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For 7,603 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 1.4 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: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Apres Vous (After You)
    A sweet, if dramatically overlong trifle.
  2. Hamlet
    If Zeffirelli's Hamlet does resemble an actual movie at several points, it's thanks almost entirely to the inventive and atmospheric lighting of veteran cinematographer David Watkin, whose somber, gray-green palette gives the film a dignity and substance it would otherwise lack. [18 Jan 1991]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Hysteria
    The movie lacks wit.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    We Are Marshall
    Surprisingly restrained and undeniably entertaining.
  5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader doesn't so much reinvent the "Narnia" franchise as do what's needed, and expected, with a little more zip than the previous voyages.
  6. The Hudsucker Proxy
    In The Hudsucker Proxy, the filmmaking Coen brothers make dark, startling, wittily extravagant sport of the American Dream. The movie is opulent and wry, a bitingly intelligent fable about business and romance. [25 Mar 1994, p.A]
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  7. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Folks, I confess: I'm coping with a mild case of arachno-apatha-phobia, defined as the fear of another so-so "Spider-Man" sequel.
  8. Enemy at the Gates
    A physically gorgeous production with a strong, clear conflict at its center. It's grueling but also exhilarating. Perhaps its ambitiousness is the film's biggest problem. Trying for dramatic sensitivity, historical scope, touching romance and shocking violence and suspense, it gets stretched too thin.
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  9. Focus
    It's a good film but an over-obvious one. I wish I'd liked it more.
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  10. Passionada
    It's a good small film for intelligent audiences who like to watch the movie camera explore other regions and other communities -- something all our movies should do more often.
  11. Black Moon Rising
    Black Moon Rising utilizes every cheap thriller trick in the book. If a lackluster script is going to rely on gadgetry and chase scenes to satisfy its audience, it had better pulse with more suspense and originality than a TV rerun. This one doesn't. [10 Jan 1986, p.34]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Finding Steve McQueen
    Johnson's latest effort, Finding Steve McQueen, isn't perfect. Or halfway perfect. Or even one-quarter perfect. But he does take what would have been a rather bland heist story and mix it with a mediocre love story to create an enjoyable final product.
  13. Subway
    The film looks terrific and offers one spectacular chase, but its story and characters are less substantial than even a weak episode of "Miami Vice."
  14. Rent
    It's a pretty good version of a pretty great stage phenomenon.
  15. Another Stakeout
    Even before the witness-protection/trial angle has been conveniently jettisoned, it's clear that the plot is no more than a compulsory ingredient in a previously tested formula. Workmanlike in its execution, reliably predictable throughout, the movie might as well have been called "Another Paycheck."
  16. Renfield
    Mainly, Cage keeps finding the damnedest ways to topspin his line readings so that you never know where a sentence is going. May the next outing with Renfield and Dracula, should the public and Universal decree it, be a little funnier and little less too much.
  17. Suspect
    Suspect smothers in misapplied seriousness-it's the thriller as civics lesson. [23 Oct 1987, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Free State of Jones
    Ross' smooth, steady film is just interesting enough to make you wish it were a lot grittier, and better.
  19. 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?
  20. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
    The only performance worth mentioning is Jeong, who brings his energetic weirdness to a rather small role.
  21. A Good Woman
    A tedious picture, redeemed in part by Tom Wilkinson's performance as Tuppy--he's the sole cast member who doesn't give birth to every epigram--and by the hats.
  22. The Killer Inside Me
    Beyond Affleck's, the performances here lack amplitude and dramatic impact.
  23. The Rocker
    It's a lot of fun. Its spirit is genuine and, even with the odd vomit gag, fundamentally sweet.
  24. This Old Cub
    When a loving son makes a documentary about his father, you can forgive him for laying it on a bit thick - especially when his love for his subject, Ron Santo, is shared by an entire city.
  25. Muppets from Space
    Muppets from Space has silly gags and cute cosmic fish swimming around in its space. It just doesn't have the right awe and wonder -- except, perhaps, for the children who should be its prime audience. Adults, beware -- at least this time.
  26. A Goofy Movie
    Ultimately, the weight of the film falls on Goofy's powerful shoulders. He does his best, but like Norma Desmond, he can only do so much.
  27. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    Johnson-McGoldrick’s facility with both the tropes of the "Conjuring" films, and the Warren’s relationship, keeps the film swift and emotionally resonant, while Chaves pushes the cinematic aesthetic to the max.
  28. Sweet Bird of Youth
    It's a good transcription, though sadly bowdlerized. [02 Jul 2000, p.29]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Breakin'
    A vital film about a bunch of youngsters who view break-dancing as a way out of their dead end lifestyle. For what is essentially a musical exploitation film, Breakin' is surprisingly filled with more human moments and dance scenes than violence or sexuality. [08 June 1984, p.12]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Target
    Considering the talent involved, the new thriller Target is a shocking failure, featuring some very good actors wallowing around in a laughable story poorly directed by one of Hollywood`s more daring filmmakers.
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