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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. Black Snake Moan
    Black Snake Moan strikes me as hogwash. It fundamentally does not work; its consciously far-fetched, out-there notions of the things damaged people do in the name of love are reductive and go only so far. It's as if the premise were tethered to a radiator or something.
  2. Are We Done Yet?
    Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it "Enough Already."
  3. Becky
    Written by Nick Moore, Ruckus Skye and Lane Skye, the script just doesn't give us enough material to care about the story, which is devoid of subtext and keeps everything on the surface.
  4. The Producers
    The Producers on screen, as a musical, does not work. It is not very funny. It doesn't look right. It's depressing.
  5. 3 Needles
    Writer-director Thom Fitzgerald's ambitious but hopelessly inchoate AIDS drama is actually three separate, sequentially-told stories.
  6. Around the Bend
    A well-intentioned, ill-conceived blip of a movie that just happens to star two of the most esteemed actors of our time--Michael Caine and Christopher Walken.
  7. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    Our Flick of the Week is Brian De Palma's disastrous film of Tom Wolfe's seminal '80s novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities. And the biggest mystery of many surrounding this production is why anyone of De Palma's intelligence would want to take a great book - a truly great book - of wit and bile and soften it into platitudinous pablum? [21 Dec 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Serenity
    The atmosphere in Serenity, by design, imparts a slightly uneasy and hermetic feeling. In Baker Dill, who sounds like a line of gourmet pickles, Knight has the makings of a compellingly messed-up antihero. That’s a start. If movies were all start, then this one might’ve worked.
  9. Double Impact
    While this production certainly ranks above Van Damme's prior efforts, it's still full of the sort of macho overkill typical of today's action genre. [09 Aug 1991, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Milwaukee, Minnesota
    Maybe if Mindel had focused more on his characters, less on the silly "noir" trickery, his film would do Garity justice. As it is, go find better work, kid.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    It is scattered, weightless, impossible to get hold of, and somehow, after seven years and more than 10 hours of screen time, I could not tell you what these films are about.
  12. Aquaman
    Watching this movie is like spending two hours and 27 minutes staring at a gigantic aquarium full of digital sea creatures and actors on wires, pretending to swim.
  13. Cut Sleeve Boys
    Despite original touches, Cut Sleeve Boys is mostly a mediocre gay-themed movie plagued by tired humor and slapdash filmmaking.
  14. The Indian Runner
    Not only is [Penn's] film overlong and overwrought, it suffers from a pacing that is so deliberate it is positively sluggish. [04 Oct 1991, p.K]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Iron Eagle
    Despite a few interesting moments, Iron Eagle looks and sounds like an extended televison commercial that encourages young people to be all they can be . . . in a supersonic fighting machine. [20 Jan 1986, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Double Dragon
    Perhaps if you are a Sega-head or Nintendo freak, and your mission in life is to rack up awesome scores on Double Dragon, you may find this loud and tedious movie more enjoyable than I did. But I doubt it. [04 Nov 1994, p.M]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Lady in the Water
    The film is a rogue hunk of hooey.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    The TV episodes invariably embed a character or a bit of dialogue in your brain that you continuously describe or repeat to your friends. No such find in the movie, though the offbeat soundtrack is very gettable.
  19. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over.
  20. Adam & Steve
    A mostly bland, sporadically crude, by-the-numbers romantic comedy about two gay men in love.
  21. Sisters
    Compared to so many varied and skillful female-driven hits such as "Bridesmaids," or this summer's "Trainwreck" and "Spy," Sisters isn't worth talking about.
  22. Grizzly Falls
    (Kids) are likely to reject Grizzly Falls as though it were a piece of chewed-over bear fat.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Domestic Disturbance
    There's almost no reason to see the movie, unless you have no qualms about wasting your time.
  24. Another 48 Hrs.
    This is a generic action picture. What also is missing are scenes in which Nolte and Murphy could relate to each other quietly and with some wit. [8 Jun 1990, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    One Missed Call
    While director Eric Valette provides the occasional chill, the disturbing spooks aren't enough to make this boat float. Burns sleepwalks through One Missed Call totally devoid of charisma, and Sossamon muddles along, going through the motions.
  26. You Got Served
    When a movie keeps repeating its title, you know it's a stinker.
  27. Down Periscope
    We're reminded of Police Academy because this is another story about outcasts and rejects banding together to beat the odds in a macho profession. And we're reminded of The Sting because that's how we feel after the movie is over. Stung.
  28. Eating
    While the actresses seem authentic in these interviews, they are forced and unconvincing in Jaglom's script, which centers on characters who might kindly be described as narcissistic Harpies. [21 Jun 1991, p.G]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    Like all B-movies (or in this case, pseudo B-movies), "Skeleton" contains sparkling moments of promise and camp performance.
  30. Psycho III
    The real trouble with Psycho III is that it's one sequel too many. Norman and his Gothic manse have already been drained of creative resources. [03 July 1986, p.A]
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