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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. Strangers with Candy
    Still comic, but bigger isn't better.
  2. The Wall
    Watching Taylor-Johnson’s character engage the enemy this way is intriguing, but also a bit removed from the realism the film is after. Can you say catch-22?
  3. The Addams Family
    Ultimately, the film's self-censoring will to sweetness and innocence is even more fatal than the flimsiness of the plot. [22 Nov 1991, p.33]
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  4. First Knight
    First Knight, despite its unfortunate title, is not a stupid film, just a mostly flat and talky one. It's gorgeously crafted and filled with goodwill, but it's more admirable than genuinely compelling or moving, much less ablaze with conviction. It's got the trappings, but not the inner fire. [07 Jul 1995, p.27]
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  5. The Wildest Dream
    The most powerful moment in the film is a tiny one. Anker and his Irvine, Leo Houlding, plan to reenact most of Mallory's climb wearing gabardine and hobnail boots instead of North Face and Gore-Tex.
  6. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film's good humor is often betrayed by its low-budget roots, however, as though it couldn't afford to be more original or ambitious than its premise.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    Just feels like it was made from the pieces of every fantasy-action movie ever made.
  8. Finch
    Finch pretty quickly settles into a buddy picture. It’s a dog picture, too, of course, Goodyear, a mutt, being so good at mugging for the camera. The whole thing is as sentimental as it is implausible, and it’s very implausible.
  9. Coach Carter
    Who's it for? How do you put this message across without it seeming medicinal? Sure, MTV is among the movie's producers, but what 11th grader wants to spend a Friday night being hit with such a blunt instrument?
  10. Assisted Living
    The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film. Perhaps in accidental tribute to Todd, the whole thing feels half-baked.
  11. Lorne
    As a documentary about Lorne Michaels, “Lorne” isn’t much; it’s more of a look at “Lorne Michaels,” the character his mysterious nature created.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Quiet One
    The movie is congenial, self-effacing, and reasonably dull, and since it promises an inside look at 30 years of being a Rolling Stone, that has to be considered a disappointment. On the other hand, Oliver Murray’s film about the life and times of Bill Wyman offers proof that even average blokes can be rock stars, and maybe more of them than we think.
  13. Brighton Rock
    Joffe's biggest mistake isn't visual, it's chronological. What makes Pinkie so terrifying in the novel is that he's just 17.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    For all its unforgivable blandness, "High School Musical" opens young audiences to the charms of this most transporting of movie genres.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great New Wonderful
    A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dinner
    An acrid family affair that has been aggressively over-directed by the talented Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) and brought to intermittent life by a very good cast.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confetti
    A good-natured but terminally mild British mockumentary.
  18. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    The problem with this adaptation of Lawrence Block’s detective yarn isn’t that it casts Neeson in a role we’re seeing him play again and again. It’s that no one else in the movie makes a character feel nearly as broken-in and fully inhabited as he does.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Morning Glory
    Morning Glory is itself a work of extreme fluff, a lightweight bauble about the morning-show wars that floats on the updrafts of character comedy until it charmingly self-destructs in the final act.
  20. Traveller
    Traveller is a little too rosy and pat, but it clambers its way to entertainment value all the same. [2 May 1997]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Kiss
    It very much wants to be "Garden State" five years down the line.
  22. The Tavern
    A steadily engaging and winningly humane film that loves its characters.
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  23. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Somewhere in this movie, amid the ponderous exchanges and unfortunate O. Henry-style coincidences, there's American tragedy.
  24. Up at the Villa
    Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings.
  25. Wind
    Wind is quite content to keep things at the visual and visceral level, and on that unambitious but highly photogenic plane it's a handsome piece of salt-water escapism. When those sails start popping as they're slapped with gusts of sea air and the tacking gets intense, Wind gives you an adrenaline-filled ride. [11 Sep 1992, p.37]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wrath of Man
    Even the gunplay, of which there is plenty, feels secondhand.
  27. Today's Special
    A modest but extremely enjoyable movie.
  28. Jules
    Inside the sci-fi dramedy Jules lurks a message about senior citizens being ignored and deprived of their independence simply because of their age. Unfortunately, the script by Gavin Steckler takes a most confounding route to get to it — one involving an alien, town hall meetings, and FBI agents who want to keep the extraterrestrial here under wraps.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Chance Harvey
    Harvey is so thin it barely registers as a movie, yet these two actors - British apples and American oranges in their respective approaches to character - almost miraculously weave something memorable out of nothing much.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Horrible Bosses
    I say kill off everybody else and bring back Farrell for the sequel.
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