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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 Slammin' Salmon
    Much of the film's humor hovers around crotch level. If jokes about mental illness, terminal disease and sex with orangutans sound funny to you, go for it.
  2. Creation
    Creation is fatally weakened by an excess of pathos; in a Darwinian universe, it would be quickly swallowed up by a leaner, fitter movie.
  3. The Crazies
    What's disappointing about The Crazies, though, is the lack of care that Eisner and screenwriters Scott Kosar and Ray Wright put into their film's atmosphere. There's little in the way of Romero-esque dread; Eisner substitutes a grim lack of humor and frequent splashes of gore.
  4. Brooklyn's Finest
    The misapprehension about Brooklyn's Finest -- which was first shown at Sundance last year and has been heavily edited since -- is that it's a movie about police. It isn't: It's a movie about movies about police.
  5. Mid-August Lunch
    It's tasty enough, and probably good for you, but at 73 minutes, the film is hardly a very filling entree.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    IMAX: Hubble 3D
    The daring mission by astronauts to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009 is the perfect subject for a brilliant, thrilling 3-D Imax movie. Such a movie, alas, has yet to be made.
  7. Die Another Day
    Beginning to creak not only with age but with the strain of constant self-one-upmanship in giving us exotic locales, explosive geopolitics and unbelievable stunts.
  8. Cradle Will Rock
    Cradle Will Rock is left in mid-rock, as it were, its energy squandered, its sense of history confused, its sound and fury ultimately signifying nothing.
  9. K-19: The Widowmaker
    Despite drawing from one of the most powerful and true stories from the Cold War, K-19 is only moderately moving.
  10. Gaza Strip
    Its one-sidedness flirts with propaganda.
  11. Tully
    It resides in that cinematic middle ground of not-bad, not-great, just okay.
  12. O
    Everything has been modernized except for the characters, and that's this movie's tragic flaw.
  13. Me You Them
    The story moves episodically, almost painstakingly.
  14. A Love Divided
    It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.
  15. Texas Rangers
    Maybe it's me, but I find it difficult to dislike any movie that has horses, guns and big hats in it.
  16. Comedian
    Despite amazing access to Seinfeld backstage, we don't get a peek into the real man.
  17. An American Rhapsody
    It's a case of the heart being in the right place, but the script getting in the way.
  18. Novocaine
    It's too bad the movie's intriguing effect wears off (so to speak) about two-thirds through.
  19. Flawless
    A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
  20. Shaft
    Shaft? Not in this splashy-but-empty remake he isn't.
  21. Romeo Must Die
    Based on "Romeo and Juliet" the way a martini is "based" on vermouth.
  22. Quitting
    If Quitting isn't worthy of affection exactly, it's worthy of respect.
  23. Showtime
    So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
  24. The Four Feathers
    The movie's deeper problem and its primary disappointment: its unwillingness to deal directly with the issue of colonialism.
  25. Cet amour-là
    There is one reason, and one reason alone, to watch Cet Amour-La. It is Jeanne Moreau.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Provides a fascinating glimpse of how the human spirit struggles.
    • Washington Post
  27. The Yards
    A great director's losing battle against a goofy script.
  28. Focus
    The topic certainly suits the times, but the director's approach is as alienating as it is old-fashioned.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Duets
    If scriptwriter Byrum hadn't tried to cram every possible theme into this film -- hoping, no doubt, they would all add up to greatness -- Duets would be an entertaining, wryly observed slice of Americana.
  30. An Affair of Love
    A bittersweet duet convincingly, if unexcitingly, performed by Baye and Lopez.
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