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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. Criminal
    Criminal feels like the kind of high-concept, unapologetically preposterous action movies of the heyday in the '80s and '90s. If that's your thing, it's a hoot.
  2. Shottas
    Shottas exists purely in the realm of rasta-music-video fakery.
  3. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    The film may be bad-and mad-but it's not predictable.
  4. Are We Done Yet?
    Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it "Enough Already."
  5. Space Chimps
    Sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy. The film either needed to be a lot wittier to make up for the way it looks, or a lot better-looking to compensate for the funny it isn't.
  6. Graffiti Bridge
    The movie suffers from various technical difficulties - like choppy editing and songs that get cut off mid-groove - and in the end everything collapses in a heap. [05 Nov 1990, p.4C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The Art of Getting By
    The glibness of Wiesen's freshman effort wouldn't be a problem if the wit was there.
  8. Three O'Clock High
    A director can get away with stick-figure characterizations in a 30-minute television show, but here it looks like he got Siemaszko to assume a browbeaten expression and Tyson to do his best imitation of a Neanderthal, then told them to "freeze" for the duration of the project. That may be filming, but it's not directing.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Sex Tape
    Sex Tape settles for violence when violent slapstick, a lot harder to finesse, was the implicit goal of the picture.
  10. Body Shots
    Like an episode of "Friends" where the entire cast has been given aphrodisiacs and locked up.
  11. This Thing of Ours
    The younger Provenzano, while under indictment for racketeering and tax evasion, made his contribution to our mob lesson by writing, directing and starring in This Thing of Ours, another installment in the long line of bada-bings and fuggetabouits.
  12. Pure Luck
    Predictably impersonal and uninspired.
  13. 3 Ninjas
    A miserable ripoff of The Karate Kid with three whitebread young-uns taking lessons from their Chinese grandfather on how to be upright and horizontal ninja warriors. They get their kicks trying to knock off a Steven Seagal imitation who is running drugs.
  14. Pan
    The most joyless revisionism since Disney's "The Lone Ranger.
  15. Ladybugs
    The movie has a big, warm, fuzzy heart - and not a bellylaugh in sight. [30 March 1992, p.5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Parental Guidance
    The pathos: considerable. The sight gags, involving Crystal puking chili dog on a kid's face, or the grandson with an imaginary friend peeing and causing an X Games skateboarder to wipe out: artless. The results: tolerably amusing.
  17. The Secret of My Succe$s
    The Secret of My Success is crushingly bland. Bland, yes, but somewhat chilling, too--particularly in the way Ross and his screenwriters (Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A.J. Carothers) zero in on their teenage target audience by indulging in the grubbiest of grubby fantasies.
  18. 8 ½ Women
    Seethes with cruel lust and brainy fancy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    The vocal characterizations aren't the problem here; the script and the animation are the problems, and in feature animation, you can't arrange more significant problems than those.
  20. Cradle 2 the Grave
    Replete with audience-insulting writing and blatantly hateful jokes, storytelling like this makes most video game plots look like "Moby Dick."
  21. Assassin's Creed
    It's just a mediocre action movie, poorly edited and larded with a terrible musical score, based on a video game. Nothing new there.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Belly
    Despite its admonitory tone, Belly spends so much time caressing images of material wealth, female exploitation, drugs and murder that one has to worry about its effect on youngsters. But with its uneven storytelling and acting glitches, Belly's dubious moral stance may be the easiest part of the film to stomach. [04 Nov 1998, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Conan the Barbarian
    It's mostly noise and splurch and, as I mentioned, aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!
  24. The Karate Kid Part III
    Perhaps the series is simply getting cynical and tired.
  25. Lady in the Water
    The film is a rogue hunk of hooey.
  26. That Awkward Moment
    It's nice to see a movie in love with New York City, but That Awkward Moment sets such a low bar for Jason's redemption it becomes a drag.
  27. Party Monster
    In the end you don't believe what you're watching, and you don't care. This party is a drag.
  28. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    It's beautifully shot on Cephallonian locations by superb landscape photographer John Toll.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
    An offbeat, genial western parody that has some surprisingly effective low-key humor. [30 Aug 1991, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Action Jackson
    Weathers turns out to be a disappointingly weak lead whose low-key likability doesn't make up for his lack of anger and drive-crucial attributes for any action hero. And Baxley is surprisingly stingy with his action sequences.
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