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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. Shock and Awe
    The director tries to infuse Shock and Awe with the taut procedural drama of “All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight” or “The Post.” But he winds up demonstrating just how difficult it is to make shoe-leather journalism entertaining, much less artful.
  2. The Time Traveler's Wife
    What makes The Time Traveler's Wife work as drama, though, and certainly better than it might have, is an unhesitating emotional commitment on the part of the actors (and Schwentke).
  3. Thunder and the House of Magic
    “Thunder” doesn’t boast a distinctive look or a cast of famous voices. But its characters are engaging and its action sequences exhilarating.
  4. Blade
    A vulgar attempt to revamp the undead genre by introducing computer-generated splatter and a casketful of themes from genetic tinkering to conspiracy theories.
  5. Practical Magic
    Director Griffin Dunne lacks a clear vision, torn between blithe spirits and brimstone, between madcap and macabre. But then what does it matter when there's so little magic on screen anyhow? That is unless you count making audiences disappear.
  6. The Prince and Me
    Silly? Contrived? Vapid? You bet. Put more simply, "The Prince & Me" is . . . cute.
  7. Man on Fire
    This movie is a predictable, gruesome piece of business.
  8. Flickering Lights
    As it stands, this movie seems to have conflicting desires: to endear itself to the audience and then repel it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sonic the Hedgehog 2
    There’s no denying that kids will delight in “Sonic 2’s” zany antics, explosive set pieces and commendable lessons. Older viewers should get a kick out of the punning dialogue and meta-humor, which wryly calls out homages to Batman, Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones.
  10. Silver City
    It tries unsuccessfully to make a wry gumshoe noir out of an overarching, cross-sectional political diagram.
  11. Herbie Fully Loaded
    Here, by its cooperation with the Disney factory, NASCAR says it's also warm 'n' cuddly, and that if you love your magic bug, it'll repay you with victory. Why does it allow itself to be co-opted by a story that diminishes the skills, experience and talent it takes to win?
  12. The Nun II
    It’s all so confusing. But reason is an obstacle to appreciating The Nun II. What you need, like Irene and Debra, is faith — in this case, in the power of pure nonsense.
  13. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    Wingard’s not a sentimentalist, and “Godzilla x Kong” stumbles whenever he tries to slap phony emotions onto the film to make it more like a generic crowd-pleaser.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Game of Their Lives
    It is flat-footed, uninspired and disjointed from start to finish, a glaring disservice to the men who played the game.
  15. The General's Daughter
    A prosaic, sexually perverse thriller masquerading as a critical look at military injustice.
  16. The Adventurers
    Hong Kong director Stephen Fung (“Tai Chi Hero”) is no John Woo, but he gives The Adventurers almost as much style as its larcenous characters exude.
  17. Heaven Is for Real
    Thanks to a sensitive performance from Kinnear, as well as from a terrific cast of supporting actors, what could have been merely a feel-good exercise in Eschatology Lite instead becomes a wholesome but also surprisingly tough-minded portrait of a man wrestling with his faith.
  18. The Giver
    In its own way, the movie version — handsomely directed by Phillip Noyce and featuring an appealing, sure-footed cast of emerging and veteran actors — aptly reflects The Giver’s pride of place as the one that started it all, or at least the latest wave.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ong Bak 2
    The hatchet-happy editor, ever-attentive to the transient attention span of the film's target audience, barely allows the hero time out from one virtuosic battle before he is flung in the face of a new enemy.
  20. Wyatt Earp
    Wyatt Earp, a bio-pic that lasts more than three hours and moves with the urgency of a grazing buffalo, lacks everything from a coherent dramatic structure to a clearly articulated point of view.
  21. Alice
    It’s a fantastic idea, but the execution is inconsistent. Alice, the movie, dares to go through the looking glass, but it doesn’t entirely know what to do once it gets there.
  22. The Alto Knights
    The speculative ending is actually the most intriguing thing about “The Alto Knights,” more interesting even than De Niro times two. And yet the film’s climax nevertheless fails to raise much of a heartbeat in this boglike slog through a momentous moment in murderous mob history.
  23. Blair Witch
    Blair Witch runs only eight minutes past the original, yet it feels about a half-hour longer. The new toys — especially the drone — allow for fresh situations, and there’s more blood and supernatural affliction than before. Mostly, though, the filmmakers just repeat familiar moves and expand established locations
  24. The Skeleton Key
    It's all ultimately made watchable by the exceptional cast ... and a story that, despite some unsavory racial undertones, holds the audience's interest even when it veers toward the downright silly.
  25. Hotel Transylvania
    Entertaining enough for the trick-or-treat crowd, but a bit more bite wouldn't kill it.
  26. Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages gets too mired in plotty cul de sacs, manufactured setbacks and numbers that are all staged as show-stoppers. In the words of the Journey song that serves as a climactic singalong, it goes on and on and on and on.
  27. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    A taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.
  28. Like Mike
    The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
  29. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
  30. U.S. Marshals
    By the time it winds down, U.S. Marshals has all but destroyed itself. It's gone pffft! in the night.
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