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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. The Architect
    In her (Viola Davis) umpteenth turn as a strong ghetto mother, she is the life force that lifts Matt Tauber's workaday movie The Architect into an experience to savor.
  2. Lies
    At once distanced and heedless, Lies manages to be lighter and less pretentious than any description suggests. The movie's playful aspect can't be denied.
  3. Bittersweet Motel
    As homey as old sweats.
  4. By Hook or by Crook
    Long, inchoate scenes are burdened by overwrought plotlines -- But the film is buoyed by moments of pleasure, too.
  5. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    A movie of many stupid pet tricks and one basic joke: As in the original, Elle's intelligence is consistently -- if understandably -- underestimated.
  6. Heartbreakers
    Heartbreakers gives redemption a bad name, but gives conniving misanthropy a worse one.
  7. Flight of the Phoenix
    This Phoenix screams hack job.
  8. Ladder 49
    Not as snort-worthy as "Backdraft," Ladder 49 is a serviceable testament to the firemen who would bravely risk their lives to protect the safety of others.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Burlesque
    What you remember when it's over is the impact of Aguilera's voice, but not what she's singing; montages of body parts, but not the choreography; and Aguilera's face, music-video-trained to hold a close-up so emotionally exaggerated, you might even call it a burlesque.
  10. A Cure for Wellness
    The director conjures some chills with a cold plunge into an enchanting and frightful world — the imagery’s straight out of a Kubrick and Lynch nightmare — but the story unravels as he tries to overexplain his evil doctor’s devilish plot.
  11. Restless
    Gus Van Sant's latest - a middle-class hetero teen romance, no less - walks the line between mainstream sentimentality and dark art-house humor so effectively that it seems noncommittal.
  12. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    There’s no mystery, and the action is thoroughly disposable, but what works this time around are the interactions between Reacher and Turner, mostly thanks to the efforts of Smulders, who brings an impassioned frustration to her character.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Flyboys
    Here is the War to End All Wars seen from on high--as it was way back when, in "Wings" or the Howard Hughes "Hell's Angels"--a world apart from the grim, futile slaughterhouses of Verdun and the Marne. Among these combatants, you won't find much "All Quiet on the Western Front"–style despair, and the paths of glory are unsullied by doubt or disillusionment.
  14. The Dressmaker
    Unfortunately, The Dressmaker does not deliver on this early promise.
  15. Young Ones
    Young Ones is an old-fashioned, worthwhile curio down to the closing credits.
  16. Pushing Tin
    Pushing Tin pivots on our dubious fascination with professional erection duels, which are a sad substitute for dramatic conflict.
  17. Choke
    They explain and explain again the genesis of Victor's demons, to the point where the novel and movie play almost like parodies of novels and movies in which a character has to get in touch with his feelings in order to become a better man.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Novo
    Limosin's elliptical narrative, meant to correlate with his protagonist's blank-slate mind, instead plays as desultory and just plain confused.
  19. Home
    While Close's testimony is sufficiently terrifying, moving toward an apocalyptic vision of climate-change catastrophe, the urgency of her tone is belied by the placidity of the film's visuals.
  20. Cargo
    With the certainty of bad melodrama, Cargo moves gradually into superficial moral complexity, an inevitable display of heroics, and the perfunctory title card ensuring us that sex slavery is indeed a real-life problem.
  21. All In: The Poker Movie
    Instead of sustaining a significant cultural story, at almost two hours, All In feels like an energetic but overlong highlight reel.
  22. Kabbalah Me
    [A] sweetly odd documentary.
  23. Alumbrones
    Alumbrones's creators talk up their work's restorative value, but never go into great detail about the world beyond their canvases. Donnelly's vague, circuitous questioning is to blame.
  24. Where the Truth Lies
    This showbiz Rashomon has continuity, as well as credibility, problems.
  25. The Trouble with Men and Women
    The mostly unknown actors are charming, and while the story is formulaic, it never feels blatantly contrived.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Next Big Thing
    Posner's dishearteningly unsophisticated treatment itself rings false.
  27. The Shipping News
    In lieu of vaporous message-mongering, the languid, episodic narrative -- centering on hapless sadsack Quoyle (Spacey) -- streams along by the gentle force of a convincing melancholic undertow, a dejection and longing that's not so much surmounted as sustained.
  28. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    More mushy than mystical.
  29. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Pegged to the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War victory celebration, a fiesta that lasted nearly three times longer than the fighting itself.
  30. The Last Shot
    Planned inanity never gets mad mad mad mad enough.
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