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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. Wild Hogs
    Macy's character finds romance with the Madrid, N. M., diner owner played by Marisa Tomei. They're the only two people on screen who relate in any way. But there's no movie here. There is only a tired "City Slickers"-inspired idea for a movie.
  2. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The rhythmic assurance of truly bracing screen action, even if it's just a bunch of metal beating up a bunch of other metal, or clobbering humans, never gains traction. The cross-cutting suggests the editors took care of things via group text.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    There is some directorial skill here--Argento should be congratulated for a few interesting storytelling choices--but the end result feels grimy and strangely pathetic.
  4. The Spy Next Door
    This is “True Lies” without the striptease or the Arab-maiming.
  5. Meteor
    Let's face it, the bottom line on a disaster film is how special are its special effects. With Meteor, the answer is not very. [22 Oct 1979, p.6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Coyote Ugly
    Meant to be appreciated solely for its gleaming surfaces.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Women
    It's a high-powered cast, but it has painfully little to work with, apart from widely varying humor.
  8. Playing for Keeps
    Only Biel and Greer lift it above the level of bleh.
  9. Cool World
    A fatally compromised, half-realized execution. [ 10 Jul 1992]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Taxi
    Riddled with comic potholes.
  11. 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
  12. Norbit
    With his brazen gifts for mimicry, Eddie Murphy may now be the Peter Sellers of blockbuster toilet comedy movies.
  13. Child's Play 3
    Jack Bender's direction, with the help of a driving score by Cory Lerios and John D'Andrea, manages to keep the level of suspense high even in the film's least convincing moments. [03 Sep 1991, p.5C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. The Trumpet of the Swan
    A lame duck.
  15. View from the Top
    Why Paltrow, who was accepting a best actress Oscar four years ago, would take this clumsily written role is anyone's guess.
  16. Simply Irresistible
    Falls prey to the all-too-contemporary problem of complicating the tale until the ending is not only obvious, but prayed for between yawns. [9 February 1999, Tempo, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Little Fockers
    The sole memorable scene involving a little Focker in Little Fockers, though memorable doesn't mean amusing, involves Ben Stiller's male-nurse character administering a needle full of adrenaline to his dyspeptic and unhappily aroused father-in-law Jack Byrnes, played by Robert De Niro.
  18. Problem Child
    Dugan can`t find a tone that allows him to preserve the shock of the gags while minimalizing their physical painfulness.
  19. Who's That Girl
    Who's That Girl? is sunny and harmless. Perhaps it's indicative that feminist hostility is taking a milder turn. Or perhaps the genre has gone Hollywood. [09 Aug 1987, p.6C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Fantastic Four
    From Miles Teller to Kate Mara to Reg E. Cathey, everyone on screen in Fantastic Four speaks in a flat, earnest monotone with a determinedly low-keyed air bordering on openly not giving a rip.
  21. Twisted
    A neo-noir movie nightmare gone sadly wrong.
  22. Little Man
    I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at some of this--though it's not as funny as Laurel and Hardy as toddlers in "Brats." But I wanted to slap myself whenever I did.
  23. Because I Said So
    Formulaic romantic junk.
  24. A Thousand Words
    In A Thousand Words the camera stays about two inches from Murphy's hyperactive face, and you start to see the strain and desperation in the actor's eyes.
  25. Dolittle
    The problems begin and end with the script, credited to three writers. “Dolittle” turns its title character into an eccentric and wearying blur of tics, tacked onto a character who comports himself like a bullying, egocentric A-lister rather than someone who, you know, actually enjoys the company of animals.
  26. Trixie
    A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  27. Look Who's Talking Now
    An abysmal, embarrassing sequel to the adult-talking baby movies. [5 Nov 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 26 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Millennium
    Millennium is a throwback to 1950s, B-grade science fiction movies in which the love story and the concepts had to cover for special effects that weren't too special. [30 Aug 1989, p.3C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Madame Web
    It plays like a bland, third-season Marvel series as watched on a 12-year-old TV set playing in the wrong dramatic aspect ratio, which I realize isn’t a real thing. But now it is.
  30. Dracula 2000
    By making concessions for a possible sequel, Dracula 2000 wilts when compared in the light with other Dracula films.
    • Chicago Tribune
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