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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. Empire of Silver
    The movie is occasionally muddled and always melodramatic, yet it's pictorially compelling, thanks to dramatic locations and exacting art direction.
  2. Is Anybody There?
    Caine is magnificent, and the film is worth a look for his contribution alone. But Milner is a promising actor, too, and the pairing of young and old is believable and occasionally very moving.
  3. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    An exercise in vanity, indulgence and a startling degree of shallowness.
  4. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.
  5. Deep Blue Sea
    You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. It’s no contest.
  6. Cézanne et Moi
    It’s a touching evocation of friendship, brotherly competition and artistic courage at the cusp of a new century.
  7. Snow Cake
    Never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to.
  8. The Green Butchers
    It's the sick humor that's most appealing about this odd little Danish film.
  9. Imagine That
    It's refreshing that in effects-happy Hollywood, Evan and Olivia only imagine their travels, rather than run a gantlet of computerized hallucinations. This may turn out to be one of the more endearing aspects of Imagine That to its younger audiences.
  10. Puncture
    When all is said and done, Mike proves to be not only peripheral to the main thrust of the movie, but a drag on its momentum.
  11. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The unevenness of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Stiller’s recessive characterization of the title character, keep it from being an all-out crowd-pleaser.
  12. Marie's Story
    The movie by Jean-Pierre Améris milks the tears in the home stretch, making little effort to hold the melodrama at bay. The result is a story that everyone can feel great about feeling terrible about.
  13. Charlie Bartlett
    The movie feels forced, cliched and derivative.
  14. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    The movie is gross but not unfunny as it covers the Zohan's rise through hair culture, aided by his steamy heterosexuality, his lack of inhibition and his stereotypical career aggressiveness, until the old ladies are lined up all the way to the Bronx for a few minutes of bliss in the Zohan's chair.
  15. The Hunting Party
    Truth be told, none of it is actual living, and all of it is secondhand re-spinning of such better movies as "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Welcome to Sarajevo." To use an antiquated newsman's cliche: Get me rewrite.
  16. Bee Season
    Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose visual schemes lent a hypnotic aura to their previous collaborations -- "The Deep End" and "Suture" -- don't find the right balance of story and image this time.
  17. Mood Indigo
    The sense, in the first half of the film, that love and contentment are attainable dreams slowly gives way to the more existential notion that happiness is really just a fairy tale.
  18. Life
    Life has cool effects, real suspense and a sweet twist. It ain’t rocket science, but it does what it does well — even, one might say, with a kind of genius.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Simple Favor
    To paraphrase the T-shirt, everyone here went to the Isle of Capri, and all we got was this lousy movie.
  20. Thor: The Dark World
    Hiddleston steals the show here, making wickedness and treachery look a heck of a lot more fun than virtue.
  21. Beast
    The jump scares are genuinely jumpy, but the film plays out more like a theme park ride than a family drama with teeth. It’s pulse-pounding, in other words, from a cardiac perspective, but not especially engaging as a narrative, despite the earnest efforts of the cast to breathe life into a personal story arc that feels pasted onto another one.
  22. Stuart Saves His Family
    There's a genuinely tragic side to Stuart's character, and for the movie to work the filmmakers have to keep it in balance with the comedy so that the pathos of his life doesn't kill all the laughs. But Ramis can't keep the movie's tone under control, and, as a result, it teeters precariously between farce and wake.
  23. Lonesome Jim
    The script is adroit: It doesn't force the humor, and it steadily keeps track of Jim's growing maturity.
  24. The Last Stand
    That's the thing about this corpse pileup of an action movie. It persistently tries to drag the audience down to its mindless level.
  25. Thanks for Sharing
    It’s surprisingly wise, funny and affecting, thanks in part to a sensitive script, and in part to a strong ensemble cast.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Substance of Fire
    The whole thing plays like some dreadful masochistic, self-pity fantasy.
  27. Groove
    The best thing about this movie? It's short.
  28. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  29. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    Presents an America that is as much about the pathological display of imperial power -- a showmanship of arrogance and violence -- as policy.
  30. God of War
    As the wily leader of the Japanese forces, grizzled Kurata Yasuaki has more presence than Zhao, who’s bland in non-action sequences. But Zhao’s ability to deliver dialogue is less crucial than his skill at leading hundreds of extras through elegantly choreographed, sumptuously photographed chaos.
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