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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. Kate & Leopold
    The problem with Kate & Leopold is that although this is supposed to be a romantic comedy, the best scenes are the ones in which there's no Ryan.
  2. Oz the Great and Powerful
    Saying that Raimi’s trip to Oz is adequate eye candy with a good heart isn’t the same thing as saying it’s actually good. I was charmed at some moments, profoundly bored by others and almost never felt genuinely excited or emotionally engaged.
  3. Rush Hour 3
    Crass, stupid and crudely made. It's also, in places, weirdly brilliant, a picture that plays to the largest possible audience with mechanical efficiency but also, here and there, betrays glimmers of self-deprecating cleverness, as if it were striving, perhaps even unconsciously, to transcend its own dumbness.
  4. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    While the whole thing feels weirdly miscalculated to me, A Million Ways to Die in the West tweaks the formula just enough, delivers a few laughs and keeps the guest stars coming.
  5. Brokedown Palace
    The penalties for drug trafficking in Thailand are very, very stiff. If there were any justice in the world, the penalties for saddling fine actors with terrible dialogue would be even stiffer.
  6. The Ninth Gate
    Amusing, ultra-deadpan entertainment. The director was lucky enough to have a cast who were in on the joke and tuned in to his wavelength.
  7. Love & Sex
    It's sharply chiseled but not cynical, and that's a delicate line to walk.
  8. Pearl Harbor
    "Pearl Harbor" is exactly the kind of prestige project you'd expect from a director like Bay, hitting all its targets with plodding precision and never once achieving surprise.
  9. In My Country
    A disappointingly blunt, monochrome work.
  10. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    New Moon, on the other hand, merely follows a dictated formula. It's a cheap, shoddy piece of work, one that banks on moviegoers' anticipation without even bothering to craft a satisfying experience for them. Its pandering is an insult.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Thanks largely to its cast, however, it's transmuted into an utterly puerile 90 minutes that fit the brain-dead zeitgeist of Labor Day weekend in a snug and mostly pain-free manner.
  12. It Runs in the Family
    The picture never quite finds its footing.
  13. Funny Games (2008)
    Haneke's new Funny Games has a current of bleak humor that comes through more clearly when you're not reading subtitles. It remains a horrifying, implacable mind-fuck, liable to be widely misunderstood and widely despised.
  14. Gaudi Afternoon
    The air leaks out of Gaudí Afternoon gradually but steadily, until all we're left with is a limp rag of a balloon.
  15. Head of State
    An excruciatingly amateurish production.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Girl 6
    Instead of effervescent and mercurial, the movie is simply muddled. Lee has far too much skill to be delivering work that so often degenerates into incoherence.
  17. We're the Millers
    We’re the Millers has just the right stupid, humane vulgarity for the dog days of August.
  18. The Hangover Part II
    It's a dumb, ugly and, most of all, painfully unfunny movie.
  19. Along Came Polly
    For everyone who's been waiting for a love story between an anal retentive and a flake.
  20. The Ring Two
    Isn't a great work of horror, but it's admirable simply because it serves the genre so serviceably. It's nicely constructed, and it doesn't have one of those ridiculous extended endings.
  21. The Caveman's Valentine
    It hovers somewhere in that never-never land of movies that try to do too much and don't quite live up to any of their ambitions.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    What Dreams May Come
    By the movie's numbingly predictable end, the notion of a visually unleashed cinema seems like a monstrous mistake -- we've handed over the atom bomb to the Teletubbies!
  23. Forever Mine
    One of the best American movies of the year and one of the lushest movies in recent memory.
  24. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    This movie isn’t nearly as terrible as I was expecting, largely due to Snyder’s OCD-level attention to the visual details. And, yes, due to Wonder Woman (played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot), who brings in a badly needed dose of “Dragon Tattoo”-style female energy.
  25. This Is Where I Leave You
    Frequently irritating and occasionally insulting.
  26. Connie and Carla
    Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle.
  27. The Village
    The real mystery at the heart of M. Night Shyamalan's latest: How does he persuade actors like Sigourney Weaver and Adrien Brody to act in his supremely lame movies?
  28. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Losers
    Don't ask for much, and your expectations will be met. Why invest anything as extraneous or irrelevant as "thought" into such a transaction?
  30. Southland Tales
    If it arrives in final form as (still) a total mess, it's such a passionate and ambitious mess -- overcrowded with extraordinary images, incomprehensible ideas, literary and pop-cultural references and colliding subplots -- that it transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent.
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