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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. Garage Days
    A lively little Australian rock movie hamstrung and sunk by one of the least successful story ideas I've seen recently.
  2. Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Brighton Beah, curiously, still doesn`t work on film, perhaps because movies have no use for stagecraft, no matter how brilliant it may be. Once there`s no practical reason to keep the action restricted to a single set --movies, of course, can go anywhere--Simon`s strategic skills come to seem superfluous, if not an actual liability.
  3. Dangerous Beauty
    In compositions lustrously lit and creamily colorful as an elegant piece of soft-core porno, the moviemakers guide us through Veronica’s life, from virginity to bawdy fame to sainthood. Reality never intrudes — even though the script obviously wants to set us straight about gender, femininity and political power in 16th Century Venice.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Life Without Me
    The inescapable problem with this film is that everything is precisely as you expect it. And so, cheated out of anything interesting, you just want "My Life Without Me" to be a movie without you.
  5. The Boy Who Could Fly
    The surreal is appropriate to a story based on fantasy, but the unevenness in tone here makes watching ''The Boy Who Could Fly'' a little like hitting airpockets in a puddlejumper.
  6. August: Osage County
    See the play sometime. It cooks; the movie's more of a microwave reheat.
  7. Valentine's Day
    In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse.
  8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    A comedy that seems to have most everything going for it but the ability to make us laugh.
  9. Beerfest
    Beerfest is one sloppy comedy, but the lads of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard don't know when to say when in their pursuit of the idiotic laugh, and persistence certainly counts for something.
  10. Hotel
    Hotel might be best described as the art-house version of "Cannonball Run."
  11. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    The same bland vision of teendom that's become inescapable on the small and big screens.
  12. Deliver Us From Evil
    Half the time, Deliver Us From Evil is genuinely interested in Sarchie's all-too-human demons, and half the time we're marking time until the big exorcism and an ending that keeps the door open for a sequel, should the market demand it.
  13. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    A character comedy requires some notion of respect and integrity. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has none. [14 Dec 1988, p.1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Circuit
    It makes the viewer wonder whether Circuit would have been stronger as a documentary instead of the well-intentioned, overlong, intermittently entertaining but flawed feature that it is.
  15. Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
    It was a very uneasy 80-some minutes. Watching John and Kipper express their fears and weaknesses and desires respresented a peek under covers that might best have been left unmussed.
  16. The Salton Sea
    Sacrificing content for style, Caruso gives us a lot to look at but little to ponder.
  17. Universal Soldier
    The film is actually fairly well made, with a brisk tempo pace, a professional look and enough competently staged action.
  18. The Watch
    It sticks in the craw. The whole movie does.
  19. Two Weeks Notice
    Lead actors seeming like they're taking it easy is one thing. But a filmmaker trying to construct a smart romantic comedy actually must do some work.
  20. The Beach
    Tries to take us from heaven to hell but winds up leaving us in limbo: exasperated and dumfounded.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Macbeth
    Partly, I think, the problem lies in Kurzel and his key performers being so determined to make the language conversational and naturalistic, they forgot to make the individual scenes move.
  22. The Cloverfield Paradox
    The Cloverfield Paradox is “Lost” in space — a faint, well-acted blip on the radar of your viewing life.
  23. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's a nice little film, likable but not exceptional, and it will probably appeal most strongly to actors, would be-actors, wannabes and ex-actors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Are We There Yet?
    Won't make your day, but it won't kill it either.
  25. The Family Man
    I didn't believe it, and I don't think the people who made The Family Man did either.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. In the Heart of the Sea
    I wish Howard's film had more of a distinct personality and drive behind it; Howard's made some supremely enjoyable films, in various keys, but this waterlogged, effects-crazed picture isn't one of them.
  27. The Reader
    Can a formidable actress redeem a pile of solemn erotic kitsch? Kate Winslet answers that one as honestly as she can in the film version of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel "The Reader."
  28. The Shallows
    The climactic battle of wits between human and shark leads to a conclusion that got the audience whooping pretty good. The rest of it's OK.
  29. Revenge
    It's corny, cussed and carnal.
  30. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    This is the "Babel" or "Crash" of ensemble romantic comedies, with screenwriter Dan Fogelman mapping out several narrative surprises that throw you for little loops as they're delivered.
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