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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. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Bland though it is, "Havana Nights" could be the start of a globe-bettering franchise -- and across history, too: "Dirty Dancing: Monticello Mornings"; "Dirty Dancing: Gaza Strip Afternoons."
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ciao America
    Eventually blossoms into a snappy piece about understanding yourself by listening to the personal triumphs and defeats of the past.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dead Man Down
    Before this urban revenge melodrama falls apart in a clatter of plot absurdities and pretensions, it has its loopy charms.
  4. Captain Ron
    Captain Ron is an inconsequential but inoffensive little comedy dedicated to the proposition that inheriting Clark Gable's yacht can be a real problem. A throwback to the plastic Disney family comedies of the late '50s and early '60s, it's at least trim and shipshape, if never inspired or original. [18 Sep 1992, p.56]
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  5. About My Father
    I admire Maniscalco’s decision to make his character the butt of the jokes, literally and figuratively. If only the jokes were funny. He has zero romantic chemistry with Bibb, who appears to be acting in another movie entirely, but he and De Niro make a credible father and son.
  6. Consenting Adults
    The real problem is a script from hell - or at least one of the dingier suburbs of limbo. Some scripts are beyond belief. This one is beneath it. [16 Oct 1992, p.48]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clash of the Titans
    The results are -- there’s no other word for it -- a disaster.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Irene in Time
    Irene in Time is the initial first-run feature to debut at the Stuart Street Playhouse, Boston’s newest art house cinema. Both the theater and its audiences deserve much better.
  9. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    You put up the cash, the movie clunks.
  10. Why Him?
    A James Franco-Bryan Cranston teaming that’s not as wild as intended, but reasonably diverting just the same.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Hornet
    It's off-putting, rude, misshapen, and more often than not hysterically funny. The second half, sadly, is an ear-splitting train wreck.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wedding Weekend
    The dialogue is brightly self-conscious, and sometimes it clicks. Just as often it curdles into an entitled whining.
  13. St. Trinian's
    Sadly, the movie is a zoo.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just a Kiss
    It's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bringing Down the House
    There are about 15 minutes of genuine, bust-a-gut comedy in Bringing Down the House, and, surprisingly, they belong to Steve Martin, who hasn't been funny on film in years.
  16. Bait
    Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Need For Speed
    All that’s missing is Clyde the orangutan from Clint Eastwood’s “Every Which Way But Loose,” which, trust me, this movie could have used.
  18. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    What starts as a modest, agreeable riff on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original tale — and, more relevantly, Tchaikovsky’s ballet — eventually veers into stultifying action, rote twists, and other badly forced contemporary tweaks.
  19. Nights in Rodanthe
    Once a hurricane blows Gere and Lane into each other's arms, all the director's tasteful style and good sense turn into mush. Given the material, I suppose it has to.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life as We Know It
    Life as We Know It gives bland and predictable a good name.
  21. Zaytoun
    A scene between Yoni and Fahed in the pilot’s makeshift holding cell is a microcosm of everything that’s right about the movie, and not quite right.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen of the Desert
    In no way, shape, or fashion does Queen of the Desert qualify as a good movie, but for fans of Werner Herzog — those of us who have followed cinema’s Teutonic imp of the perverse since the 1970s, when he was staging all-dwarf fables and sending conquistadors across mountains — it is fascinating and something close to a must-see.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edge of Love
    A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.
  24. Aftershock
    Though offering some chilling twists on the usual conventions, employing wit and restraint where otherwise the filmmakers might have relied on the contents of an abattoir, Aftershock is ultimately predictable in its litany of who lives and who dies, and doesn’t try to be too ironic or self-reflexive about it.
  25. Flashdance
    Flashdance makes liberal use of jump cuts, strobe lighting and hard-edged, post-punk chic in its dance sequences, it registers as the end product of energy being released by an essentially lyrical temperament. It charms us, makes us want to refrain from scrutinizing it too closely. [31 Jul 1983, p.1]
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  26. The Greatest Beer Run Ever
    Perhaps the biggest problem with Beer Run is tonal haphazardness. Sometimes it’s meant to be funny — other times serious — other times even solemn. (Alternate title: “Chickie Learns About the Horrors of War.”) The few jokes that are clearly intentional tend to fall flat.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Provoked: A True Story
    There's an interesting movie in here, too, about the isolation of Indian brides brought to a new country by strange new husbands and mistreated, but Provoked rarely ducks below its glossy surface to go there.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alvin and the Chipmunks
    Like most family movies these days, "Alvin" is torn between the glitz that sells and the homilies that endure. It's a load of Ting Tang Wallet-Wallet Bling Blang.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of the Year
    One walks out of Man of the Year aching for the squandered opportunities.
  30. The Bodyguard
    The Bodyguard is a misfire. It's one of those perplexing but complete failures where all the ingredients show up, but somehow manage never to jell into anything convincing. [25 Nov 1992, p.35]
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