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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. Raymond & Ray
    This one has a tang and texture and rare sense of everyday epiphany. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you find out you’ve figured wrong.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    One Direction: This Is Us
    The problem is that the movie offers no way of differentiating between them beyond their hairstyles.
  3. Gang Related
    The schizoid Gang Related is too heavy to be light and too light to be heavy. [8 Oct 1997, p.F3]
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  4. Queens
    It's called Queens and, no, silly, it's not about six gay men who want to get married. It's about their MOTHERS. And this being a Spanish comedy of the lowest Almodovar-ian order, the moms are a lot more flamboyant than their sons.
  5. TRON: Legacy
    Tron: Legacy gives us a dud stud named Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn, the hero of this petrified sequel to 1982's "Tron." None of what he sees impresses. The feeling is mutual.
  6. Sidewalks of New York
    The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.
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  7. The 6th Day
    Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.
    • Boston Globe
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tycoon: A New Russian
    Despite its ambitious depiction of post-Soviet economic woes, Tycoon is an uneven political thriller that suffers mostly from a highly convoluted story line.
  9. Nicotina
    While obviously not a unique or uniquely satisfying experience, the film still does the job in a pinch, and looks cool doing it.
  10. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Despite its conceptual shortfall, is worth seeing, if only to update yourself on what can emerge from a keyboard these days.
  11. The Thing
    The basic story is identical, and when there are fraught, climactic opportunities for the movie to make a gutsy departure, it passes up the chance.
  12. Beyond the Black Rainbow
    Beyond the Black Rainbow has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fifth Estate
    The Fifth Estate is itself the response of an entrenched and corporatized information system toward something it barely comprehends. It makes a media format that has sustained us for decades — the two-hour movie — feel like a 20th-century dinosaur.
  14. My Fellow Americans
    In short, My Fellow Americans is too much like the bland, numbing political campaigns of which we're still trying to clear our heads. [20 Dec 1996, p.E6]
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  15. Coneheads
    There's no getting around the fact that the movie is pretty ponderous. The problem is that its writers and producers haven't really expanded or deepened the basic Conehead setup - they mostly drown it in more time and money than it ever had the first time around. [23 July 1993, p.42]
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  16. American Reunion
    The directors don't know how to make this new plot funny or infectious. Most promises of comedic pleasure go as unfulfilled Stifler's T-shirt. This movie hasn't a clue where to begin the donation process.
  17. The Sentinel
    The Sentinel isn't an entire season of ''24" smushed into a bland two hours of movie? Does Kiefer Sutherland know?
  18. The Gray Man
    The movie feels increasingly tired. All that gunplay, all that traveling, all that sneering from Lloyd: Everything gets a bit . . . much.
  19. New York, I Love You
    New York, I Love You wants us to know that the city is a sexy, romantic, thrillingly random place where anything can go down. Sadly, two of those things are your eyelids.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    People Like Us
    People Like Us is neither optimal nor prime.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shoot 'Em Up
    Absolutely not for feminists, lovers of period films, and anyone whose sensibilities are bruised by over-the-top stuntwork, it's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Broken City
    As the implausibilities and conspiracies and double-crosses pile up, Broken City paints itself into a corner. A plot can be confusing as long as the filmmakers themselves don't seem confused, but that's not the case here.
  23. The Miracle Club
    I wish the filmmakers had shown as much faith in the audience as its characters have in miracles.
  24. The Business of Fancydancing
    Shot in digital video, Fancydancing feels a bit like a racy after-school special. Performances are amateurishly uneven.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Bad Love
    It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Good Boy!
    The film is touchingly firm about leveling with children, drawing a careful, crucial line between fantasy and reality, without patronizing or haranguing them.
  27. The Way of the Gun
    Sometimes trips over its own contrivance, especially at the ammo-ridden end.
  28. The Grudge
    Takes a leaf from the "Psycho" handbook and abandons its star for stretches here and there.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Benji: Off the Leash!
    Has a raggy charm, like the dogs, and a solid moral ending. For a late-summer children's film, it does the job.
  30. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
    PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie is not a good movie, but it should appeal to its intended audience. I admit I was bored, but to my surprise, I didn’t find it that much of a chore to sit through.
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