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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. Stargate
    The arrival of Ra (Jaye Davidson), bearing sci-fi cliches, changes Stargate from a merely hokey movie to one that is truly ridiculous.
  2. Taking Care of Business
    Veteran director Arthur Hiller keeps the vehicle galloping along with a sure hand, careful not to let any of it sink to a fatal level of believability and always on the prowl for whatever wit can be harvested from any gizmo at hand. [17 Aug 1990, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Affair of the Necklace
    Rife with wrong people in major jobs, which leads to a movie that lacks the requisite verve to make to it sparkle.
  4. Bicentennial Man
    Has heart, but lacks bite.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. The Event
    Just sit, feel a little blue and watch Parker Posey wander through New York in an ugly conservative suit. In "Blade," at least she'll get a snazzier wardrobe.
  6. The Stepford Wives
    Trying to be more antic and cuttingly funny, it misses the premise's shivery tension. The story loses us at precisely the moment it should put us in the vise.
  7. The Rage: Carrie 2
    The sequel is about nothing more profound than an awkward teenager's desire for a really cute boyfriend. [12 March 1999, Friday, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Harry and the Hendersons
    It isn't hard to take, but Harry and the Hendersons seems a bit familiar.
  9. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Pure spectacle has since been subsumed into narrative filmmaking, but the cinema of attractions is always present, especially in modern action movies, and there may be no greater current example of this than xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
  10. Armageddon
    It looks like a TV ad, or 200 of them strung together, with the same kind of gaudy virtuosity, lavish technique and expensive self-mockery tinging every shot.
  11. For Love or Money
    Still, it's the bits and pieces of this movie, the eccentric asides, that rescue it-when they work. [1 Oct 1993, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Bucket List
    A manipulative look at dying with dignity and a lame yarn about as realistic as the fantasy in “The Princess Bride.”
  13. Fred Claus
    Fred Claus seems a clever installment, not a seasonal classic, a buffet whose many nibbles you sample, move on and quickly forget.
  14. Opus
    Opus has its moments. But even the surprises aren’t especially surprising.
  15. From Paris with Love
    Stoopid fun, From Paris With Love doesn't do much for Paris or love, or your brain cells, but it flies like a crazed eagle on uppers and comes from the talented, propulsive schlocketeer Pierre Morel.
  16. Trapped
    Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings.
  17. Underworld
    Has one other thing in common with "The Matrix Reloaded" -- too much story, too many angles.
  18. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    A work of ineffable soullessness and persistent moral idiocy.
  19. Crazy People
    It's the premise of Crazy People that what the American public really responds to in advertising is absolute honesty. If that were true, then the ads for the film would proudly point out that "Crazy People" is cloying, derivative and never more than mildly funny. [11 Apr 1990, p.2C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Leave It to Beaver
    Compared to many movies of this kind, this Beaver is an enjoyable but mixed bag. [22 Aug 1997, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Jungle 2 Jungle
    Jungle 2 Jungle, is a shallow, joyless show, whose family bonding comedy is as touching as its dead-bird jokes, as witty as a bowl of cat urine and as penetrating as its analysis of the Russian Mafia. [07 Mar 1997, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. The Haunting
    In The Haunting, the moviemakers succeed in something very difficult: creating a haunted house with real personality and terror. [23 July 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. The Toxic Avenger
    A monstrously crude, blatantly tasteless film reminiscent of the now bygone drive-in movies. It's also sterling evidence of why they haven't been missed.
  24. The Perfect Game
    The film is perfectly mediocre, which is heartbreaking, not heartwarming.
  25. Along Came a Spider
    Freeman gives his overwrought, over-familiar scenes an unlikely shot of intelligence and dignity that cuts through the formulas and almost makes them work.
  26. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Nothing elegant about Adams here, but she's terrific -- a sparkling screen presence. Her Earhart hoists this big-budget sequel above the routine.
  27. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    It sounds fun. It's a little fun. For a while. But Bekmanbetov shoots every killing spree like an addled gamer, working that slow-down-speed-up kill-shot cliche like a maniac.
  28. Orphan
    Assuming your psycho-pigtailed-killer memories extend back as far as "The Bad Seed," Maxwell Anderson's play filmed by director Mervyn LeRoy in 1956, Orphan may remind you of the icon made famous by Patty McCormack.
  29. RoboCop 2
    RoboCop 2 is every bit as sadistic as its 1987 predecessor but considerably less effective.
  30. The Last House on the Left
    Hinges on humiliation and vengeance, which makes it like most other modern horror titles. Its focus on sexual assault, however, puts it in a different, more primal league.
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