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For 7,299 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. Ladies in Lavender.
    May be a slight film, but watching the Dames work in harmony in beautiful nuanced performances is a rich and fully satisfying reward.
  2. Focus
    Focus, which was co-written and directed by "Crazy Stupid Love" creators, Glen Ficarra and John Requa, is drunk on its perfume-ad cinematography and doesn’t know when to quit with its double-double cross plotting.
  3. Gattaca
    Designer babies rule dystopia in stylish SF thriller filled with recycled plot devices.
  4. Road Hard
    Road Hard is funny enough, and if its hum is predictable at times, its humanness is a welcome zinger.
  5. Late Night
    The best thing about Late Night, a new comedy about modern office life, is that it could be set in almost any workplace and still feel mostly sharp and entirely necessary. The worst thing about Late Night is that it’s set in the world of late-night television.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    Alexander narrates with a rueful, put-upon worldly wisdom that instantly enlists our sympathy, and the young actor Ed Oxenbould may be the most appealing junior loser we’ve seen since Peter Billingsley wished for an air rifle in "A Christmas Story."
  7. Immortals
    Thrills are in short supply, but so are annoyances. This is a maintenance-free ride.
  8. The Nanny Diaries
    There's a good movie buried inside The Nanny Diaries, and a good cast trying hard to dig it out. Too bad they don't get much help.
  9. The Eye
    A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
  10. Thieves
    Techine has long been a cerebral director (counting Roland Barthes among his admirers), and Thieves certainly steals your complete attention. It's just that, when the picture is over, our involved mind can't resist a concluding thought: Somehow, the theft is more impressive than the compensation. [31 Jan 1997, p.C5]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Report
    Those yearning for aesthetic verve had better look elsewhere; much of The Report takes place inside cold, concrete government buildings. The occasional backdrop of mahogany wood panelling is the closest to warmth you’ll experience in two hours.
  12. Shooter
    Like most modern action films, Shooter is too explicit, more interested in mayhem than motive.
  13. Kill the Messenger
    A resonant journalistic cautionary tale gets packaged as a hokey thriller in Kill the Messenger, a movie with a message that isn’t nearly as urgent as it needs to be.
  14. The Comedian
    With its jazzy score and drizzly nighttime moods, where The Comedian works best is as a salute to New York stand-up scene, with looks into the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village and the New York Friars Club.
  15. Steep
    If you like your skiing extreme but your documentaries safe, then carve a sharp turn over to Steep.
  16. Intact
    Shot mostly at night, in high-contrast images, punctuated by rock-video collages, Intacto is nothing if not hip, but its questions are more coffee-shop hypothetical than genuinely profound.
  17. Spice World
    Critic-proof, devoid of plot or acting, and quick to mock anyone who might make something of it.
  18. Poms
    It makes no sense that this fun, feel-good movie about senior citizen cheerleaders should waste so much precious screen time on miserly Keaton hacking up her Metamucil or whatever. If you’re going to make a movie about elderly cheerleaders, bring some brio and physicality to it.
  19. The Company You Keep
    In The Company You Keep, old radicals never die – they just turn into old actors.
  20. Captive
    The film's police-procedural action is unimaginatively presented, but Oyelowo is compelling.
  21. Spider-Man 3
    The main flaw is an over-abundance of villains, a bout of narrative greediness that sees them marching out of their lairs like so many evil-doers-on-parade.
  22. 1408
    Really wanting to get into our heads, 1408 tries awfully hard to play both sides of logic's boundary line -- tries and fails, and then succeeds, only to ultimately fail again. On the whole, the frights are frighteningly erratic.
  23. Wonders of the Sea 3D
    A combination of state-of-the-art cinematography and old-fashioned documentary storytelling, this gorgeous film is 3D visually, but frustratingly two-dimensional otherwise.
  24. Star Trek: Nemesis
    Once again, perhaps the most impressive effect is Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, using his Shakespearean training to make long mouthfuls of nonsense sound almost persuasive.
  25. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Too silly to be taken seriously, it's not silly enough to overcome skepticism.
  26. Coach Carter
    When [Jackcson]'s not on camera, Coach Carter feels like the two-hour opus it is — too long, too banal, a bit ridiculous. But when he is, nothing else seems to matter, and how sublime is that.
  27. The Eight Hundred
    While the scale of Hu’s production is indeed impressive in its giganticness, and likely plays excellently on the IMAX screens for which it is intended (I had to settle for watching it on my television), The Eight Hundred falls a few hundred yards short of war-movie greatness.
  28. Freedomland
    Price has written a screenplay that may be complex and ambitious to a fault.
  29. Victor Frankenstein
    McGuigan’s visually vivid Victor Frankenstein races to its lightning-storm finish, running over the solid (if not electrifying) acting of McAvoy and Radcliffe.
  30. Rescue Dawn
    The strangely hybrid result, half Herzog and half Hollywood, plays like its own battleground. Sometimes, the tension is fascinatingly productive; other times, all we get is the worst of both worlds.
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