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For 7,609 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 1.5 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: 5,113 out of 7609
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7609
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7609
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  1. Blow
    It's a real disappointment: too hasty, too scattered and superficial, and, in the end, disappointingly sappy and sentimental.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Pale Rider
    Pale Rider may be a risk simply because westerns are not in vogue right now at the box office, but fresh and challenging westerns with Clint Eastwood always will be in vogue.
  3. On the Basis of Sex
    It's reflective of the Ginsburgs' real-life egalitarian marriage, almost never seen in Hollywood films. But the role is so much more than just the typical gender-swapped "spouse on phone" roles most often seen, and Hammer is a delight as the sunny Marty.
  4. A Mighty Wind
    The tweaking here feels affectionate, yet you soon suspect that these subjects make for awfully easy pickings.
  5. Quartet
    The material settles for amiably familiar observations about the difficulties of growing old and the glories of being surrounded by beautiful music.
  6. Life
    A grim and fairly effective cross between "The Martian" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"?
  7. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    Fairly inventive and exceedingly manic.
  8. Morning Glory
    If the romantic comedy Morning Glory clicks with audiences, the McAdams factor surely will be the reason why.
  9. Russian Dolls
    Russian Dolls, like "L'Auberge," has an excellent cast (mostly the same one, in fact) and an impish style and speed that gives it more obvious audience appeal than the average French film.
  10. The Weather Underground
    Notoriety, they won. The revolution, they didn't. That perhaps is the secret message of the film. Dylan was right. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
  11. Simply Irresistible
    Falls prey to the all-too-contemporary problem of complicating the tale until the ending is not only obvious, but prayed for between yawns. [9 February 1999, Tempo, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Road
    The best thing about the film is Viggo Mortensen’s performance. A stealth talent of many shadings, Mortensen has a way of fitting easily into nearly any period, any milieu.
  13. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    As is, it's worth seeing, but you may get frustrated at the way Dellal raises provocative questions about ancestry and prejudice, only to lose them in the shuffle of so many mini-portraits of musicians, getting to know each other and each other's foreign yet familiar musical language, on a long 16-city tour.
  14. Romeo Is Bleeding
    At its best moments, Romeo Is Bleeding actually is the wickedly funny, violent black comedy it purports to be. [4 Feb 1994, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Scream 4
    It's fun to see that charming underreactor Neve Campbell, looking about 20 minutes older, back as Sidney Prescott.
  16. Lan Yu
    Wong Kar-wai made a much more dynamic film, "Happy Together," five years ago. Lan Yu suffers by comparison.
  17. Sky Blue
    Sky Blue slows things down, creating a ponderous, almost languid movie-going experience.
  18. American Made
    It’s fairly entertaining even when it doesn’t quite work, directed for maximum pace by Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow” cohort, director Doug Liman.
  19. Daddy's Home 2
    The surreal and silly sequel to the hit 2015 comedy skates on the well-known but still-appealing comic personas of stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and their zany chemistry.
  20. Despicable Me
    Is the movie itself good? Half-good, I'd say - the second, more openly sentimental half.
  21. A Bad Moms Christmas
    A movie can be unreasonably formulaic and still be reasonably diverting, and A Bad Moms Christmas is the proof.
  22. Test Pattern
    There are colors that pop throughout film — as if, in a nod to the title, drawn from a TV test pattern — and visually this is what stayed with me, from the yellow of Renesha’s dress, to the aqua benches against the white antiseptic floors of the hospital waiting room
  23. Re-Animator
    And yet if Re-Animator offers only a few laughs, that still puts it smiles ahead of George Romero`s awful ''Return of the Dead,'' the third in his zombie series, which suffered from tired blood. At least director Gordon`s ghoulies drool on naked women and decapitate each other with shovels. Hoe, hoe, hoe.
  24. CHIPS
    The jokes are dirty and wildly inappropriate, but are thoughtfully played.
  25. Tadpole
    But as likable as it is, Tadpole is hardly a maturing woman's revenge movie, but another male fantasy -- that of the sexually nurturing mother figure. If only all coming-of-age sexual experiences could be as healthy and wholesome.
  26. Aliens of the Deep
    All in all, it's a fascinating, kid-friendly journey.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Break-Up
    It's Aniston's return to the emotional authenticity that surfaced too briefly in "Friends With Money" and made "The Good Girl" such a revelation.
  28. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    It's worth seeing simply to make the acquaintance of Tobias, a really extraordinary old guy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Smashed
    Feels different from most recovering-train-wreck stories. The movie is a tidy relaying of a messy situation involving two reasonably functional middle-class LA alcoholics, one of whom gets serious about cleaning up a lot sooner than the other.
  30. Freejack
    It takes a while to get used to Mick Jagger as a paid predator, wearing a goofy helmet and spouting lines like, "Get the meat!" But by the end of Freejack, a fairly silly new sci-fi action thriller, rock star Jagger has made the role his own. [20 Jan 1982, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
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