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For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. High Heels
    Mostly it's Paredes' imperious - then surprisingly generous - high-handedness that carries High Heels. [20 Dec 1991]
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  2. Due Date
    A rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy.
  3. How to Be Single
    Exhausting and seemingly endless.
  4. Girl, Interrupted
    There's too much control in it and not enough danger.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The American Astronaut
    Doesn't really have a climax that works, making you wonder whether all the nutso plot machinations were worth following. Maybe, maybe not. But there were a number of skewed bits that popped out and put a chuckle into this journey.
  6. The Baxter
    A self-consciously arch work of hipsterism that's more styled than funny.
  7. Adam's Apples
    The movie is one long pose. But it develops into an idea slightly greater than its flippancy. The steady frenzy is whipped into a roux of two reasonably developed characters.
  8. Mighty Joe Young
    Karmic influences or not, the new "Mighty Joe Young" works. This is one remake that isn't trying to make us forget the original, but seems rather to embrace it and bring it into the present in solidly crafted, family-friendly fashion. [25 Dec 1998, p.C9]
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  9. Jack the Giant Slayer
    A giant chef character is an icky bit of inspiration (complete with booger humor to soothe any shell-shocked young’uns in the audience), and the monsters are key to an epic-scale third act. If you thought the tale ended when Jack clambered back down from the skies, then you haven’t given it as much thought as Singer.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death at a Funeral
    The new version is completely unnecessary and sloppier than it should be. It’s also still funny, partly thanks to smart casting in a few key roles and partly because farce this ironclad cannot be denied.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    In short, Besson builds a dazzling alterna-universe — a bit of Terry Gilliam, a dash of “Blade Runner,” a smidgen of “Star Wars” (which, to be fair, was probably influenced by the original comic), and a lot of extra-strength Besson-ian whimsy. And then he strands us with the two least interesting people there.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live From New York!
    There’s no backstage dirt, then — for that, pick up the 2002 “uncensored history” written by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller — but there is an honest appraisal of the show’s peaks and valleys over the years.
  13. Wild Bill
    Walter Hill's "Wild Bill" is a too-literal evocation of the played-out frontier experience. It's imaginatively shot and bravely and even iconically acted by Jeff Bridges as Wild Bill Hickock, but it's numbed and numbing. [04 Mar 1996, p.32]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Asylum
    A classy unintentional hoot.
  15. A LEGO Brickumentary
    A wide-ranging new survey of the toy’s global subculture and appeal.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Pale Male
    It's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens.
  17. Birthday Girl
    This bizarre, uneven comedy is notable mostly for the unsettling presence of Nicole Kidman in full, kinky, sex-kitten mode.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    Lightweight yet alluring.
  19. Le divorce
    This present-day Paris of Le Divorce is smartly shot and costumed, and the whole affair is breezy and uncharacteristically insouciant, given the reserved nature of the folks responsible for it.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Naked in Ashes
    The film pulls off the remarkable feat of immersing a viewer in their world without providing any insights whatsoever.
  21. Mamma Mia!
    The movie takes the ABBA jukebox musical that ate London, and is still eating Broadway, and turns it into a surprisingly sensuous experience.
  22. Think Like a Man
    It's not much of a part for Henson. None of these characters makes real-world sense. They're walking chapter outlines.
  23. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Muppetmaster Jim Henson has done a good job of translating the Turtles - and their 4-foot-tall rat guru, Splinter - into animatronic form. [30 Mar 1990, p.28p]
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  24. Snitch
    Snitch gets a decent amount of drama (and action, of course) out of the argument that there’s paying for a crime, and then there’s overpaying.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Project Power
    Project Power is the kind of action/sci-fi bone-cruncher where the cast is better than the material, the characters are more interesting than the premise, and the dialogue chugs along in the middle. It’s on Netflix and is worth a few hours if you’re in a B-movie state of mind.
  26. She's All That
    In short, the film isn't afraid to wear its heart on its sleeve and bring conviction to its focus on feelings. It's written with enough dexterity and wit to make you buy into it. [29 Jan 1999, p.C4]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skyscraper
    You’ve seen almost all of this before, with more wit and a better villain.
  28. Aquamarine
    Unique because it's the rare movie that fiercely respects the altruistic loyalty that bonds girls to one another.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trial by Fire
    Powerful stuff, but unpowerfully told.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Date with Drew
    In this TV reality show masquerading as a movie documentary, Brian Herzlinger is a creepy voyeur, a run-of-the-mill loser who obsesses about living the celebrity high life but lacks the talent to pull it off.
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