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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. Masterminds
    Masterminds still has its riotously funny moments, thanks to the fearless, uninhibited actors and a director who lets them play.
  2. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The emotions and crises feel pre-sanded, smooth to the point of blandness.
  3. Blade
    Often ridiculous, mostly poorly written and, surprisingly poorly acted too. No matter how many flashy scenes the filmmakers shoot, the bad lines just keep dripping down. [21 Aug 1998]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Black and White
    There is really no one to like in this film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. The Prince and Me
    It's one of those movies where talented filmmakers waste time with stale, phony material.
  6. Man on Fire
    Man on Fire, which starts off as a good example of super-glitz moviemaking, gradually turns into a movie on fire -- another helter-skelter, big-studio spending spree. Too bad. It could use a lot more of Walken, Fanning and some more honest drama.
  7. Silver City
    It's a dense, winding tale with all of Sayles' razor-sharp dialogue and intrigue. But instead of tracing character paths, Sayles sacrifices solid storytelling in favor of forwarding a political (and environmental) ideology.
  8. Out of Bounds
    Out of Bounds may be, like a comic book, pulp entertainment, but it's artfully done pulp--a pictorial page-turner whose pages turn themselves. [25 July 1986, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Herbie Fully Loaded
    If "Mean Girls" was Lohan's debutante ball, "Herbie" sits her back at the kiddie table. She's matured, and no longer fits in the Disney mold.
  10. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    Whole sections of “Godzilla X Kong” shove the humans off-screen for many minutes at a time. Few will complain.
  11. The General's Daughter
    An expensive-looking new detective thriller that should have been much better.
  12. The Giver
    It's not a lousy experience. Taylor Swift shows up in a glorified cameo. Thwaites has promise; Rush has more than that. But for a movie decrying the concept of societal "sameness," The Giver is a hypocritical movie indeed.
  13. Wyatt Earp
    Wyatt Earp is a fascinating ride to a West where darkness and heroism mingle, a triumph for Kasdan, Costner, Quaid and the company. It shows how, in this frontier crucible, love and death, honor and slaughter, friendship and a walk toward doom, are all linked together as well. [24 Jun 1994, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Skeleton Key
    For all its dark, Gothic intentions and supernatural twists, it lacks the emotional and intellectual punch of similarly themed films, most notably Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others."
  15. Hotel Transylvania
    Dominated by Adam Sandler's D-minus Bela Lugosi impression, the 3-D animated feature Hotel Transylvania illustrates the difference between engaging a young movie audience and agitating it, with snark and noise and everything but the funny.
  16. Rock of Ages
    The movie, full of talented performers in search of a more propulsive vehicle, settles for workmanlike cover-band status, which makes this a cover-band tribute to a jukebox musical - a long way from true, trashy exhilaration.
  17. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The story is both a muddle and a drag.
  18. Hollywood Homicide
    At its best, "Hollywood" has the breezy irreverence and easy, sunny L.A. atmosphere of Shelton's 1992 "White Men Can't Jump," a buddy-buddy basketball-hustle movie.
  19. Cats & Dogs
    Some stunts and jokes are genuinely clever.
  20. The Alamo
    A professionally made movie, just not an essential one. There's little fresh or provocative here, and if you can't be shaken by this story, why bother?
  21. The Good Guy
    DePietro struggles to reconcile the perceived demands of the romantic comedy genre (though his film is more bittersweet than most) and the tang and hustle and detail of real life.
  22. Like Mike
    Doesn't win any points for originality. It does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style, and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism.
  23. Big Trouble
    Sonnenfeld mishandles the broad part of the comedic formula, preferring repetition to thematic development.
  24. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    Hedges is a determined romantic and a bit of a saphead. He's also humane.
  25. Semi-Pro
    The court scenes are rarely funny, either in the trash talk or the slapstick.
  26. My Stepmother Is an Alien
    As a filmmaker, Benjamin is capable of the occasional light, graceful touch, but the overall view eludes him; just as he was unable to bring out the sly blend of satire and psychological drama in Bo Goldman's script for Little Nikita, he's unable to find any harmony of tone in this scattered, cacophonous material. [09 Dec 1988, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Lakeview Terrace
    One wishes LaBute, a bleak satirist and, at his best, a crudely compelling dramatist, had taken the script and made it his own sort of twisted comedy instead of a routine thriller
  28. Only the Lonely
    Candy is indisputably charming. A master of timing, he also is adept at doing a kind of verbal doubletake after saying the wrong thing, and, like Jackie Gleason, carries his weight with style and grace. The problem is, he can't carry the whole film. [24 May 1991, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Everybody's Fine
    "Relief" is the word for it. It's a relief to see Robert De Niro giving an honest, effective starring performance in a project that does not stink and that, in fact, rises to a respectable level of filmmaking proficiency. How long has it been?
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    National Lampoon's European Vacation
    Too many scenes in European Vacation peter out about a gag or two short for the film to be as funny as it ought to be. But the basic amiability of the humor is as pleasant as it is surprising.
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