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For 7,947 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chicken Little
    Shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances, but even a small child may sense how forced this movie is -- how hard it tries to be all things to all audiences.
  2. The Idiots
    Von Trier's The Idiots is both lively and juvenile.
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    21
    The movie's chief audience, consequently, will probably be gullible and young, responding to the cliches only because they haven't seen them before. They have a word in Vegas for these people: Suckers.
  4. Gran Turismo
    The film’s visual look is as inert as its screenplay, and its attempts to make the real racing scenes look like Gran Turismo gameplay by overlaying the game’s graphics with live footage fall embarrassingly flat.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Civic Duty
    Faced with a limited location and concept, Renfroe points his camera everywhere: The movie's seriously overshot, never settling for one angle when five would do.
  6. Hit and Runway
    A mildly diverting gay-straight odd couple comedy that has just enough bright one-liners to carry it past its plot structuring.
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elvira's Haunted Hills
    She's like Bob Hope with fake breasts and a wig. Now, that's scary.
  8. Vertical Limit
    Avalanches are nothing compared to the deadening touch of the stereotyping and audience-insulting simplicities in the scenic but brain-dead Vertical Limit.
  9. The Core
    The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.
  10. The Santa Clause 2
    For an anonymous Saturday afternoon, it's the best lump of coal Hollywood can jam in your stocking.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Super Troopers
    Broken Lizard has a way to go to match the absurdity and conceptual genius of Monty Python or Kids in the Hall, but Super Troopers has promising moments of oddity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    300: Rise of an Empire
    Basically, if the first “300” was a pep-talk from Coach on how to lose with dignity, Rise of an Empire is an inspirational speech on the value of teamwork.
  13. Lockout
    If you're an "Escape From New York" fan, you might have wondered about those rumors about a possible remake...Well, wonder no more. Producer Luc Besson's action factory has beaten everyone to it, stylishly. They're just calling the thing Lockout, and setting it in outer space.
  14. Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
    There is much to learn from Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. First, a wealth of sharp professorial minds and great artistic eyes is no guarantee of equivalent documentary moviemaking. Second, when making a sort of thesis statement, it helps to have a thesis.
  15. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
    While Memoirs of an Invisible Man has its moments - like so many Chevy Chase movies - you spend an awful lot of time waiting between laughs. [28 Feb 1992, p.28]
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  16. Sleeping with the Enemy
    The script and direction are her real enemies here. Sleeping with the Enemy is a vehicle with too many manufacturing defects. [08 Feb 1991, p.39p]
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  17. Bullet to the Head
    It's a surprise that Stallone is as funny as he is playing a hit man paired with a cop in Bullet to the Head. He's man-cave witty in a way that his "Expendables" movies have strived for but haven't really managed.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sicilian Girl
    Ends with a curious whimper instead of the bang it has been pointing toward; the filmmaker's reverence for his heroine seems to bind his hands.
  19. Just Cause
    Just Cause is a textbook example of one rewrite too many. [17 Feb 1995, p.38]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'm Still Here
    Parts of it are close to genius; most of it is actively torturous to watch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl on the Train
    If only the movie had the courage to be as gonzo as it wants to be!
  22. Angels & Demons
    Watching what Howard has done with the book - covering up the lewdness, blunting the snobbery, and spackling the amazing plot holes - is dismaying. This adaptation has the stink of superiority about it.
  23. The Fantasticks
    Although dated, it's not a bad musical.
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  24. High Crimes
    Every minute of the film is trash, and director Carl Franklin seems to know it.
  25. Shallow Hal
    You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny.
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  26. Incantato
    One wishes Incantato was made of something other than musty air. Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.
  27. The Longest Yard
    Everyone in this overstaffed showbiz sampler has been better somewhere else. An assortment of talented comedians, character actors, professional athletes, sports commentators, one rapper, and two former sitcom stars sit in this movie like too much food on a buffet cart.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alien Trespass
    It's pretty endearing - a low-budget labor of schlock.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Day
    A miscast, underwritten, drably directed adaptation of a very popular novel, it's the feel-bad film of the summer and an almost perfect example of how not to turn a book into a movie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Writer of O
    This gulf between a woman's public and private faces is an intensely rich subject that Rapaport glosses over.
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