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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. 28 Days
    Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.
  2. Beyond the Sea
    You can't BECOME a character if you want to BE that character: Desperation isn't the same thing as acting. Spacey's mimicry is so precise, it's exhausting.
  3. The Ringer
    An odd and not wholly successful little comedy. Its pacing is slack, and although it has a gentle heart, it treads so gingerly across the minefield of potential offensiveness that it sometimes snuffs out its sparks of life as quickly as it throws them off.
  4. Ravenous
    Though it definitely requires a strong stomach, Ravenous may be the best cannibal tragicomedy ever made.
  5. You, Me and Dupree
    Everything about You, Me and Dupree, even the toilet humor, is tepid and rigorously inoffensive
  6. Manderlay
    To state the obvious, Manderlay is often patently offensive in its racial politics, and it surely isn't for everyone. It is, however, very funny, very dark and very skillfully played.
  7. How Do You Know
    In essence, the movie is an ungainly but irresistible romantic-triangle comedy built around Rudd, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson, with Nicholson rambling around its periphery like a demonic bear, part comic relief and part distraction.
  8. King Arthur
    It's hard to care about a valiant groping for accuracy when a story is so badly told you can't tell what the devil is going on.
  9. One Night at McCool's
    Should have been a quick and dirty pulp tall tale. But it pokes along instead of accelerating, and though it isn't exactly smug it's rather too pleased with its own manufactured outrageousness.
  10. 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.
  11. Fast & Furious
    Spends a lot of time advertising how exciting it is, without actually being exciting.
  12. Fifty Shades of Grey
    I wouldn’t say that Taylor-Johnson has made a good movie from Fifty Shades of Grey, precisely. That’s asking too much. But she and Marcel have risen to the challenge of this bizarre cultural moment with an odd and memorable film.
  13. The Da Vinci Code
    Disappointingly tame.
  14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    You will not like it on the screen, you will not like it -- not one scene!
  15. Bruce Almighty
    Unless you like boob jokes and preachy sentimentalism, this comedy isn't funny at all.
  16. Hollywood Ending
    No director in the history of moviemaking has expended so much effort in the service of drying up and blowing off the landscape.
  17. Another Happy Day
    The younger Levinson has considerable storytelling talent, an admirable honesty and a streak of ruthlessness.
  18. Rambo
    The movie is neither cathartic nor entertaining. The action scenes (and there are many of them) feel mechanized and calculated.
  19. Beerfest
    Mediocre raunchy comedy.
  20. The Break-Up
    The Break-Up doesn't know whether it wants to be a facile, enjoyable date movie or an unnerving examination of the dark, pockmarked underbelly of everything we expect out of romantic relationships, and it settles for a deeply unsatisfying nowheresville.
  21. 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.
  22. Must Love Dogs
    It's ostensibly about adults, but there's nothing remotely adult about it.
  23. The In-Laws
    This In-Laws isn't a disaster, it's just not very good.
  24. A Previous Engagement
    I'm not big on those Pauline Kael-style encomiums to great actors in mediocre material, but that's exactly what we've got here. Stevenson is so incandescent -- so funny, so vulnerable, so awkwardly sexy.
  25. El cantante
    Before long, El Cantante disintegrates into a stylized jumble -- even a straightforward jumble would have been preferable.
  26. Yes Man
    With Yes Man, Carrey has bled the well dry, doing everything he knows how to do, over and over again, just to prove that he still knows how to do it. It's exhilarating to see brilliance in a comic; but by the time you start smelling it, the game is over.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Smilla's Sense of Snow
    It doesn't help that Julia Ormond -- perhaps the most un-Smilla-like actress walking the planet -- is cast in the starring role. She gives a competent performance, but she looks like Nancy Drew's pert-nosed cousin who somehow got trapped while sleuthing inside a snow globe, not the prickly, androgynous warrior Smilla is meant to be.
  28. The Heartbreak Kid
    Ben Stiller, the movie's star, pretty much sinks the whole enterprise.
  29. Chasing Liberty
    The kind of bland, perky comedy that neuters whoever is spun into its cotton-candy web.
  30. Greenfingers
    Certainly pleasant enough, and if you can put the preachiness out of mind it's entertaining, in its square, conventional way.
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