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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 Fighting Temptations
    A soundtrack buried inside a sitcom.
  2. A Time to Kill
    In his screen version, Schumacher does a flamboyant job of staging the book without showing the slightest interest in what it's about. Granted, Grisham's original is no masterpiece; it's beach reading, but it deserves credit for addressing its subject with some conviction and integrity.
  3. 2010
    2010 is a one-man tour de fizzle, a yawnfest so plodding it seems to have been made by the famous monolith itself. [7 Dec 1984, p.D1]
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  4. The Dead Don't Die
    The absurdism wears gratingly thin in The Dead Don’t Die, whose deadpan tone gives way to tiresome, grindingly repetitive inertia.
  5. Shorts
    If parents feel like they've seen much of Shorts before, its celebration of mayhem and restless, thrill-seeking vibe will absorb young viewers, especially as the boredom of late summer begins to set in.
  6. Red Dawn
    Director John Milius, the barbarian behind Conan, co-wrote this anti-gun-control, anti- Communist, survivalist script with Kevin Reynolds. Sick and silly as it is, the idea could have been intriguing, had it gone anywhere, which it didn't.
  7. Music Within
    If it does nothing else, Music Within shows us how deeply Ron Livingston's amiable face can take us into a movie. But even likable mugs like his -- remember him in "Office Space"? -- need help from the movies around them.
  8. Sinister
    The hero of Sinister is almost unaccountably dumb. So, unfortunately, is the movie.
  9. The Tale of Despereaux
    As usual with these animated epics, much depends on the vocal performances, and it's a mixed bag.
  10. Alice in Wonderland
    Burton finely balances excess and restraint to create an absorbing, visually rich world of his very own.
  11. Munich: The Edge of War
    A mixture of well-researched historical fact and pure fiction, “Munich: The Edge of War” is a smart and entertaining thriller that suffers from just one thing: We all know how it ends.
  12. A Wrinkle in Time
    Even without every flaw completely ironed out, it offers values worth celebrating across the time-space continuum.
  13. Conan the Destroyer
    Proves a welcome improvement on the original Conan the Barbarian, finding a tone of lighthearted preposterousness more suitable to the absurd heroic dimensions of the pretext. [03 July 1984, p.D9]
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  14. The Beekeeper
    If the formulaic film ever finds its audience — and it’s all too clear that there’s a market for this kind of slickly produced, hindbrain pulp — the best that can be said for it is that the ending (devised by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer) is perfectly poised for The Beekeeper 2.
  15. The Big Year
    Somehow, the comic chemistry never seems to ignite in The Big Year.
  16. It Ends with Us
    It’s a film prone to tonal whiplash. Yet the script has made some sharp trims, scrapping a subplot about Ellen DeGeneres and eliminating some of Ryle’s most outlandish behavior.
  17. Book Club
    It has brio, rueful humor and celebratory verve that is nearly impossible to resist.
  18. Alpha Dog
    The movie suffers from an uncertain structure, but it boasts an extraordinary naturalism, not particularly flattering. Sharon Stone has a brilliant, harsh turn as Zack's mom, and both Bruce Willis and Harry Dean Stanton have good turns as the elder generations of Trueloves. But the movie belongs to its youngsters, and it's a real eye-opener.
  19. Next of Kin
    It is a middling gun play that asks and answers the persistent question: Whither testosterone?
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anemone
    This is a young filmmaker who so wants to make every shot freighted with import that he ends up robbing his film of importance.
  21. Mister Lonely
    What engages us is Korine's revolutionary way of telling stories. It's as though he's downloading his dreams directly onto the screen.
  22. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.
  23. George of the Jungle
    Brendan Fraser breathes loopy new life into the swinging '60s TV cartoon icon.
  24. Save the Last Dance
    Takes its cues from the musical dramas of the '70s, but this otherwise engaging young-adult romance never quite catches Saturday night fever.
  25. Ella Enchanted
    Good and entertaining fun.
  26. Rookie of the Year
    Rookie of the Year is a wholly benevolent but banal baseball fantasy aimed at Little Leaguers with dreams of reaching big-time fields.
  27. Big Business
    This classic comedy of errors is over-structured by cousin-writers Dori Pierson and Marc Rubel and mechanically laid out by director Jim Abrahams.
  28. The Blind Side
    Grounded in the direct, disarming truth of their experience, the movie has a straightforward lack of cheap sentiment that saves it from being either too maudlin or saccharine-sweet.
  29. Soul Surfer
    The swells of inspirational storytelling sometimes threaten to swamp the underlying inspirational story.
  30. Paradise Alley
    Stallone hasn't done himself proud in Paradise Alley. The film could still use a director, a scenario writer and someone to discourage the star from lapsing into happy-go-lucky imitations of Lee J. Cobb. Still, there's something likeable about this zany manipulator. [10 Nov 1978, p.E1]
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