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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. Heart and Souls
    But while Downey is up to the material, and then some, the material is not up to him. The film plods along with the sort of creaky literalism that blunts its attempts at other-worldliness. It says something that Elisabeth Shue, in a bit part as Downey's frustrated girlfriend, has more presence than anyone else in the movie. Her sphere of real time and space is credible; the fantasy world the film attempts to create is not. [13 Aug 1993, p.C]
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  2. Regarding Henry
    It is one of the conventions of movies that maladies of the brain make people more childlike, lovable and full of life, as in, most recently, "Rain Man" and "Awakenings." But Regarding Henry drops even the marginally realistic trappings of those films in favor of pure fantasy, a fantasy of starting over, of returning to the womb. [10 July 1991, p.C-1]
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  3. Zerophilia
    A half-silly, half-earnest indie with the soul of a John Hughes-era sex comedy.
  4. Pan
    The most joyless revisionism since Disney's "The Lone Ranger.
  5. The Wraith
    There's some fun potential here, but Marvin's direction is plodding enough to snuff it fairly quickly. Yet Charlie Sheen, promising in his second-banana appearances in Lucas and Pretty in Pink, emerges with his promise intact. Sheen already has the reserved but powerful manner of a Wayne or an Eastwood; with a little more maturity, he could be a contender.
  6. Damage
    "Damage" is a fruit bowl reduced to a raisin. [22 Jan 1993, p.B]
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  7. Death Wish
    For a while, director Roth plays this stuff relatively straight, and Willis periodically reminds us he can act (the grieving Kersey cries a fair bit here).
  8. Yogi Bear
    Yogi Bear gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.
  9. Rules Don't Apply
    It would still be a stinker even if it wasn't cloaked in a dark shroud of cultural and political relevancy. It's just that bad.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Unintentional comedy that will bore even the 15-year-olds at which it is undoubtedly aimed.
  11. Gray Matters
    Watching Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and a stridently adorable Alan Cumming do their wide-eyed, moony thing in the romantic comedy Gray Matters raises the question: Is it possible for a filmgoer to be twinkled to death?
  12. Return to the Blue Lagoon
    Jovovich and Krause are as photogenic and blandly naive as their predecessors, and their ultimate commingling is, if anything, even tamer than in the original. Veteran television-movie director William A. Graham and screenwriter Leslie Stevens have fashioned a 98-minute tropical vacation ad. [02 Aug 1991, p.B]
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  13. This Means War
    Pure, witless discombobulation.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A Sound of Thunder
    One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Suburbans
    The storyline isn't coherent, the music stinks, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is insipid and it is neither funny nor romantic.
  16. Cool Runnings
    A lame comedy about the quirky true story of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the Calgary Winter Olympics...The intelligence level of the comedy insults preteens. [1 Oct 1993, p.C2]
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  17. Cyborg
    Pyun obviously enjoys filming Armageddon, and Cyborg is visually interesting even at its most preposterous. Everything is in ruins, with enough scenes in burnt-out factories to give new meaning to the term "loft living." Still, the plot is hopelessly confused, there are cuts that don't match and scenes that move suddenly from full sun to late afternoon. [07 Apr 1989, p.B]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Day of the Dead
    It's bankrupt in terms of imagination. All he (Romero) does is place his zombies in the basement of a missile silo and have a few crazed military types scream at the zombies and at each other. End of movie. [03 Sept 1985, p.5C]
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  19. The Spirit
    Only Sarah Paulson, as the Spirit's doctor and sometime lover, seems to be in there playing the scenes as if she were a human being in a comic book superhero scenario, as opposed to a comic book character stuck in a cruddy movie.
  20. Child's Play
    Child's Play would probably be sickening if it weren't so relentlessly stupid.
  21. Noel
    So dark and dirge-like are its first 85 minutes that a few uplifting minutes at the end can't dissipate the somber cloud Noel summons.
  22. Fatal Instinct
    What exactly is funny about "Basic Instinct" or "Fatal Attraction"? Other than sending up specific scenes-say, Sharon Stone's uncrossed legs from "Basic Instinct"-there is no humor to be mined. The "Airplane" films kidded the genre rather than just duplicating scenes; director Reiner is operating at the level of a high school parodist. [29 Oct 1993, p.C2]
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  23. For Keeps?
    The film is full of carefully balanced moral proclamations, to the point where it begins to resemble an episode of "Nightline." [15 Jan 1988, p.B]
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  24. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
    First-time director Rachel Talalay and writer Michael DeLuca provide nothing but clumsily played stock characters who fail to earn the sympathy necessary for a stand-up-and-cheer conclusion. [15 Sept 1991, p.C6]
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  25. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
    As the movie slowly slogs along to its dreary, moralistic conclusion, Ryder`s sharp presence seems to recede into a candy-colored fog of sentimentality.
  26. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    You'd have to go back to "My Stepmother Is an Alien" to find a male fantasy/nightmare this off-putting.
  27. Just Go with It
    Offers only one point of interest beyond the breasts of its second female lead: Aniston's barely disguised disdain for her material.
  28. 3 Ninjas Kick Back
    Junk food laced with testosterone.
  29. The Wizard
    A feature-length commercial for the Nintendo electronic games system, so thinly disguised that it wouldn't even fool a Reagan-appointed FCC commissioner. [15 Dec 1989, p.G]
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  30. Final Destination 2
    Despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game.
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