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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Morgan
    In order for the trick of the film to work, however, one must hold Morgan to a standard that the movie is unlikely to live up to.
  2. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    The singer-actress has screen presence to spare and a nice, rich voice. By the time her young fans outgrow her -- or she them -- she should have an excellent chance at a second career. Making, you know, real movies and real music.
  3. The Strangers
    I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish.
  4. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    The movie suffers by taking itself a little too seriously. It's not just that it's a lot less funny than the book. It's also a lot less fun.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Haunted Mansion
    What should have been a light summer romp is rarely funny, never scary and a boring mess.
  6. Willow
    Producer-for-Life George Lucas puts his awesome creative machinery to work in Willow, a would-be adventure of little people, big people, good guys and bad. But the fantasy wheels grind to a halt, bogged down in Lucas' flat, derivative story, and not helped in the least by director Ron Howard's clumsy steering.
  7. Being Charlie
    There’s something admirable about the fact that Being Charlie exists at all. It’s a testament to Nick Reiner’s survival. That doesn’t mean it’s a great movie.
  8. One Crazy Summer
    What madcaps! [12 Aug 1986, p.C8]
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  9. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine.
  10. Bella
    A Mexican movie in which the outcome is never in doubt, the scenes are endless -- sorry, we meant poetic-- and the false beard on the central character's face looks as though it could use a little extra gum.
  11. Sgt. Bilko
    A definite improvement. However, whatever gains this adaptation makes are due entirely to the inspired goofiness of its star, Steve Martin, and not to anything that director Jonathan Lynn or screenwriter Andy Breckman may have contributed.
  12. Cote d'Azur
    A romper that doesn't shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez faire.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Accepted
    Take the cast of 1978's "Animal House" and 1984's "Revenge of the Nerds," toss them on a desert island, watch them breed and enroll their raucous, kvetching offspring at a college for rejects. A fluffy teen comedy, Accepted gets annoying fast.
  14. 3 Generations
    The cumulative effect is closer to a didactic after-school special for troubled parents.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    A hodgepodge in the raj -- a predictable patchwork of forbidden romance, English arrogance, a gun given as a gift, suicide, corruption, deception, rising Indian nationalism and a short-lived chase through the jungle.
  16. Josie and the Pussycats
    The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
  17. What Women Want
    Gibson and the overexposed Hunt don't exactly burn up the screen, not that it much matters. The charm isn't in the relationship, it's in Gibson's puckish appeal.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Guru
    A spirited rally in the final reel can't quite overcome the damage.
  19. Brother
    Bewildering, tediously violent.
  20. Chaplin
    It's a monumental biopic that cheapens the hero's successes by glossing over the failures that surely also shaped the man.
  21. In the Cut
    Although Ryan is cannily cast against type, she doesn't bring much more than muttery incoherence and nudity to the role.
  22. The Marsh King's Daughter
    The film’s execution isn’t entirely convincing. It’s not the actors’ fault.
  23. Sonic the Hedgehog
    In the end, “Sonic” is quippy without being mean, and sweet without being sappy, making this a trip that’s well worth taking.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Hotel de Love
    This is billed as a romantic comedy, but it's much more boring than funny.
  25. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    It may not be the most spellbinding of the prequels so far, but it does advance this saga in an entertaining, if less than fantastic way.
  26. Regarding Henry
    It would be cornier if it weren't so well acted by Nunn, Bening and 12-year-old Allen.
  27. A Good Year
    Falls as flat as a bottle of corked Bordeaux.
  28. RED 2
    The bigger surprise is just how clunky and unsatisfying this follow-up feels.
  29. The Whole Nine Yards
    This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect.
  30. Failure to Launch
    The movie is one of the best American films in months and months and the best comedy since I don't know when. It even makes you sorta kinda like Matthew McConaughey.
  31. Hotel
    An ambitious, experimental mess of a movie in search of something more profound.
  32. The Girl Next Door
    Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise.
  33. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    The aptly subtitled Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a blast of dead air and mummified humor.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    He's Just Not That Into You
    After more than two hours, what we're left with feels like a Robert Altman movie on Botox. It has some real substance and heft, but it also might be a bit too glossy.
  35. The Matrix Revolutions
    The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.
  36. In the Land of Women
    The movie refuses to descend into the cute smarminess of a mutual recovery drama, thanks to originally conceived characters. We're always wondering -- and wonderfully surprised -- by their choices.
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