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For 7,949 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 0.9 points 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 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. Patriot Games
    While Harrison Ford brings all you could hope for to the role of Clancy's hero, CIA analyst Jack Ryan, Patriot Games is a pretty routine, generic and on the whole pedestrian film. Considering the talent and obvious care taken, it's surprisingly flavorless. [5 June 1992, p.25]
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      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Menu
    The Menu might make you crave a hamburger or think twice before boarding a ferry to a private island with no cell service. But once the loose ends are tied up and the credits roll, it leaves you less than satisfied.
  3. Color of Night
    Although Rush gives the film visual texture, he can't give it credibility or metaphorical dimension. Color of Night is nocturnal, but not much more. [19 Aug 1994, p.49]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Promise
    Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong.
  5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    It's hard to tell whether this is a tribute to female solidarity or a lamentation.
  6. The Foreigner
    If the movie can’t maintain its interest in Chan, why should we? This narrative splice job simply doesn’t hold together. Call it a taut mess or a hot mess, take your pick.
  7. Jonah Hex
    The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie.
  8. Agnes Browne
    There's nothing really wrong with Agnes Browne, except a tendency to take a few easy, convenient outs.
  9. The King's Man
    History is just one big playpen for The King’s Man, but some games are less fun than others. Maybe using a glimpse of Hitler for a cheap thrill wouldn’t seem quite so grotesque in a movie that were more entertaining, but The King’s Man isn’t so it does.
  10. Casper
    The techno-wizards at Industrial Light & Magic really knock themselves out here, but Casper is more serviceable than magical. [26 May 1995, p.85]
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  11. The Frighteners
    It's technically sophisticated and intermittently engaging, and its showdown is more than up to genre standards. But fresh it isn't. [19 July 1996, p.G4]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman confessed he was drawn to the role because ''this was a guy who didn't know how to feel, and I found that fascinating.'' His challenge is our frustration
  13. Changeling
    As Changeling strains toward its mawkishly optimistic conclusion, the old-fashioned moviemaking that Eastwood settled into doesn't suit either him or his star. It feels like a corny joke.
  14. Roll Bounce
    This nostalgic licorice whip of a movie assumes there's still an audience for a straight-faced, family-friendly salute to the 1970s heyday of competitive roller disco.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Gospel
    A heartfelt but muddled melodrama.
  16. Medicine Man
    With what doubtless are the best intentions, the film wants to do several things, and does. The trouble is that it doesn't do any of them very well. [07 Feb 1992, p.32]
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  17. Pulse
    If Pulse is unsurprising as a horror movie (come on: chalky, soul-sucking freaks again?), as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cellphones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot.
  18. The Divine Order
    The chief weakness in the movement, and in the film as well, is Nora herself. Played sweetly by Leuenberger, Nora is endearing but hardly embodies the spirit of her Ibsen namesake.
  19. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    For some, Atlas Shrugged Part II is a ridiculous movie. For others, it's scripture.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Foot Fist Way
    The film itself suggests a sketch video on Ferrell and McKay's "Funny or Die" website, padded out to the dimensions of a character comedy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Impossible
    An earnest, extremely grueling, prodigiously crafted true-life drama that takes one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history and reduces it to a bad day at Club Med.
  22. 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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Wants to be as shocking as its title, but it doesn't have the nerve.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Band Aid
    A clever and heartfelt comedy-drama that remains aloft as long as it retains its sense of humor; when the going gets serious, the dialogue turns therapeutic and heavy. Still, it’s a decent debut and an ambitious attempt to juggle tones.
  25. Hotel Transylvania 2
    For the haters out there, you could see where Sandler reprising his role as a cartoon Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 might just be the perfect metaphor: Yep, there he goes again, evilly sucking the lifeblood out of decent entertainment. Now come on, let’s grab the torches!
  26. Infinite Storm
    Not to get all Aristotelian about it, but for a plot to be more than just a succession of incidents, it needs some kind of mindful opposition to the protagonist’s efforts. This “Infinite Storm” lacks.
  27. Ricochet
    If you like your revenge slow and cliched, you may like Ricochet. The plot, which by now may be too stock even for TV police dramas, is about an escaped convict bent on torturing the cop who put him behind bars. [05 Oct 1991, p.10]
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  28. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Very little of it is as persuasive or enveloping as its beloved English counterpart. But it works very hard to distract 11-year-olds from thinking about the November arrival of “The Deathly Hallows.’’
  29. Taxi
    Too much of Taxi is just tired.
  30. A Good Man in Africa
    A Good Man in Africa has its sensibilities in the right place, and sometimes its wit, too, but its shenanigans can't mask a certain shortfall. [09 Sep 1994, p.53]
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