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For 6,821 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,008 out of 6821
  2. Mixed: 3,655 out of 6821
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6821
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  1. Honey Don't!
    There are colourful characters and cool moments to keep you entertained on the road to nowhere, but they can’t disguise the fact that this is a shaggy-dog story with no real point.
  2. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    There was potential here, but Frozen Empire is an overpopulated mish-mash, with too many heroes to wrangle. What’s left is a bit of a gooey mess. We’ve been slimed.
  3. Reminiscence
    It might have worked better if it took itself a little less seriously.
  4. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    A Dame To Kill For shares some of the downsides of the first, particularly dubious female characterisation. But this retains the gritty, gruelling vice-grip on graphic-novel noir that made Sin City so enjoyable.
  5. King Arthur
    Nothing aligns, nothing builds, and before you know it we’re hip-deep in the big showdown -- a free-wheeling frenzy of choreographed combat that neglects to find much space for the cast.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Grumpier Old Men
    Warm but unassuming family comedy.
  7. Hostel: Part II
    Roth's slick shock-'em-up sequel is a dispiritingly traditional splat of gristly Grand Guignol. It's tooled up to outrage, but ultimately numbs rather than grips.
  8. The Nun
    The real nun in the movie is the heroine, played by a spirited Taissa Farmiga, and the dramatic weight falls on her able shoulders.
  9. If I Stay
    Too many false notes add up to a Nicholas Sparks-lite teen romance.
  10. White Sands
    Apart from a couple of nice touches - like a faked orgasm scene that's almost as off the wall as the one in When Harry Met Sally - mark this firmly in 'Should Have Been Better'.
  11. Damsel
    Too childish and shallow for adults, yet too brutal and gory for kids, this is one Damsel that really does need saving, after all.
  12. Dangerous Minds
    Pfeiffer's performance supersedes any of the material, but the rest of the film is a seething mass of clich's despite the "true story" origins.
  13. Above Suspicion
    What Above Suspicion lacks in flashy direction, it makes up for in strong performances and gripping true-life material to draw from.
  14. Shotgun Wedding
    An extremely silly, inconsistently funny, action-packed jaunt, carried by the sheer star power of J-Lo, with strong support from Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Coolidge on top form.
  15. Undercover Blues
    Trying so hard to recreate the stylish spy comedies of the 60's, Turner and Quaid pose unconvincingly as the couple in New Orleans when their maternity leave is cut short. Sadly they the required chemistry and their banter falls decidedly flat. The only redeeming feature is the support of Stanley Tucci.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Ghost and the Darkness
    You will jump out of your seat then wince at every kill, but you won't leave the cinema thinking you've seen a classic. Which is a crying shame.
  17. Play Dirty
    Not quite vintage Black, and Mark Wahlberg is no Robert Downey Jr, but this is fast and funny enough to be worth a couple of your hours. Squint hard enough and it almost feels like you’re back in the ’90s.
  18. Capone
    It doesn’t completely work and lacks complexity, but Capone is scene-for-scene more interesting than many slicker films. Hardy’s swing-for-the-fences performance is a must-see.
  19. The Da Vinci Code
    One of the most talk driven summer flicks in living memory, an out of sorts Howard transforms what should be a fun treasure trail romp into something inert and borderline dreary.
  20. Earwig and the Witch
    Is this what Studio Ghibli’s future looks like? Probably not. But what Earwig lacks in animation elegance, it makes up for in sparky, kid-friendly adventurousness.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Basketball Diaries
    Without rising star DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg this would have been considerably more turgid and unappealing. But their charm allows sympathy and involvement with the characters, despite their efforts towards self-destruction.
  22. Mortal Kombat II
    The creatively gory fighting and amusing — if shallow — characters just about compensate for the paper-thin story. But at its best, it’s a lot of dumb fun. 
  23. Saw
    As good an all-out, non-camp horror movie as we’ve had lately.
  24. Horns
    Long-shelved, the final product never lives up to the promise of its contemporary-Grimm-brothers conceit.
  25. Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
    Rising to the challenge of doing something new(ish) with an overworked sub-genre, this may not be particularly scary or funny. But it belies its modest budget to splatter to knowing effect.
  26. The Hippopotamus
    Despite a wonderfully witty voiceover and the bullish playing of a willing ensemble, this bawdy romp consistently stumbles over its more contrived excesses.
  27. The Meg
    Shark. Weak.
  28. A Man Called Horse
    Straining for significance at every moment, this is one of a wave of late '60s/early '70s Westerns that represent Hollywood's idea of the counterculture in love beads, feathers and picturesque gore.
  29. Foxy Brown
    Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby) evidently didn't try very hard on this one.
  30. Futureworld
    Fonda and Danner — who looked then exactly like her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, does now — are likable leads in ’70s futurist leisurewear (why didn’t those tailored jumpsuits catch on?), and some creepy corporate robot action helps (Danner’s gunfight with her robot duplicate), but it’s a lot less exciting than the original and replaces satire with TV-style plotting.
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