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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. Run All Night
    Despite some cool camera work and the kind of noir-lite moral ambiguity that barely gets your shoes dirty (courtesy of a shallow script by Brad “Out of the Furnace” Ingelsby), the movie is the cinematic equivalent of junk food. It satisfies the craving for the sensation of nihilism, without its substance.
  2. The Black Cauldron
    Technically brilliant though short on narrative, The Black Cauldron is a painless, old-fashioned way to take out the kids, and a triumph for the animation department at the Disney studio, where it has been in development for almost a dozen years.
  3. We Own the Night
    Phoenix is an arresting presence on screen, but don't expect any "Departed"-esque fast talk from Wahlberg, who is oddly inert in a role that should crackle with brotherly ambivalence.
  4. I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
    A profoundly disturbing -- and depressing -- look at the New Anti-Semitism of the post-9/11 world. Produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the film is remarkably restrained, given the outrages it documents.
  5. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    The animation is first-rate...But the story needs to catch up to the magic. Otherwise, what's the point?
  6. Intact
    Consistently absorbing -- thanks in large part to strong performances from the actors -- but not particularly rewarding.
  7. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    With its outrageous double-entendre, gonzo performances and appalling lack of restraint, the sequel is more than a guilty pleasure.
  8. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (re-release)
    Is it scintillating, nutty, madly inspired or ecstatically preposterous? Ginsberg himself is all these things, but this movie is not. (Review of Original Release)
  9. Nico and Dani
    Touching, funny, unflinching and true.
  10. Signs
    Even though he shows some master touches throughout the movie, Shyamalan flits a little too lightly across the surface, like a pond skater.
  11. Bridget Jones's Baby
    Even considering its optimistic, open-ended conclusion, Bridget Jones’s Baby feels like an affectionate, slightly overdue goodbye to characters whose time has inevitably passed.
  12. Elvis & Nixon
    Elvis & Nixon makes for a diverting, often absurdly funny double portrait of two men engulfed by changes they can’t fathom, much less accept.
  13. Legally Blonde
    Really nothing more than "Clueless" redux but without the edgy, knowing wit.
  14. The Final Girls
    Simultaneously violent and droll, The Final Girls is a way to have your blood-soaked cake and eat it, too.
  15. Cars 3
    There isn’t quite as much pep to the film’s narrative engine on this trip.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Moonlight Mile
    It's a combination of good story, nice moments and appealing texture.
  17. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    The movie turns what was once antic into something closer to manic. With a throwaway plot and a parade of weird characters, the comedy tries to be bigger, bolder and more outrageous than the television series, but it ends up being a lot less funny.
  18. Savages
    Savages is a B-movie striving for an A-plus, a decadently energetic summer escape with bloody action, bold visuals and bodacious attitude to burn.
  19. Roll Bounce
    The film can't get its rhythms right, fluctuating wildly between comedy and pathos.
  20. Together
    Even at its most glancing and superficial, Together offers a diverting attempt at capturing recent history, in all its maddening contradictions and compromises, recriminations and rages. It reflects a time when all we had was each other, for better or — way too often — for worse.
  21. Molière
    An extravagant and thoroughly irresistible story of intrigue, romance, comedy and artistic inspiration.
  22. Mission: Impossible
    Humorless, charmless and flat.
  23. Independence Day
    An overgrown hybrid of disaster epic, can-do combat adventure and '50s sci-fi movie, this craft has visited our world many times before. And while she's a beaut, the sticker on her titanium bumper reads: "Been There, Done That, Beam Me Up, Scotty."
  24. Sliding Doors
    Sliding Doors is frothy stuff, far more complicated in structure than in content.
  25. Confidence
    It's great to watch the cat-and-mouse of it all -- even when the movie might not be firing on all points.
  26. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    Modest and winning.
  27. Dawn of the Dead
    The movie has many of the elements that made the first "Dawn" so darkly entertaining.
  28. Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
    But by far the most powerful element is N'Dour's lone voice, a thing of high, pure beauty that feels at once ancient and new. When he sings, an otherwise earnestly conventional film becomes a vehicle of incantatory power.
  29. My Zoe
    My Zoe is well acted and well filmed, yes, but the storytelling, in which Delpy stitches together mismatched parts like a Dr. Frankenstein, is its weak suit.
  30. Limitless
    A heck of a ride. On the way to its unpredictable (if less than wholly satisfying) conclusion, it is entertaining, a little silly and visually dazzling.
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