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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. On_Line
    Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
  2. No Such Thing
    Hartley's loquacity and arguable pretentiousness are stemmed by his sense of play. Even when they run afoul, his movies still have the conviction of their fun. No Such Thing barely has any convictions at all.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
    It's still a film with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, most provided by comedian Dennis Miller. On first glance it would appear Miller is horribly miscast in this predictable fang flick. But Miller's ceaseless verbal machine gun of one-liners salvages the movie. [16 Aug 1996, p.D3]
    • Boston Globe
  4. Johnny Mnemonic
    To call Johnny Mnemonic a disaster would be giving it too much credit. Disasters land loudly, resoundingly. This one lands with a dull thud. [26 May 1995, p.87]
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  5. Saw IV
    Getting to the true root of his evil may necessitate "Saw LX."
  6. The Fly II
    Even an experienced director would have his hands full making anything out of this script. Four screenwriters are credited, and as any movie buff knows, the more writers, the worse the movie. Nowhere Faustian, this one aspires to camp classic status, but lurches lamely into vile gross-out territory. [10 Feb 1989, p.48]
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  7. Push
    At the very least, a movie like this requires coherence to stay afloat. Barring that, it needs a star to distract us.
  8. Kin
    So, yeah, Kin is a bit of a biker movie, too. More important, it’s also a family drama. In their first-time feature-directing effort, twin brothers Jonathan and Josh Baker — speaking of kin — turn Cain and Abel inside out and upside down. Why be east of Eden when you end up that far west of Motown?
  9. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist.
  10. The Guardian
    The Guardian, based on a Dan Greenburg novel, is more suspenseful than most of the movies made from King's books. One reason is that Friedkin allows a certain weight of ominousness to accumulate, being in no hurry to let us know exactly what specific form the threat will take, or even from whom it will come. [27 Apr 1990, p.33p]
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  11. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    Four writers are credited with the script, and their combined efforts yield just one scene with genuine verve.
  12. Love's Labour's Lost
    Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Universal Soldier
    German director Roland Emmerich's action sequences are terrific and funny. [10 July 1992, p.37]
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  14. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    Pretty uninspired material for a dream-teaming of actresses who currently rate among the edgiest of them all.
  15. Grudge Match
    Stallone and De Niro simply don’t generate enough combative spark to make this anything more than an amiably mediocre diversion.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Nothing in How to Lose Friends feels fresh or on target.
  17. Resident Evil
    A video game cum movie that substitutes shrieking decibel levels for a coherent plot and any resemblance to originality.
  18. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Mostly a screenful of nothingness.
  19. My Blue Heaven
    My Blue Heaven is weightless and unwieldy. It's a confused carnival of silly subplots and characters who never manage to form an ensemble. [17 Aug 1990, p.37]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stealth
    For a movie to pretend, in the face of the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children directly or indirectly caused by our presence there, that we can wage war without anyone really getting hurt isn't naive, or wishful thinking, or a jim-dandy way to spend a Saturday night at the movies. It's an obscenity.
  21. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Once again, even reasonably committed fans will need a scorecard to keep track of who's fighting whom. What's the real target audience - i.e. kids - supposed to make of it all?
  22. For Greater Glory
    Some bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Venom
    Venom, the movie, is a reptilian Marvel mishmash whose touch saps the life force of almost everyone in it.
  24. Jumper
    But what can you do with Hayden Christensen? He's as close as we have to an android actor. It's all a chore for him. He never looks sufficiently scared, impressed, or surprised by any of this.
  25. Rumor Has It...
    An embarrassing romantic comedy from Rob Reiner.
  26. Argylle
    Argylle is a cynical cash grab that has the audacity to use that “new” Beatles song, “Now and Then” (itself a cynical cash grab pieced together with far more skill than this movie) as the basis for its score and the “love theme” for Aidan and Elly.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hustle
    A watchable, unnecessary re-do that works hard but lacks the charm to really zing.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    2 1/2 hours of tumescence disguised as a motion picture.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Two Can Play That Game
    In addition to the film's two extremely likable stars, the strong supporting cast features a who's who of rising African-American actors.
  30. Bollywood/Hollywood
    The average Bollywood routine is passionately cheesy. This movie seems cursed with a lactose intolerance.
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