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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 point 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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    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Aryan Couple
    Despite its handsome photography and a few memorable performances, The Aryan Couple is mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Diana: The Musical
    As biography, Diana is shallow and reductive, checking the boxes of an extremely well-known story with numbing predictability. As musical theater, Diana is a forgettable farrago of painfully on-the-nose lyrics and clashing song styles that ventures perilously close to camp.
  3. You Again
    This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.
  4. I Am Sam
    Ham-handedly manipulative film.
  5. Stigmata
    Could have been a classy thriller. But all the Aramaic in the world can't save it from its own pounding slickness.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Infinite
    Heading straight to streaming platform Paramount+ without the embarrassment of appearing in theaters first, the movie is both blissfully incoherent and weirdly generic, as if it had been assembled from the spare parts of other movies and glued together with stuntwork.
  7. Bunraku
    If Bunraku were serious about subverting or reinventing the genres it's cobbled together, Moore would play the gunslinger or the samurai or the crime boss. But no. All she gets are a couple of scenes that demonstrate that she still looks great soaking wet.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Day to Die Hard
    There are two problems with A Good Day to Die Hard: It’s terribly filmed and nothing in it makes any sense.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Ship
    Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''
  10. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Van Sant winds up with disconnected, dispirited pieces that never come together and lift off the screen with a whoosh of sly high spirits. [20 May 1994]
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  11. Nobel Son
    Guy Ritchie made a name for himself with scuzz, but even his shtick has exceeded its sell-by date. Nobel Son goes further, crossing the contortions of "The Usual Suspects" with the shallowness of certain intellectual family melodramas.
  12. London Has Fallen
    For the sequel, London Has Fallen, Butler and director Babak Najafi (HBO’s “Banshee”) strike a tone that’s more consistent — consistently dumb.
  13. Graveyard Shift
    The scariest thing about Graveyard Shift is the money, time and energy - however minimal - invested in its creation. If you're looking for a good rat scare, the alleys near Haymarket might be a better place to invest your time. [27 Oct 1990, p.11p]
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  14. Passion of Mind
    There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Married
    Reasonably painless if you've never seen a comedy about the travails of newlyweds.
  16. Blood: The Last Vampire
    The finale of this tedious piece of Asian-ish action-schlock based on a popular anime series implies an intention to make more. One was plenty for me.
  17. Eating Out
    The explicit encounters and dirty talk in Eating Out suggest a new genre -- call it porncom -- that seeks to amuse and arouse at the same time.
  18. Immigration Tango
    Neither the comedy nor the romance is strong enough in Immigration Tango to offer any improvement on Peter Weir's similar, and better, 1990 film "Green Card."
  19. The Divide
    It's doom that we're meant to feel here. And repulsion. I hate to say, but I shrugged.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pandorum
    Pandorum is a dark, disquieting dream worth watching out for.
  21. The Big Wedding
    Quaint and crass get together — or would that be “bump uglies”? — with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hitcher
    If you boil off dialogue, performance, narrative logic and grind a movie down to the nub of genre, will there be any suspense left? The answer is yes, but only in a Pavlovian sense. You react to this dull shockathon like a wired lab rat who's seen it all before. And guess what? You have.
  23. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happily N'Ever After
    A pallidly "hip" revision of classic fairy tales that would be better told straight up if anyone had the nerve. It will divert small children, but so will a brightly colored object if you twirl it.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    Molly Hartley is dull at worst and surprisingly spooky at best.
  26. Ernest Rides Again
    Most of the time Ernest Rides Again is a one-joke - or, rather, one-cannon - movie, enough to raise grave doubts about the importance of seeing - let alone being - Ernest. [12 Nov 1993, p.47]
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    The actor/walking disaster known as Charlie Sheen gives a perfectly credible performance here. It’s the rest of the film that tries your patience.
  28. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    With a plot devoid of suspense and characters without complexity, Rand's iconic line elicits merely a yawn, or a shrug.
  29. Season of the Witch
    After a while, the movie tires of the witch business and trots out a plot twist that permits the effects department to spend money. Some moviegoers might find the bait-and-switch funny.
  30. The Ugly Truth
    The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex. Like Sandra Bullock’s career woman in “The Proposal,’’ Abby appears to have never heard of intercourse, much less experienced it.
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