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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. Reminders of Him
    There isn’t a single original idea to be found here, nor a twist you can’t predict immediately. This film has what Siskel and Ebert used to call “the Idiot Plot.” That is, a plot that doesn’t contain a single credible moment, and would be over if everyone involved wasn’t an idiot.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Ramsay delivers an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about.
  3. 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.
  4. Head Over Heels
    A lame romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor comedic.
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    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss March
    A sex comedy that appears to have been made by people who've never actually had sex.
  6. Monkeybone
    For all its antic grasping it lies flatter on the screen than its graphic novel source lies on the page.
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  7. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Educating Rita
    If you were ever curious how a bad director can destroy the work of two talented actors and a slight, but funny, script, you need look no further than Educating Rita. [28 Oct 1983]
    • Boston Globe
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beyond Borders
    Worse than junk, in fact. Beyond Borders so trivializes the plight of the world's displaced peoples that it becomes actively obnoxious.
  10. Laws of Attraction
    There's not much of a script. The direction is the pits, and stars Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, playing dueling divorce lawyers who fall in love, are lousy, too.
  11. 88 Minutes
    I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.
  12. The Medallion
    Moves from cheekiness to ineptitude, often in a single take.
  13. Bats
    A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Masked and Anonymous
    The exact cinematic equivalent of a classic Bob Dylan song. It's also proof that what is towering genius in one medium can go insanely wrong in another.
  15. Fool's Gold
    A tedious adventure-romance.
  16. Tuesday
    It felt like I was watching a Wayans Bros. movie instead of one that expected me to take the ideas of dying and grief seriously.
  17. Scarface
    It plays like a crude "Godfather" parody, the sort that might amuse as a 10-minute sketch on "Saturday Night Live," but curdles and collapses as a 143-minute film. [09 Dec 1983]
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  18. Corky Romano
    The most dumbed-down mob comedy in years. It's the kind of movie you tie around the ankles of a stiff you're tossing into deep water and never want to see again.
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  19. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Forget the metaphors, why not just make a movie about poor, exploited Mexicans?
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Poole Is Here
    Manages a fairly rare trick: It's a movie that's both deeply felt and completely phony.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thing About My Folks
    It's a family comedy-drama that wants to pluck the heartstrings but keeps getting tangled in its own tinny sentiment.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Lot Like Love
    ''Love" doesn't have a plot so much as it has a concept, scribbled in crayon.
    • 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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  24. Hatchet II
    Every boogeyman and slasher cliché this movie borrows was better somewhere else. Although it probably wasn't grosser.
  25. 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]
    • Boston Globe
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Life or Something Like It
    Delivered with all the subtlety of a steel-toe boot, you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie.
  27. Staying Alive
    Staying Alive, the sequel to John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever," plays like wet cement. [16 Jul 1983]
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  28. 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?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Greedy Lying Bastards
    The film’s zippy graphics are a treat, but its zippy arguments are slipshod.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Echelon Conspiracy
    There's nothing in Echelon Conspiracy as suspenseful or entertaining as your average episode of "24."
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