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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 1.4 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 Way of the Gun
    The directorial debut of the writer of "The Usual Suspects" keeps tossing the genre hand grenades one might expect, but they all wind up duds.
  2. Terminator Salvation
    Terminator Salvation has no brains and no soul; it's just a mass of stiff, creaking metal joints. Clearly, the machines have won.
  3. The Mummy
    What we've really got here is a tame screwball adventure dressed up with some desert scenery and some awful computer graphics.
  4. Hancock
    Hancock is just intriguing enough that I kept wishing it were better. But Berg doesn't have the subtle touch that this material needs.
  5. Antichrist
    Taken as a whole, Antichrist is a gorgeous, mesmerizing construction, and almost every one of its frames shimmers with demented, imaginary life... It offers more proof, if we need any, that von Trier is one of the most accomplished cinema artists of our time, and also perhaps the most deeply trapped in his own head.
  6. Four Brothers
    Gripping: Even when it wobbles off-track, it has some juice to it.
  7. Sleuth
    Sleuth is well acted, and directed by Branagh with chilly, distant ingenuity. It has a certain edge and daring, or more to the point it pretends to.
  8. Flannel Pajamas
    So truly and exceptionally fine, a spiny and dispassionate little masterpiece of a marriage movie.
  9. Bedazzled
    It might not measure up to the 1967 original, but now Satan's got sooty pussycat eyes and a kitten-cruel smile.
  10. Harvard Man
    Sure, sex and drugs can take you to a higher plane. But not if a movie crushes your will to live first.
  11. Harrison's Flowers
    The fact that its sound and photography are gracefully crafted, or that fragments of a tolerable film are visible here and there, only makes its dumb-ass, romance-novel version of tragedy worse. This is one of the most badly botched mainstream movies I've seen in years.
  12. I Think I Love My Wife
    The movie doesn't for a moment pretend to be subtle, and it has a sprawling, unfocused quality. But it's got some juice, and it's even faithful, in some surprising ways, to the essence of the original.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Men in Black II
    Here's an idea: Let's just take that same gizmo-packed alien-attack buddy-flick blockbuster from the summer of '97 ... and make it dumber!
  14. Around the World in 80 Days
    Never as delightful and silly as it needs to be. The action is often manic, and there's a veneer of unapologetic corniness to it.
  15. The Black Dahlia
    The plot has been greatly streamlined from Ellroy's book, but even so, it isn't any clearer, and the ending, convoluted and barely believable, hits with a thud.
  16. 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.
  17. Stalingrad
    Viewed as cinema, it’s an unstable and almost surrealist combination of Soviet-style war propaganda film, Zack Snyder-style action flick and sentimental fairy tale.
  18. The Good Night
    There's a gloomy quality to The Good Night I sort of appreciated -- much of it was shot in London, although it's supposed to occur in New York -- but after the initial acerbic setup fades, Gary becomes less and less likable and the movie evaporates into nothing.
  19. Me, Myself & Irene
    Leaving the theater, I couldn't quell those waves of disappointment: It just should have been funnier.
  20. The Thorn in the Heart
    A quiet, unglamorous film that sneaks up on you slowly. I found it had a lovely, peculiar emotional resonance by the time it was over, but it's likely to appeal more to documentary buffs and obsessive Gondry fans than ordinary moviegoers.
  21. Nine
    All of these women, and Day-Lewis too, sing and dance vigorously and enthusiastically throughout Nine, and the results are spotty, though you can't accuse anyone of not trying.
  22. The Man in the Iron Mask
    Not 10 minutes into the smeary mess that is The Man in the Iron Mask, the only sensible question to ask yourself is, "What am I doing here?"
  23. 30 Minutes or Less
    30 Minutes or Less features about half of a decent idea, which works out OK since it ends up as half a movie.
  24. Soul Men
    Couldn't be more unhip -- it just never hits the groove.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silent House
    As it stands, the picture's primary subject is its style; the promotional materials give as much space to the trickery ("a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot") as they do to rising leading lady Olsen.
  26. Hart's War
    Put Bruce Willis and this bewildering World War II movie in front of the firing line.
  27. K-PAX
    What keeps the movie going, besides Softley's intelligent direction and Mathieson's inventive cinematography, is the actors' duet between Spacey and Bridges.
  28. Jeepers Creepers
    Gets off to a great start and then simply shuts down, like an awesome vintage car on an ambitious road trip.
  29. Dr. Dolittle 2
    The good-natured silliness of it all kept me laughing.
  30. Dark Matter
    Dark Matter has neither the technical command of an art-house film nor the manufactured intensity of a grade-B thriller, yet it's also too cheap and dirty to feel like a Hollywood-scale drama.
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