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For 9,317 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 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: 5,172 out of 9317
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9317
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9317
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  1. Mister Lonely
    As a work of entertainment, as a cohesive narrative and as an artistic whole, there's no way to call it anything but an on-balance average effort. Yet there's nothing remotely average about the movie's warm spirit, its imaginative and arresting cinematography or its handful of unique, brilliant scenes and shrewd, bizarre performances.
  2. 7 Days in Entebbe
    Movies go bad in all kinds of ways, but in 7 Days in Entebbe the filmmakers found a brand-new way for their movie to commit suicide.
  3. Need For Speed
    Though overlong and formulaic, two things keep this street-racing movie of interest all the way to the finish line. The first is Aaron Paul ("Breaking Bad"), a sensitive actor in his first major movie showcase. The second: some extraordinary racing sequences.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Mar 14, 2014
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Our Last Tango
    The film is a visual feast that combines interviews with vintage footage and reenactments danced in retro clubs, on railroad trusses and in magnificent theaters.
  5. Benny & Joon
    Ultimately, Chechik can't pull off the fractured-fairy-tale aspect of Benny and Joon. His film never explains mental illness, but romanticizes it, making it seem like a state of enchantment. It's ultimately irresponsible, and not very funny. [16 Apr 1993, p.C1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  6. The Long Walk
    Ultimately, “The Long Walk” is a heartfelt metaphorical drama about people bonding under duress. Instead of focusing on the darker side of human nature one might expect from the average dystopian film, it finds power in small acts of connection.
  7. Annabelle
    The script highlights an annoying lack of self-preservation on behalf of the protagonists. But the movie tries to be more than just a creepy doll freakout, and delivers the requisite scares.
  8. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    Sponge on the Run is very much a members-only affair. Then again, three movies and several hundred TV episodes into a 22-year-old franchise, it’s not unreasonable to think the audience for this adventure is pretty well baked into the cake.
  9. Senseless
    It's made by a director who knows comedy, working from a script founded on a surefire slapstick premise.
  10. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    That’s all it is, a little bit funny.
  11. 13 Minutes
    So this is fairly interesting history, not as interesting as we’d like it to be, but interesting all the same.
  12. Chasing Amy
    Lacks insight and finesse, and feels like a boldfaced Rorschach for Smith's own hang-ups.
  13. The Green Mile
    Three hours of overstatement and schmaltz.
  14. The Last Full Measure
    So there you have it, a so-so movie with a lot of good parts. In truth, The Last Full Measure has more good parts than most better movies, but everything connecting those parts feels rote, sometimes ham-fisted.
  15. Valentine
    Valentine isn't scary, but it is unsettling; not ultimately satisfying, but arresting in the moment.
  16. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    This world of entirely nice people seems like a trite fantasy — trite because the movie never makes you believe it. But it does makes you want to believe it, and so, like a lot of these movies, it takes you halfway there.
  17. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    “The Legend of Hank” offers a few hints of the wit and wisdom of its predecessor but is mostly content to coast through a familiar story on the accumulated charm of its star-studded cast of voice actors.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Imagine That
    The plot turns distasteful and shrill before its tidy resolution at the close.
  19. Brooklyn's Finest
    A melodrama about three cliches in search of a bloodbath.
  20. Eternity
    It all becomes silly, monotonous and boring. Maybe not as monotonous as being cast out into void, but boring enough to put you to sleep.
  21. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Is it worth seeing once? Sure.
  22. Love
    A little more character dimension would have made these between-the-sheet sessions a lot more charged.
  23. You Kill Me
    You Kill Me is pretty light, but it's well made, and within the built-in limitations of its story -- a hit man goes to Alcoholics Anonymous -- it's fairly pleasing.
  24. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
    An imperfect, fascinating film about an imperfect, fascinating man.
  25. The Other Side of Heaven
    Handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism.
  26. American Casino
    There's valuable information here and some human stories that deserve to be heard.
  27. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    The writing is funny during individual moments, but the cumulative result is a bit depressing, with a surprising amount of negativity.
  28. Fever Pitch
    A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage.
  29. Supernova
    Though predictable, isn't half bad.
  30. The Green Inferno
    The blood-soaked “Inferno” practically ends up a promotional snuff film for deforestation.
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