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For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. Death to Smoochy
    The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy.
  2. Bedtime Stories
    The appeal of Bedtime Stories belongs entirely to Sandler. As a comedian, he doesn't have to stoop to a kid's level. He's usually already there.
  3. My Life in Ruins
    The problem with the new movie is the same as with the previous one. Vardalos has this idea that she's a marm. And while it's true that she personifies her movies, I don't quite buy her librarian mode.
  4. Bang Rajan
    Choppy, cheesy historical war epic really has only a couple of things going for it, and its biggest asset remains the heroic popular legend that inspired its making.
  5. Oculus
    At its best, it delves into the murky areas of memory, childhood trauma, and family conflict. But it forgoes such troubling issues for mumbo jumbo and glowing-eyed wraiths.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Battle of Shaker Heights
    In a better movie -- a much better movie -- LaBeouf might make the same sort of impact Dustin Hoffman did in ''The Graduate.'' But the kid's young. There are movies to come.
  7. The Two Popes
    Both Pryce and Hopkins are fine. But on the basis of the rest of the movie they shouldn’t have a prayer.
  8. Beyond the Lights
    Unfortunately, as the story builds toward tenderness, it’s undercut with slathering tongues and bare-chested stud-muffin shots.
  9. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    It’s another brightly rendered effort, but, as the title indicates, a lot of the real creativity seems to have been used up the first time around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mary Poppins Returns
    Mary Poppins Returns is torn between taking audiences back to their childhoods and treating them like children. You might have a good time but don’t be surprised if you feel a little dociousaliexpeisticfragicalirupus afterward.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    New in Town
    You've seen New in Town before, and you've seen it done better. Still, it's a sweet-hearted bit of anemia, pleasant and obvious, and there are a few honest laughs to it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter in Wartime
    Well-mounted and expertly played, Winter in Wartime is a class act that lacks only focus and originality to raise it above the ordinary.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Killer Inside Me
    The film is crisply shot, expertly paced, solidly acted, and it gets a goose when Bill Pullman shows up in the late innings as a good-old-boy lawyer. (By contrast, it’s never convincingly explained what stake the union official played by Elias Koteas has in the drama.) All that’s missing is a reason.
  14. The Outfit
    The Outfit would be a splendid thing if limited to Rylance’s voiceover and long lingering shots of him working with fabrics.
  15. American Movie
    It seems more a geek show than a slab of marketing wizardry.
  16. Vox Lux
    After a point, we’re left wondering whether we’re watching a character study or caricature. Either way, the portrait gradually morphs from intriguing to tedious.
  17. John Tucker Must Die
    The movie is as inconsequentially pleasant as its star, and far nicer than the title lets on, too.
  18. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    A flavorless family-friendly action-adventure that doubles as memory exploitation. It has nothing to do with either the Mickey Mouse broom sequence of the same name from 1940's "Fantasia'' or the 213-year-old Goethe poem that inspired it.
  19. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
    Kids who like the TV episodes will find more of the same here, and larger. [30 June 1995, p.53]
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  20. Don't Say a Word
    Don't Say a Word can be thought of as a case of Dial B for Boring.
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  21. M. Butterfly
    Cronenberg's direction is technically impressive, but he's better suited to stories based on surges of feeling between killers, not lovers. This M. Butterfly never takes wing. [08 Oct 1993]
    • Boston Globe
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shanghai Knights
    So appallingly slipshod in all the usual departments is this sequel to the engaging martial-arts comedy Western ''Shanghai Noon'' that you're tempted to cite its makers for contempt.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    W.E.
    W.E., her second effort after 2008's "Filth and Wisdom,'' tries awfully hard. In the end it tries our patience.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Riddick
    Like everything in this humorless new genre, "Chronicles" comes with its own snap-together mythology.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Woman in Gold
    The production design is swank, the score impassioned. We should be riveted. Instead, you may feel you’ve seen this movie before, and, in a sense, you have: Woman in Gold plays remarkably like 2013’s “Philomena” with a change of cast and a different historical outrage.
  26. The Deal
    Blame the unsexy subject matter if you want, but blame the uninspired casting first.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Haute Cuisine
    Haute Cuisine proves the limits of cinema: It’s a movie that needs Taste-o-Vision.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Overboard
    It’s an inane, absurd, fitfully amusing time-waster that ranks low on the believability scale and somewhere in the middle as mindless entertainment.
  29. Wall
    Coming and going through the wall's checkpoints is a tiresome and undignified process that makes US airport security look like a cocktail reception.
  30. Hostel
    Not horrifying enough.
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