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For 9,306 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: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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  1. A Love Divided
    An Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.
  2. Bounce
    Surprisingly tepid and soapy.
  3. Charlie's Angels
    An utter debacle.
  4. Barenaked in America
    These guys are very normal off stage, making them easy to like and not very exciting to watch.
  5. The Manzanar Fishing Club
    At its best, the film uses fishing as a window into the internment experience. At its worst, it uses the internment story as the backdrop for a documentary on trout fishing.
  6. 5 to 7
    The role of Arielle was originally supposed to go to Diane Kruger, whose tough-minded realism would have been interesting here. But Marlohe, earthier yet more ethereal, is ideal.
  7. Tomorrow Never Dies
    If the formula seems a little tired, it still has more sophistication and pizzazz than most action films.
  8. Submission
    Submission is not a bad film — it just feels like an early draft.
  9. White House Down
    There may be better examples of cinematic art in 2013, but for a good time at the movies, it's hard to imagine anything beating this action extravaganza, from director Roland Emmerich, about a very Obama-like president.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Jun 27, 2013
  10. Man of Tai Chi
    A modestly entertaining martial arts melodrama with impressively staged fight sequences that help compensate for a stale plot and some less-than-stellar acting.
  11. The Nativity Story
    By grounding everything that went before in an earthy realism, Hardwicke earns the elevation of the nativity sequence, one of the more beautiful scenes in this year's cinema.
  12. American Chaos
    Throughout the film, we always feel ahead — way ahead — of the narrator, even if the movie does contain a certain sense of dread for Trump detractors, as the inevitability of the election draws closer.
  13. The Penguin Lessons
    Unfortunately, the thin story feels terribly stretched and often doesn’t make sense.
  14. Anger Management
    Isn't all bad. It isn't good, either, but it's better than it deserves to be, and if one sits and watches, the laughs do come, a few.
  15. Absolute Power
    A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top.
  16. Formosa Betrayed
    This is an unabashedly pro-democracy message movie. Judged strictly as drama, it's pretty routine.
  17. The Protector
    A bad film with a great star and some truly amazing action sequences.
  18. The Ordeal
    What sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas, who cries, squeals and screams with the best of them.
  19. LUV
    The strength is in the performances and visual detail. The flaws are mostly in the script, which asks the youngest cast member to pull off a near-impossible transformation.
  20. My Old Lady
    My Old Lady is affecting, even if many of the revelations and high-voltage speeches occur at predictable moments. But if you can look past this formulaic side, it's a movie worth seeing.
  21. Reptile
    In his feature director debut, Grant Singer (previously a music video director who’s worked with artists from Sam Smith to Skrillex) adopts a measured pace that lends the movie a somber, mysterious aura. But he breaks that up with smart, psychologically insightful cutting.
  22. The Devil's Own
    That the would-be buddies are played by Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt ensures enough star power to keep things moving even during the sluggish early scenes that set up their relationship.
  23. Orfeu
    A film one watches at an emotional remove, but from that distance there are sights and moments to appreciate.
  24. XX/XY
    The movie is really a sexy, emotionally true portrait of a handful of people wrestling with their impulses and trying to find their way to happiness.
  25. The Wood
    The picture, directed by Rick Famuyiwa, becomes a juggling act, contrasting the efforts of the three grown-up buddies to get to a wedding on time, with flashbacks of their youth.
  26. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It's middling Allen, which means that fans won't be sorry to see it, while everyone else can wait until the next "Bullets Over Broadway."
  27. Down with Love
    A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle.
  28. Don't Tell
    Don't Tell often has the eerie feel of a Hitchcock film -- "Vertigo" in particular -- where you're not always sure if what you're seeing is really happening.
  29. Hollywood Dreams
    Does a number of sly things.
  30. The Holiday
    This is familiar territory for writer-director Nancy Meyers, Hollywood's queen of the chick flick. Her latest has charming moments and a hopeful message for despondent singles, but it lacks the emotional resonance of Meyers' "Something's Gotta Give" and the zaniness of "What Women Want."
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