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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. The Three Musketeers
    The new Walt Disney version of "The Three Musketeers"-plushly mounted, but ineptly written and cast-gallops along like a gargantuan tutti-frutti wagon running amok. [12 Nov 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. John Dies at the End
    This is a fantasy grab bag in which nearly anything can happen.
  3. One Crazy Summer
    No one ever said good taste was a requirement for good box office, particularly when the commodity in question is a summer teen flick, but it does help to have appealing characters in the leading roles and a script with at least the wit of a failing TV sitcom.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. The Final Cut
    Fairly well done but deadly dull futuristic thriller.
  5. Playing for Keeps
    Only Biel and Greer lift it above the level of bleh.
  6. Orange County
    Black delivers the best line (“Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?”), and Lithgow scores a giggle for calling his ex-wife “coyote ugly” to her face, but neither of them can disguise this lemon.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Just My Luck
    Presumably, this movie was designed to be a fun romp, and in that it fails.
  8. Ed
    The biggest script flaw is the curious lack of cause and effect in the relationship between Jack and Ed.
  9. Porky's II: The Next Day
    An amateurish sequel to one of the most repulsive movies in years, a teenage sex comedy with horrific caricatures of women. This time the nudity is diminished, but in its place are tasteless high jinks iwth the Klu Klux Klan [22 July 1983, p.3-10]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    This is your warning that if you have any affinity for the ballet, avoid this at all costs.
  11. Son of the Mask
    Even with a new leading man and a more family-friendly rating, some things never change: The Mask still stars Industrial Light & Magic.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Don't Tempt Me
    If the filmmakers wanted to talk so much, they should have just gotten together for a long, anecdote-filled, wine-soaked Spanish dinner party and amused themselves.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
    Despite the direction of John Huston, this story of a self-appointed Western judge (Paul Newman) isn't one of anyone's best. [06 Apr 1990, p.71]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Cinderella
    With all the songs, gowns and corny jokes, kids under 10 will likely love it, and frankly, that’s who this is for, not the millennials or Gen Z kids who grew up with Brandy or Hillary Duff.
  15. American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
    It has a charming actor named Scott James as Joe's buddy, Curtis Jackson. And it still has smartly produced scenes of black-clad ninja performing sleights of hand, foot, spear, dart, knife, chain and scimitar. What it doesn't have is a shred of originality. [07 May 1987, p.13A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Shadowboxer
    Gruesome and supremely disjointed foray into the world of hired assassins.
  17. Love Happens
    I wish the movie made emotional sense, because it’s all about getting in touch with whatever’s holding you back, but it doesn’t.
  18. Kick-Ass
    It may well be a hit, but me, I'm waiting for "Iron Man 2."
  19. Easy Virtue
    Easy Virtue may be a bauble, as Larita's described at one point, but Coward's examination of hypocrisy demands real skill. The style should suggest "whipped cream with knives," as Stephen Sondheim once described "A Little Night Music." Elliott's film is more like curdled milk with a spork.
  20. Summer Catch
    Neither drama nor comedy, Summer Catch is a long, slow lob of a movie that never crosses the plate.
  21. Final Destination
    Meets the low standards of a mediocre TV movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Sorry, Haters
    A preposterous screwball psychological drama.
  23. The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
    "The Misadventurer" is more like it.
  24. Happy Tears
    The acting's not the problem, and it's a nice thing to find Moore playing a human-scaled human being, with a recognizable human touch. The material has a hint of it too. But only a hint.
  25. The Musketeer
    A grotesque slumgullion of kung fu, studio schlock and pseudo-Dumas swashbuckling that leaves you longing for Doug Fairbanks --or even Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 15 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    Shallow and repetitive.
  27. Third Person
    How much of what we see in Third Person is the novelist's invention is part of the guessing game that goes on and on. And. On.
  28. Justice League
    The breathtakingly bad Justice League, with its corny banter and terrible effects just might signify a return to that goofy Batman form.
  29. Dreams
    The circumstances of the story might be “timely,” but “Dreams” doesn’t help us understand the situation better, leaving us in the dark about what we’re supposed to take away from this story of sex, violence, money and the state. Anything it suggests we already know.
  30. Ocean's Thirteen
    The line between cool and cold is a thin one, however. Cool isn't the word for "Thirteen"; it's just smug.
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