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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Secret Garden
    The young actors are quite proficient and un-sappy too -- it's not their fault if they too often seem like chessmen being moved around on the director's board, composed into picturesque tableaux.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The History Boys
    Wildean panache of this caliber is not the norm in movie dialogue, so on this score alone, The History Boys is a blessing. The top-drawer work of a fine ensemble is another.
  3. Hercules
    The story behind Hercules, Walt Disney’s insipid, lifeless, animated feature, is hardly the stuff of children’s entertainment.
  4. A Mighty Heart
    A taut, meticulously crafted police procedural.
  5. Breakdown
    The movie's surrender to banality is all the more dispiriting because it gets off to such a good start.
  6. Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
    It is when Ivins herself opens her mouth that the film is at its best.
  7. Sir! No Sir!
    Like "Winter Soldier," Sir! No Sir! will surely reopen old wounds, as the Vietnam War -- like the Civil War 100 years before -- refuses to die. But hawks and doves alike should be grateful to Zeiger for preserving a fascinating piece of American cultural history.
  8. Dream Scenario
    Nicolas Cage goes delightfully, derangedly meta in Dream Scenario, a smart, dizzyingly entertaining horror-comedy that morphs into scathing social satire.
  9. Wild Nights with Emily
    “Wild Nights” largely sidesteps the worst tropes of biographical drama, but when it falls, it falls hard.
  10. Invictus
    Invictus, which features outstanding performances from both its lead actors, succeeds wonderfully on its simplest level, as a portrait of political genius.
  11. Herb & Dorothy
    You can't hate the film anymore than you can hate Herb and Dorothy. But this is lazy work.
  12. Big Hero 6
    It’s a movie that’s as fun to watch as it is funny. But the real appeal of Big Hero 6 isn’t its action. It’s the central character’s heart.
  13. Will & Harper
    At times a case study in How to Be an Ally, the film is accessible by intention. Yet it remains raw, vulnerable and joyful, even when things get messy, as it charts a road map to empathy and acceptance — the real destination that awaits at the end of their cross-country odyssey.
  14. Edward Scissorhands
    Tim Burton remains the Wizard of Odd with this eye-filling if problematic confection.
  15. Mommy
    The volatile, unbridled emotion of Mommy — its sheer life force — makes up for its structural weaknesses, giving viewers an often breathtaking glimpse of a director who, like his own adamantly unconventional protagonists, is fairly bursting at the seams with spiky, headstrong brio.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
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    Lee has kept the bones of McBain’s and Kurosawa’s versions, but he’s made his own movie, occasionally for worse but mostly for better.
  17. The Duchess of Langeais
    With its sophisticated psychology, its brilliant story structure and its riveting performances, The Duchess of Langeais feels very new, even if everything about it is old.
  18. The Golden Dream
    The movie has an unhurried pace, lulling the teens — and by extension the audience — into occasional complacency with the regular rhythms of each chugging train.
  19. Starlet
    The relationship is the best thing about the film, which otherwise feels hopelessly sad and tawdry.
  20. The Silent Partner
    Before it takes an appalling turn for the vicious, The Silent Partner seems an uncommonly clever and gripping suspense thriller. Even after the story threatens to self-destruct, you fight the impulse to suffer a major letdown, for the sake of the swell nerve-racking time you've been having up to that point.
  21. Two Lovers
    The movie's chief value is to preserve Phoenix at the height of his wary physical grace, which recalls a young Marlon Brando.
  22. Wag the Dog
    A blithely unfunny, low-budget comedy from director Barry Levinson.
  23. Sin City
    Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.
  24. My Country, My Country
    The movie attempts to paint too large a canvas.
  25. She Said
    She Said takes a story we thought we knew and gives it new, utterly shattering life.
  26. Such a Long Journey
    There's a refreshingly unusual spirit at work.
  27. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Documentary about rock history's biggest heavy metal band is -- variously -- serious, funny, frustrating and touching.
  28. Source Code
    A taut, mostly well-crafted race against the clock that combines the time-loop conceit of "Groundhog Day" and the postwar paranoia of "The Manchurian Candidate."
  29. Beast
    Beast sounds like a straightforward erotic mystery thriller, but that atmosphere is at times overshadowed by Pearce’s exploration of British classism, bullying and bigotry.
  30. Joe
    Nicolas Cage delivers what may his best, most nuanced performance yet in the gritty, hypnotic and deeply moving Joe.
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