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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 Upside
    Neither great nor terrible. It quavers in that middle ground of pictures you think you might watch on a plane someday, and you could make a worse choice.
  2. White Nights
    For all its superpower simplifications, White Nights has discovered in Baryshnikov a keen and passionate movie hero. Giggle at the film's naiveté; then feast on Misha and dance down the steppes.
  3. Spaceballs
    A lot of the gags are pretty good. It's not that Star Wars is less worthy of satire than horse opera or gothic horror. It's not that Mel Brooks has lost his cunning, though he does need a freedom of speech not to be found under a PG rating. What's missing is that zany old gang of his. There is simply nobody like them on this trip. [13 July 1987, p.68]
    • Time
  4. Yes Man
    Though the movie is no more than agreeable, it does provide a swell showcase for New Zealand wundercomic Rhys Darby (Murray the hapless agent on HBO's Flight of the Conchords) and gives the astrally adorable Zooey Deschanel a rare shot at a lead role in a big Hollywood movie.
  5. A Chorus Line
    The film, though, lies dormant in its own decency.
  6. Blue Streak
    Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
  7. Pain & Gain
    It's like a giant sculpture that is so strange and off-putting, it's instantly, intriguingly post-modern. Swept up in the film's pile-driving self-assurance, even Bay-haters may absorb the pain to enjoy the gain.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Little Darlings
    Both girls deserve a better vehicle than Little Darlings. The film has an amusing premise: the two heroines race to see who can lose her virginity first. But Director Ronald F. Maxwell, who has done superior TV work (PBS's Verna: U.S.O. Girl), settles for slogging his way through a threadbare script.
  9. The Singing Detective
    Somehow, by a narrow margin, the film doesn't quite make it. Potter recolored his work a little more sunnily, and it is, perhaps, too compressed; it needs TV's room to digress.
  10. The Bone Collector
    It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages.
  11. Mona Lisa Smile
    Maybe Wellesley isn't the only injured party here. Can an audience sue for cruel and edifying punishment?
  12. Evita
    But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions.
  13. Evening
    Rarely have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lockjawed mouse.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound.
  15. Whatever Works
    No kidding: this is the feel-good movie of the year and a cinematic soul massage.
  16. Girl in Progress
    Unfortunately, Girl in Progress doesn't upend anything; it just makes us weary of its wisecracking, oblivious teen and her ditzy mom.
  17. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Non-headline-making but often entertaining docu-travelogue.
  18. The Greatest
    The Greatest often feels like a mash-up of Sarandon's greatest grief hits.
  19. Justice League
    Where to lay the blame for Justice League’s just OK-ness? The movie is a jumbo-sized blur — not terrible, just underwhelming even amid its desperation to impress us.
  20. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    This is Meyer's worst offense - her disturbingly Victorian attitudes about sex and love, which this particular movie falls modestly in lockstep with, even though it concludes years of cinematic foreplay.
  21. Firewall
    To make something like Firewall good, you have to make it at least a little bit new--or add more than an unending patter of rain and techno-talk.
  22. Madea's Big Happy Family
    The movie proved to be an exasperating, fitfully enjoyable jumble of Perryana, full of insult humor, a gospel choir and, not to give too much away, plot elements borrowed from "Chinatown," "Precious," "Imitation of Life" and "Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke" - all restitched and Tyler-made.
  23. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Pfeiffer restores honor to the family drama.
  24. Maid in Manhattan
    Maid in Manhattan is not so much a movie as a collection of career moves. J. Lo needs a comedy hit to support her principal activity, adorning magazine covers. Fiennes needs to warm his austere British image if he hopes to become a true international star.
    • Time
  25. Life as a House
    Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother to ask?
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the Sea
    Jolie Pitt, in her third film as a director, infuses her original screenplay with a sparseness reminiscent of Hemingway’s tales of mislaid love and Michelangelo Antonioni’s cinematic alienation. But By the Sea is its own lovely creation, deadly serious about how grief divides, conquers and possibly unites.
  27. The Paperboy
    All the actors rise or bend to the challenge, giving juicy performances and seemingly having a fine old time.
  28. Joker: Folie à Deux
    Intentions don’t equal fully fledged works, and Folie à Deux stumbles on nearly all fronts. Even if the movie’s ambitions are admirable, you might end up too bored to care.
  29. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    It's a faux epic -- swell costumes, historically authentic settings, a certain amount of bustle and skulking, but very little dramatically gripping activity.
  30. Sweet Home Alabama
    The film (directed by Andy Tennant) has more problems than Melanie, and they're insoluble. Its lazy calculation telegraphs each plot turn and underlines emotions with corn-pone music.
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