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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. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Kennedy doesn't take the character any deeper than a caricature of rich, nonblack fans of hip-hop culture. But as a caricature, he's fantastic.
  2. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    The movie may feel tonally consistent with the first, but it’s also overlong and thoroughly routine.
  3. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    For all its wide, open spaces, City Slickers II is mostly smoke and mirrors, but thanks to its humor and generosity of spirit, it's an enjoyable diversion in this summer of brang-yer-twang films. [10 June 1994, p.49]
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  4. Survival of the Dead
    Romero's Hatfields-and-McCoys setup feels more random than creative, and the idea that they're all Irish -- or cowboys! -- is more desultory still.
  5. Larger Than Life
    Larger Than Life is a thin, disjointed road comedy that contains a few laughs despite itself. No matter how loosey-goosey and silly the script gets, and no matter how contrived the premise is, Bill Murray manages to sneak in a number of typically zany actions and reactions. [01 Nov 1996, p.E7]
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  6. Backwards
    The neatness of the plotting becomes almost comical after a while. Construction is one thing; contrivance is another.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Step Up Revolution
    Don't roll your eyes just yet. Step Up Revolution, enhanced by 3-D and set in glitzy Miami, is not as cringe-worthy as you would expect from the fourth "Step Up" installment.
  8. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
    There are times when "Star Trek V" seems padded and low-impact, but there are things to like, too. [9 June 1989, p.81]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Pastoral
    A new movie based on Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral” offers proof yet again that this writer’s great literary gifts are almost impossible to translate to the screen. Roth is a protean American inner voice. The movies, sad to say, remain better at exteriors.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch and Release
    There's a funkier and more interesting movie in Maureen, a character played by Juliette Lewis. Maureen is a single mom, a massage therapist, and a dimwit California follower of every new-age theory out there. She's a nasal, needy wreck, and Catch and Release is torn between adoring her and making ruthless fun of her.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tempest
    A comparison to Baz Luhrmann is useful: Where Taymor self-consciously aestheticizes pop vulgarity, a movie like "Moulin Rouge!" just dives right in.
  12. The Omen
    It's a terrible sign for a movie when the sole reason for its existence is a satanic opening date.
  13. Dad
    The film is mostly Lemmon's in a quietly stunning performance you frankly didn't know he had in him. [27 Oct 1989, p.29p]
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  14. The Mexican
    Isolated offbeat moments aside, The Mexican mostly fires blanks.
    • Boston Globe
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Animal
    Through it all, Rob Schneider comes off as a jackass in The Animal.
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  16. Jersey Girl
    Eloquent and unapologetically cute.
  17. Fathers' Day
    Robin Williams and Billy Crystal don't quite hit a dream team level of hilarity in Fathers' Day. They don't send you home empty-handed, either. [9 May 1997, p.C7]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    9 Songs
    It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish 9 Songs was that movie.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Vow
    It's quite watchable date-night cheese - the kind of movie you can simultaneously snort at and enjoy.
  20. Bob Marley: One Love
    Bob Marley: One Love opts to print the legend, but it will just make you want to listen to “Legend.”
  21. Hot Rod
    If the movie weren't so playfully dumb -- did you ever think you'd see Ian McShane throw Andy Samberg through a basement shelving unit? -- this would be exasperating.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Antebellum
    It’s refreshing to see Monáe show what she can do as a lead, and her performance as Veronica possesses a wit and savvy that complement the performer’s natural poise.
  23. The Angry Birds Movie
    What starts out as a lowbrow gag very typical of a pedestrian ’toon gradually balloons into absurdity that Mel Brooks would probably love. Here, at least, the Angry Birds fly.
  24. Le Chef
    Usually a French comedy such as this requires some crude modifications before a studio like Touchstone can remake it for American audiences. In this case, though, they just need to lose the subtitles and dub in the voices of actors like Rob Schneider or Adam Sandler. Until then, bon appetit!
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl in the Spider's Web
    And that’s what The Girl in the Spider’s Web is: soulless, bloodless product. Subtitled “A Dragon Tattoo Story,” it exists almost solely to drive a stake in the ground for the further franchising of author Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    MacGruber
    All thing considered, MacGruber’ is a lot better than it should be. That still doesn’t mean it’s all that great.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.
  28. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    This franchise might be all about shedding light on lost details, but “Mistress of Evil” sometimes leaves us in the dark.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    X Games 3D: The Movie
    You’d think the 3-D effects would bring the action closer, but the kooky optics often have the opposite effect, turning the athletes into GI Joe and Boba Fett action figures zipping around a dollhouse set.
  30. Light It Up
    Light It Up isn't a great movie, but it's a cut above most so-called urban thrillers.
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