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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. Universal Soldier
    The film is actually fairly well made, with a brisk tempo pace, a professional look and enough competently staged action.
  2. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    Every time Charlize Theron is on screen, the movie gets crazy campy, and therefore at least somewhat interesting.
  3. Born American
    A surprisingly well-made action movie with a definite directorial personality. [03 Sep 1986, p.7C]
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  4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
    The way My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 has been staged, filmed and edited, every new scene and each exchange has a way of being undermined by the filmmaking choices.
  5. Resident Evil
    One of the few video game movies to truly re-create the gaming experience -- from the three-dimensional maps to the structure of encountering increasingly grisly and dangerous foes at higher levels of play.
  6. Masters of the Universe
    Everyone knows how the battles will turn out. It's what's between them that raises Masters Of The Universe ever so slightly above the mediocre.
  7. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    The same bland vision of teendom that's become inescapable on the small and big screens.
  8. My Blue Heaven
    Someone should have told Steve Martin that, prodigiously talented though he is, his over-the-top caricature of a displaced mobster could not sustain an entire movie, particularly one as scattershot as My Blue Heaven. [20 Aug 1990, p.2]
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  9. Stealth
    Though Stealth's strengths are obvious -- high-tech marvels and a good cast -- so are its flaws. At its worst moments, a mad robot seems to have taken over the movie, too.
  10. A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    By embracing a static plot, making Gerardo a depressed Robotron and Mexico City a ghost town, Hernandez only succeeds in alienating us, even while focusing on the most universal of themes: Breaking up is hard to do.
  11. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    At what point might animators be arrested for doing work so ugly it causes aesthetic blindness in millions of younglings?
  12. Venom
    It's a mess, but wow, is it ever a fun, fascinating mess. Those are always so much more thrilling than any of the formulaic superhero movies that parade through multiplexes all year.
  13. Jumper
    Jumper, the film, goes everywhere and nowhere.
  14. Rumor Has It...
    Easygoing but surprisingly likable comedy.
  15. Argylle
    It’s lousy, and a frantic bore, squandering its on-screen talent and making bland visual hash of its preening, recreational slaughter.
  16. The Hustle
    Well, it’s a dud. Nothing quite clicks.
  17. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond.
  18. Two Can Play That Game
    Throws its obvious predecessor, "Waiting to Exhale," into relief, making that 1995 syrupy revenge fantasy look positively Shakespearean next to the moronic Two Can Play That Game.
  19. Scooby-Doo
    Knows when to take itself seriously and when to laugh at itself -- even if its audience isn't laughing along at every gag.
  20. Dirt Music
    The film undeniably captures the breathtaking and unique landscape of coastal Western Australia. It's an incredibly beautiful film, but it's a challenge to emotionally connect to it. It feels like the outline of what would have been an epic novel, but in the translation to the screen, it has lost its interiority, and anything profound it might have communicated.
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