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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 0.9 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. The Love Guru
    This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    Whatever character they bring to their lines, the actors' voices are mostly unrecognizable after being digitally 'munk-ified.
  4. Cool as Ice
    Cool as Ice ends up seeming tired as well as twisted. The man whom promoters call the rap-era Elvis has negative charisma. [19 Oct 1991, p.11]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Doogal
    Charm-free, incoherent, and heartlessly sentimental, this woodenly animated co-production by American, British, and French companies offers boredom and irritation for parents, needlessly scary images for tots, and, for the pubescent boys who apparently run mass culture, a flatulent blue moose. It's ugly to look at, too.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hercules in New York
    When you become a megastar like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you must expect your past to jump up and bite you - especially if you've made a stinker like this one. A great rental for frat parties, this Manhattan melodrama features Zeus sending Arnold, as Hercules, to present-day New York. [06 Dec 1991, p.62]
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  7. Another 48 Hrs.
    Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte are back in Another 48 HRS., and so is some of the chemistry between them. But although this sequel is more amped up than the original "48 HRS.," most of the thrills are gone. [8 Jun 1990, p.35]
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    • 23 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Furry Vengeance
    Vengeance has the odor of court-ordered community service. The jokes never rise above the groin. The trees look plastic, the characters more so.
  9. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    If all the first "Deuce" had going for it was a regular-guy approach to over-the-top humor, that's completely absent in this follow-up.
  10. Collateral Beauty
    Too well-meaning and too infused with genuine poignancy from Smith and Harris for the film to be dismissed as just a trigger for our snark reflex. But it’s a shame that the tears Smith sheds aren’t serving a better conceived story.
  11. The Snowman
    Director Tomas Alfredson and cinematographer Dion Beebe have given The Snowman a gloriously subdued look.
  12. Jack and Jill
    What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Couples Retreat
    Everything about Couples Retreat feels plastic, though: the jokes, the trees, the extras, the attitudes. It’s dumbed-down entertainment aimed at a dumbed-down audience - the comedy equivalent of a McMansion.
  14. Bats
    A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
  15. Ready to Rumble
    Likable performances from its young cast and a better-than-average script add spark to this formulaic fairy tale and make the wrestling mania watchable.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Formula 51
    Bloody and bloody funny, and Jackson and Carlyle make the best salt-and-pepper team since Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte knocked heads in ''48 HRS., '' but ultimately the movie can't find a way out of its own dead end.
  17. The Condemned
    Just watch Austin on "WrestleMania" instead, avoiding the shower this movie leaves you wanting.
  18. The Roommate
    It's the latest in the blank-from-hell genre, in which misogyny and entertainment are made to seem indistinguishable while the blank makes life hell for someone who then is cornered into striking back.
  19. Darkness Falls
    So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
  20. Beautiful
    The tame, confused script eventually sinks the film, although Field shows skill directing actors.
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  21. Half Past Dead
    Brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: ''Totally Past His Prime.''
  22. Eight Crazy Nights
    What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Love Stinks
    It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
  24. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun.
  25. The Bounty Hunter
    The Bounty Hunter does give Christine Baranski, as an Atlantic City entertainer and Mama Aniston, another opportunity to enthrall us with her drag-queenliness.
  26. Reagan
    Reagan is the worst kind of hagiography. It’s a wretched 2½-hour bore that’s uncurious about its subject.
  27. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    Fresh or not, creatively merited or not, here it comes: the third installment of Martin Lawrence's big, dopey franchise.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ladies Man
    Overstays its welcome.
  29. Saving Silverman
    The kind of comedy that takes the fun out of stupidity.
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  30. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
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