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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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  1. Hard Ball
    Ultimately, the kids carry this manipulative tear-jerker. They're warm, lively charmers.
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  2. The Mummy Returns
    If you liked the earlier ''Mummy,'' you'll probably like this one. In fact, at many points you'll probably think you are watching the earlier one.
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  3. xXx
    As Diesel says, ''I like something fast enough to do something stupid in.'' Mission accomplished.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shark Tale
    Where "Nemo" was clever, soulful, and marvelous to look at, "Tale" is manic and surprisingly ugly, with a script that leans on the shallowest aspects of hip-hop street cred while pimping for corporate product placement at every turn.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Works hard to give quirk a bad name.
  6. To the Arctic
    More storytelling and less preaching would have served those messages better.
  7. Morgan
    At its best, the movie is provocative, sleekly assured, and a legit showcase for its intriguingly deep ensemble
  8. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Miley may vacillate, but for now her indentured servitude to Disney continues. The image that comes to mind is Princess Leia chained to Jabba the Hutt, but that's probably just me.
  9. The Strangers
    A horror film with a moral. No matter how nasty a gang of murderers is, the moviemaker calling the shots is ultimately worse.
  10. 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.’’
  11. Haunted Mansion
    I went into Haunted Mansion expecting a hot mess on par with Murphy’s movie. Instead, I found an engaging and sweet action comedy, one that’s not only very funny but also quite touching. Much of the credit goes to the cast, specifically the lead performance by LaKeith Stanfield as Ben Matthias.
  12. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Writers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow remake is more devilish, hitting its targets with the reckless glee required for a round of Whac-A-Mole.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bella
    In this bilingual morality movie about love, family, and fate, however, the unpredictability turns out to be highly predictable.
  14. Sgt. Bilko
    Martin makes Bilko's roguishness endearing, and entertaining enough to carry the film even if it is essentially an overextended half-hour sitcom episode. [29 Mar 1996, p.105]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cote d'Azur
    A broad, bawdy, silly French farce set on the Riviera in high season, it's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer-gone-horribly-wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Accepted
    Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like "Animal House" extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    The competent, at times suspenseful Before the Rains orbits us along a trajectory of innocence corrupted, domesticity infested by politics, and local tradition messed with by a powerful Westerner. Unfortunately, that trajectory feels routine.
  18. Josie and the Pussycats
    Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
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  19. What Women Want
    Disappoints.
  20. The Guru
    The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.
  21. Better Than Sex
    There are many things that Better Than Sex is better than, although sex is not among them. It is better than a root canal, an IRS audit, or a rained-out ballgame.
  22. Brother
    Cool killers - Kitano's stock in trade - do not necessarily make for cool movies.
  23. Chaplin
    Richard Attenborough's Chaplin is little more than an illustrated crash course on Charlie Chaplin. But, while superficial, it at least avoids disgrace. [08 Jan 1993, p.25]
    • Boston Globe
      • Posted Jun 30, 2017
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Cut
    It might even work if In the Cut was remotely convincing as a thriller, but Campion can't help wrinkling her nose at genre.
  25. Dancing Across Borders
    Well-meant though it may be, the movie has an advertorial gloss.
  26. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    It’s a happy task to report that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a marked improvement on “Crimes.”
  27. Regarding Henry
    Nichols is a director who cleanly sculpts his scenes, leaving no intention or action vague. Maybe he should have allowed for a little more ambiguity. [10 July 1991, p.51]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Year
    A shamelessly enjoyable retread, an ode to la belle vie that has been well turned on a factory spindle.
  29. The Box
    The Box is the work of a visionary flirting with commercialism after having so grandly flouted it with “Southland Tales.’’ He doesn’t give in completely. Several trips to the megaplex might be required for The Box to make complete sense.
  30. 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.
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