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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. Bridget Jones's Baby
    The film is sprinkled with “f” bombs, which fails to disguise that the enterprise is based on a surprisingly dated notion of what’s racy. Also, you simply may not find Bridget quite as adorable as the filmmaker’s clearly believe her to be.
  2. Elvis & Nixon
    Shannon is worth seeing, and so is Spacey — hunched over, doing a funny impression of Nixon’s voice and body language. But this time the actors are better than the material.
  3. Legally Blonde
    Benefits enormously from smart casting across the board.
  4. Cars 3
    Intermittently entertaining.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Good Grief
    While not offering anything particularly surprising or challenging in its take on the unpredictable shadow of loss, “Good Grief” delivers plenty of heart.
  6. Moonlight Mile
    Too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama.
  7. Savages
    So. What part of this is boring? All of it.
  8. Roll Bounce
    Funny and honest.
  9. Together
    Both McAvoy and Horgan handle the rapid-fire dialogue with gusto, and for a while, their devastating banter is amusing. But eventually the effect begins to wear thin: These vocal diatribes need a more developed story to hang on.
  10. Molière
    A whimsical but flat-footed attempt to account for several lost months in the life of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known to the world as Molière.
  11. Mission: Impossible
    It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller -- it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion.
  12. Independence Day
    The alien attack, taking place in several cities at once, is breathtaking...All the same, Independence Day is consistently funny.
  13. Sliding Doors
    No doubt this seeming effortlessness was hard-won. Movies this smooth don't happen by accident.
  14. Confidence
    Ultimately, the con we witness in the movie is almost as beautiful as the con that is the movie -- believable in the moment, too irresistible to question upon reflection and executed with invigorating confidence.
  15. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    A feel-good movie.
  16. American Pimp
    Lushly entertaining, and its subjects are terrific storytellers with style to burn.
  17. The Drama
    It’s Zendaya’s movie. Her layered performance holds back then lets go as Emma’s full complexity is gradually revealed. If you can’t get onboard with Emma, then you’re the problem — which partly is Borgli’s intention.
  18. Dawn of the Dead
    It's silly, witty and good-natured, not scary so much as icky, and not horrifying or horrible but consistently amusing.
  19. Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
    A beautiful film.
  20. Ip Man
    It's a highly entertaining, big-budget, kick-butt kung fu movie, the best of its kind since Jet Li's "Fearless" in 2006.
  21. Surviving Progress
    The name of this documentary is Surviving Progress, but that's only because "The Sky Is Falling and We're All Gonna Die" wouldn't fit on a marquee.
  22. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    Degenerates in the second half.
  23. Limitless
    The story gets away from itself as it barrels forward. The tiny bit of sense it makes at the beginning is quickly sacrificed in a conclusion so facile, illogical and cheap that it could use a dose of NZT itself.
  24. Nobody 2
    Funnier, sunnier and even more violent than its predecessor, “Nobody 2” ups the ante in the cinematic action department as well.
  25. Running from Crazy
    It's good nonetheless, an artfully arranged account of Hemingway's current life, mixed with footage shot by her late sister Margaux for a 1983 documentary about the family.
  26. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World is an intelligent action movie that’s saying something simple but true: Yes, people are that stupid.
  27. Day Watch
    While the sequel to "Night Watch" is an imperfect film, it's always interesting.
  28. Rubber
    Rubber has its share of jollies, at least when it isn't boring us to death with the fourth-wall-busting monkey business. Although I appreciate Dupieux's efforts at satire, the audience-interaction subplot goes nowhere fast.
  29. Junior
    As a comedy, Junior has its share of laughs -- but no more than its share.
  30. Michael Collins
    Viewers may feel let down because the depth promised by the movie's visual artistry is never quite delivered.
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