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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. Spider-Man 3
    An overlong, visually incoherent, mean-spirited and often just plain awful Spider-Man 3.
  2. Mission: Impossible II
    Such a feast of outlandish pleasures it'll send you home steam-cleaned and shrink-wrapped.
  3. Mom and Dad
    Despite a glorious performance by Nicolas Cage as a vicious father, this vivid satire of a world turned upside down is marred by writer-director Brian Taylor’s sloppy filmmaking.
  4. Unbroken
    Unbroken may not exactly be mired in sanctimony, but it’s standing, almost up to its ankles, in an unhealthy sense that its subject — about whose simple humanity the film otherwise goes to great lengths to illuminate — is a candidate for sainthood.
  5. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    Most important, the film has a terrific supporting character in St. Marie herself, portrayed by the real Canadian island of Harrington Harbour (pop. 300).
  6. The Living Daylights
    007's latest, The Living Daylights, a snazzy spy thriller, is all the more alluring for its new conservatism. It's right up there with the early Bonds, though not in the league with Goldfinger. But oh, what a difference.
  7. The Shallows
    Is The Shallows a thriller for the ages? No, but it’s decent popcorn fare. It’s about as deep as the titular lagoon on which it’s set, but the breakers promise a short and heart-pounding ride, with no wipeout.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Experiment
    The film's hysterically pitched action overshadows its more subtle psychological points.
  9. Waking the Dead
    This wonderfully acted romance brings the touching fantasy "Truly, Madly, Deeply" to mind.
  10. A Home at the End of the World
    The film's first half is easily the best and brightest. As the movie moves into the more saddening sections, however, it loses most of its power.
  11. The Best Man Holiday
    You don’t go to The Best Man Holiday to deconstruct its flaws. You go for its myriad, adamantly un-cerebral pleasures.
  12. Copying Beethoven
    The movie is completely beguiling, and it delivers joy, the beautiful spark of the gods.
  13. Outlaw King
    This tedious slog through the highland muck should win no Oscars, only groans and raspberries. Even the much-buzzed-about glimpse of a nude Pine, as his character emerges from a lake, doesn’t make this worth watching.
  14. Better Than Chocolate
    You'd think indie filmmakers would have learned by now that people tend to put on a sober face when addressed from the pulpit.
  15. I Smile Back
    Although the plot is painfully familiar — and not particularly edifying, compared with similar narratives that have gone before — the novelty here is Silverman, who doesn’t exactly erase her comic persona so much as bring to the surface an inherent darkness that has always lurked in the shadows.
  16. Tower Heist
    An improbably satisfying action comedy.
  17. Untamed Heart
    The romantic fable Untamed Heart is hopelessly syrupy, preposterous and more than a little bit lame, but, still, somehow it got to me.
  18. Sarah's Key
    A movingly told tale of tragedy and its consequences, not just for the players in the original tragedy but also for those touched by their actions, in an ever-widening circle of aftershocks.
  19. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    Jackson’s storytelling at this point is so driven by green-screen trickery and digital legerdemain that he seems to have forgotten about human emotion.
  20. The Silent Twins
    The Silent Twins doesn’t try to explain its protagonists’ affliction, but the movie does express its crushing sadness.
  21. Don't Move
    A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant.
  22. Army of Darkness
    Few American directors would dare to show as much over-the-top glee in their chosen craft as Sam Raimi does in Army of Darkness. [19 Feb 1993, Style, p.c7]
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  23. All Is True
    An intriguing speculative drama.
  24. Winter Solstice
    Sternfeld has created a garden on film that opens up its blooms for us, not in the dark of the movie house, but long after we've left the theater.
  25. Anywhere But Here
    So closely observed, so funny and so true to the junk that is everybody's real--as opposed to movie--life that it comes to feel like some kind of a miracle.
  26. Happenstance
    Utterly delightful fable of romantic destiny.
  27. The First Wives Club
    For all their sass, brass and bewitchery, the starring troika can't breathe life into these characters, much less transform them from women scorned into hellbent furies.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    My Afternoons with Margueritte
    It is a predictable, undernourished love story. We never quite learn why Margueritte feels so close to Germain or why he bothers with her. Characters appear and disappear, without much difference.
  29. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Kids will chuckle, for sure. But parents who were pleasantly surprised by the original film’s intelligence will miss Lord and Miller’s guiding hands, as what once felt so funny now leaves a stale taste.
  30. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    If there's such a thing as freedom for everyone, Rory's determined to give the prospect its most grueling road test.
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