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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. Gothika
    More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that.
  2. Made of Honor
    There's no energy, no spark, in Made of Honor. Even its clichés -- including a dashing rescue on horseback -- are trotted out with bland indifference.
  3. Reindeer Games
    Ben Affleck provides a charismatic star turn, but John Frankenheimer's out-of-season heist thriller is dead on arrival.
  4. Amelia
    Amelia is a stunted epic, an ambitious and handsome-looking picture that tells its story in the dullest, most confusing way possible.
  5. Trespass
    Can someone explain what Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman are doing in a chaotic and sadistic home-invasion thriller, shot in digital colors so radioactive they appear to have leaked out of the Fukushima nuclear plant?
  6. Annapolis
    Like so many disappointing movies, it's peopled by performers who do their damnedest to make the whole thing work.
  7. Be Cool
    Isn't assaultive or dumb, just slack and de-energized, as if its batteries start running down in the first frame.
  8. The Tourist
    This is a pale simulacrum of those high-style travel-porn thrillers of the '60s and '70s, which only serves to remind us that those aren't as easy to pull off as they look, and also that maybe they weren't so great in the first place.
  9. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    I don't know when a bad movie has made me laugh as much as this one. Most of the gags are vintage silliness: foreign double talk, characters donning funny costumes, well-timed profanities.
  10. Domino
    The picture is an exercise in exploitation joi de vivre, and your enjoyment of it will depend on your tolerance for shameless, reckless, unredemptive violence with relatively little artistic or spiritual value. After all, there's a time and a place for everything.
  11. The Lone Ranger
    If anything, it’s overstuffed with imagination and ideas, and when it comes to Hollywood movies I very much prefer that to the default setting. See it with an open mind, and you may well be surprised.
  12. Evan Almighty
    Carell is on the fast track to becoming Robin Williams, a guy who lost the plot far too early on and began pouring his considerable comic gifts into brain-dead heart-warmers.
  13. Seven Days in Utopia
    Seven Days in Utopia is flawed in so many ways -- the editing, writing, acting and Matthew Dean Russell's direction are uniformly weak -- that this well-intentioned film does its positive messages a disservice.
  14. Miracle at St. Anna
    A picture that's dramatically compelling in some places and plodding and didactic in others.
  15. Bad Company
    This cookie-cutter spy thriller depends on the chemistry between Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock. Um, wait, there isn't any.
  16. The Crew
    It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
  17. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    With its tepid gags and faltering pacing, may not be a very good movie. But at least, within its clumsiness, it strives for some kind of solidarity.
  18. The Other Woman
    Inside of five minutes I felt an urgent, blinding hatred for almost all its grotesquely overprivileged characters.
  19. All the King's Men
    Both the performance and the movie around it are virtually incomprehensible.
  20. Haven
    A trashy thriller of the kind that used to make up the second half of double bills in crumbling downtown theaters, circa 1977.
  21. Mercury Rising
    Unpleasant would be the word for Mercury Rising if "tired" weren't a more appropriate one.
  22. 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."
  23. A Life Less Ordinary
    Gloriously excessive, passionate and messy, A Life Less Ordinary is the kind of picture that's becoming more and more of a rarity in the landscape of American movies: a love story with a hard-on.
  24. Honey
    There's an entertainingly ludicrous movie lurking somewhere inside of the ludicrous, mediocre one this actually is.
  25. Battle: Los Angeles
    Reasonably effective.
  26. Cold Creek Manor
    Feels very nicely made, at least until it falls apart: By its midpoint, you start to recognize that it has acute creepy-thrilleritis, which means that it promises us some things at the beginning that it has no intention of actually following up on.
  27. Suspect Zero
    Suspect Zero is loaded with cheap thrills for the expensively educated.
  28. The Story of Us
    Fragmented and contrived, like a badly mapped-out scrapbook.
  29. Crush
    The most depressing movie I've seen all year; in fact, I'm hard-pressed to name a movie aimed specifically at women that has ever made me feel as insulted and disgusted.
  30. Speed Racer
    This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.
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