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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. M. Butterfly
    M. Butterfly, the David Cronenberg film of David Henry Hwang's Broadway play, fumbles its romantic and political metaphors and loses the game.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Divergent
    For a film that supposedly celebrates freethinking, there’s a woeful lack of it here.
  3. Freakier Friday
    Freakier Friday is a movie that manages to humiliate everybody. And it appears to exist largely for one reason: to grift off the fondness many adults have for the original, even though the sequel has none of that picture’s breezy, observant charm.
  4. Galaxy Quest
    In this space epic, no one will hear you laugh.
  5. Lookin' to Get Out
    A sloppy mess that stumbles toward oblivion like a drunk on a losing streak
  6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children could have been a return to form for Burton, but he loses his sense of direction halfway through. If only he could find his way back to his wild bread-crumb trail, the one that guided him so ably for years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Exorcist
    The movie is vile and brutalizing. Indeed, in many ways it is worse than the book. If The Exorcist had been invested with any real intelligence or passion, if it had wanted to do something other than promote a few shivers, the explicitness would never have mattered. As used here, the explicitness amounts to not much more than a shill, a come-on.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Sound of Music
    Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.
  9. Wicked Little Letters
    It may have been conceived as the kind of classy-but-ribald entertainment that might lure older moviegoers back to theaters. But insulting their intelligence probably isn’t the way to go.
  10. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    The actors, especially the ever appealing Smith, do what they can to ground the movie in reality, but it stubbornly remains dawdling, remote and pretentious.
  11. Charlie's Angels
    A shaggy, listless action movie that’s too messy to be fun.
  12. Judy Berlin
    The film is one-note; misery is the only game in town.
  13. The Lone Ranger
    It’s got too much on its mind, and it’s unsure of its tone. This is the rough cut of a slimmer, better movie
  14. Somewhere
    Somewhere has a lot of good impulses, and a salutary faith in an audience's patience; but the film's tone, in its script, performances and visual style, is studiously uninflected. It's a document of people seen remotely, maybe from outer space.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Walkabout
    Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing nor new.
  16. 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
  17. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    To get serious about Alvin for a moment, there are worse things for your kid to be into.
  18. Valentine's Day
    The film skips along pleasantly, supremely confident in its own cuteness and utterly unapologetic about how shallow or contrived it might be.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Top Gun
    Top Gun is about the training of the Navy's best fighter pilots and their blooding in cold war incidents, and the only thing Director Tony Scott has not brought up to date is the story. It is the one about the hotdog who has to be taught to be a team player. They were peddling that one before Writers Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. were born.
  20. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    It's too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore.
  21. Thor: Ragnarok
    Directed by the enormously talented New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi, it’s well intentioned but ultimately numbing, an instance of fun overkill whose ultimate goal seems to be to put us into a special-effects coma.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Indecent Proposal
    Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this so slowly and seriously, Indecent Proposal is an inadvertent comedy. As such, it is much funnier than "Honeymoon in Vegas", which tried in vain to be funny about the same idea.
  23. The Five-Year Engagement
    Five-Year has comic bloat. Virtually every character gets their own moment of stand up, but in most cases, the bits aren't funny enough to warrant the screen time.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You Only Live Twice
    Even Connery seems uncomfortable and fatigued, as if he meant it when he said that this would be his last Bond film. It may just be an off year for 007; it may be that he has received too much ribbing from Casino Royale (TIME, May 12). But it could also be that the monumental Bond issue is at long last beginning to deflate.
  25. Dick
    Sells out real satirical possibilities to its marketing potential as teen fluff. Everyone loses -- except Hedaya, who keeps faith with his character's nutsiness.
  26. Mickey 17
    The time may feel right for a wry dystopian sci-fi adventure-comedy. But as satires go, this one is more mild than habanero.
  27. Michael
    To deny Jackson’s complexity only flattens his genius—as well as his kindness and fragility—into something manageable, explainable. In the end, Michael does the same.
  28. An Officer and a Gentleman
    The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings
    Lacking a firm center in Frodo's story, the film plays itself out as a bewildering parade of elves, dwarves, ores, trolls and talking trees.
  30. Avengers: Infinity War
    There’s no pacing in Avengers: Infinity War. It’s all sensation and no pulse. Everything is big, all of the time.
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