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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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ironclad
    As history it's bunk; as inappropriate historical fiction, it's awfully close to comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Internship
    It’s the kind of Hollywood formula product that proves why the formula’s so hard to kill: simultaneously easy to like and impossible to respect.
  3. Mafia Mamma
    While Mafia Mamma fails as a comedy, it succeeds in delivering the graphically violent moments one expects from a movie about the Mafia.
  4. Gun Shy
    The bathroom jokes in Gun Shy wear thin.
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    • 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.
  6. The Ice Road
    A predictable, semi-shameless, yet not-unsatisfying action drama.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stone Cold
    Stone Cold trips up at the end, but it's still recommended for fans of the genre or Road Warrior fans out for a night of cinematic slumming. It snarls, it bites, it roars. [17 May 1992, p.32]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inferno
    Inferno is the exact cinematic equivalent of an airport paperback, which is what’s fine and forgettable about it.
  9. Captain America: Brave New World
    While Lumbly brings a refreshing amount of Black anger and cynicism to his performance, Mackie is stuck in a kumbaya mode designed to not offend white viewers. It may be a brave new world, but it’s the same old story.
  10. Superstar
    Part of the reason for the comic surehandedness is the obvious chemistry between Shannon, Ferrell, and director Bruce McCulloch.
  11. The Lawnmower Man
    Mostly plays like an artificial stupidity experiment. Zappy visuals aside, it's essentially a reactionary take on science, stemming from the movies' traditional belief that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and a lot of knowledge is worse. Think of it as Faust Goes to the Lab, with an ambitious doc serving as Mephistopheles. [6 Mar 1992, p.30]
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  12. Renegades
    There's talent on view in Renegades, even if it's mostly subordinated to formula and marketing imperatives. [02 Jun 1989, p.33]
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  13. Burnt
    Cooper swaggers as convincingly as always, the food-prep montages are mesmerizing, and we even get a couple of solid twists and an education on the sous-vide trend.
  14. Two Weeks Notice
    Lawrence just leans on Grant and Bullock, who could have done a movie this breezy from the set of their next one -- where, presumably, Bullock will be playing Medea.
  15. Psycho Beach Party
    A little Hitchcock and some good Psycho fun at the beach.
  16. Jurassic Park III
    What makes it worth sitting through is the chance it offers to catch up on the technical advances since the last installment.
  17. The 13th Warrior
    About everything is big in The 13th Warrior except the writing, which is microscopic.
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    Wild Mountain Thyme is not a good movie. Rather, it’s one that believes so deeply and joyously in its potted romantic Oirishness that the audience doesn’t have to.
  19. Against All Odds
    It begins promisingly.... But the film has no center, succumbs to drift, and gets away from Hackford. [03 Mar 1984]
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  20. Stargate
    It works not because ridiculousness is concealed, but because ridiculousness on this scale becomes something else. Don't let anyone tell you that Stargate, lifeless script and all, isn't clunky fun, proudly trembling on the brink of classic camp. [28 Oct 1994, p.48]
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  21. Parker
    The best we get here are modest action diversions.
  22. Taking Care of Business
    Taking Care of Business could be a lot worse. It's a swift, if entirely predictable, identity-switch movie that wastes little time on the way to its morality play conclusion. [17 Aug 1990, p.36p]
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  23. Daddy's Home
    Consider it a predictable movie with flashes of unpredictability, one that actually coaxes some early laughs with, yes, scatological wit, then makes us groan when it shamefully takes the low road back to poopville a bit later on.
  24. Mighty Fine
    Chazz Palminteri's the best thing in the movie. He now has the look of a slightly beefier Steve Buscemi. But where Buscemi is all nerves on edge and something bad waiting to happen, Palminteri has a winning ease.
  25. Bicentennial Man
    Few actors apart from Williams could bring it off.
  26. The Event
    Dukakis gets off some of the film's best lines and keeps the worst from sinking the whole affair; Polley's role is limited, but her character's audition for a feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here.
  27. The Affair of the Necklace
    Larceny at its most labored.
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  28. The Stepford Wives
    It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Austenland
    Hess has made a classic rookie director mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it’s spoofing, and this one’s twice as dumb.
  30. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    What I found more disturbing was the casual misogyny of the convoluted story line.
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