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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. The Paperboy
    I've never seen a movie like this. Not on purpose. Daniels isn't saying he's tasteful. He's just saying that his tasteless trash is as deserving of our attention as the tasteful trash we feel like we have to see. The whole thing's a crazy fantasy, like watching a porno dream it can win the Oscar.
  2. Unforgettable
    It sounds like the movie itself: contrived, implausible, derivative, and — even though both the first-time director Denise Di Novi and screenwriter Christina Hodson are women — misogynistic.
  3. The Marine
    What follows is serviceable action set to music you'd find in a video game -- or a military ad.
  4. Sniper
    It's mostly just buddies-bonding-over-bullets stuff. [29 Jan 1993, p.24]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Click
    If it doesn't quite represent the new, improved Adam Sandler, it shows him almost desperately trying to figure out who that might be.
  6. Blindness
    A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory.
  7. The Leisure Seeker
    The Leisure Seeker is slack and episodic in a way that only a committee could love. The sense of energy and surprise that one expects from a road movie is nowhere to be found. The pleasure of Mirren and Sutherland’s company is considerable, but not that considerable.
  8. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Historians might demand a little more history from Elizabeth: The Golden Age. But soap opera loyalists could hardly ask for more soap.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pride and Glory
    Everything in this good-cop/bad-cop action drama is shrouded in gray and attended by wailing. This isn't a feel-good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad?
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweet Home Alabama
    Isn't just lame; it's neutered.
  11. Jefferson in Paris
    But despite the vibrancy of its images and the exquisiteness of its craftsmanship, Jefferson in Paris doesn't often light a fire under its material. [07 Apr 1995]
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  12. Zombie Strippers!
    Shouting the title never quite prepared me for either how stripping zombies aren't as hot or as funny as I thought they would be or how quickly the movie's eager intelligence collapses on itself.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The results are exactly as patchwork as that sounds, with sequences of rowdy, sacrilegious invention punctuated by long spells of tedium.
  14. Upside Down
    Solanas’s daring takes the form of ambition. Upside Down has a visionary look that has affinities with everything from “Metropolis” to “Blade Runner” to “Children of Men.” Solanas has the temerity to split the screen horizontally in many shots. Usually, this works, though “Upside Down” is not recommended for anyone subject to visual dislocation.
  15. Taken 2
    It's a stupid movie by smart people who aren't smart enough to realize it's stupid.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Intruders
    Its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow.
  17. Detention
    The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places.
  18. The Distinguished Gentleman
    The film is content to remain at the level of the mildly entertaining, with no real surprises and not much sass. [04 Dec 1992]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Step Up 3-D
    Watching this movie in 3-D is very much like sticking one's head in a blender and hitting "pulse."
  20. Alien Nation
    Alien Nation quickly abandons any possibility of an equivalently fascinating world for the formulas of a routine cop movie. [7 Oct 1988, p.40]
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  21. Hall Pass
    Hall Pass is the brothers' 10th movie, and their most gangbusters since "Me, Myself & Irene."
  22. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    The F&F series is the 21st century's beach movie, one for some beachless future world where the kids are crowning 25 and seem capable of living off of hair gel and exhaust fumes.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sydney White
    Sydney White makes "Mean Girls" look like Shakespeare.
  24. I Love You to Death
    while not without pleasures, I Love You to Death essentially seems a film in search of a tone. [06 Apr 1990]
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  25. Flower
    The film is quite the showcase for Zoey Deutch (“Before I Fall”), giving her loose-scripted freedom to play brazen, breezy, even soulfully vulnerable. Still, her selectively promiscuous hellion is so off-putting so much of the time — as are most of those around her, and their lurid plots and predicaments — it’s hard to see the point of it all.
  26. Elizabethtown
    Audiences of a certain hipster disposition, in fact, will see Elizabethtown and pine for Zach Braff's ''Garden State," the movie to which Elizabethtown bears an unfortunate and inferior resemblance.
  27. The Statement
    Harwood's screenplay obscures any sort of philosophical, religious, or historical considerations in favor of pulpy and faith-bruising sensationalism.
  28. Vanilla Sky
    May not emerge as the biggest disaster of the holiday movie season, if only because we haven't yet seen all the other year-end films. But it is a huge high-energy misfire, bringing Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Crowe to earth with a thud.
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Situation
    Overall the concept is strong and expertly fleshed out; it's just a pity that Hollywood tropes are allowed to invade.
  30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
    An inferior, though quite respectable, follow-up. [22 Mar 1991, p.73]
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