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For 20,323 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Office Romance
    Writers Goldstein and Joe Kelly (his “Ted Lasso”/”Shrinking” colleague) attempt to cram a streaming season’s worth of character zigs — Jodie Whittaker plays Daniel’s incarcerated sister, Amy Sedaris appears as a too-kind hotel housekeeper — into a two-hour film. Alas, the landing isn’t smooth.
  2. 200 Motels
    200 Motels is not all bad, but because it's a movie with so many things going on simultaneously, it becomes too quickly exhausting—in actual effect, soporific.
  3. Miss You, Love You
    Janney veers from fury to reflection to tearfulness so vigorously it’s as if she knows that heavy lifting is required to take this story off the page.
  4. The Players Club
    Campy moments and a luridly colorful look (with cinematography by Malik Sayeed) may give this no-flair, no-frills B movie a healthy video afterlife some day.
  5. The Mirror Has Two Faces
    The overkill of ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'' is partly offset by Ms. Streisand's genuine diva appeal. The camera does love her, even with a gun to its head. And she's able to wring sympathy and humor from the first half of this role.
  6. México 86
    One need look no further than “Marty Supreme” to see how Mexico 86 might have complicated the audience’s sympathies, but this straightforward crowd-pleaser doesn’t wish to see beyond Martín’s charm.
  7. Legion
    The leaden dialogue and flat-footed storytelling hobble a talented cast.
  8. The Wolfman
    In this shaggy-dog version the wolfman’s story is both gratuitously bloody and, finally, bloodless.
  9. Darkness Falls
    About as scary as a ride on a minor roller coaster, it unrolls its amplified butcher-block shock effects within the first five minutes.
  10. The Spy Next Door
    The outtakes are not all that great but still better than anything else in the movie.
  11. The Last Station
    The kind of movie that gives literature a bad name. Not because it undermines the dignity of a great writer and his work, but because it is so self-consciously eager to flaunt its own gravity and good taste.
  12. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    There are barely enough titter-worthy one-liners in Marc Lawrence's good-natured romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? to prevent it from sinking under the weight of its clichés.
  13. 2012
    Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit.
  14. Surrogates
    In this kind of industrial entertainment, particularly one that seems to be missing some connective narrative tissue, it’s hard to know if the writers or the director can be credited or blamed for what’s left on screen.
  15. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    The big tease turns into the long goodbye in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the juiceless, near bloodless sequel.
  16. Planet 51
    Agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal.
  17. New York, I Love You
    The pieces of New York, I Love You make up a parallel city that no one would want to live in, much less visit.
  18. Funny People
    There’s something irritatingly self-satisfied about Funny People, which explains why, though it glances on the perils of fame, it mostly affirms its pleasures.
  19. The Time Traveler's Wife
    Often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation.
  20. Watchmen
    As it is, the film is more curiosity than provocation, an artifact of a faded world brought to zombie half-life by the cinematic technology of the present.
  21. The Fourth Kind
    May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.
  22. Black Dynamite
    As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it’s both too much and not nearly enough.
  23. Extract
    What’s most striking about Extract, beyond the scarcity of jokes and absence of actual filmmaking, is its deep well of sourness, which at times borders on misanthropy.
  24. Orphan
    There’s something creepy, and not pleasurably so, about watching children pantomime so much malice and fear.
  25. Knowing
    The draggy, lurching two hours of Knowing will make you long for the end of the world, even as you worry that there will not be time for all your questions to be answered.
  26. Whatever Works
    None of it works. Or it works too hard. Whatever.
  27. Away We Go
    Does it sound as if I hate this movie? Don't be silly. But don't be fooled. This movie does not like you.
  28. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    A mediocre gross-out movie that barely pushes the envelope.
  29. State of Play
    A superficially clever, self-important and finally incoherent thriller.
  30. Role Models
    With the ferocity of a drill instructor and the boundless confidence of a self-help guru who combines psychobabble clichés with embarrassingly explicit confessions, Ms. Lynch's Gayle redeems the movie from utter banality.
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