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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. Benny & Joon
    Every now and then, Benny & Joon makes you think it's going to finally take off, but it never does. It looks good but has credibility problems even on the level of whimsical fairy tale. [16 Apr 1993, p.86]
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  2. Chronicles
    For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch isn’t great literature but it is a good read. By breaking up the chronology and yanking the audience back and forth between Theo’s fraught youth and crisis-ridden present, though, the film prevents an audience from gaining emotional traction.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We're the Millers
    It’s an August dog-day special, in other words: a few easy laughs, one or two flashes of inspiration, and enough sentimentality to ensure that no one actually gets hurt.
  5. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
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  6. Final Portrait
    Tucci can be so focused on Giacometti’s artistic process that he gives short shrift to the art itself.
  7. The Little Rascals
    When the plot turns coy and arch as Alfalfa falls in love with a kewpie doll named Darla, however, the film turns insufferable. [05 Aug 1994, p.48]
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  8. RED 2
    A sequel that has some snappy interplay, typically courtesy of Malkovich, but mostly feels like a cast working to manufacture what came naturally the first time.
  9. A Single Shot
    In lieu of suspense, Rosenthal relies on a mood of free-floating anxiety, enhanced by West Virginia (actually British Columbia) landscapes where the sun never shines. As one-note as the title suggests, A Single Shot misfires.
  10. Love Crime
    This is a ridiculous movie - a thriller so indifferent to suspense, so above mystery that one character literally stabs another in the front.
  11. One Chance
    David Frankel’s film reduces an extraordinary life to a predictable template of bullying, resolve, success, disappointment, and platitudes — a pattern repeated two or three times until the genuinely moving finale.
  12. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch.
  13. Imagine That
    Eddie Murphy in another mediocre family comedy? Imagine that.
  14. The Marine
    What follows is serviceable action set to music you'd find in a video game -- or a military ad.
  15. Captain Ron
    Captain Ron is an inconsequential but inoffensive little comedy dedicated to the proposition that inheriting Clark Gable's yacht can be a real problem. A throwback to the plastic Disney family comedies of the late '50s and early '60s, it's at least trim and shipshape, if never inspired or original. [18 Sep 1992, p.56]
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  16. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''
  17. The Night Before
    The pre-Thanksgiving release of Jonathan Levine’s The Night Before celebrates those Christmas blessings that are beloved by all: scatological humor, smarmy sentimentality, and gross product placement.
  18. Pinocchio
    The remake is poky and overstuffed. It’s also 17 minutes longer than the 1940 original. Granted, eight minutes of that is closing credits, but still. Pinocchio’s nose isn’t all that’s wooden and too long here.
  19. The Object of Beauty
    Object of Beauty is another zap-the-yuppies outing, more elegant than most, and sophisticated, too, but hollow and on the whole charmless as it leaves us uninvolved with the spectacle of cash-strapped John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell holed up in a posh London hotel, living on room service and dodging the manager. [19 Apr 1991, p.42]
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  20. Illuminata
    Beverly D'Angelo, Rufus Sewell, Georgina Cates, Leo Bassi - tumble with zest through a daisy chain of sexual capers. But while warmly energized, their carryings-on also seem a little generic.
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  21. Adventureland
    Harmless enough, but "indie comedy" sounds like something better seen at Urban Outfitters than at a movie theater.
  22. Addams Family Values
    This sequel, ruled by the commercial imperative to not tamper with a highly profitable franchise, mostly just goes through the motions, essentially replicating the first outing. [19 Nov 1993, p.93]
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  23. Just Like a Woman
    What might have proven an illuminating perspective on familiar issues disappoints as Bouchareb fails to turn his outsider’s point of view into new insights, and instead takes the easy route, falling back on familiar stereotypes in his tour of US misogyny and xenophobia.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mortal Kombat
    Hardcore fans and gamers will thrill to the contractually required scene where a fighter has his still-beating heart ripped out of his chest. But that’s the only time Mortal Kombat shows a pulse.
  25. Bullet Train
    Pitt’s presence makes a borderline-odious piece of work watchable.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lion King
    If The Lion King redux sounds wild, the result is surprisingly tame.
  27. She-Devil
    She-Devil has its moments, thanks chiefly to Meryl Streep's way with the comic role of a la-de-da writer of romance novels. But devilishness is precisely what it lacks. Unlike "The War of the Roses," the other marital vendetta comedy opening today, She-Devil hasn't got the courage of its nasty convictions. [8 Dec 1989, p.59]
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  28. Larry Crowne
    Larry Crowne isn't a movie for adults. It's a movie for adults who don't like things with screens and keyboards.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fantastic Planet
    Some will say weird is fun for its own sake, but we say weird does not equal cinematic satisfaction. [05 Mar 1999, p.C6]
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  30. Hannah Arendt
    A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil.
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