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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. Band of the Hand
    Band of the Hand does not lack humorous moments. Unfortunately, most of these occur in the first half of the movie as the young criminals play out their primitive conflicts. But this able group of young actors has been given the difficult and insurmountable task of breathing life into a film that cannot decide if it is an after-school television special or a ''Miami Vice'' episode.
  2. Valentine's Day
    In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Succeeds in bringing the best attributes of Nickelodeon TV to the big screen.
  4. All About the Benjamins
    Unfortunately, the home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.
  5. Safe Haven
    I like Duhamel, and in her first straight-up dramatic role Hough does well enough, though her singing and/dancing career thus far has trained her to oversell, as opposed to sell, as opposed to act naturally.
  6. The Real Cancun
    This movie thrusts you so close to these intoxicated idiots that you practically have to wipe off secondhand tequila, sweat and spit stains afterward.
  7. Undead
    If only they didn't cannibalize their source material so much, then take an extreme rule reversal just before the end credits, they might have achieved something original, rather than just a fan-fiction derivation of George A. Romero's canon.
  8. The Crush
    Shapiro has constructed a by-the-numbers script that telegraphs every plot twist with the exertion of its setups. We know that a hive of yellow jackets in the orchard, a carousel in the attic and Darian's fondness for horses will somehow make it into the final minutes of the film. It is hard to work up the curiosity to stick it out and find out how. [6 Apr 1993, p.7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Town & Country
    Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Elektra
    Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.
  11. Mr. Destiny
    It's to Belushi's credit that, under such severely strained circumstances, he manages to come off as both likable and plausible - qualities that the venal Mr. Destiny otherwise lacks. [12 Oct 1990, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Mummy
    The mayhem in The Mummy feels desperate, mistimed, grueling in the wrong way (the film's violence is infinitely less appropriate for preteens than that of "Wonder Woman").
  13. Vacation
    If any of this was surprising or cleverly timed, you'd laugh and then cringe. In Vacation you cringe first and ask questions later.
  14. Love Hurts
    It’s such a drag to see Ke Huy Quan undermined so persistently by the script and the role handing him his first lead in a movie.
  15. Fatal Affair
    Everything happens quickly in Fatal Affair, since it’s all plot and no character. These movies are what they are: disposable; full of shiny, unstained, high-end kitchen countertops.
  16. The Bubble
    No one seems particularly good at their jobs, but that’s beside the point. They’re silly and self-absorbed — mildly obnoxious more than anything — but rarely is their desperation funny.
  17. A Kid in King Arthur's Court
    It is difficult to decide what is more annoying. The complete lack of execution in this film, (despite the presence of some very talented actors), or the realization that these lame screenwriters were so devoid of original ideas, they resorted to picking at the carcass of a tale that has been done and redone to death. [11 Aug 1995, p.28]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Jonah Hex
    Here's how you know Josh Brolin has become a movie star: Jonah Hex may not be much with him, but without him? Perish the thought. Perish it, throw an ax in its heart, then burn it to a crisp.
  19. Collateral Damage
    This is one of those would-be blockbusters that wants to have it both ways: It includes enough political commentary to have pretensions of seriousness, yet it's engineered to satisfy the explosion cravings of Schwarzenegger action fans, if any are left.
  20. Diamonds
    Kirk Douglas' performance...is so strong and inspiring it's a shame there isn't a better movie around it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    A staggeringly bad picture: a shallow, cliche-ridden mess that keeps blowing up on screen.
  22. Raise Your Voice
    Worst of all, though, is the movie's moral maneuvering.
  23. Equilibrium
    Not a picture that makes you think very much -- except to wonder why the studios keep making movies like this.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Shadowboxer
    Gruesome and supremely disjointed foray into the world of hired assassins.
  25. Full of It
    A wish fulfillment fantasy of staggering silliness, both smirkingly cutesy and gratingly offensive, this is one for the movie ash heap.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    New Year's Evil
    The worst part of the night isn't the Aqua Net hair or the sweaty '80s dancing. Murder is the theme of the evening.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Soul Man
    Soul Man is a slick, frightening piece of work. It's not only because Ron Reagan Jr. has a bit part in it that it seems the definitive Reagan-era film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. The Glimmer Man
    It's strictly rental material. [06 Oct 1996, p.11]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Chasing Papi
    It's a shame that these actors, stars already in the Latino community, with most also having played small parts in Hollywood's more white-bread movies, got such a poorly written script for their American coming-out party.
  30. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    It's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because it's my duty to say it. And it's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because something about its particular grade of dullness may cause memory loss.
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