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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. Recess: School's Out
    An amusing and entertaining animated feature, and it's harmless enough for the elementary-school set.
  2. The Idiots
    It's interesting - in its own let-it-all-hang-out, shaky-camera way.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. All Happy Families
    The script’s conflicts and obstacles get their tidy share of the available 90 minutes. I’d love to see a two-hour version of Rose’s film, aired out to some degree, with a more unpredictable rhythm and some conversations allowing us to hang out with these people without worrying about advancing the story.
  4. The Courier
    It zigs when it might zag (unless you’re already familiar with Wynne’s life story), and “The Courier” becomes something much more dark, complex and moving.
  5. Reality Bites
    Underneath, it's a flashy crock-another piece of self-congratulatory formula wish-fulfillment masquerading as hip. This would-be "inside" comedy about not selling out sells out in virtually every scene.
  6. Night Swim
    Night Swim comes from a crafty 2014 short directed by Blackhurst and McGuire, not quite three minutes in length minus end credits. Apples and oranges, I suppose, but the short gets more done in terms of atmosphere and rhythmic wiles than the full-length version. Still: These filmmakers have both a past and a future in evocative horror.
  7. Stoned
    It's a depressing story made even more of a downer by the absence of any Stones-performed music from their prime '60s years.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    Strictly a kids' movie--brimming with easy-to-swallow life lessons.
  9. Defiance
    The film should've aimed higher, given all that these people endured to have their story told.
  10. Girls Can't Swim
    Despite its shortcomings, Girls Can't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch, and it's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre.
  11. Life of the Party
    The movie’s not as slapstick-dependent as advertised. It’s a less coarse and more heartfelt project than McCarthy’s disappointing headliner gigs, such as “Tammy” and “The Boss.” (The Paul Feig-directed comedies “Bridesmaids,” “The Heat” and “Spy” are far better.) The new movie renders matters of directorial finesse and comic technique essentially irrelevant.
  12. CyberWorld
    Effectively a demo. It doesn't give you the whole picture, but it lets you know what's possible. It's hard not to wish the ride could have lasted longer.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. King Kong Lives
    An amiable adventure illuminated at odd moments by some genuine inventiveness. [21 Dec 1986, p.12C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. My Country, My Country
    The subject of Iraq haunts and divides us so much these days that a film like Laura Poitras' documentary My Country My Country is valuable, no matter its level of achievement.
  15. The New Girlfriend
    The actors are more than fine. Demoustier is the key, making her character's shifts in astonishment and perplexity honest and plausible.
  16. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Some of this is slick and enjoyable in what I'd characterize as the wrong way, the painlessly bloody, box-office-friendly way.
  17. 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.
  18. The Mudge Boy
    Simply photographed and well acted, The Mudge Boy captures "Deliverance"-level disturbing images as it takes an unsentimental approach to its characters.
  19. The Man from Elysian Fields
    It's a movie that starts off nicely, offers two marvelous performances (by James Coburn and Mick Jagger) and then slowly, unaccountably loses itself.
  20. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    The movie is rich with detail, characters and a specific historical context, even if its narrative is incoherent. But its cheap, gauzy veneer and primitive special effects are fun on their own terms.
  21. Shall We Dance
    The movie tries hard to duplicate the original's mood and story, but, like Gere or Lopez, is too much of a visual knockout to rope us in.
  22. A Foreign Affair
    A Foreign Affair's flaws make it even more of an enigma, as graceless as it is endearing.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    When the humans have the sense to keep quiet, and the animals are doing their shtick, there's great fun to be had.
  24. Last Vegas
    A genial "Hangover" for the AARP set, Last Vegas is roughly what you'd expect, or fear, but a little better.
  25. I Served the King of England
    The mordant wit and paradoxical melancholic bounce you find in a great many Eastern European filmmakers informs every joke and rosy sexual encounter in the work of Czech writer-director Jiri Menzel.
  26. Hotel for Dogs
    Not bad, not great, a little less pushy and grating than the usual.
  27. Joe Versus the Volcano
    The film works best once Hanks gets to the island along with love interest Meg Ryan. But it takes too long to get there. A fresh but needlessly drawn-out story. [9 March 1990, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. Jurassic World Rebirth
    There are flashes and occasional whole sequences when Edwards’ directorial eye snaps into focus.
  29. Adorenarin doraibu
    It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. A Knight's Tale
    There's much to love about this "Rocky" on horseback, and those laughable blemishes just fold into jokes that Helgeland likely intends audiences to laugh at.
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