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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. The Emperor's Club
    May leave viewers emotionally disconnected from this distinctly unchipper Mr. Chips.
  2. The Mechanic
    Quick, capable, thoroughly bloody action film.
  3. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    Horizon—while being at least somewhat culturally sensitive, handsome to look at, and reasonably engaging—still comes off as curiously undistinguished. It’s so tasteful, so careful, so eager not to upset or offend, that it reflects little sense of risk.
  4. Rio 2
    A little less agreeable and way more aggressive than its better begetter, Rio 2 has the overstuffed agenda of a movie that’s been focus-grouped to death.
  5. Oldboy
    Like Martin Scorsese’s "The Departed," a bloated Americanizing of the Hong Kong cop movie "Infernal Affairs," the Lee Oldboy will startle newbies with its story ingenuities and morbid revelations, while leaving connoisseurs of the source film wondering why Hollywood couldn’t have left great enough alone.
  6. Romance
    It's mostly an ordeal--for actress and audience.
  7. Scoop
    At this late stage in a long career, Allen might consider not trying to make films like the early, funny ones. Instead he should aim simply to match "Match Point."
  8. Gung Ho
    Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker.
  9. Titan A.E.
    When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
  10. The Banger Sisters
    Dolman's comedy isn't exactly a barrel of emotional surprises, but its great cast underachieves admirably. There are worse ways to pass 94 minutes.
  11. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    After “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Hulk,” there's something refreshing about this movie's complete lack of intellectual pretense.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Love Bug
    The outcome of all this is about as predictable as the benumbing succession of autopomorphic gags. Connoisseurs of camp may enjoy watching Tomlinson ranting at the Volkswagen, but The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors (Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lady on a Train
    Lady on a Train sets out to elicit chills and chuckles, but never quite reaches its modest destination.
  14. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    Fresh inspiration is sparse here; the sequel is less an extension than a remake. Holmes says of one of his lamer disguises, "It's so overt, it's covert." And the shadow in this game is the imposing penumbra of Ritchie's very satisfying 2009 film. It's overt and overwhelming.
  15. Six Minutes to Midnight
    Six Minutes to Midnight is a tribute to those real-life girls who, as guests from a land that would soon become a vicious enemy, represent a strange little intersection of English and German history—the human element behind symbols clashing on a badge.
  16. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    The film also serves as the clearest statement of Glee's sacred mission. Through it, we can see how the entire multimedia phenomenon - the show, the albums, the iTunes hits, the recent concert tour and now this movie - has accrued the odor, say the incense, of a secular religion.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Divergent
    For a film that supposedly celebrates freethinking, there’s a woeful lack of it here.
  18. The Greatest Showman
    But for sheer, go-for-broke nuttiness, The Greatest Showman stands alone in the landscape of this holiday season’s crop of movies, and I urge you to give it a chance.
  19. The Counselor
    The Counsellor is neither an outright disaster nor misunderstood masterpiece: it’s just a very bad idea for a film, proficiently executed.
  20. Red Hook Summer
    In this bad-better-best movie, the Flik story is the bad, the choir singing much better and Peters the soul-stirring best.
  21. Underwater
    As Stewart plays it, Norah’s charismatic, deadpan insouciance feeds her bravery. And it’s just the thing that might get you through Underwater, too.
  22. Rush Hour 2
    Until a vigorous climax, the action scenes have little punch.
  23. 300: Rise of an Empire
    For all the energetic milling, Rise of an Empire proves superior to its predecessor by making war a game both sexes can play, on nearly equal terms. In comparison, the R-rated "300" seems as innocent as Adam in the Garden before the delicious complication of Eve — or Eva.
  24. Cat Person
    When it comes to dating, there’s no doubt we live in confusing times. But no one needs a confused movie about dating confusion, and Cat Person’s ideas are so blurry it’s impossible to know what its goals are.
  25. The Girl on the Train
    The Girl on the Train is less a thriller than a morality tale reminding us never to make snap judgments. No matter how dreadfully some characters behave, we’re not allowed to dislike anyone for long. That kind of catharsis isn’t allowed.
  26. Shallow Hal
    We [Farrellys'] mock, they say, because we care. But that doesn't make the film elevating or amusing.
  27. Angels & Demons
    As transparent as this device is, Angels has elemental satisfactions in its blend of movie genre that could appeal to wide segments of the audience.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Casino Royale
    With so many egos—including five directors—competing for attention, the picture soon degenerates into an incoherent and vulgar vaudeville.
  29. One Day
    Even in the skillful hands of director Lone Scherfig, the effect is disjointed. The characters that Nicholls brought so cunningly to life in the book feel rushed through a timeline, tied to an agenda.
  30. Admission
    While Admission remains the story of a woman who comes to question her past choices and jeopardize her career, the movie version is lighter, fluffier and dramatically inert.
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