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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Class Action
    Its squandering of talent makes Class Action a film that deserves to be disbarred, not reviewed. [15 Mar 1991]
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  2. Footloose
    This remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jason Bourne
    It exists for no other reason than that people like Matt Damon, they like him as this character, and the producers know audiences are willing to see more of him.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Liza
    Does have the enclosed, slightly overheated feel of a family theatrical.
  5. Kansas City
    Although there's nominally a lot of action, the film doesn't exactly abound in narrative pulse. But its portraits and textures take up a lot of the slack. [16 Aug 1996, p.D5]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Year of the Horse
    Jarmusch captures all this in Super 8 Hi Fi 8 video, which gives a gritty, dirty feeling. Maybe it's fake authentic, but it feels right. [24 Oct 1997, p.C8]
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  7. Disclosure
    Disclosure is a classic guilty pleasure. You won't be proud of yourself in the morning for having watched it, but you won't be able to take your eyes off it while you do. [9 Dec 1994, p.53]
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  8. Flamin' Hot
    The marriage between its uplifting personal message and its embrace of big business is a rocky one, but Longoria and company hold the union together.
  9. Victoria and Abdul
    There’s a reason the names in the title don’t appear in alphabetical order. Abdul is the far more interesting character, but it’s her majesty the movie dotes on. God save the queen? Oh yes, and God help the rest of us.
  10. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
    The 100-Year-Old Man may appeal to viewers who like the madcap and the whimsical, no matter how self-conscious. Me, I’ll take Max von Sydow’s moroseness any day.
  11. Boston Strangler
    When Boston Strangler focuses on the two journalists who wrote about this case, it is quite involving.
  12. Tuvalu
    Astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching. In short, it's the kind of ambitious little film that can leave critics in a swoon and American moviegoers scratching their heads.
    • Boston Globe
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirate Radio
    Writer-director Richard Curtis (“Love Actually’’) has made a party, not a movie, and if the party goes on much too long, at least the guests are great company and the host’s taste in music is impeccable.
  14. The Reader
    After a sensuous introductory act, The Reader descends into a series of dismaying contradictions regarding the moral toxins of the Holocaust - which still pollute postwar Germany.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Defamation
    In its sneaky, cheeky way, Defamation is a mitzvah, an act of kindness.
  16. Child's Play
    Child's Play is junk fun. [09 Nov 1988, p.95]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoker
    The performances are excellent, but it’s the direction that lifts the movie up and spins it around. Like Hitchcock, Park storyboards everything ahead of time, and while that level of control might seem claustrophobic in theory, it ends up freeing Stoker to sail into zones of malevolent visual sensuality.
  18. The King
    In James Marsh's The King, the usually wonderful Gael Garcia Bernal is all wrong for the role of Elvis Valderez.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trouble with the Curve
    The script is by first-timer Randy Brown, but it feels as if it were spit out by one of the assistant GM's computers, so regular are its beats and revelations.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hard Candy
    Hard Candy is the rare movie that may be worthiest for the arguments you'll have after it's over.
  21. The Object of Beauty
    Object of Beauty is another zap-the-yuppies outing, more elegant than most, and sophisticated, too, but hollow and on the whole charmless as it leaves us uninvolved with the spectacle of cash-strapped John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell holed up in a posh London hotel, living on room service and dodging the manager. [19 Apr 1991, p.42]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Defiance
    Depressingly predictable in its dialogue and dramatic beats, Defiance is most interesting as a study of unlikely leaders.
  23. Under Siege
    Under Siege is dumb formula stuff, sensory jolts by the numbers. [09 Oct 1992, p.89]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nerve
    There’s a line between enjoyably stupid and stupid-stupid, and Nerve sails over it right around the halfway mark.
  25. Eternity
    I’ve said this a million times before, so it will sound familiar: All a rom-com needs to work is characters you want to see end up together. “Eternity” fails this test big time.
  26. The Keeping Room
    Barber, who directed the neglected, unabashedly satisfying vigilante thriller “Harry Brown” knows how to get the blood pumping and stoke an audience’s craving for righteousness, vengeance, and vicarious sadism. What he lacks is the woman’s touch, if by that one means nuance, ambiguity, and empathy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An American Pickle
    Among other things, An American Pickle is very, very Jewish, and a scene toward the end revolves around Ben finally joining a minyan to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. Better they should have said it for the movie.
  28. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    One of the best things about the movie, aside from its screwily positive message, is the blithely freewheeling yet clever way that Rogen and company assemble the story’s puzzle pieces.
  29. Brown Sugar
    Brown Sugar fails to produce an image of hip-hoppery as fascinating and complex as the moment when Halle Berry set her tongue wagging during a ghetto-fabulous grind with Warren Beatty in ''Bulworth.''
    • 58 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Crimes of the Heart
    Director Bruce Beresford keeps stars Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, and Diane Keaton firmly rooted in the deep, dark black humor of Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. [01 Jul 2014, p.G15]
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