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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. Dark Phoenix
    If a movie can be said to suffer from low-grade depression, this one certainly seems to be, shuffling in its socks and bathrobe through a not-quite-two-hour running time with an attitude that is closer to grudging obligation than enthusiastic commitment.
  2. A Dog's Purpose
    The purpose of A Dog’s Purpose isn’t to solve philosophical riddles but to warm the cockles of dog lovers’ hearts. That, it does — as well as a wet kiss from a slobbery tongue can.
  3. Miss Congeniality
    The jokes are lame, the set-up is stupid and Bullock, occasionally a winsome comedienne and here a co-producer, is annoying as heck.
  4. The Grace Card
    Powerful lead performances and the filmmaker's noble attempt at holding a magnifying glass over the Deep South's still-contentious race relations help The Grace Card edge closer to the realm of mainstream entertainment. It's not just a dry sermon in feature-length form.
  5. Brooklyn's Finest
    The misapprehension about Brooklyn's Finest -- which was first shown at Sundance last year and has been heavily edited since -- is that it's a movie about police. It isn't: It's a movie about movies about police.
  6. M. Butterfly
    David Cronenberg's film version of David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning play, is no more successful in solving it than any other versions of this fantastic tale have been.... "The Crying Game" it's not. [09 Oct 1993]
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  7. Glass
    Warning: If you have seen neither “Unbreakable” nor “Split,” you may be utterly and irredeemably lost. Shyamalan cares not a whit about — and is probably incapable of making — a stand-alone film that will appeal to a general audience. This one is for the die-hards.
  8. The Peacemaker
    Between them, Clooney and Kidman would still need a third party to work up a personality. In fairness to both, they aren't given much to work with.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Feast
    What's the difference between Feast and, say, "Alien" or "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," all of which share the same plot? Patience. Feast lacks it.
  10. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    In a summer of surprisingly self-serious comic book movies" Lara Croft "stands out as being particularly humorless.
  11. The Final Cut
    Cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller.
  12. Recess: School's Out
    The movie's great fun, particularly for kids used to that satirically hard-edged kind of kid show.
  13. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    There's not enough story in it to fill a shoebox.
  14. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
    In short, Carrey's got nothing to bounce all that energy off of, not even a solid story line.
  15. The Art of Racing in the Rain
    The movie has its flaws. Still, for anyone with a soft spot for the mute gaze of man’s best friend, it’s hard not to shed a tear — or two — during The Art of Racing in the Rain.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You Gotta Believe
    You Gotta Believe is an entry in the “heartwarming true story” genre, Little League subdivision, and it isn’t bad so much as resolutely average.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Anaconda
    This “Anaconda” never stops winking. Its juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
  18. Flipper
    An unimaginative boy-and-his-mammal saga with only tenuous connection to the old television series of the same name.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Cruising
    Technically the movie is flawless. One scene in Central Park, when Pacino confronts the murder suspect on a deserted rain-slicked path, is haunting and beautfully photographed. But that's hardly a reason to sit through the rest of this wretched film. [22 Feb 1980, p.19]
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  20. Donkey Punch
    Donkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously.
  21. D.E.B.S.
    A hideously unfunny spy spoof with pretensions to social satire in its treatment of a lesbian relationship.
  22. Office Christmas Party
    The film’s success is due to the twinkly commitment of the large and talented cast.
  23. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
    The movie, in short, rides on a revenge plot and a beauty-and-the-beast subplot, and there's some nice photography and production design; screen writer L.M. Kit Carson lends some Texas texture and funny lines. But mostly, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is straight blood and guts. [23 Aug 1986, p.D11]
    • Washington Post
  24. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The books-trump-movies camp knows where this is headed: The film version - contains two characters and one narrative too many.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unfrosted
    Unfrosted may be the Platonic ideal of the Netflix movie: ephemeral, edible, enjoyable, forgettable.
  26. The Lovely Bones
    It leaves audiences in a limbo every bit as torturous as the one the protagonist is in.
  27. G
    For anyone to enjoy this starchy, contrived exercise in vanity and product placement, it's best not to have read the book. In fact, it's best not to have read ANY book.
  28. My Father the Hero
    Most of the humor is sophisticated slapstick, which Depardieu mastered in the hilarious trio of Francis Veber comedies he did with Pierre Richard in the '80s.
  29. Bones
    Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like "Hellraiser," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Evil Dead."
  30. The Big Bounce
    An insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.
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