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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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Scream 3
    Although Scream 3 is often clever in the way it interweaves the worlds of "Scream," "Stab" and life outside the theater, it's not exactly groundbreaking.
  2. The Godfather of Green Bay
    Though the movie is pretty stereotypical and sometimes crude, it also has a sweet laid-back temper. It has amusing moments.
  3. The Expendables
    At one point Rourke delivers a monologue about his time in Bosnia, and the conviction the actor brings to the occasion throws the movie completely out of whack. What's actual acting doing in a movie like this?
  4. The Dream Team
    It's a baffling, unconvincing experience, though it has a few moments of mild charm.
  5. On Chesil Beach
    The ending is very different from the novella, and I was surprised at its shameless, ruthless emotional effectiveness.
  6. Now You See Me 2
    Now You See Me 2 is more fun than "Now You See Me," which says something, I guess. It fits snugly in the long list of easygoing nothings, the narrative equivalent of a Fruit Roll-Up, designed to be forgotten in as many minutes as they took to watch.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Phantom
    A muddy, dreamlike Portuguese offering.
  8. Gothika
    May try to revive the eerie spirit of the Gothic novel, but, unless you're suffering from amnesia yourself, it probably won't surprise or thrill you.
  9. Focus
    Screen chemistry between two individuals isn't really a pass/fail proposition. There are degrees involved. But let's pretend otherwise and say yes, Smith and Robbie pass, barely, with less than flying colors and in a pretty dull movie.
  10. The Joneses
    Duchovny and Moore have their moments; they're like two preening sharks working on commission.
  11. The Running Man
    Dawson, though, burrows into his role with all the zeal of a perennial second banana recognizing the opportunity of a lifetime. It's the one naturalistic performance in this cartoonish film, carrying with it the implicit authority of years of firsthand experience shaped, perhaps, by some late-night introspection. [13 Nov 1987, p.B]
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  12. The Salon
    The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting. Been there, snipped it. Though dating from venerable material, The Salon turns out to be one haircut too many.
  13. Bruce Almighty
    Just a vehicle for Carrey to do his hyperactive shtick. He has some entertaining bits, such as his rain-drenched meltdown in which he victimizes some stunned innocents, but he’s working so strenuously that at times he’s hard to watch.
  14. Slipstream
    Bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
  15. Q & A
    When a movie runs 134 minutes, it's best to keep something in reserve; Lumet does not, and Q&A expires long before it ends. [27 Apr 1990, p.C]
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  16. Logan
    Logan is deadly serious, and while its gamer-style killing sprees are meant to be excitingly brutal, I found them numbing and, in the climax, borderline offensive.
  17. Battle for Terra
    All in all? A curious preachment yarn for peace, one which makes you wonder if the filmmakers couldn't wait to get to the climactic aerial dogfights.
  18. Wedding Crashers
    Walken is an odd choice for a D.C. power player, wasting his creepiness on this straight, respectable role.
  19. Red Riding Hood
    Seyfried's a good actress, but all the art direction in the world can't make this version of events the stuff either of dreams or of nightmares.
  20. Over the Hedge
    Even with Levy and O'Hara and Shandling adding what they can, you can only enjoy the voices behind the critters so much when the images fall so short.
  21. National Security
    Lawrence and Zahn generate enough comic tension and mayhem to jump-start this mass of action-comedy cliches into a fairly amusing show.
  22. Newsies
    As much as the film may try to peddle warmth and solidarity, it remains disturbingly cold and impersonal, limited by the formulaic writing of Bob Tzudiker and Noni White and stymied by Ortega's apparent distance from his cast. [10 Apr 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Nanny McPhee Returns
    Too much of the contrasting comedy in Nanny McPhee Returns is shrill, laden with routine computer-generated effects and pounded into dust by James Newton Howard's shut-up-already musical score.
  24. The Perfect Holiday
    Strives to be nothing more than easygoing and heartwarming.
  25. Hard Ball
    Remains watchable when it's not hitting you like a baseball bat with poignancy. But by the time you've endured all of the shamelessly manipulative plot turns and heart-yanking speeches that close out the movie, all you can do is cry foul.
  26. (Untitled)
    A surer hand behind the camera might’ve finessed the jokes more effectively, or established a consistent and satisfying tone.
  27. Patty Hearst
    The enigma not only remains, but, cloaked in Schrader`s mysticism, seems more impenetrable than ever.
  28. Scoop
    A major sticking point is that none of these characters have been developed into people who are interesting enough to carry what is ultimately an exceedingly thin story, and the lack of intrigue becomes a glaring issue.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jakob the Liar
    I never lost awareness that I was watching actors speaking lines, not real people --a problem I didn't have in the more unreal "Life Is Beautiful."
  30. Disclosure
    Disclosure is pure and simple trash masquerading as significance. [9 Dec 1994, p.B]
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