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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. Meet Dave
    The heartbreaking thing about Meet Dave...is its occasional funniness amid a sea of pablum. If it were completely rank, it'd be less frustrating.
  2. Along Came Polly
    Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source.
  3. The Proposal
    The Proposal reworks "Two Weeks Notice" with the genders switched.
  4. Out Cold
    This sophomoric little gimmick picture -- although at times, serving as no more than a showcase for daredevil snowboarding -- provides enough powder power to keep the audience laughing, even over the rocky parts.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Running Free
    It's probably best to leave talking animal stories in the care of comedic filmmakers.
  6. The Thin Blue Line
    It is an intriguing subject, though so far all that Morris has brought to it is a combination of the morbid and the cruel; he needs to develop some sympathy, too. [16 Sept 1988]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Hellraiser
    Though overexplicit and underdeveloped, Clive Barker`s Hellraiser is a horror film with enough personality and ambition to rise slightly above the run of the genre.
  8. The Eye
    The most vivid aspect of The Eye is its poster image, that of a huge female eye with a human hand gripping the lower lid from the inside. The least vivid aspect is the way Jessica Alba delivers a simple line of expository dialogue.
  9. Johnny English
    An old-fashioned comedy. And in this case, "old-fashioned" means tired, out of date and so abominably blah that you'll fall asleep in your popcorn.
  10. Night School
    The actors aren’t the problem with Night School; the material is.
  11. The Mask of Zorro
    Spectacular, fast, never boring. But it's also one of the more disappointing movies I've seen recently.
  12. 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
  13. The Matrix Revolutions
    Sets out to answer all sorts of cosmic questions, though the one most frequently asked is more mundane: Is it better than "Reloaded"? The answer is a matter of degree.
  14. Oblivion
    Oblivion is odder and less conventional than your average forgettable star vehicle; at times it feels like a five-character play taking place in a digital-effects lab. But there's not much energy to it.
  15. The Karate Kid Part III
    Perhaps the series is simply getting cynical and tired.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Good Year
    The film, for all its pretensions of revelatory, life-altering enlightenment, is actually about as deep as a wading pool, as substantive as cotton candy.
  17. The Life Before Her Eyes
    Beautiful, horrifying, exasperating and just plain weird.
  18. Outbreak
    There's too much hardware, too little sense. Too much blood, too little flesh. Too much program, too little mind. That's the virus of the contemporary movie techno-thriller.
  19. Evil Dead
    Evil Dead offers the core audience for modern horror plenty of reasons to jump, and then settle back, tensely, while awaiting the next idiotic trip down to the cellar beneath the demon-infested cabin in the woods.
  20. Cote d'Azur
    At every turn Cote d'Azur settles for tidy, tinny resolutions to seismic family crises--yet, with a message of tolerance and its heart on its sleeve, the film is certainly tolerable in a summer rental-by-the-sea sort of way.
  21. Happy Christmas
    Swanberg may be one of the few American filmmakers who'd benefit from reading one of those "10 Rules for Mediocre Hollywood Screenwriting" how-to books. Many find a kind of truth and life and rough domestic magic in his films. Here and there, now and then, I see what they're talking about.
  22. The Beyond
    You know the drill: Seven gates of hell. The walking dead. Blood and spurting eyeballs. Strictly for horror mavens hungry for kitsch. [03 Jul 1998]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. A Shock to the System
    An ambitious screenplay (by Andrew Klavan) is done in by wavering direction (by Jan Egleson) in A Shock to the System, an independent feature that is still worth seeing for its well-chosen cast of medium-priced performers, including Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert, Swoosie Kurtz and Will Patton. [23 Mar 1990, p.H]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Bloodshot
    Predictably, it descends into a meaningless blur of gravity-defying physics and robotic limbs by the end, where a lot of violence is happening but you’re never sure exactly why or even how.
  25. Race
    What's the point of telling Jesse Owens' story if you don't get into what made him tick, and drove his success as an athlete?
  26. Chandni Chowk to China
    A massive and rather tiring showcase for Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar.
  27. Sugar Hill
    Ploddingly written by Barry Michael Cooper, this shrug-evoking movie has been grimly directed by the numbers by Ichaso, who overlays his production with the obligatory sax music and in-your-viscera violence. [25 Feb 1994, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. 21 Bridges
    Before long in 21 Bridges, the extent of the corruption becomes the top line of a vision test — far too easy to spot from a distance.
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