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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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  1. Bootmen
    What it gains in fun, the film loses in credibility, as the production number itself more closely resembles a high-priced Las Vegas extravaganza than a quickly organized charity event.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Necessary Roughness
    Hector Elizondo and Robert Loggia are fine as the team's coaches. [27 Sept 1991, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Queenpins
    As a sort-of-true-crime comedy, spinning a yarn of middle-class larceny and extreme, deeply unlawful couponing, it’s likely to offend no one but the most grimly law-abiding consumers among us. But like the people it’s about, you want more.
  4. Legends of the Fall
    There's a lot of beauty and excitement in Legends of the Fall - not least from the actors. [13 Jan 1995]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    The Incredible Burt Wonderstone serves as a reminder that everything in a film has a chance to go wrong before a film begins filming. In other words: It's the script, stupid.
  6. Rails & Ties
    All the astute acting in the world can’t bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact.
  7. K-9
    However you look at it, K-9, a crime comedy starring Jim Belushi, Mel Harris and a German shepherd named Jerry Lee, barks up a few of the right trees. Its moments of hilarity are due entirely to the dog, whose orchestrated growls and grimaces could start a whole new school of dog acting. [28 Apr 1989, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Miracles from Heaven
    While the film runs a bit too long, and the heartstring tugging becomes overwrought, overall, this family melodrama about a devastating illness and the freak accident that cured it is surprisingly effective, even for those of little faith.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    School for Scoundrels
    This ultimately disappointing comedy starts reasonably strong, delivers a few good laughs, then rolls over and plays dead.
  10. Kate & Leopold
    An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that’s lost in time, space and cliches.
  11. A Slipping-Down Life
    Released in theaters five years after its 1999 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Kalem's film is too precious, too self-conscious and far too enamored with itself to ever have any kind of genuine emotional truth.
  12. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it's rather pleasantly bonkers.
  13. Oz the Great and Powerful
    As a series of sights, which movies like these are, Oz the Great and Powerful is more like "Oz the Digital and Relentless." Certainly this is true in its final half-hour, which seemed to me to be all explosions.
  14. Joyful Noise
    The movie's all right, if you can take its rampant artificiality - and I'm not even talking about Parton's face yet.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rush Hour 3
    Rush Hour 3 is DOA.
  16. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    Plenty of comedies aren't funny, but this one is more than that. It's wholeheartedly narcissistic in its portrait of male petulance and self-pity.
  17. Three Men and a Cradle
    Predictably cute. The only surprise about 3 Men and a Cradle is that it is the hit in Paris, winning three French Oscars, being nominated for an American Oscar, and, unbelievably, outgrossing E.T. and Rambo at the French box office. But then the French have loved the last few Jerry Lewis movies, too.
  18. Last Man Standing
    Violent and cynical on the surface, impassioned and celebratory below, Last Man Standing is such a carefully stylized film that sometimes it's hard to respond to it. [20 Sep 1996, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Committed
    One more movie comedy about how love can turn you into an idiot. And its major flaw, among many others, is that the idiocy takes over the movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Brokedown Palace
    The movie, directed by veteran Jonathan Kaplan, has enough in common with such American-in-foreign-jail movies as "Midnight Express" and the recent "Return to Paradise" to make you wonder why it ever got made.
  21. The Ninth Gate
    Elegant, scary fun.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Closer You Get
    Like sitting through a rerun of a show you kind of liked.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love & Sex
    What we have here is the cinematic equivalent of a dead shark.
  24. Pearl Harbor
    A movie meant to explode off the screen -- and it's at its best when those explosions are going full blast.
  25. Chaos Theory
    The performances and Marcos Siega’s direction put a pleasing sheen on the material.
  26. The Marksman
    The film wants to speak to some kind of old school, lone-ranger American hero type (as portrayed by a man from Northern Ireland), but it’s too vague, shying away from any controversy, to say much at all.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Jacket
    A gripping drama that will leave thoughtful cinemagoers wrestling with basic Big Questions.
  28. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Kingsman: The Golden Circle offers everything — several bored Oscar winners, two scenes featuring death by meat grinder, Elton John mugging in close-up — except a good time.
  29. In My Country
    A stirring, large-souled movie.
  30. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Why does “New Moon” basically work, even with its grave self-seriousness? A few reasons. Weitz lets the material breathe, and his actors interact. The film does not try to eat you alive.
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