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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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    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Equilibrium
    Equilibrium just happens to be a really bad comic book.
  2. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    It just feels misguided, not clever, when John Waters is dragged out for a cameo. That’s when you know the filmmakers must realize how hopelessly they’re caught in a loop-the-loop of punchless comedy.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Glimmer Man
    It's no surprise that the mountainous, pseudo-mystical actor stuck to his recipe for The Glimmer Man, an inoffensive cop-socky flick. [05 Oct 1996, p.C3]
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  4. The Grudge 2
    The most popular facial expression for victims in The Grudge 2 is something I'd like to call "deep befuddlement." This time "deep befuddlement" goes double for paying customers.
  5. Chasing Papi
    Just as you're ready to give up on Chasing Papi, Paul Rodriguez shows up, and the movie goes from plotless to wildly overwritten in just one scene.
  6. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    This doesn’t even feel much like Tris’s story anymore, just generically overdigitized combat. The main thing she’s diverging from at this point is the tone that hooked us in the first place.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Stepfather
    As such things go, it’s not bad: slick and proficient, The Stepfather 2.0 gets the adrenaline pumping, but the original has the brains.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blood and Chocolate
    Entertaining in a B-movie sort of way, and you can't help admiring its earnestness about the philosophical issues it invokes.
  9. The Only Living Boy in New York
    New York looks very appealing: uptown, downtown, even the little bit of Brooklyn we see. Think of “Boy” as a Bridges highlight reel and Gotham travelogue, instead of precious coming-of-age story, and it’s not half bad. But it isn’t, so it is.
  10. Bedtime Stories
    The appeal of Bedtime Stories belongs entirely to Sandler. As a comedian, he doesn't have to stoop to a kid's level. He's usually already there.
  11. House of D
    House of D, is like the kind of sticky greeting card you'd find on CBS some Sunday nights.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to Mooseport
    It's a disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere.
  13. My Favorite Martian
    Even the presence of Walston himself, as the government heavy in charge of tracking Lloyd's zany Martian, does little to alter the inescapable conclusion that this My Favorite Martian reincarnation is more likely to find favor with the undemanding than the nostalgia-minded. [12 Feb 1999, p.E5]
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  14. Air America
    The concept of Air America is refreshing, but its enactment goes nowhere fast. [10 Aug 1990]
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  15. Son of the Pink Panther
    Son of the Pink Panther is merely lame and labored as it huffs and puffs over a plot involving the kidnapping of a Middle Eastern princess, Debrah Farentino, from her yacht anchored off Nice. With frequent explosions taking the place of wit and style, it plays like stuff James Bond left on the cutting room floor 30 years ago. [28 Aug 1993, p.26]
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  16. Chill Factor
    Gooding plays the worst role I've ever seen him play in a movie...he perpetuates a kind of black stereotype that should have become history years ago.
  17. Losing Control
    This is a manic hour and a half. It's full of pushy, grabby, assertive, borderline obnoxious characters, not all of whom went to Harvard.
  18. Gulliver's Travels
    A migraine inducement that you'd think Jack Black had gotten out of his system years ago. Yet he still finds an excuse to wear a blazer and shorts and fling his bodily orb like Angus Young on Guitar Hero night at the neighborhood bar.
  19. Awake
    The movie tries going for a laugh or two. It even makes stabs at irony. But since none of the story is suspenseful, remotely believable, or, at the very least, cheaply entertaining, who cares?
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sucker Punch
    It's a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium.
  21. There Be Dragons
    In fairness, putting holiness onscreen is an enormous challenge. It can be done, as several directors have shown, most notably Dreyer and Bresson. Bad enough that Joffe is the poor man's Lean. He's also the nonbelieving man's Dreyer and Bresson.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Happens
    One of those sticky dramas.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch That Kid
    Flatters its audience by dividing the grown-up world into mean idiots and nice idiots, which might be interestingly subversive if the movie had anything on its mind. Instead, it's just a Hollywood crash course: Heist Films 101.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Space Between Us
    Older moviegoers may also recognize The Space Between Us as a dress-up variation on the old Jeff Bridges/Karen Allen movie “Starman” (1984), and by far the best parts have to do with Gardner’s often comic adjustments to life on Earth.
  25. North
    Most bad films are forgettable. They go in one eye and out the other. "North," though, is the kind of disaster that leaves an imprint. Representing a total inability by Rob Reiner to tell a far from sure-fire story about a boy who divorces his parents, it's a "Hudson Hawk" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" for kids. [22 Jul 1994, p.68]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RV
    RV has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skinwalkers
    Watching the movie is a little like picking up issue #42 of a comic book after you've skipped the first 41: There's an entire back story mythos hovering in the background like a phantom limb.
  28. The Last Song
    A more convincing star could make this a degree more tolerable, although in Cyrus’s defense not much more.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Annie
    The unforced cleverness of the opening scenes gives way to lazy plotting, awkwardly staged musical numbers, and car chases. By the end, the movie resembles just another formulaic, family-friendly piece of product, one the kids will enjoy and you’ll endure as it goes in the DVD player for the 40th time.
  30. The Amityville Horror
    The latest cannibalization of a popular older horror film.
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