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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. Immortals
    The movie's self-importance is further inflated by the usual pseudo-Wagnerian score and occasional narration by John Hurt.
  2. Tank Girl
    A lifeless pop vision of the future that tries too self-consciously to be irreverent, hip and cutting edge.
  3. Mirror Mirror
    As Snow White, actress Lily Collins is a washout.
  4. Festival in Cannes
    The only reason to watch this movie is for stargazing, nice shots of the sea and to revel in a world where false promises, lies and empty posturing are actively encouraged.
  5. Breakin' All the Rules
    A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters.
  6. Beyond the Sea
    This vainglorious biopic about Bobby Darin is really about what the '60s pop singer and actor means to Kevin Spacey.
  7. The Ringer
    More than predictable. It plods along with the inevitability of a doomed soldier going off to war.
  8. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    As Balthazar, Cage doesn't disappoint. He's just manic enough to keep the character from becoming too predictable.
  9. Beaches
    Whatever its failings, Beaches speaks to women. It makes girlfriends think of calling girlfriends they haven't seen in 10, 20, 30 years. You can live without love, but "you've got to have friends," as Midler sings.
  10. Ravenous
    The film is one of those accursed self-styled "outrageous" comedies that play the horrific for broad laughs, with a comically inflated style of dialogue that's so hip one doubts it could have been conceived before 1997, much less 1847.
  11. Johnny English Reborn
    I spent most of Johnny English wondering whom the filmmakers were targeting. While childish and silly, it's far too violent for young kids.
  12. Kafka
    Perhaps Steven Soderbergh's metamorphosis from clever Cajun auteur ("sex, lies, and videotape") to heavy-duty Eastern European angst-master has been altogether too successful. Like authentic Soviet Bloc cinema, Kafka makes its audience suffer along with its heroes.
  13. Next Day Air
    I wished Next Day Air were funnier. In the end, it's a fitfully amusing, sloppy comedy that doesn't work very hard for your 10 bucks.
  14. You, Me and Dupree
    Artistically, You, Me and Dupree is a mess. Technically, it's an abomination. Spiritually, it's a void. Commercially, it'll probably be a big hit.
  15. Rebecca
    Rebecca is nice to look at, inoffensive, competently executed and utterly unnecessary when once, it was so much more.
  16. Tommy Boy
    Some of it is funny -- particularly the physical comedy. Most of it is not.
  17. Manderlay
    Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Airheads
    This film manages to have the feel of an original -- and very effective -- piece of comedy. In part this is due to the delicate touch of director Michael Lehmann ("Heathers"), who never allows the film to slip into a silly mode.
  19. Book Club: The Next Chapter
    Even amid the corny jokes, awkward segues, forced conflicts and predictable resolutions, Bergen and Giannini manage to develop a low-simmer chemistry between the insults.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hackers
    Separates the tech-savvy boys from the lost-in-cyberspace men. Really--the movie may be too fast and confusingly jargon-choked for everyone but Netsurfers and Webheads.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honey Don't!
    The film is spiked with moments of gleeful violence, but Coen and Cooke understand that the primal reason we go to the movies is to look at beautiful people in nice clothes, and on that score ‘Honey Don’t!” is a rousing success. On every other score, it’s a short, shambling, surprisingly horny mess — amusing if you’re in an indulgent mood, obnoxious if you’re not.
  22. Beverly Hills Cop II
    Aside from the plot -- and if you can figure out the plot, the CIA's special projects unit wants to talk to you -- Cop II is a rarity: a sequel that's as good as the original, if not better.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    The new film is professionally made, well-acted, entertaining enough, and possessed of no earthly reason to exist aside from the care and feeding of intellectual property.
  24. Reminiscence
    “Reminiscence” has all the ingredients for electrifying summer entertainment. But despite its considerable star power and impressive set pieces, the sprawling meditation on memory is simply an attractive mess.
  25. The Deal
    If Slater were a bigger star, this self-serving vehicle would have been a hoot, a surefire DVD attraction for any Camp Night in the living room, not to mention a shoo-in for one of the 10 worst movies of 2005.
  26. She's Out of My League
    There are only two really good jokes -- or two really gross ones, depending on your sensibility -- in She's Out of My League. Both of them are stolen.
  27. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is as visually imaginative as its predecessor.
  28. How Do You Know
    It's the kind of movie that succeeds as a culmination of moments that ring true and sweet.
  29. King Arthur
    By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grumpier Old Men
    Despite his occasional witticisms, the old grump is no great catch, and neither is this movie.
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