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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Rango
    It is, for what it is, a work of considerable care and craft. And it's completely soulless.
  2. Manhunter
    Manhunter is full of useful tips on interior decoration, but a movie it's not. [15 Aug 1986, p.JC]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Killer
    A sleek, tight, fastidiously executed nothing.
  4. A Quiet Place Part II
    What’s so maddening about A Quiet Place Part II is the unused potential. Krasinski opens up the world and timeline of the film, but doesn’t utilize it in any meaningful way, introducing new ideas but then jettisoning the opportunity. Again and again he falls back on more of the same old tricks from “A Quiet Place,” which was a bore to begin with.
  5. Damage
    "Damage" is a fruit bowl reduced to a raisin. [22 Jan 1993, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 71 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Splash
    This comedy-romance about a mermaid who falls in love with a man does have one thing going for it, the lithe shape and pleasant underwater smile of actress Daryl Hannah. Otherwise, it's a desperately unfunny film that wastes the talents of SCTV favorites John Candy and Eugene Levy. [08 June 1984, p.12]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Donnie Darko
    Just another self-absorbed teen chronicle, with the added twist of a little time travel and a surprise ending.
  8. Lars and the Real Girl
    I find Lars and the Real Girl adorable in the worst way, bailed out only by most every member of its excellent cast.
  9. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Raiff most likely wanted to make a movie about a well-intentioned guy in his early 20s who gradually finds his way to a better life. What undermines his efforts is a creeping smugness and self-regard, positioning every side character as an intern in the Andrew Improvement Program.
  10. Lethal Weapon
    The melodramatic clumsiness of the script, and, in one scene, its gratuitous endorsement of marijuana, betrays the youth of its writer, recent UCLA graduate Shane Black. And veteran director Richard Donner, whose credits include another cartoon movie, can't seem to thread the scenes together in any meaningful way. [6 Mar 1987, p.G]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Bolt
    It's a seriously withholding action comedy, stingy on the wit, charm, jokes, narrative satisfactions and animals with personalities sharp enough for the big screen, either in 2-D or 3-D.
  12. A Map of the World
    Strangely unmoving. So what went wrong?
  13. Frantic
    Certainly, the elements for a better movie are here. The credits are dotted with multi-Oscar nominees. But not all are well used. What Frantic needs most is an infusion of chemistry. Somehow Polanski has failed to make these actors connect.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Jackass Number Two
    There's no plot here; like the MTV show that spawned it, this movie is just a progression of increasingly disgusting and/or dangerous stunts.
  15. Kick-Ass
    It may well be a hit, but me, I'm waiting for "Iron Man 2."
  16. Mountainhead
    Mountainhead is a talky movie and I tend to like talky movies. But at some point in the nearly two-hour running time, it just becomes boring.
  17. School Ties
    Nobly intended and about half baked, School Ties is a slightly glorified ``Afterschool Special`` that might function as an introduction to the evils of anti-Semitism for sheltered teens.
  18. Vincent & Theo
    Vincent & Theo is a by-the-numbers art biography that barely succeeds in recapping the best-known events in the life of its subject, Vincent van Gogh. There is something almost chilling in the degree of the director's evident disengagement from his material and the complete lack of craft with which he has filmed it.
  19. Hanna
    Hanna presents the problem of the well-made diversion that is, at its core, repellent.
  20. MaXXXine
    While there’s some payoff in the many visual callbacks to ’80s-and-earlier genre movies, at some point the filmmaker lost sight of how to best serve Goth a third time.
  21. Girls Town
    Instead of an escape from Hollywood’s cookie-cutter plots, it’s a retreat back into them, only the sexes have been changed.
  22. Confess, Fletch
    Fletch tends to think he’s the smartest guy in the room. So how is that supposed to work when the performance itself is so adrift and unappealing?
  23. Elvis
    Instead of dramatizing this subject’s life, it dramatizes the extravagance of moviemaking. The script shoves the dicey stuff off to the side: race, infidelity, a complicated figure’s inner demons.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Room
    Williams does a fine job with her role. I was pulling for her throughout her dreary journey. It's too bad it didn't get anywhere.
  25. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Maybe this review is more about me than about Conan O'Brien, but I really couldn't get past the odor of self-congratulation emanating from nearly every scene in Conan O'Brien Can't Stop.
  26. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    The full-on assault on the audience’s tear ducts in much of “Guardians 3″ may be sincere, but the rhythms and pacing of the film never find the beat. We end up waiting for the reductive punchline, or for another round of wanton slaughter.
  27. X-Men
    Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.
  28. Kinds of Kindness
    It’s a luxe treatment of some puny satiric ideas, toned up by a cast led by Emma Stone and Lanthimos first-timer Jesse Plemons, who won the best actor prize this year at Cannes. But everything has a chance to go wrong with a movie long before the actors film anything.
  29. The Muppet Christmas Carol
    A talky, plodding film that seems likely to bore children and adults in equal measure. [11 Dec 1992, p.B2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Trekkies
    The movie plays like a very expanded version of what would make -- and likely has made -- a cute TV newsmagazine segment.
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