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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 Bronze
    The Bronze is just another movie about overcoming arrested development. It’s not as funny as it tries to be, but, for a few, fleeting minutes, it leaves an impression.
  2. One Last Thing...
    The mawkishness is ultimately too formidable.
  3. Bloodshot
    The movie is presented as the story of a man who hasn’t figured out who he is yet. But that’s not quite right. Instead, it’s a movie that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be when it grows up.
  4. Raw Deal
    A mostly tedious, cheaply made shoot-'em-up from the always classy Dino De Laurentiis. [07 June 1986, p.D5]
    • Washington Post
  5. Jobs
    The film is so thick with Jobs’s career highlights and lowlights that there’s little room for insights.
  6. The Libertine
    It doesn't help matters that The Libertine seems to unload every olde English cliche on file.
  7. The Losers
    The first dumb-fun action movie of the summer season has arrived early with The Losers, a loud, loving homage to guns and testosterone based on a series of comic books about a renegade band of CIA operatives. How dumb is it? You might actually kill a few million brain cells just watching it.
  8. Southland Tales
    May be ambitious in its genre-defying abandon, sideswiping science fiction, satire, film noir and melodrama along the way, but it's also exasperatingly convoluted, self-amused and politically sophomoric.
  9. Ernest Saves Christmas
    It doesn't take extra-sensory perspiration, as Ernest would say, to realize this undertaking is dumber than jaywalking at the Indy 500.
  10. Superman III
    Every composite shot in Superman III appears to be a careless affront to the willing suspension of disbelief. The flying sequences are a letdown, the cataclysms are a cheat, and even the settings are often exposed as a chintzy hoot. [17 June 1983, p.C1]
    • Washington Post
  11. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to.
  12. America's Sweethearts
    The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up.
  13. Killer Elite
    I've got another portmanteau word for the movie: unbelievaballistic.
  14. Dudley Do-Right
    Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
  15. Something to Cheer About
    This is a modest documentary, actually made in 2002 but only now gaining national release, which celebrates Attucks and that particular team, but most important Coach Crowe, by all accounts a remarkable man.
  16. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
    The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is hampered by a static structure that relies too heavily on a single voice.
  17. Firehouse Dog
    Firehouse Dog goes into the marginally watchable category, aimed as it is toward the middlebrow family trade, preferably dog owners with their own Sparky slopping up the station wagon windows.
  18. Racing Stripes
    Although this film about a zebra who aspires to win horse races has a marvelous premise, it slows to a mediocre canter right out of the starting gate.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eagle Eye
    A sometimes entertaining flick that makes a lot of noise but doesn't have much to say.
  20. Palmetto
    Palmetto, directed by the German genius Schlondorff, who memorably brought "The Tin Drum" to the screen, somehow never quite finds the right line through the materials.
  21. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Wanted isn't quite the real Slim Shady of hip-hop comedies. But you might lose yourself in a few of its amusing moments.
  22. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    It’s not a bad movie. It’s like several pretty good ones.
  23. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    Slickers II is grounds for a stampede -- away from the theater.
  24. Larger Than Life
    The elephant, whose last film was Operation Dumbo Drop, steals the three-ring circus with its charming personality and an amazing 50-command repertoire.
  25. Backwards
    The biggest problem, then, is the characters who populate the film. For the most part, they're one-dimensional caricatures.
  26. Step Up Revolution
    Considering the clichd storyline and lackluster acting, maybe it's South Beach that deserves top billing on the "Revolution" poster.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Call + Response
    The result doesn't really work. The music videos don't seem connected to anything, and there's not nearly enough about the actual victims of the trade. But it's a documentary with its heart and its outrage in the right place.
  28. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
    "Star Trek V" is a shambles, a space plodessy, a snoozola of astronomic proportions. The story is uneventful, the effects warmed over from "Star Wars."
  29. San Andreas
    The dialogue in San Andreas is lame, its plot both predictable and implausible, and the character development beside the point. Even Dwayne Johnson, that force of cinematic nature and rock-ribbed charisma, doesn’t have enough charm to dig this mess of a movie out of the rubble of cliche it’s buried in.
  30. American Pastoral
    American Pastoral may tell the heartbreaking story of Swede Levov, but a firm grasp of who he is and what he means remains maddeningly elusive.
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