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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. Duplex
    The result is a cheap and cloying contraption that doesn't know when to stop smirking.
  2. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    It's actually a pretty lousy thriller.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Going in Style
    The 1979 film was both more casual and much darker about the realities and infirmities of old age, and it had one of George Burns’s better performances. It was a funny, touching experience, and it was a bitter pill. The new movie is a placebo, with Hallmark emotions put over by a cast of solid-gold professionals.
  4. Passenger 57
    As Die Hard clones go, it's easier to take than most. [06 Nov 1992, p.38]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prom
    That Prom plays as pleasantly and inoffensively as it does is due to the performances, particularly McDonell as the rebellious Jesse.
  6. Last Night
    It's the sort of movie that thinks cutting between two different stories makes it art. Usually, it feels like an exercise in art. There's a lot of calisthenics but very little beauty or truth or whatever it is the movie is going for.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Zero Theorem
    Orwellian paranoia doesn’t die, it just gets fresh trimmings, and while The Zero Theorem is as messy and overstuffed as Fibber McGilliam’s closet, its sorrow and anger and demented humor strike just enough fresh sparks to keep this career alive.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Talk to Girls at Parties
    Throw out any expectations you might have of coherent narrative structure or directorial control, and you might have a pretty good time.
  9. Racer and the Jailbird
    Perhaps that is Roskam’s ultimate point: volition and individuality are illusory; only love and death matter. That truth comes through with somber clarity in the film’s eloquent coda, which almost makes up for the silliness that precedes it.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Guilt Trip
    The movie's silly, predictable, and surprisingly sweet - the sort of thing you can and probably should take your mother to.
  11. All Dogs Go to Heaven
    All Dogs Go to Heaven" has the right spirit, and its warmth will offset what for small kids might be some scary moments. But it does seem skimpy and warmed over. [17 Nov 1989]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nine 1/2 Weeks
    This rather simple story, played with stunning conviction by Rourke and Basinger, achieves its apex through director Adrian Lyne's steamy direction. Yet, it's not nasty enough. [14 Mar 1986, p.11]
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  13. Two for the Money
    It's as if a version of Oliver Stone's movie has been frozen in some fraternity house beer cooler since 1987 and thawed for the age of plasma screen TVs.
  14. Jungle Cruise
    With Johnson’s arrival, “Jungle Cruise” enters “Raiders of the Lost Ark” territory. It’s not just the cascading action adventure in an exotic setting. It’s also James Howard Newton’s score sounding so much like John Williams that Williams should get royalties.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Management
    Sometimes a cute-stalker movie can win the audience's heart. Management only makes you ponder the line between true love and a restraining order.
  16. The Boss Baby
    At least a plot point about “secret formula” is sort of clever. The rest comes across as gibberish.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nothing Like the Holidays
    Both despite its familiarity and because of it, Nothing Like the Holidays brings it home for Christmas.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Murder by Numbers
    For much of its length, the film is plausible, if predictable and ponderous. Its strongest assets are its actors.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    You can bet your parrot "Pirates" will be back, even if "At World's End" hasn't the foggiest idea when to quit.
  20. Madea Goes to Jail
    There is, however, Viola Davis, who might win an Oscar tomorrow for her one scene in "Doubt." Her part here - a minister combing the street for crack-whores to rescue - is about three times as large.
  21. How About You ...
    It's all terribly sentimental without being truly terrible.
  22. Boundaries
    Character quirks know no limits in the indie dramedy Boundaries, a multi-generational road-trip movie that gives both Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer richly drawn roles to play.
  23. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Director Nowrasteh seems to think the only way to save lives is to sensationalize death. You could trek to the theater and have this movie whack you upside the head. You could also just mail a check for $10 to the human rights group of your choice.
  24. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    In theory, there's nothing wrong with this unorthodox approach to Arbus -- attempting to explain her from the inside out. (In its way, Harmony Korine's freakfest "Gummo" is a better Arbus movie.) The trouble is that Shainberg and Wilson don't connect their conceit to anything artistically enlightening, erotic, or truly deviant.
  25. Champions
    Champions wants to be a clone of the 1976 sports movie classic “The Bad News Bears,” right down to giving us a Tatum O’Neal-style toughie, Cosentino (Madison Tevlin). While Tevlin is very funny and convincing, Harrelson fails to plumb the depths of unlikability in his character that Walter Matthau brought to Coach Buttermaker.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Campaign
    It's just another happily idiotic Will Ferrell comedy, ably directed by Jay Roach ("Meet the Parents," "Dinner for Schmucks") and tossing its bawdy jokes at the side of the barn.
  27. Ticket to Paradise
    Ticket is automatic-pilot smooth and formulaic familiar. It’s a romantic comedy, yes, and a star vehicle. But the category it most belongs to is airline movie — as in, a pleasure to watch in flight but less so on the ground.
  28. Storytelling
    Cleverly mocks the modern chronicler, raising questions that linger long after the film is finished.
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Garage Days
    The overall tone is one of mild Sex Pistols excess combined with Monkees-era high jinks.
  30. Twins
    The attempts to supply heart are never more than synthetic, but Schwarzenegger, as the good guy with the good genes, and his goofy sweetness lift Twins into the win column. [9 Dec 1988, p.33]
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