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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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    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hitman
    There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Primeval
    Primeval is a hoot if you're in the mood, though, and it gets points for trying to stuff a little globo-think into the minds of Friday night mayhem fans (who will probably rebel, since only one skull pops like a grape).
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Proud Mary
    A by-the-numbers B flick with a preposterous script and a good cast trying their best.
  4. Loser
    Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
  5. Friday After Next
    Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Rider
    Ghost Rider is the kind of movie that's great stupid fun as long as someone else is buying the tickets.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yogi Bear
    Picture Timberlake in the booth recording his lines and you have the best joke in the movie. Everything else is actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.
  9. I Spy
    The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief.
  10. Escape from Planet Earth
    Colorful as the 3-D aliens-among-us comedy is to look at, though, Corddry is handed a role that’s beige as can be, and so are his castmates.
  11. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
    In short, the film panders to teen-agers - but not smartly or stylishly. [07 June 1991, p.48]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Diana
    Hirschbiegel and Watts don’t have the nerve for camp. Even a scene of a rejected Diana back at Kensington, forlornly playing Bach at her piano while mascara streams down her face, is played gloomily straight.
  13. Hannibal Rising
    For better and worse, the movie is more attractive and competently assembled than its schlock peers. That's refreshing, but it hardly excuses the appalling lack of suspense, intermittent tastelessness, or shockingly low camp quotient.
  14. Freejack
    There are two entertaining small characters in Freejack - Amanda Plummer as a gun-toting nun and Johansen as Estevez's exploitive pal. As the lead, Estevez is appealing, if bland. He takes his future shocks in stride. [18 Jan 1982, p.12]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Self/less
    The movie takes a decent “Twilight Zone” idea -- what if you had a second chance at youth? -- and runs it into the ground with watchable but diminishing returns.
  16. Red Planet
    The question in Red Planet isn't whether there's any life on Mars, but whether there's any life in the film. The answer is no.
  17. Mission to Mars
    There are times when it moves into the guilty pleasure zone.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bewitched
    Bewitched presents a phony and cynical look at how Hollywood might make or remake a television show. It's as grating, laughless, and narcissistic (though, to its credit, not as cruel) as that new Lisa Kudrow show-within-a-show-within-a-show, "The Comeback."
  19. The Back-up Plan
    Lopez smiles, whines, and blinks her way through this movie. She seems more relaxed than she ever has. And yet it seems like she’s hiding in romantic comedies, lest we discover that she doesn’t have a “Monster’s Ball’’ or even a “Blind Side’’ in her.
  20. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    The best moments come in seeing Galifianakis’s costars try to keep up with him as he finally, frantically lets loose.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Slow Burn
    A veritable rip-off of 1995's "The Usual Suspects," Beach's crime caper not-so-subtly apes Bryan Singer's use of multiple red herrings and flashback-heavy interrogation scenes, but lacks the stylistic flair and sophisticated narrative skills to pull off a similar feat of cinematic intrigue.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Messengers
    The Messengers is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language.
  23. The Forest
    Zada gets credible performances from Dormer and Kinney, but their characters undergo such unlikely psychological contortions that these efforts are to no avail.
  24. Bitter Harvest
    As the film darkens, it intensifies its focus on tragedy and atrocity and begins to do some justice to one of the largest and least known genocides in history.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Ghosts is better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much - that's its pleasure and its curse.
  26. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The laughless outtakes for ''Armed and Fabulous" helpfully remind us that it could have been worse.
  27. Finding Home
    Finding Home is well meant and earnest but is stretched to almost twice what would have been a comfortable length.
  28. On the Line
    In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans.
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  29. My Life in Ruins
    The problem with the new movie is the same as with the previous one. Vardalos has this idea that she's a marm. And while it's true that she personifies her movies, I don't quite buy her librarian mode.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Happening
    You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.
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