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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
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson isn't all that bad in Bel Ami. He just isn't right.
  2. Jem and the Holograms
    To Chu’s credit, he does work hard not only to legitimize 30-somethings’ halcyon recollections, but also to make the material relevant to a new generation.
  3. Breakfast of Champions
    Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barnyard
    Speaking as both a parent and a critic, I do believe I'd rather drive rusty railroad spikes through my eyes than have to sit through one more computer generated family film about talking animals. The bad news for Hollywood is that after seeing Barnyard my kids feel the same way.
  5. Arthur Newman
    The closest most people will get to that state of existential freedom is watching actors in a movie about it, and the pleasure usually comes with a price — a reminder that identity, though arbitrary, is also inescapable. In movies like Dante Ariola’s debut feature, Arthur Newman, so, too, are the cliches and platitudes.
  6. PCU
    There's about one TV commercial's worth of funny gags in PCU a poorly executed one-joker about political correctness on campus...But any laughs quickly become redundant and wear thin, and the uselessly involved plot spirals off into absurdity. [29 Apr 1994, p.49]
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  7. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    For kids strung out on Anthony Horowitz's 007-lite adventure series, this maiden adaptation is a pleasant enough diversion from having to flip the pages.
  8. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    There's no getting around the fact that it's an uneven exercise that shows signs of having gestated too long. [04 Jun 1999]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Suburbicon
    Suburbicon is George Clooney’s sixth feature as a director and the latest spiral downward in terms of quality.
  10. Courageous
    For all Kendrick's stolidity, he delivers a couple of wrenchingly tender scenes.
  11. Return to Oz
    The Disney people have taken such obvious care in making Return to Oz that it's a shame it didn't turn out better. It has its moments - mostly visual - but when it isn't a grim downer, it's largely inert. [21 Jun 1985, p.21]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is stupid enough to send you back to the one movie that did the saga right by ripping it to shreds, 1975’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
  13. Bubble Boy
    There's always been room for rudeness in humor. In fact, it can be invigorating. But Bubble Boy goes through the motions of being outrageous when all it's really got is a rage to conform to formula.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Clue
    Clue the movie, not the board game, isn't so much a drama as it is a marketing gimmick. Presumably, Paramount Pictures believed that an audience was clamoring to see actors play one-dimensional figures from a game. [13 Dec 1985, p.57]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Princess Kaiulani
    It can’t be easy to turn the story of Hawaii’s last royal into a waxworks parade, but writer-director Marc Forby has pulled it off.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knowing
    Starts off mildly ridiculous, ascends to the full-blown ludicrous, and finally sails boldly off the edge of the absolutely preposterous.
  17. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Even by the unambitious standards of some children's movies and many movies that star Caine, this one has a difficult time making a case for itself as anything other than an adventure in baby-sitting.
  18. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Forget the metaphors, why not just make a movie about poor, exploited Mexicans?
  19. Larry Crowne
    Larry Crowne isn't a movie for adults. It's a movie for adults who don't like things with screens and keyboards.
  20. John Tucker Must Die
    The movie is as inconsequentially pleasant as its star, and far nicer than the title lets on, too.
  21. Mad Money
    This is the feistiest Hollywood movie about American women and their thankless jobs since "9 to 5."
  22. War of the Buttons
    But when there's such a lighthearted, boys-at-play manner about the story's established aspects, it creates an odd disconnect from the World War II tolerance lessons that the filmmakers seek to add. War and persecution are bad, kids - except when it's all in good fun.
  23. Godzilla 2000
    A ton of fun, and then some.
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  24. Next Friday
    The action is mostly witless and predictable. One measure of its desperation and lack of respect for its audience is the frequency with which it labors to wring humor from flatulence and excrement gags.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What to Expect When You're Expecting
    The writing is sharp and the performances bright, and if you've been through the forced gestational march known as pregnancy, there are knowing laughs to be had. If you haven't, do yourself a favor and stay away.
  26. Black Adam
    All kinds of stuff happens. Much of it is loud, confusing, and badly paced. From a superhero-movie perspective, it’s the last one of those three that’s most problematic. Leaden and flaccid are a bad combination.
  27. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    How funny that Pryce, a tweedy Brit playing a bad guy, should be the one person doing anything remotely heroic for this dud.
  28. Machete Kills
    Rodriguez does a fair job of keeping the zaniness coming: Vergara’s machine gun bra, Gibson delivering exposition in a “Star Wars” prop, bad guys offed by helicopter blades in dementedly creative ways. It’s enough that you’ll hope Rodriguez makes good on that new faux trailer — for “Machete Kills Again . . . in Space.”
  29. TMNT
    The movie is a serviceable way to pass the time: Kids will cheer the bright colors and funny new words ("Kowabunga!").
  30. Hardware
    The chief trouble with Hardware is that it doesn't seem to contribute anything uniquely its own to the genre, although it works hard dismembering bodies and otherwise crushing and tearing them apart with its circular saw and drill-bit arms after homing in on them with its ruby laser eyes. [14 Sep 1990, p.40p]
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