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For 9,307 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,163 out of 9307
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9307
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9307
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  1. Goosebumps
    Although the film’s content falls squarely within the PG rating, it provides about 20 percent more visual terror than you’re probably expecting. Plus, the presence of a scary clown should automatically trigger a special MPAA rating. (PG-C?) Take your 5-year-old knowing that he may be visiting your bed every night between now and Halloween.
  2. Rules Don't Apply
    Rules Don’t Apply feels unbalanced in terms of story, and it has a big sag in the middle. But the good things in it are so good that they make it a fairly worthwhile experience.
  3. Train Man
    Director Shosuke Murakami efficiently packages the material, deftly weaving in the individual stories of Train Man's chat-room buddies and how his success also gives them courage.
  4. Interview with the Assassin
    The movie's storytelling is limp, and writer-director Neil Burger's ultimate unwillingness to commit to a point of view -- was this guy really the assassin? -- seems artistically chicken-hearted.
  5. Spartan
    The film remains, clearly by design, a cold piece, mechanistic and only intermittently involving.
  6. The Debut
    A melodramatic yarn that transcends some of its technical and storytelling flaws through the cheery energy and sincerity of its cast.
  7. Gangster No. 1
    We're left with a metallic aftertaste.
  8. Happy Accidents
    The actors have enough appeal to keep it moving over the speed bumps.
  9. Cellular
    Distressingly predictable and not a tad scary. But as a parody of the genre, it's a scream, like the "Scream'' franchise, only funnier. It's as if all the ingredients for a thriller coagulated into Silly Putty.
  10. Never Been Kissed
    Some so-so movies are just easy to be around, and this is one of them.
  11. Brassed Off
    The characters are beautifully drawn in this bittersweet melodrama written and directed by Mark Herman.
  12. Happy, Happy
    The curdled Norwegian comedy-drama Happy, Happy, which dissects a pair of poisoned marriages, is sometimes heavy-handed (like its title) but has much to recommend it.
  13. The Other F Word
    Lindberg, who wrote a book on the subject called "Punk Rock Dad," is at the center of this sweet, revealing and proudly foulmouthed ethnography on rock and the modern dad.
  14. Analyze This
    More than a high concept stretched to feature length. This is a funny and extremely satisfying comedy, the best in a while.
  15. Kumaré
    If they handed out a best actor Oscar for documentaries this year, the striking Vikram Gandhi of Kumare would be a shoo-in. His performance of a guru is so spot-on that it fools every one of his new followers into believing he's the real deal, not someone out to prove that their faith in him is nothing more than a sham.
  16. Benny's Video (1992)
    Haneke directs Benny's Video in a cool, dispassionate style that matches the austerity of his subject, but keeps us at a distinct remove. And even though he introduces a faintly optimistic note in the film's last moments -- a hint at possible redemption -- his film is mostly a grim, downbeat experience. [01 Apr 1994, p.C3]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  17. The Music Never Stopped
    The songs and a couple of strong performances are only good enough to make the film watchable, not exceptional.
  18. Moving On
    Moving On is effortlessly intelligent in depicting the experience of being old. Even if you’re not there yet, you know intuitively that old age has very little to do with sitting in a rocking chair in perfect equanimity. It’s about living with the accumulation of things you did and things you didn’t do.
  19. Isn't It Romantic
    Isn’t It Romantic isn’t romantic, and it isn’t funny. It’s a bad idea stretched to feature length, a gimmick picture that never gets past its gimmick and never grows into something better. It runs 88 minutes and runs about 80 minutes too long.
  20. Red Dragon
    In Hollywood, where integrity is rapidly consumed and careers defined by market value, there's trash and there's trash with a pedigree.
  21. Time and Tide
    At its most compulsive, this is the only action flick you'll need this summer.
  22. Manic
    Buoyed by some sensitive performances and nearly tanked by insensitive filming.
  23. Calendar Girls
    Charming movie,
  24. Gray's Anatomy
    There's only so much Soderbergh can do. Gray's Anatomy is made up mainly of Gray, and there's a whole lot of Gray going on. The story is unremarkable. Gray's observations, pedestrian.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mighty Aphrodite
    Woody Allen's incredible wit is at the heart of all that's wonderful in Mighty Aphrodite, and Woody Allen's incredible ego is at the core of its major flaw.
  26. The Aeronauts
    If you have any fear of heights, The Aeronauts is one of the most excruciating movie experiences since “The Walk” (2015), which replicated Philippe Petit’s high-wire stunt between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.
  27. Little Joe
    Even worse, Little Joe is a horror movie that, rather astonishingly, lacks a climax. The ending falls off a cliff. The result is not to make viewers ponder the unresolved and wonder what might happen next, but to question how they’ve spent the past 105 minutes.
  28. All Day and a Night
    Measured and somber, with few surprises.
  29. The Godfather: Part III
    This lushly photographed, brilliantly acted and wonderfully entertaining movie has its own claims to uniqueness. It's the most thoughtful of the three films, and its climax brings the entire series into sharper focus. [25 Dec 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  30. Trust
    Features some of Clive Owen's best work and a startling movie debut by the 15-year-old Liana Liberato.
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