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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. Project X
    The party itself is something to see. A Pasadena blowout turns into a horny, druggy, apocalyptic scene culminating in riot police, news choppers, and a gentleman with a flamethrower.
  2. Rambo
    Rambo isn't dull. It is, however, often murkily directed, a real shortcoming in an action movie. In the big rescue-the-prisoners sequence, it's very hard to keep track of who is doing what to whom where.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beerfest
    Making a comedy that celebrates binge drinking and cretinous behavior isn't a crime against nature. Making one that's as brutally unfunny as Beerfest is.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Break-Up
    The biggest unresolved question here is why we're paying $9.50, plus popcorn, for something we can presumably get at home for free.
  5. Touch of Pink
    An hour and a half of cultural and sexual headaches only barely leavened by MacLachlan's performance.
  6. The Last Days on Mars
    Last Days aspires to the kind of no-frills, psychological terror of Duncan Jones’s brilliant “Moon” (2009) but, despite some determined performances, settles for the clichés of the abortive “Apollo 18” (2011).
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knight and Day
    The movie’s a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle.
  8. The Upside
    What makes The Upside work as well as it often does is how the actors are able to convey the unlikely affinity these unlikely people share.
  9. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The fun of these movies is that Linney often seems too refined for such greasy junk, but there she is anyway, hamming it down as it were.
  10. Must Love Dogs
    While Lane is her typical winning self, the film is mawkish. The more we're cajoled to root for Sarah Nolan, the divorced preschool teacher she plays, the more Must Love Dogs stops resembling a movie and starts feeling like a greeting card.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    IF
    IF is nonetheless an enjoyable watch, and a surprisingly gentle one, despite its bumbling cast of fiends, rascals, and other overlooked creatures.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honest Thief
    It’s perfectly generic on-demand product that will eat up an hour and a half of your life and be immediately forgotten.
  13. 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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  14. Spaceballs
    Spaceballs has the happy air of a comic enterprise that knows it's going right. It just keeps spritzing the gags at us, Borscht Belt-style, confidently and rightly sensing that if we don't laugh at this one, we'll laugh at the next. And so we do. After a long dry spell, Brooks is back on the money with Spaceballs. [24 Jun 1987, p.33]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The In-Laws
    Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that The In-Laws was directed by Andrew Fleming, who delivered the fizzy Nixon-era comedy ''Dick'' a few years back and who also had a hand in ''Grosse Pointe,'' the wicked, briefly-lived WB parody of TV teen dramas. The man obviously knows from satire, but not on the evidence of anything here.
  16. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    As engaging as it is ungainly and scattered.
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  17. All Over the Guy
    Little more than a screenful of boy meets boy, boy meets baggage, boy loses baggage.
  18. Jetsons: The Movie
    You're never unaware of the calculation underlying this Jetsons movie. Still, it succeeds in teleporting the clan to the movie screen. [6 July 1990, p.61]
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  19. The Watchers
    There are plenty of things that go bump in the night. “The Watchers” proves they’re only effective if you don’t sleep through them.
  20. The Mighty Ducks
    Herek's brisk pacing and skillful way with the hockey sequences gives The Mighty Ducks an urgency its manipulative copycat soul doesn't really earn. The Mighty Ducks - with its team calculatedly organized along gender as well as multi-cultural lines - is the kind of film kids like, then outgrow. [02 Oct 1992, p.49]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    El cantante
    Ideally, it would give you a sense of an entire people knocking the planet off its axis with a shake of their hips. If only El Cantante were that movie. Instead, it's a curiously sludgy cross between a Doomed Star biopic and a J. Lo vanity project.
  22. Yes Man
    The biggest problem with this movie - not that it's mediocre, dull, or barely written (though it's guilty on all counts). It's that Carrey himself is miscast.
  23. A Chorus Line
    Richard Attenborough's film version of the long-running Broadway musical hit A Chorus Line not only avoids the disaster that many had predicted for it, but is often surprisingly effective and enjoyable, transcending its troubled history. [20 Dec 1985]
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  24. The Heartbreak Kid
    This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.
  25. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Martin puts a thankless gloss on the antic role he played in "Parenthood." As his wife, Hunt is the movie's saving grace.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Greenfingers
    Plants the seeds of comedy that grow into a mild feel-good flick, but it won't reap much viewer satisfaction.
  27. Me Myself I
    A comic vehicle for that valuable Australian export, Rachel Griffiths.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Streak
    A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
  29. Chasing Liberty
    It's one TV-movie romp that Kristy McNichol never got around to starring in.
  30. Life of the Party
    Thoroughly vanilla comedy, a movie jammed with well-meaning girl power messages but surprisingly little edge.
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