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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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoned
    All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.
  2. The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window is a thriller, as you’ve no doubt figured out, but also has a throwback, Bette Davis vibe — Adams gets to do a lot of emoting — with a touch of horror movie thrown in.
  3. When the Game Stands Tall
    It makes for a structurally glitchy inspirational exercise whose climax carries all the goosebump-making drama of a Pats preseason game.
  4. Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Limits of Control
    Jarmusch has come up with a dud.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crank: High Voltage
    Imagine some very smart people setting out to make a very naughty action film and shooting themselves in the foot. Voila: Crank: High Voltage.
  7. What Planet Are You From?
    The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles.
  8. Passengers
    More spectacular special effects might have helped, or at least something more creative than a spaceship that resembles a giant Christmas tree ornament shaped like a corkscrew. Perhaps as a well-written play for a cast of three, Passengers might have been first class. Instead, it’s just another mediocre thrill ride.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Salton Sea
    A commercial Hollywood movie without pretensions. If there's no art here, it's still a good yarn - which is nothing to sneeze at these days.
  10. The Secret Agent
    Hampton's directorial inexperience shows, and the film remains curiously disjointed and devoid of suspense. [06 Dec 1996]
    • Boston Globe
  11. Double Jeopardy
    Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb.
  12. Monster Trucks
    Monster Trucks might not be a complete lemon, but it’s hardly cherry.
  13. Running Scared
    A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sabotage
    Stupid, sadistic, misogynistic, confusing, and more than a little ridiculous. Here’s the thing, though: It keeps you watching, if only to see how tortured the plot or characters are going to get. I’m not sure that “entertainingly awful” is a recommendation, but the shoe fits.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G-Force
    The general consensus on this one: Rats.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Four Christmases
    Four Christmases is essentially "Meet the Parents" quadrupled.
  17. Summer Camp
    By the time the film settles down to give us a few solid dramatic scenes, I appreciated the effort but had long since stopped caring.
  18. Mojave
    In his second directorial effort, Mojave, Monahan has no such map to follow, and he wanders in a land of sophomoric pretentiousness and banal profundities.
  19. White Chicks
    The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere.
  20. Chappie
    Chappie boasts so many entertaining elements, particularly the lead motion-capture performance by Blomkamp’s go-to guy Sharlto Copley, its shortcomings don’t sink the movie.
  21. Hop
    Hop may have taken years to design and animate, but it feels as if minutes were required to compose it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Romeo & Juliet
    Carlos Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet is a failure of skill.
  23. The Quiet Ones
    The Quiet Ones simply has nothing to say.
  24. Priest
    Priest is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Darling Companion
    Darling Companion would be instantly forgettable if not for Keaton, who imbues Beth with a sorrow, warmth, wisdom, and rage that feel earned.
  26. House of Wax
    For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude.
  27. Metro
    For all its propulsion (when it isn't slogging through would-be love scenes), Metro is unable to avoid seeming like yet another of the vanity movies that got Murphy into the career trouble from which he just extricated himself. Murphy vulnerable is more appealing than Murphy as supercop. [17 Jan 1997, p.D6]
    • Boston Globe
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Illegal Tender
    The movie's a genuine oddity: a Latino action drama with one foot in bullet-spitting genre flicks -- '70s blaxploitation and '80s coke-kingpin films are the primary reference points -- and the other in raggedly personal family melodrama.
  29. Outlander
    By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.
  30. X
    It doesn't tap deeply enough into any of the characters to compel us to identify with one or another.
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