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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. 9 to 5
    Nine to Five is a film full or surprises - some pleasant, other disappointing. The most pleasant surprise is the appearance of Dolly Parton, who with this one film establishes herself as a thoroughly engaging movie star. The biggest disappointment is that this Jane Fonda comedy about a trio of secretaries out to get their boss doesn't have more bite. [19 Dec 1980, p.2-1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Loggerheads
    In the third story, set in Asheville, N.C., that excellent actress Hunt guides us steadily through what could be a minefield of sentimentality.
  3. C.O.G.
    Modest and good-looking, the film starts as dark comedy and ends in pathos. Director Alvarez makes the Oregon scenery a character unto itself.
  4. Diggers
    The best thing in Diggers, besides the close-up of the back end of the Vista Cruiser, is the interplay between Rudd and Tierney. They really do seem like brother and sister, adults yet not entirely grown up.
  5. Ferrari
    I wouldn’t mind seeing Ferrari again sometime just for Cruz, and for a few of Mann’s most gratifying examples of classical Hollywood technique, done his way. The movie reinvents no wheels. But it sure knows how to film ‘em.
  6. Thunderbirds
    It's a pretty entertaining, extremely good-looking cinematic blip--not important, not outstanding, but better than a lot of PG stuff that attempts to reach both parents and their 8-year-old kids.
  7. Grass
    A well-researched and well-illustrated, if often facetious, record of the U.S. government's longtime war on cannabis. And while it's a little too single-minded, it's both fun to watch and quite informative.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
    Vanessa Kirby of “The Crown” and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” is the primary reason “Hobbs & Shaw” rises above pure formula and borderline-contemptible familiarity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Some Kind of Hero
    There's also nothing here that has much to do with what makes Prior such a powerful artist. [2 Apr 1982, p.3-6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. The Woman Chaser
    If its jolts were as strong as its chuckles, The Woman Chaser might really have turned into the cheap-thrill classic it pretends to be.
  11. Charlotte Gray
    This is a movie that, for all its often high intelligence and skill, seems emotionally underdone, bogged down in tony literary and cinematic cliches.
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  12. The Princess and the Frog
    The movie slam-jams its overpacked story in a frenetic, needlessly complicated manner. It lacks for nothing in setting and atmosphere but comes up short where it counts: the characters.
  13. I.Q.
    I.Q. has a commendable idea. Brains aren't everything. You should follow your heart. Fine. Agreed. But just like E=MC2, you gotta prove it. With brains and heart.
  14. Blitz
    Cross-cutting between son and mother, and their constant efforts to reunite among the carnage, flames and rubble before it’s too late, director McQueen keeps the screws tight, blowing past realism for a trickier realm of historically grounded but highly stylized imagination.
  15. Transformers
    The climax of Transformers contains all that is proficient and slick and all that is drecky and soulless in Bay's work.
  16. Gone Baby Gone
    The film is reasonably effective all the same, though Affleck has yet to learn how to conduct each scene like a musical score, paying attention to matters of tempo and dynamics.
  17. A Little Help
    A Little Help settles for familiar and modest payoffs. It's not much. Yet Fischer clearly relishes the chance to play someone who's a demurely reckless mess.
  18. Miami Vice
    It's refreshing to hear some old-fashioned percussive tension in service of a director who knows what he's doing. Even when the screenwriter is losing his way.
  19. Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
    An estimated 4 million Latinas leave one or more children behind when they travel north to find work. They deserve a more nuanced film, but this one’s often affecting.
  20. Into the Blue
    Mad props to Peter Zuccarini, who headed the team of ocean-bound photographers and captured some remarkably vivid footage, and also to the actors, who spend plenty of time looking cool, calm and collected swimming with the predatory fishes.
  21. Mean Machine
    Sports movies are never easy to pull off, but Skolnick does a fine job of balancing the drama with the on-field action.
  22. Girlfight
    Girlfight, for its skill and theme, will please many. It's a shame it's no knockout.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    For some reason I was under the impression Jim Carrey already made his penguin movie. Doesn't it seem like it?
  24. Your Sister's Sister
    It's pleasant as far as it goes. For all the blithe interaction among the central three performers, however, the material's conventional and predictable.
  25. F/X2
    FX 2 is entertaining enough, but lacks the zip and wit of the original.
  26. Bad Teacher
    Timberlake is not afraid to make himself look like an idiot. He is, in fact, already the comic actor Diaz may yet become: a looker who knows how to use his looks to get away with murder.
  27. The Vow
    The Vow is agreeable enough. It may be puddin'-headed but it's not soul-crushing.
  28. Malèna
    No period of Italian history has produced more great movies than the WWII years . But, Malena romanticizes and even sentimentalizes those years.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Brothers
    Overall, The Brothers is glossy fun, but it should have given us more ideas and energy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. The Drop
    As a performance vehicle The Drop does the job. As a story, and an uncertainly padded script, the movie lurches and lets us get out ahead of its developments.
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