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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. Being Human
    Being Human isn't totally devoid of the gentle Forsyth magic. But it doesn't have nearly enough of it. Even Williams can do only so much with an assignment that calls for him to mostly stand around looking bummed out - in quintuplicate. [06 May 1994]
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  2. The Switch
    The romantic comedy has never had a star as depressing as Jennifer Aniston. It's not the movies - well, it isn't simply the movies.
  3. Repo Men
    There is a mild pleasure in the sight of Jude Law pirouetting with a hacksaw through gangs of extras, but the amusement is notional. I actually don’t find him terribly interesting as a kinetic object.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    The real seduction Crudup pulls off is that he makes it seem possible that the character hasn't actually done all of these awful things.
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  5. Winter Solstice
    Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
  6. The Only Living Boy in New York
    New York looks very appealing: uptown, downtown, even the little bit of Brooklyn we see. Think of “Boy” as a Bridges highlight reel and Gotham travelogue, instead of precious coming-of-age story, and it’s not half bad. But it isn’t, so it is.
  7. Mr. Holmes
    Unfortunately, director Bill Condon and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher are clueless, and come up with an incoherent, implausible, contrived mishmash.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    O Jerusalem
    Alas, it aspires to be an epic drama but suffers from an acute identity crisis: It can't decide if it wants to be history, drama, or a cry for peace in the Mideast.
  9. Nanny McPhee Returns
    The initial close-up of Thompson - all sourly snaggletoothed and begoggled - is as funny as anything in the original. And just that one quick glimpse would have been perfect.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The results are exactly as patchwork as that sounds, with sequences of rowdy, sacrilegious invention punctuated by long spells of tedium.
  11. Point Break
    When the action sequences move into the sky-diving stuff, they give you a real rush.... Otherwise, though, Point Break is all wet. Too bad, because you always get the sense in a Kathryn Bigelow outing ("Near Dark," "Blue Steel") that she's trying to push a genre into new places. [12 July 1991, p.54]
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  12. Boulevard
    In Dito Montiel’s treacly, programmatic film, Williams succumbs to a recurring neediness, earnestness, and sentimentality.
  13. Colombiana
    It's basically a blaxploitation movie stretched to meaninglessly international proportions that leans on tired Colombian stereotypes. But if Saldana's aiming to be some kind of new Pam Grier, she needs to save more than herself.
  14. Brian and Charles
    The decidedly lo-fi robot elements give the proceedings a bit of charm, as does the North Wales location, but they are not enough to save this buddy comedy from sapping the audience’s patience and goodwill.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Military Wives
    There’s nothing in Military Wives you haven’t seen before, but these are times of comfort food, and this formulaic comedy-drama about a group of British army-base spouses who start a choir is so determined to be uplifting that your up may be lifted in spite of itself.
  16. Adam
    Is a man with Asperger’s boyfriend material? It’s difficult to determine how we wind up here, but it’s strange that a movie ostensibly about a man and his lack of social options left me depressed about a woman and hers.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yesterday
    It’s content to keep things light and predictable, with the result that one of the richest song catalogs known to man is here to prop up an increasingly formulaic and far-fetched love story. Yesterday makes less sense the longer it lasts, albeit with some good bits along the way.
  18. Mad Love
    Like an ''Afterschool Special'' with costumes by Gianni Versace, Mad Love looks better than it feels.
  19. Love Lies Bleeding
    I generally love noir, gore, kick-ass women, the 1980s — but “Love Lies Bleeding” ladled out a visual stew I did not enjoy consuming.
  20. Eternals
    The movie emphasizes personal relationships as other Marvel movies haven’t, and it has a vaguely religioso quality.
  21. The Grinch
    The result is a reworking that feels both unnecessary and uninspired, even if it’s too genial and visually captivating to be flat-out off-putting.
  22. The Miracle Club
    I wish the filmmakers had shown as much faith in the audience as its characters have in miracles.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy Feet Two
    Little kids, of course, will swallow it whole without thinking twice.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen Bees
    Well, there are worse ideas for movies and certainly worse casts, and Michael Lembeck’s genial, predictable comedy rolls along on well-worn tracks elevated by the class and commitment of actors who’ve earned our affection over decades of work.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holy Rollers
    Even the portrayal of the Hasidic community comes to feel like window-dressing, welcome for its exoticism but never truly understood.
  26. The Harder They Fall
    The movie is mostly grim, largely nasty, and gloatingly violent. (It is never a good idea to start a film with a child subjected to violence.) Really, what Harder is is glorified, post-Tarantino violence punctuated by exposition.
  27. Fear
    Fear is a formulaic thriller that is like "Cape Fear" meets "Fatal Attraction," or "Splendor in the Grass" on crack, but without a hint of those movies' psychological complexities and camp moments. [12 Apr 1996]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sea
    You may have to be from Iceland to take dialogue like ''You can't freeze love like a gutted fish'' with a straight face.
    • 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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  30. The Jane Austen Book Club
    It's a lot like a pumpkin spice frappuccino with extra sugar and extra cream. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll leave with foam on your nose. So cute. As a friend said on the way out: At least no books were harmed in the making of this movie. And he's right. But that's only because no one really tried.
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