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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. Melinda and Melinda
    Doesn't entirely work.
  2. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit.
  3. Friday
    Friday is funnier and funkier than "Bad Boys," more homegrown-seeming, less manufactured. It plays like "House Party" with attitude. [26 Apr 1995]
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  4. Too Late
    With Too Late, Hauck confirms that he’s a master of the film medium. What’s less convincing is why this film matters.
  5. The Treatment
    The Treatment fails to do anything interesting with Jake.
  6. Love Etc.
    In an age in which it feels as if seemingly pure intimacy no longer exists, this film thrives on nothing but intimate moments.
  7. Arthur the King
    I should have been more affected by Arthur the King because, after all, “Old Yeller” conditioned my generation to erupt in tears whenever a dog’s fate looks dire. And yet, all I saw were the familiar gears churning underneath.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hamlet 2
    In the new comedy Hamlet 2, Coogan comes perilously close to wearing out his welcome. It's actually a pretty fascinating sight.
  9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    Compared to the first two movie installments, this one is uncharacteristically scattershot in the life-lessons department.
  10. Bruno
    Brüno is what "Borat’" was too well-done to be: a publicity stunt about publicity stunts.
  11. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    Throughout the mayhem, Marcus and Mike bicker like an old married couple. While this interplay has always been the best element of the “Bad Boys” universe, Smith and Lawrence look disinterested this time. It’s as if they’re getting too old for this [expletive], to use a phrase from a much better buddy-cop movie series.
  12. The Tracey Fragments
    Formally, the effect is like watching really cinematic confetti.
  13. Strays
    Strays is a live-action flick about talking canines. As a movie, it is not a good boy; it is a bad dog. But if I were currently 12, I might have reacted in a more positive way.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Puccini for Beginners
    If Woody Allen were a young, attractive gay woman, he might make something like this, or so Maggenti hopes. But it would probably be funnier, and it would definitely cut deeper.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Smart
    The movie errs by turning Max into a figure of hangdog sympathy: "The 40 Year Old Virgin" with a shoe phone.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Deathtrap
    Deathtrap is slick enough that you can't disengage from it without missing something. [19 Mar 1982]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.
  18. The Château
    No one here is prodding you to laugh. It just happens.
  19. Julien Donkey-Boy
    At its best, it will impale you on its raw urgency. At other times, it's a slog through long improvisations that never achieve dramatic liftoff.
  20. Return to Me
    If Return to Me is ultimately too bland and safe, it'll nevertheless serve as a calling card for Hunt's future directorial projects.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chuen jik sat sau
    Filmed with panache, wit, chic amorality, and an inexhaustible supply of Micro Uzi ammunition, ''Killer'' nevertheless represents a baroque dead end for the Hong Kong action genre.
  22. From Hell
    What the Hughes brothers have come up with is, to borrow another phrase from that bygone age, a penny dreadful.
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bread, My Sweet
    Think low-budget ''Moonstruck'' but think again: A regional dish in the most heartwarming sense.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    LBJ
    It’s an entertaining piece of Hollywood waxworks if you don’t set your expectations very high and it’s probably the best movie Rob Reiner has directed in more than a decade. (This only sounds like a compliment.)
  25. Blue Chips
    I wish Blue Chips had pursued its indictment further up the food chain. But it brings off its tricky double mission, being entertaining while not letting anybody off the hook as it reminds us that amateur athletics is big business. [18 Feb 1994, p.39]
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  26. Fierce People
    The platitudes in this gratuitously sentimental movie are taken a lot more seriously than the people.
  27. Night of the Living Dead
    Particularly because Savini obviously feels a responsibility to the original, it's impossible for this new film to unfold with any sense of discovery or surprise. It's almost all just at the level of dutiful replication. [19 Oct 1990, p.35]
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  28. The Misfortunates
    The movie has to twist your arm to get you to feel for these people. But you wouldn’t be wrong to think it’s been broken.
  29. Fairhaven
    O'Brien and his castmates seem to play loose with his script a bit more than they should in an effort to give the material a lived-in feeling.
  30. Escape from L.A.
    At times, the dead space in Escape from L.A. becomes impossible to ignore. But if it never quite becomes the wild ride it sets out to be, it's seldom boring to watch, either. [09 Aug 1996, p.C6]
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