something to watch. She's an echo of the movie that might have been.
  26. The General's Daughter
    Isn't the worst film in the world, but its vision of reality seems so stylized, so fake, that I came out of it wondering whether it has the slightest idea what it's talking about.
  27. Whip It
    Has such a sweet spirit that it's easy enough to let its flaws sail by.
  28. The Lady and the Duke
    It's dull in a very tasteful way, with none of the reverberating tenderness and sometimes surly vigor that characterize Rohmer's best work, things like "Summer" and "The Aviator's Wife."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    There's not a single moment when you wonder what might happen next or when the spectacle simply leaps off the screen. You've seen it all before.
  30. Definitely, Maybe
    May be the first midlife crisis movie for Generation X.
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