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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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  1. Lady in the Water
    There is a good chunk of Lady in the Water that is simply too well made and affectingly acted to dismiss as a mere exercise in arrogance.
  2. That Awkward Moment
    As for the dialogue, although the characters talk really fast, swear a lot, and overlap their lines, what they’re saying isn’t very funny or authentic. It’s as if David Mamet collaborated on writing an episode of “Two and a Half Men.”
  3. Death Sentence
    The cynics will slap their foreheads, the squeamish will cover their eyes, but the revenge movie fanatics should be nice and satisfied after the whole ordeal.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Serena
    It must have looked great on paper. On screen, it’s a soapy mess that even Joan Crawford in her delusional late-period prime couldn’t save.
  5. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''
  6. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Party Monster
    "Prison isn't all that different from a nightclub,'' comments Alig toward the end. Funny; this movie isn't all that different from prison.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runner Runner
    When it’s time for the hot sex scene between Timberlake’s ambitious Richie Furst and Rebecca (Gemma Arterton), his boss’s luscious second-in-command, the encounter is as charmless and chemistry-free as the wooden banter that has led up to it. I’ve had dentist’s appointments that were sexier.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Tentacles
    Fonda, who looks as if he's trying to hide through half the picture, was paid $ 500,000 to look like a convincing victim. It doesn't seem worth it. Even the corny special effects are better than his stilted, walk-through performance. [03 Dec 1989, p.B45]
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  10. Road House
    Road House is the kind of action movie whose rigging is so blatant that there can be no air of heroism about it. Although Swayze and Sam Elliott, in the role of his mentor, have the decency to look sheepish most of the time, there's no end to the cynicism and merchandising on screen, especially in the sex scenes. [19 May 1989, p.45]
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  11. Fast Food Fast Women
    A warmhearted, hardworking little comedy that owes a lot of its charm to its modesty.
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  12. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Manages to fascinate more than it entertains.
  13. Lucy in the Sky
    It’s a deep-thinking character study that’s provocatively if imperfectly presented — at least until the story devolves right along with its subject’s state of mind.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Watch
    It's another one of those loud, penis-obsessed bro farces, lazily written (by actor Seth Rogen, among others) and haphazardly directed.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Feel the Noise
    Old story, new beat: That sums up Feel the Noise, an acceptable if resolutely average low-budget drama set in the New York/Puerto Rican musical melting pot known as reggaeton.
  16. Poster Boy
    An overwrought story of American politics and image-making that really only gets interesting in the final act.
  17. Turistas
    Turistas is not a slasher film -- not conventionally. Released by Fox's new teen division, it's the latest aquatic titillation from John Stockwell, the man who also brought us "Blue Crush" and the shockingly good "Into the Blue."
  18. Alpha and Omega
    Alpha and Omega is sweet, if not fresh.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    College Road Trip
    Highly formulaic, make-'em-laugh-then-make-'em-cry comedy.
  20. Stardom
    Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.
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  21. The Reaping
    Long-delayed, pitiful excuse for a horror film.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dumb and Dumber To
    Everyone has piled into this dumber, sillier, more consistently funny reprise with an enthusiasm that’s infectious, and not in a low-grade medical way.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Number Four
    A well-made, reasonably diverting night at the multiplex that will seem overly familiar to everyone except teenage girls.
  24. What Happens in Vegas
    When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame.
  25. The Pink Panther 2
    Playing Clouseau's exasperated boss, Cleese rams his head into a wall minutes into the action. That's a powerful image, insofar as his headache was mine.
  26. Striking Distance
    Bruce Willis appears to be one of those actors for whom there is no middle ground. His action films are either "Die Hard" or "Hudson Hawk." His latest, Striking Distance, is a "Hudson Hawk." It should have been called "Striking Out." [17 Sept 1993, p.51]
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  27. Something Borrowed
    I don't know whether she's (Hudson) drunk, stoned, or simply out of her mind, but if it weren't so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisible
    A fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Rambo III
    Rambo III is just another of Stallone's exercises in narcissism and jingoism, death and glory wrapped up in one tidy package. [25 May 1988, p.75]
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  30. Stolen Summer
    Sweetly earnest little drama.
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