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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. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    The fact that Grandma is played by Jane Fonda, flouncing around in natural fabrics, should tell you something. It should tell you there is no casting decision or character nuance or plot turn too obvious to indulge.
  2. DogMan
    DogMan won’t appeal to everybody, but there’s something to be said for a movie that makes you wonder if the filmmaker has gone crazy.
  3. The Greatest
    Brosnan has never been so opened up, so emotional and yet so precise in his work. It's a lovely performance in a film that only sometimes deserves him.
  4. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    One of the most enjoyable pictures of the season.
  5. Justice League
    The worst action movies, and this is one of them, are all about stretching out the action.
  6. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    About as loony and soapy as a movie can get. In other words, it's about as loony and soapy as the novel, and I say this as one who obsessively consumed all four installments in Stephenie Meyer's mega-selling series.
  7. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Missing a purpose.
  8. Firewall
    I like it for the thing it is, a reasonably solid B movie, and I like it as one in the continuum of bizarre Ford vehicles that combine high-stakes action with household horror.
  9. Finding Joe
    Campbell's admirers will probably enjoy the documentary, but I don't think it will do much for anyone else.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    The appeal of Mr. Brooks is as obvious as it is hard to resist: Kevin Costner as a serial killer.
  11. The Deep End of the Ocean
    It's a classy but downbeat spin on the most familiar of TV-movie formulas.
  12. The Little Vampire
    The results are predictable and only mildly entertaining.
  13. Maid in Manhattan
    A Cinderella story with star appeal going for it and everything else against it.
  14. Life as a House
    Kline, in particular, has the spark and know-how to overcome some awfully belabored writing and situations.
  15. Latter Days
    This tale of tortured love between a Mormon missionary and a West Hollywood tomcat renders its gay and religious characters so stereotypical that neither lifestyle appears attractive.
  16. Love Me If You Dare
    Has to be one of the least charming French romances to find American distribution in recent years.
  17. Evergreen
    As drama it's thin stuff. Aiming for simplicity, it ends up simplistic.
  18. Valiant
    Despite a decent cast of mostly British voice actors and better-than-average computer animation, the movie seems rushed at 76 minutes and is only marginally funny.
  19. American Dreamz
    The rare case of a movie that gets better as it goes along.
  20. The Possession
    Bornedal invests so much time in the characters - Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick play the split parents of the girls - that there are times you will forget this is a horror movie. It's Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Lucifer.
  21. Miral
    Rendered nearly unwatchable by overblown close-ups and an unrelenting shaky-cam.
  22. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    This isn't absurdity. This is nonsense - and it's as boring as nonsense.
  23. By the Sea
    In this her third feature as a director, Jolie once again shows a marked talent for the visual aspects of storytelling. Her shot selection is impeccable and her compositions are artful without being self-consciousness.
  24. A Minecraft Movie
    Once the fleeting novelty wears off, what remains is a movie caught in tonal limbo. It’s too convoluted for kids, too slight for adults and too self-aware to be taken seriously.
  25. 23 Blast
    There’s the sense here that living in a tiny community can either make you bigger or smaller, and in 23 Blast we see both types, from the petty to the stoic and self-reliant.
  26. Unforgettable
    Unforgettable may have a generic title, and it may be a train wreck, but it’s a watchable train wreck throughout.
  27. The Marine
    A throwback to all those guilty pleasure action movies.
  28. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
    Has that title going for it, which might annoy or provoke you. It makes me suspicious. It's the kind of flashy, meaningless title that's usually given to drab, pointless films.
  29. Sniper
    Sniper is the Tom Berenger film that'll be forgotten by this time next week. [30 Jan 1993, p.C3]
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  30. Click
    One of the best American films of the year so far.
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