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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 1.1 points 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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    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    And So It Goes
    And So It Goes looks like it was shot on outdated video equipment and has a forced, jokey script by Mark Andrus (”As Good As It Gets,” “Georgia Rule”).
  2. Navy Seals
    Like "Fire Birds," another recent special-team flick, Navy SEALs is a transparent attempt to showcase adventure sequences. Plot? Character? Who has time for subtlety amid all those dangerous maneuvers? It's all an excuse for the action - but even the action in Navy SEALS is dismal. [20 July 1990, p.32]
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  3. Scrooged
    Scrooged is that rarest of contemporary Hollywood phenomena -- a Christmas movie with Christmas spirit. [23 Nov 1988, p.21]
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  4. The Medallion
    Moves from cheekiness to ineptitude, often in a single take.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Rugrats Go Wild
    Slapstick and potty humor for the kids, sly allusions and famous voices for the adults, and a light coating of aren't-we-lucky-to-have-each-other schmaltz at the very end - yep, Nickelodeon has the family-flick formula pretty much down.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    What a disaster -- a dog.
  7. Death to Smoochy
    The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy.
  8. Don't Say a Word
    Don't Say a Word can be thought of as a case of Dial B for Boring.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pink Panther
    Suffice to say that Shawn Levy, director of the "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies, is no Blake Edwards; for every finely tuned slapstick fillip, there's a ton of messy, family-friendly buffoonery.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    The movie equivalent of a box of generic macaroni and cheese: bland, easily digested, comforting, forgettable.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Third Person
    Third Person staggers well over the two-hour mark only to self-destruct in a burst of overwrought cleverness.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Men, Women & Children
    It’s one of those multi-character morality plays — think “American Beauty” meets “Crash” — and it will play especially well to freaked-out parents, even as it distances itself from them by acknowledging that the kids (most of them, anyway) are all right.
  13. Crossing Over
    If Crossing Over is less self-congratulatory than "Crash" about confronting its designated problem, it's just as inept at dramatizing the complex ways that problem unites and divides us. Here every cause is something you can wear around your neck.
  14. Ben-Hur
    That Morgan Freeman voice! It’s so rich and full and authoritative that even when he’s telling Judah, “OK, OK,” you almost believe people used that word in the year 33. If they were very progressive.
  15. God's Army
    In its zeal to counter the negativity usually found in depictions of Mormons, God's Army eventually succumbs to overearnestness, sentimentality, and cliche.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Uncommon Valor
    With Ted Kotcheff's hackneyed direction and Joe Gayton's cliche-ridden script, this version of "Missing" for the soldier of fortune set is one of the most reprehensible exploitation films of the year.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hillbilly Elegy
    Worse, by neutering the specifics of where these people live and come from, Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy renders the story meaningless.
  18. Amos & Andrew
    Appealing as he can be at playing loose cannons, however, Cage can only go so far before being mired in a script that generates stereotypes as quickly as it thinks it's knocking them down. [05 Mar 1993, p.64]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blade: Trinity
    One of the prime laws of the multiplex states that any action or horror movie series will devolve into ritualized violence, self-mocking camp, and egregious silliness by part three. Blade: Trinity is right on schedule.
  20. I Am
    Shadyac doesn't film how his change inspires more change, or showing him, say, starting a school for destitute orphans. All we see him give is this movie. It's not much of a contribution.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Return
    As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her t-shirt.
  22. Random Hearts
    A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
  23. Little Nicky
    Hell itself is going to hell in Sandler's new comedy.
  24. Final Destination 2
    By the time I saw poor Tim crushed, head to toe, by a falling sheet of plate glass, I was certain I hadn't signed up for anything this punishing.
  25. Gothika
    For most of the movie, however, Halle sprints, Halle swims (55 laps!), and Halle screams. It's a two-hour fitness video -- a portrait of the Oscar winner as personal trainer.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    One could forgive a budget this threadbare, performances this amateurish, a plot this tortuous if the 3-D effects passed the cool test. Sadly, watching ''Adventures" is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses.
  27. Adore
    Just one more touch of “realism” in a sexual melodrama played so straight that it’s nuts.
  28. The Words
    The Words aspires to depths greater than the sex we never see these two have. There's nothing for the eye to do while the ear fills with the banalities of two streams of narration, one by Dennis Quaid, the other by Jeremy Irons, all of it built around a lie.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Made of Honor
    In Made of Honor, the leads are beautiful and everyone else is a freak. So where does that leave us?
  30. Reindeer Games
    The end is a long time coming in Reindeer Games and the dialogue is mostly slush.
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