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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. The Neon Demon
    Elle Fanning is impeccably cast as Jesse, a quiet, sweet-natured ingénue shuttling between sketchy photo shoots and her clichéd newcomer’s digs in a seedy Pasadena motel.
  2. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Maybe my priorities are wrong, but this inquiring mind wants to know when these two will find a movie entirely worthy of his understatement and her naughtiness. This one has its moments, but it's also littered with action-flick junk.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster House
    Monster House is the first horror comedy made exclusively for fourth-graders.
  4. Violette
    Violette demonstrates how suffering produces great art, and that the artist isn’t the only one who suffers for it.
  5. My Stepmother Is an Alien
    It falls far short of the lighthandedness, whimsy and feeling it needs to override its slightness. You keep wanting to like it, to match the good will coming out of the actors, but the writing keeps shoving its fabricated nothingness in your face. [09 Dec 1988, p.36]
    • Boston Globe
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Stepfather
    As such things go, it’s not bad: slick and proficient, The Stepfather 2.0 gets the adrenaline pumping, but the original has the brains.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The New Daughter
    Buried under a mound of haunted house cliches is a creepier, more sophisticated movie about the sexual power of teenage girls, and their fathers’ inability to comprehend, clambering to get out.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trance
    With Trance, story becomes just another element in Boyle’s commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal.
  9. The 'Burbs
    The 'Burbs begins promisingly, as if Joe Dante is going to yank a Steven Spielberg film into Blue Velvet depths. Once the premise is laid down, however, the film deflates and empties with alarming speed. [17 Feb 1989, p.88]
    • Boston Globe
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  10. Along Came a Spider
    Efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Basically, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is the same movie as “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the franchise’s prior installment. The only difference is that fire is the primary element, and the new villain looks like a gigantic, enraged chicken.
  12. When the Game Stands Tall
    It makes for a structurally glitchy inspirational exercise whose climax carries all the goosebump-making drama of a Pats preseason game.
  13. Fatal Instinct
    What Fatal Instinct seems to overlook, though, is that erotic thrillers such as "Basic Instinct" and "Fatal Attraction" do a pretty good job of parodying themselves. Rather than really develop any of their setups, writer David O'Malley and director Carl Reiner seem to think it's enough simply to cite the originals. [29 Oct 1993, p.51]
    • Boston Globe
  14. Clockstoppers
    The film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers, and it lacks the novel charm that made ''Spy Kids'' a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences.
  15. Ip Man 3
    Returning director Wilson Yip commits to this tone too late, getting lost in tangential conflict and stunt casting — in this corner, Mike Tyson! — at the expense of the drama and even the action.
  16. Miracles from Heaven
    Riggen has no shame when it comes to jerking the tears — surging music, cute children, suffering children — and sometimes her manipulations work even on the hardest of hearts.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter's Tale
    Goldsman takes Helprin’s book — a work overflowing with events, ideas, characters, passions — and pounds away at it until all that’s left is mush.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    28 Years Later
    28 Years Later isn’t sure what kind of movie it wants to be: Action-comedy? Gory grindhouse? Serious family drama? Despite some interesting concepts and commendable lead performances, its identity problems alienate. It seems like the years have finally caught up.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rubber
    The carnage is cartoonishly graphic, but the onlookers watching through binoculars from a nearby sandy bluff are impressed.
  20. Final Destination 5
    Stabs at the dramatic don't amount to anything that makes us care, even for Bell, who has been solid on AMC's "The Walking Dead'' and in the chairlift chiller "Frozen.'' But genre fans who have been thirsting for gore via acupuncture needles or a LASIK machine should get their giddy fill.
  21. Against the Ropes
    The movie is only sporadically interesting.
  22. Bad Shabbos
    Thank goodness for Method Man, who understood the assignment and made the film watchable and fun whenever Jordan showed up. When he isn’t on screen, “Bad Shabbos” is a mediocre movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lincoln Lawyer
    Formulaic enough to suggest that franchise would be B level at best, a TV series at worst. But it's also just good enough to make you want to watch it, anyway.
  24. The Time Machine
    The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.
  25. Kung Fu Yoga
    The movie’s best bits come when Tong’s script eases up on banter and clunky Indy homages and instead simply indulges in random zaniness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    On Broadway
    The heart of On Broadway is in the right place. But when the story behind a film is more interesting than what's on the screen, that's a problem.
  27. Gangster Squad
    Gangster Squad is an almost movie. It's almost terrible. It's almost entertaining. But it's missing the shameless insanity of a wonderfully bad movie, and the particular vision, point of view, and coherence of some very good ones. So it sits there in between - loud, flashy, and unnecessary.
  28. On the Line
    In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans.
    • Boston Globe
  29. The Mountain Between Us
    The film feels as if it’s drawing its characterizations far more from the appeal of its stars than from any prose.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Audition
    A long crawl from inception to climax.
    • Boston Globe
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