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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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Pie 2
    Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.
  2. Anything Else
    This movie is wretched, condescending, and sad, like watching an elderly man spend more than 100 minutes tapping his arm for the youth vein -- which he never finds.
  3. The Beach
    It's "Beach Blanket Bingo" revisited, but with a Eurocast and more exotic locations.
  4. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    If Perry’s cinematic vision remains less than 20/20, his sagacity gets stronger by the movie.
  5. All I See Is You
    What emerges from this pretentious if diverting mishmash is a story that is equally predictable and contrived, but nonetheless offers some worthwhile insights into the notion of the male gaze and the subjugation of women.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Year by the Sea
    Year by the Sea is for audiences who don’t trust the shiftiness of nuance and craft, of messages that rise up from dramatic situations rather than being pasted on top of them, and who would prefer their life lessons stated loudly and for maximum applicability.
  7. Medicine Man
    With what doubtless are the best intentions, the film wants to do several things, and does. The trouble is that it doesn't do any of them very well. [07 Feb 1992, p.32]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Night School
    Broad as the side of a city bus and about as lumbering, Night School is a better-than-average Kevin Hart comedy — meaning that it’s an average comedy overall. It’s silly and rather sweet, and it’s blessed with an ensemble that makes the most of the dopey cartoon script patched together by Hart and five other writers.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wish I Was Here
    As an actor, Braff does thin-skinned sad-sack quite well. As a writer, he’s hopelessly banal. As a director, he’s a disaster.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Total Recall (2012)
    The only laugh to be had in Total Recall, a ripsnorting sci-fi action extravaganza that starts well and works its way down to average, is in the opening credits, where we learn that the movie's primary production company is called Original Film. Really?
  11. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As a flawed but lovably lionhearted woman, Barrymore triumphantly comes of age as an actress.
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  12. The Last Castle
    The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much.
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  13. Paycheck
    We're left with the painful reality that Paycheck might get Alfred Hitchcock, but it certainly doesn't know Philip K. Dick.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The ABCs of Death
    Do your tastes delve into the sick, ultra-violent, and disturbing? Then you may find The ABCs of Death, an anthology of about two dozen short films, inventive and funny. Otherwise, as you consume this serving of alphabet soup, “A” may as well stand for “atrocious,” “B” for “bloodbath,” and “C” for “check, please.”
  15. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is fun, as Dan Aykroyd used to say, within limits. [16 July 1993, p.40]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolfman
    The movie is by no means good but it’s surprisingly enjoyable: a misty, moody Saturday-matinee monster-chiller-horror special.
  17. Dear John
    Unfortunately for Tatum and Seyfried, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did a far more convincing version of this same basic dance in “The Notebook.’’
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Youth Without Youth
    At its best, the movie's crazy in unexpected and poetic ways; at its worst, merely preposterous.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lady
    It can't be easy to turn one of the most stirring human rights dramas of the past quarter century into stultifying screen pageantry, but director Luc Besson and writer Rebecca Frayn have managed the trick with The Lady.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vita & Virginia
    The tumultuous emotional, sexual, and literary relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West would make a fascinating movie — it’s a shame that Vita & Virginia isn’t it.
  21. The Three Musketeers
    This version may not be as stylish or as sparkling as Richard Lester's 1974 outing with Michael York as D'Artagnan, but it's winningly rambunctious and pushes ahead in livelier fashion than the other versions. [12 May 1993, p.48]
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  22. Freedomland
    An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is.
  23. Final Destination 3
    Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.
  24. Where the Crawdads Sing
    Where the Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’s best-selling novel, is long on setting and atmosphere. It’s short on most everything else. Droopy in pace, it’s increasingly drippy in feeling.
  25. Meet Dave
    On just about every occasion in Meet Dave, Murphy appears to be on the verge of cracking himself up. This is good news. At least someone found him funny.
  26. Needful Things
    Solid B-level stuff, better than most filmed King novels. [27 Aug 1993, p.81]
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  27. Love in the Time of Cholera
    Little of the fragile wisdom with which García Márquez imbued that idea has survived this timid Hollywood treatment.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Final Season
    The movie is decent and heartfelt, and it eventually settles into some sharp diamond action, but the small-town homilies are dropped like an anvil. If you thought 1993's "Rudy" was too spare and unsentimental, Final Season is for you.
  29. For Love of the Game
    After revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twentynine Palms
    A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.
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