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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 5.3 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. The Good Boss
    Despite some quality craftsmanship, “The Good Boss” ultimately doesn’t pay off. Capitalism should be more fun than this.
  2. Panic Room
    The movie, which suggests a combination of "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window," not only takes your breath away on an aesthetic level, it eloquently evokes the mother's and daughter's vulnerability.
  3. Take Me to the River
    The menace never becomes palpable, whether because of illogical plot lines or questionable casting. The stakes are so high, but the suspense never rises to the occasion.
  4. Bad News Bears
    You don't watch Bad News Bears for the action out on the diamond. You hang out with that hangdog coach so you can catch every slurry, sour-mouthed retort coming out of his mouth.
  5. High-Rise
    The overly schematic nature of High-Rise does not entirely diminish its pleasures as a story, which include, in addition to Wheatley’s richly lurid visual sensibility, an effective metaphorical tool in Laing.
  6. Young Sherlock Holmes
    Young Sherlock Holmes delivers all the ingredients that Spielberg addicts relish: action, effects, a cute fat kid, a pretty girl and a hero who's good with swords. But, like a room at a Holiday Inn, there are no surprises. [6 Dec 1985, p.33]
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  7. The Living End
    Crudely made and in your face, The Living End is mostly annoying.
  8. Timecode
    A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
  9. Good Night Oppy
    NASA aficionados and connoisseurs of space exploration are the groups most likely to get a kick out of Good Night Oppy, a warmly charming, if far from essential, documentary that takes a look back at the robotic Martian rover Opportunity.
  10. Hockney
    The documentary Hockney presents such an immersive portrait of its subject — artist David Hockney — that by the end of the film it feels like we are looking at the world through his eyes.
  11. Mortal Thoughts
    The moviemakers have set out to interpret the inner workings of abusive relationships in their boundless variety. Alas, their ambitions are far grander than their abilities.
  12. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass might be the strangest film I've seen all year. Maybe all millennium. Is it any good? Quite frankly, I have no idea.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twisters
    Twisters isn’t art and doesn’t want to be. Like “Twister,” it’ll never be held up as a classic but will instead be reliably watched for the next 28 years until someone gives us “Twister 3: Maximum Vorticity.”
  14. Strange World
    Maybe Strange World only seems to falter because it can’t handle the weight of its own expectations. Nah. It’s just not very good.
  15. Dan in Real Life
    Filmgoers haven't seen a family this neurotically enmeshed since the last Diane Keaton movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Get Him to the Greek
    Unlike its forebears, "Greek" lacks a truly sympathetic central character to hold things together when it's time to get sappy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls
    Offers cleverness and charm that are hard to come by in the summertime multiplex.
  18. The Art of Self-Defense
    At times, the movie struggles to maintain the critical balance between detachment from and engagement with the thing it’s making fun of.
  19. Saving Face
    A sweet, true and, at times, universal love story it is.
  20. Cadillac Records
    It's a rousing, fast-paced tale, told with a modicum of verve and packed with colorfully flawed, occasionally heroic and even tragic characters. It also feels disappointingly bloated and too fast-paced by half.
  21. Ali
    Watching Ali, you can be sure of experiencing two opposing things: a sterling performance from Will Smith as Muhammad Ali and a bewilderingly punch-drunk movie from Michael Mann.
  22. Twelve and Holding
    Follows the youngsters over the course of a tumultuous year, during which time Cuesta and screenwriter Anthony Cipriano succeed in making the audience care desperately whether they're okay and whether the adults in their lives do the right thing. The lingering question is why that should be so improbable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crooklyn
    Modulating from heavy to light, from angry to lyrical, and so on, the movie's an enjoyable, emotional symphony.
  24. The Jungle Book
    Although it has beguiling and funny interludes, The Jungle Book lacks the narrative suspense and excitement that propel the best of the Disney animated features from the pioneering Snow White and Pinnochio to last year's The Rescuers. It seems to reflect the Disney tradition in repose, still expert and pleasing but also a trifle stuffy. [29 June 1978, p.B7]
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  25. The Transfiguration
    O’Shea follows his twisted premise to its inexorable conclusion, so his film is ultimately more unnerving than sad.
  26. Alice, Darling
    Alice, Darling deserves praise for emotional verisimilitude and shading. It’s just a shame that, in some of its packaging, it oversells a story worth hearing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Drop
    Drop is the sort of unpretentious suspense exercise that takes a single absurd premise and works every variation it can within a streamlined 100 minutes. Your brain is not required, but a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is the price of admission.
  28. The Good Nurse
    Redmayne ultimately fails to crack the secret of what made this man — er, this monster — tick. But that’s not really the biggest mystery that hangs over “Nurse.” Rather, it is the question of why all these power players thought something this slight, this weightless, this forgettable was ever worth their time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magazine Dreams
    The movie stands as a statement of a gifted, troubled actor’s intense commitment to his craft. Beyond that, it is a punishment.
  30. Clerks II
    Clerks II finds Smith up to the profane, raunchy, profoundly humanist mischief of which he alone is the master. This is a lewd, lascivious, exhilaratingly life-affirming celebration of misfits and the misfits who love them.
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