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For 7,601 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Lo's writing is generally solid, and he creates some genuinely funny and touching moments with his use of dream sequences and flashbacks. He may not have gotten his proportions perfect in this first try, but Catfish in Black Bean Sauce shows that Lo has sharp cinematic instincts.
  2. The In-Laws
    Like too many movies these days, takes a clever little idea and all but pounds it into the ground.
  3. All Over the Guy
    Snappy but sappy romantic comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie is a throwaway; with a little effort, it might have been something else. [6 July 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
    Despite its rather arrogant title for a first film, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, a series could lurk inside this drawnout, but often spectacular and funny adventure film.
  6. The Watchers
    Even with its drawbacks, I found “The Watchers” worth watching, even with its odd (and perhaps too faithful to the book) final 15 minutes. The director works well with cinematographer Eli Arenson to envelop the chamber-sized ensemble in various shades of dread, or comfort.
  7. The Mighty Ducks
    An okay kids' picture about a bunch of misfit hockey players who are brought together to play in the Big Game by a cynical, Yuppie coach (Emilio Estevez) doing community service. [02 Oct 1992, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Second Act
    Good cast, nearly hopeless script.
  9. El cantante
    Turns out to be nothing special. Well, the music is. The storytelling is not.
  10. Yes Man
    Starts out wobbly but ends up quite nicely, primarily because Carrey has a wonderful acting partner in Zooey Deschanel.
  11. Weird Science
    What a disappointment Weird Science is! A wonderful writer-director has taken a cute idea about two teenage Dr. Frankensteins creating a perfect woman by computer and turned it into a vulgar, mindless, special-effects-cluttered wasteland.
  12. A Chorus Line
    A classic play has been reduced a decent movie. It's a shame it couldn't be as good as the play; it's a small pleasure that it's as entertaining as it is. [20 Dec 1985]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Destination Wedding
    The dialogue they deliver is crisp, witty and occasionally biting. Levin's script has the style and rhythms of the kind of romantic comedies of the '40s and '50s when actors like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn used verbal banter like boxing gloves.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Side Effects
    There is a great, even revolutionary movie to be made about pharmaceutical companies in America. Side Effects is definitely not it.
  15. The Heartbreak Kid
    Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness.
  16. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Isn't without charm, or laughs. Director Shawn Levy's film features some of the best child actor casting since "The Little Rascals."
  17. Blue Streak
    Offers two or three worthwhile laughs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pumpkin
    Wildly uneven but nonetheless intriguing and funny.
  19. Me Myself I
    Far too self-absorbed a picture.
  20. Greenfingers
    Unambitious and transparent, but that doesn't mean it won't warm the hearts of audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
  21. Chasing Liberty
    As it turns out, "Liberty," a likable, light-as-air road comedy, is a much better movie than its sour-pun title.
  22. 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.
  23. The Last of Robin Hood
    Kline took on Douglas Fairbanks in Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin" and Cole Porter in Irwin Winkler's "De-Lovely"; he's the go-to biopic ace for roles requiring some fizz, a certain droll elevation and hair parted and slicked-back just so.
  24. She's the Man
    It's a cute romantic comedy, just as Shakespeare intended.
  25. Flipped
    The story should have made for charming results on screen. Instead - and I truly don't enjoy saying so - co-adapter and director Rob Reiner's picture lands somewhere between synthetic nostalgia and the texture of real life.
  26. The 'Burbs
    Though The burbs is hardly an actor's film, Hanks continues to demonstrate the ease and maturity that has been his since Big, while Dern, Ducommun and Feldman lend broad but effective support.
  27. Pain & Gain
    It's Bay World. And after an hour of Pain & Gain, it felt more like "Pain & Pain."
  28. The Little Rascals
    A dismal kids' comedy in which all creativity stopped after casting lookalikes for the old rascals was completed.
  29. Straw Dogs
    It's miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary. Other than that….
  30. Black or White
    Black or White may not be racist, exactly, but it patronizes its African-American characters up, down and sideways, and audiences of every ethnicity, background, hue and predilection can find something to dislike.
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