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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. Eleanor the Great
    Johansson’s direction is serviceable if unremarkable, and one has to wonder why this particular script spoke to her as a directorial debut. Though it is morally complex and modest in scope, it doesn’t dive deep enough into the nuance here, opting for surface-level emotional revelations. It’s Squibb’s performance and appealing screen presence that enables this all to work — if it does.
  2. Fly Me to the Moon
    The script never quite feels itself; it feels like contradictory impulses playing out in shuffle mode. And the scale of the movie does the putative romance no favors.
  3. How to Eat Fried Worms
    This is a picture in which the barf scenes standard in the usual crude youth comedies aren't gratuitous. They're logical climaxes.
  4. Ambulance
    What good is a movie that can’t stop moving, or screaming, long enough to pace itself?
  5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Does not know when to quit. Nor does it extract much fun from a cockamamie story provided by George Lucas.
  6. Space Jam: A New Legacy
    On the whole, I’d go with the 2018 basketball comedy “Uncle Drew” over either “Jams.” One-joke movies, all three. But it helps when the gags don’t stop at the reference point and dribble in place while the clock runs out.
  7. Anyone But You
    Anyone But You isn’t terrible, or a travesty. It’s eh-notherthing ehltogether.
  8. 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.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
    To sum it up, you should see this movie if you have a burning need to waste money to find out an obscure fact about a has-been villain committing an everyday crime - namely, taking that money you just wasted. [20 Sept 1991, p.K]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Chalk
    The problem with the movie is that all this improvisational verisimilitude never finds its way into fully developed stories.
  11. Aloha
    Despite a blue-chip cast, Aloha is just frustrating. It can barely tell its story straight, and Crowe's attempt to get back to the days of "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" is bittersweet in ways unrelated to the narrative's seriocomic vein.
  12. Overboard
    Russell offers a relatively restrained, Gary Cooper-ish performance, though most of the laughs are left to the four kids-Brian Price, Jared Rushton, Jamie Wild and Jeffrey Wiseman-who crack wise with arch sitcom precociousness. And Hawn, batting her baby blues, does make you want to hug her-at times very tightly, right around the throat.
  13. Ready or Not
    Its pace is oddly arrhythmic and the tone is every which way but assured.
  14. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    Too cute, too transparent, too precious and ultimately too much.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Catch a Fire
    The horrors of apartheid deserve a better treatment than this.
  16. Middle Men
    Who would have believed a film with this much skin and reckless, life-threatening excess could end up a rather dull muddle?
  17. Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
    For most of its length, Revenge of the Nerds II is pleasantly stupid summer fun, though it does have a nasty way of turning inspirational on you.
  18. Greenfingers
    Unambitious and transparent, but that doesn't mean it won't warm the hearts of audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
  19. I Am David
    The beautifully shot but dramatically strained I Am David falls prey to the defect of all poor road movies: In gluing together unbelievable but convenient episodes with sugary sentimentality, it loses most of its credibility.
  20. The Wild Blue Yonder
    At times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull.
  21. Anna and the Apocalypse
    The results take neither the high road nor the low road, settling instead for an oddly bland middle course.
  22. Sleeping with the Enemy
    Director Joseph Ruben would have done much better to limit the physical horror and make it more of a psychological terror game.
  23. Fat Albert
    Seems a little lightweight, even for a kids' movie.
  24. Wicked: For Good
    Thanks to Grande’s emotional performance, what does shine through is Glinda’s personal story about embracing change, stepping into her own power and defining what it means to be “good,” on her own terms — not because it’s her brand. This is decidedly Glinda’s movie, and that is the one good thing.
  25. Split Second
    While entertaining and often genuinely frightening, thanks to a remorsefully blue cast to the cinematography, this thick stew can be tough to swallow under Tony Maylam's bumpy direction. [3 May 1992, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Shrink
    The script of Shrink, written by Thomas Moffett, plays like "Crash" without the angst or the perpetual racial conflagrations.
  27. Three Amigos!
    Martin is joyful; Chase seems depressed, and Short comes off as merely happy to be in his first movie.
  28. The Equalizer 2
    The Equalizer 2 just doesn't deliver the thrills.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stick It
    Stick It reels from its own frenetic pace. The music is loud, the camera cuts are incessant and everything seems geared toward distracting us from what's going on onscreen. Which is not much.
  30. Poison Ivy
    A rash and prurient tale, full of the sort of stylish venom that could almost elevate it to artful kitsch. Almost. [29 May 1992, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
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