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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. Committed
    Runs dry amid the cactus and sagebrush, but Graham's cartoony take on angelic unstoppableness makes us not mind so much.
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  2. The Ninth Gate
    A supernatural thriller that is neither super, natural, nor thrilling.
  3. Love & Sex
    Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.
  4. Pearl Harbor
    The film never quite hits a sure-footed stride. The fictional love story stays fictional. But ''Pearl Harbor'' delivers the main event.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jacket
    The acting makes the difference, and in Jacket it rises above the needs of the material.
  6. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    With its inventively nutso action, youthful vibe, and subversive topicality, the “Kingsman” franchise feels more relevant than even Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Screen espionage doesn’t come any hipper these days.
  7. Dough
    The few winning, not-so-secret ingredients in Dough are the performances of Pryce and newcomer Holder, who brings zest and freshness to a stale role.
  8. Drive Angry 3D
    Drive Angry is something new for Cage - a movie that feels like it's straight FROM cable.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Country
    At its best when Anna confronts her tangled Afrikaaner legacy and when it brings the heretical notion of forgiveness up front, where a non-African audience can come to grips with it.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Where the first film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer’s vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that’s a morning-after mope-fest.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Tarzan
    It all might wash in a Johnny Weissmuller “Tarzan” movie from the 1940s. It no longer suffices today. Filmmakers, it’s time to pack up Greystoke Manor. Tarzan is dead.
  12. Stomp the Yard
    For his part, Short, another pop choreographer, sounds like Vin Diesel, but he moves like a bee. When he dances, he makes sure every girl in the theater goes home stung.
  13. Kidnap
    Maybe if the filmmakers suggested that these villains were once children with mothers themselves, it might have made their crime, and the chase that ensues, less one-dimensional.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Poole Is Here
    Manages a fairly rare trick: It's a movie that's both deeply felt and completely phony.
  15. Fidel
    Unabashed Fidel worship.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holidate
    In trying to play up the naughty, witty side of the rom-com equation, the movie settles for snarky. It’s an acrid fairy tale, if not without a few pleasures, and it arrives on Netflix just in time for — wait, Christmas?
  17. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    Still, not to put too fine — or juvenile — a point on it, a bigger problem is that there’s nothing but ’bot-on-’bot mayhem until the climax, when familiar ugly heads are reared over Tokyo.
  18. Nowhere
    In short, Nowhere needs more humor, more wildness. Its pandemonium is only on the surface - which could have been the premise of a really humorous take on teen chaos. But it doesn't push the envelope as much as Araki's previous films. Although it gives his pop sensibility a vigorous workout, Nowhere is Araki's Mallrats. [06 June 1997, p.D6]
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  19. 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!
  20. Innocent Blood
    Landis spends too much time in the realm of the cartoony, where he's clearly comfortable, and less time in the area of the suavely insinuating, where any vampire movie really lives. Innocent Blood is pumped-up, but anemic. [25 Sept 1992, p.34]
    • Boston Globe
  21. Two Weeks
    Creaky, earnest melodrama.
  22. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Any originality in this new movie is overwhelmed by its lazy eagerness to embrace the new standard for R-rated comedy.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Churchill
    Unfortunately, Churchill the movie is simply dreadful, a stiff, melodramatic “Great Man” travesty that gets both the larger history and the details wrong while encouraging its star’s most overwrought excesses. What Cox serves in this movie is ham, poorly sliced.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hostage
    It's a B-flick all the way, but it has no pretensions to the contrary, and that's some kind of refreshing.
  25. Walking Tall
    Walking Tall, which is credited to four different writers, is wanting for a reason to be.
  26. Angels in the Outfield
    There's nothing really awful about Angels in the Outfield." But it never becomes more than an efficient, by-the-numbers reworking of the 1951 baseball fantasy about cellar-dwellers turned pennant-winners with a little supernatural help. [15 July 1994, p.41]
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  27. Who's Harry Crumb?
    Who's Harry Crumb? has a beginning bright enough to make you hope that John Candy might at last have his first good movie role since Splash. But no. Who's Harry Crumb? crumbles into yet another slack, witless misreading of what makes Candy an appealing performer. [03 Feb 1989, p.43]
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  28. 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.
  29. Made in Italy
    Along the way, good food is eaten, the scenery is fabulous, and when the son and a local woman meet cute she not only speaks excellent English but is gorgeous and endlessly understanding. There are some laughs. There are some tears. There’s even a little swearing. Made in Italy has been saddled with what must be the year’s least-deserved R rating.
  30. The Inbetweeners Movie
    If nothing else, The Inbetweeners Movie earns itself a footnote in any comprehensive history of local movie exhibition. This has got to be the first time a wedgie has been inflicted onscreen at the Kendall.
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