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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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  1. Mother of Tears
    Mother of Tears can't rival the David Lynchian otherworldliness of "Suspiria," but at least you know you're in the hands of a director.
  2. Valentin
    Valentin is cut from the Woody Allen school of movie kids. With oversized black glasses and small-size suits, he is the total know-it-all package, right down to his insightful voice-over.
  3. Little Secrets
    One can hardly argue with the desire to make a wholesome movie for families that extols honesty and decency, but it all comes too easily, too superficially.
  4. The King Is Alive
    Stands as a successful cinematic experiment and a gripping -- though a little too long -- study of humanity's most primitive instincts.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Scream 4
    It's fun to see that charming underreactor Neve Campbell, looking about 20 minutes older, back as Sidney Prescott.
  6. Water for Elephants
    Like "The Notebook," but with an elephant, the unexpectedly good film version of Water for Elephants elevates pure corn to a completely satisfying realm of romantic melodrama.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Shoes
    There are flashes of grim humor interspersed with the murders, but not enough wit to elevate this movie beyond its primary identity: grisly revenge fantasy.
  8. X-Men: Apocalypse
    This one’s no gem. It’s simply large, and long (two-and-a-half hours, the usual length lately with these products). I remain unpersuaded and slightly galled by the attempts to interpolate the history, locale and tragic meaning of Auschwitz into what used to be known as popcorn movies.
  9. No Man's Land
    No Man’s Land is an interesting twist on the border drama, daring to depict Mexico as complex and nuanced country: welcoming, fascinating and menacing in equal parts. But the story still centers a white male experience and hero’s journey.
  10. The Monuments Men
    Clooney's attempt to honor unsung real-life heroes while recapturing the ensemble pleasures of some well-remembered Hollywood war pictures, notably "The Great Escape" and "The Guns of Navarone," comes off as a modestly accomplished forgery at best.
  11. The International
    While its globe-trotting itinerary recalls the mad whirl of a "Bourne" picture, nothing about this film's style resembles the second or third "Bourne" outings (which I loved).
  12. Betsy's Wedding
    The film flies away in 50 directions, leaving only a vague, unctuous impression behind. [22 Jun 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. The Producers
    The Producers on screen, as a musical, does not work. It is not very funny. It doesn't look right. It's depressing.
  14. Critters
    For its many lighter moments, Critters is careful to balance its laughs with a number of chills. It unabashedly and wittily pays homage to other films. But ultimately it stands firmly on its own, a little bit frightening and a lot of fun. [15 Apr 1986, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Nacho Libre
    The film is easy to take and easy to forget, even with Black running around Oaxaca in turquoise wrestling tights.
  16. Triple 9
    It's not a ridiculous degree of complexity per se, but screenwriter Matt Cook mistakes solemnity for gravity, and a high body count for dramatic urgency. The cast is terrific, unfortunately.
  17. Everything, Everything
    Aside from its leading lady, what Everything, Everything has going for it is its light, fantastical aesthetic, an unexpected sense of buoyancy and light.
  18. Epic
    The animated result isn't bad. It's an adequate baby sitter. But where's the allure in telling the truth? Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios present "Adequate"?
  19. Shirley Valentine
    They trusted their property and, while it may not win them awards for special effects, or a cult following, their trust has paid off in a comedy of cozy appeal.
  20. Blow
    It's a real disappointment: too hasty, too scattered and superficial, and, in the end, disappointingly sappy and sentimental.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Rat Race
    Zucker gives the movie an ebullient spirit, but he also keeps everything at the same loud pitch throughout.
  22. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Most definitely a chick flick.
  23. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Should please its core audience, which includes anyone who might actually want to win a date with Tad Hamilton. Others may opt to wait for another date with Kate Bosworth -- or Nathan Lane.
  24. The Frighteners
    A dreary, needlessly violent and ugly comic thriller about a psychic hustler (Michael J. Fox) who gets more than he bargained for with his latest scam. Fox seems to be trying to get hip in the movies, and he's lost his way here.
  25. Safe House
    Director Espinosa shoots virtually everything in tight but wobbly close-up, and the human and vehicular combat often brakes right at the edge of visual incoherence. Just as often the brakes give out completely.
  26. Labor Day
    Kate Winslet has such sound and reliable dramatic instincts (That Face doesn't hurt, either) she very nearly makes something of Adele.
  27. RoboCop
    This movie comes at you with an idea or two, as well as every available gun blazing.
  28. Beautiful Creatures
    When classy, pedigreed British actors go hog-wild under the flowering dogwood trees of a Southern Gothic setting, often the results are good. Just as often they're so bad they're good. And sometimes, as is the case with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson in Beautiful Creatures, they're simply doing the best they can under the circumstances.
  29. Haiku Tunnel
    A funny movie, but like "Josh" himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good.
  30. Seeing Other People
    Whatever the film lacks in presentation, it makes up for in laughs and ensemble performances that sing.
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