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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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    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Boss Baby: Family Business
    The movie’s most piercing barbs are left for the tech world and the inevitability that our phones will make zombies of us all. Does that make the Boss Baby franchise a bold cinematic bet? Not exactly. But as a safe play for parents and kids alike, it’s tough to complain about the return on your investment.
  2. Life as We Know It
    At nearly two hours, the movie feels bloated. It could easily lose 30 minutes, give or take, and live. It would still not, however, live up to its title.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Zaytoun
    Riklis isn’t heavy-handed here, and even when the film’s plot grows a little unlikely, its tone is never sappy.
  4. Queen of the Desert
    Though Kidman delivers a workmanlike performance, the story manages to be soppy and ploddingly dull, told via a screenplay that drives home the fact that it’s not really about momentous events, but momentous feelings.
  5. The Edge of Love
    That none of the protagonists earns the audience's sympathy is more likely a failure of the real-life characters rather than the actors, who deliver fine performances -- especially Rhys, who seems to be channeling Richard Burton channeling Dylan Thomas at his most manipulatively loutish.
  6. Provoked: A True Story
    Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tiny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors.
  7. Alvin and the Chipmunks
    Youngsters who love the shrieky singing and don't notice the tapioca of the story will probably get their money's worth. Parents: Bring earplugs.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Man of the Year
    A movie that can be smart-funny and astutely topical. But if what you're expecting is a start-to-finish laugh fest, beware: This picture takes some detours and never really figures out what kind of movie it wants to be.
  9. The Bodyguard
    The Bodyguard is a classic of show-business hubris, a wondrously trashy belly-flop, proving that no amount of glittering sets and star power can save a story that should have been buried with McQueen.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Here
    Ironically, it’s Zemeckis’s reluctance to embrace theatrical artifice over attempted photorealism that prevents “Here” from hitting as powerfully as it might.
  11. Backdraft
    A noisy, impenetrable and totally nonsensical cogitation on the nature of firefighters and the sizzling "animal" they love...We just wish somebody would call 911 for boredom.
  12. Dr. Giggles
    This Dr. Giggles has a lot of hearts and no brain.
  13. Never Back Down
    Sitting through this is groan-inducing enough, but it's spiritually depressing to watch Djimon Hounsou, who deserves better.
  14. The Sword and the Sorcerer
    The Sword and the Sorcerer is neither sharp nor magical. [07 Aug 1982, p.C2]
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  15. The Exorcist: Believer
    If The Exorcist: Believer is all about devotion to spiritual (or at least cinematic) faith, its failure to live up to the power of the first film, which made zealots of even the most cynical moviegoers, borders on sacrilege.
  16. Moonwalkers
    Neither Grint nor the hoax subplot are compelling enough to hold our attention. Perlman, on the other hand, is a commanding, if peripheral, presence, diverting the focus of the film from silly historical speculation to the tale of a damaged psyche.
  17. Dot the I
    Indeed it looks as if this otherwise straight-to-video endeavor, which was made in 2003, is being released only to cash in on Bernal's of-the-moment-ness in Hollywood.
  18. The Wraith
    The Wraith is essentially a wall-to-wall car chase that writer/director Mike Marvin attempts to enliven with TV commercial visuals, tough-guy dialogue and modestly inventive casting.
  19. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Mediocre, unmemorable comedy.
  20. UglyDolls
    Yes, UglyDolls is a musical, and the peppy songs, while devoid of any subtlety, help tell the story, and are delivered with sincerity. Such ditties as Clarkson’s “Broken and Beautiful” celebrate body positivity and self-acceptance.
  21. City Heat
    Don't blame the fellas. They're good when they're together, but that doesn't happen nearly often enough in this sporadically amusing script. [07 Dec 1984, p.39]
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  22. Virtuosity
    Even with its cyberspace connection, the story comes across as flat and tired, merely a pretext for the filmmakers' occasionally dazzling but ultimately numbing special effects. The world of Virtuosity may be spanking new, but the ideas are yesterday's news.
  23. The Kissing Booth 2
    If The Kissing Booth 2 is watchable, viewers have Elle to thank; King remains the strongest component of a now-franchise that, quite frankly, might be beneath her.
  24. As Above, So Below
    As Above, So Below is inherently absurd, but it would be somewhat less so had it fully committed to just one of its ridiculous premises.
  25. The Gunman
    The Gunman may start as a genre exercise of promising purpose, but it winds up being just a lot of bull.
  26. Daddy Day Care
    An easy-on-the-sensibilities family film, Eddie Murphy practically assumes the easygoing manner of Mister Rogers, a character he used to wickedly lampoon on "Saturday Night Live."
  27. World Traveler
    Anemic, pretentious.
  28. When Will I Be Loved
    It's trivial and narcissistic and ultimately rather sordid.
  29. In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    This is for the pre-converted, certainly not the left, or even those who consider themselves detached observers.
  30. Big Stone Gap
    Big Stone Gap suffers from some hokey moments, including an ending that’s both implausible and too heavy on the sap.
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