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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. Eat Pray Love
    Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it's neither. It's simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one.
  2. Elektra Luxx
    Does a lot of winking and teasing.
  3. Shaft
    With Jackson leading the way, Shaft has style, punch, and street cred. It's a hot cool update.
  4. Planet of the Apes
    It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp.
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rules of Attraction
    If there's one thing Avary gets right, it's the brutal use-or-be-used approach to interpersonal relations that Ellis laid out with numbing detail, and James Van Der Beek is down to the challenge as Sean Bateman: horndog, cokehead, ceramics major, and all-around jerk.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Constantine
    One thing's clear: R.J. Reynolds won't be showing Constantine at the company picnic any time soon.
  7. Hoffa
    For all the care and craftsmanship that have gone into Hoffa, it's a superficial film. [25 Dec 1992]
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  8. A Good Person
    If nothing else, Braff gets good to great performances out of his cast. The standouts are Pugh and Freeman: She’s a violent slash of petulance, while he remains a master of barely concealed wrath. Both actors are willing to plumb the depths of desperation, but their hard work is wasted in a film unworthy of their talents. A Good Person is a mediocre movie.
  9. Jurassic World Rebirth
    The true stars of “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the dinosaurs, are often left unidentified; we’re not sure if they’re real or some genetically engineered, made-up monstrosity. The film is so disinterested that it simply throws them onscreen with occasional bits of human beings stuck between their teeth.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunt
    A clever, gory, often very funny piece of genre junk — a B+ movie — that carries a hidden warning: When we turn other people into cartoons of our worst fears, the only thing left to do is kill each other.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little White Lies
    Of the two French films opening in the Boston area today - "Beloved" is the other - Little White Lies is the less ambitious, more watchable, and ultimately more annoying.
  12. Quest for Camelot
    Quest for Camelot is easy to sit through and reasonably entertaining. Certainly it should satisfy its target audience. But Warner really needs to journey more boldly toward a personality of its own and offer a real alternative. [15 May 1998, p.D5]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Reservations
    The movie's pleasant and light, though, and its emotional crises are the crust on an acceptably edible crème brulee.
  14. The Equalizer 2
    Save for a couple of crisp standalone segments incorporated as tone-setters, Washington’s first-ever sequel is a narratively and visually muddled disappointment, one that regularly confuses numbing brutality with vicariously thrilling righteous vengeance.
  15. Introducing the Dwights
    Nothing about this movie works, not the title (it used to be called "Clubland "), not Blethyn's attempt to inject comedy into her rickety stereotype of a character.
  16. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    It's mostly flat, despite being presented in 3-D, and the writing is so unimaginative that at one point a character yells out "yabba dabba doo!"
  17. Dedication
    Unlike most of what Moore has been in, Dedication is unlikely to delight retirement homes on movie night. But it's not imaginative, lively, or true enough to speak to its intended audience of American Apparel shoppers, either. It's a slog.
  18. Snow White
    This movie is bad in all sorts of ways, none of which has to do with the fact that Disney cast a Latina actor as Snow White. In fact, that actor, Rachel Zegler, is the film’s saving grace.
  19. The Brothers
    What saves the film is the charm and earthy humor the actors wring from the spectacle of these four guys getting an early jump on their midlife crises.
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  20. Flawless
    A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
  21. The Iron Ladies
    The same underdog formulas and sunny disposition that turned it into an unexpected Thai box-office hit should win it friends here, too.
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  22. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    Fills you with a healthy respect for the men and women gladly risking their lives for your entertainment. The film itself works best with its into-the-camera reminiscences and on-the-set mishaps.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Afternoon Delight
    The results feel a little life lesson-y but also well-earned and well-observed, and Hahn takes advantage of a rare lead role to locate both the ugliness and beauty in her character.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hot Frosty
    Every scene featuring these bumbling cops is painful.
  25. Tombstone
    Tombstone is a big Christmas pudding of a neo-Peckinpah Western that doesn't quite hang together and is a bit too self-conscious about its looks. [24 Dec 1993, p.23]
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  26. Don McKay
    The only person in Don McKay having a better time than Shue is Melissa Leo, who plays Sonny’s insinuating housemate. She’s too much by half, in an Agnes Moorehead sort of way.
  27. Fat Man and Little Boy
    Visually, Fat Man and Little Boy is almost obscenely beautiful. But while Joffe's eye is magnificent, his dramatic instincts are flaccid. [20 Oct 1989, p.79p]
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  28. Septien
    A microscopic piece of shoestring weirdness-slash-hipster regionalism that the actor Robert Longstreet delivers into some odder, funkier, altogether mysterious place. I don't know what he's doing or what he's going for. But unlike the rest of the movie, his bizarreness seems authentic rather than forced or put on.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    A bad dopey Will Ferrell comedy – overlong, underwritten, as strained as its title, and running on schtick and storylines that are practically rims.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    The downtimes are so flat that it makes you wonder whether director John Stainton and writer Holly Goldberg Sloan made them intentionally bad, just so we'd look forward to seeing Irwin again.
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