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For 6,818 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: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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  1. Drop Dead Fred
    There is scarcely a laugh to be had unless you are six years old or immoderately fond of such wheezes as depositing dog poop on a white carpet.
  2. Only the Lonely
    By the time everyone's done their darnedest to undermine this romance and the tirelessly selfless St. Danny has begun to contemplate cutting the apron strings, they've all nearly worn out their welcome. It's simple, sweet and uninspired.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What About Bob?
    What makes the film work is the double act between the two actors, and some great one-liners that pepper the script and cover up the fact there isn’t a great deal of originality in the plot.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mannequin: On the Move
    Despite the presence of four credited screenwriters, the plot is a rehash of cliches and tired jokes.
  5. F/X2
    It's all totally farfetched and skates imperturbably over several questions of logic that will spring unbidden to the most accepting mind. But it's entertaining, inconsequential fun.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Switch
    Certainly crude and unrefined are among the adjectives that apply to this sex farce, along with derivative and shallow. Most important - and perhaps, sad -of all, is unfunny.
  7. Europa Europa
    The execution could be improved, but the sheer zip of the real life story just about carries this wartime tale along.
  8. A Kiss Before Dying
    What's missing here though is the novel's trick of being a wonderfully contrived mystery on the surface while underneath lurks an angry and upsetting analysis of class injustice in the USA.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mortal Thoughts
    After the global success of Ghost, Demi Moore consolidates here with a diametrically-opposed follow-up, not only proving her willingness to eschew the many Ghost-alikes that have inevitably come her way, but also allowing her to show genuine versatility in the thespian-prowess department.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Object of Beauty
    This looks lustrous (thanks to cinematographer David Watkin) but it's bankrupt in terms of ideas and execution and both leads seem uninspired.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Poison
    The three stories do not make a whole in this disappointing arthouse film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Defending Your Life
    The movie is lavishly designed and assembled. However, the sometimes muddled, sometimes boring, and definitely overlong screenplay, lacking subtlety and definition, disappoints the expectations of enjoyment that are set up in the first 15 minutes.
  13. The Comfort of Strangers
    Slow and foreboding with a memorably creepy Christopher Walken. If you're looking for fun, this ain't it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
    This lacks the darkness and subtlety that makes the first film so good, and so adult, but its simplified plot and gags will appeal to the under tens.
  15. Class Action
    Class Action, which becomes unbearable whenever the lead characters talk about their relationship, has precisely two and a half things going for it, the half being Mastrantonio's Italian grin.
  16. Guilty by Suspicion
    The pace drags terribly, however, and the period detail is distractingly off in small ways that become annoying. Thankfully, though, things perk up with a bravura finale, when Merrill finally takes the witness stand before the dreaded inquisitors.
  17. True Colors
    Spader and Cusack go through the motions as political sparring partners in this coming of age drama.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Femme Nikita
    One of the most cinematic movies to come along in a while, with sparse dialogue, top-notch action and plenty of visual razzamatazz.
  19. The Doors
    Val Kilmer is extraordinary as Morrison, holding the centre with a demonic charisma, while Stone recreates the late '60s milieu with vibrant versimilitude.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Nothing But Trouble
    Unfortunately this isn't even half as fun as the shortest bumper-car ride, with the cast lost in a sea of unfunny situations and badly executed antique jokes on loan from The Munsters all obviously puzzled about why they are actually there.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cadence
    Interesting father-and-son dynamic, though not particularly memorable in the long-term.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sleeping with the Enemy
    Dump thriller which trivialises the subject matter.
  23. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
    A totally unneeded sequel which does nothing whatsoever for the legacy of the original tale.
  24. White Fang
    It's in the animal capers that Disney's skill really comes into play, as stunning wildlife photography combines with an Incredible Journey-type treat-animals-as-furry-people attitude to the narrative, transforming an average adventure film into a humorous, dangerous and immensely watchable movie.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green Card
    Better than Ghost but not as good as When Harry Met Sally, here's a dating movie where the other woman really should have got her man.
  26. Not Without My Daughter
    While not wishing to be facetious about women and children held against their will in any country, this tearjerker is strictly TV movie for a wet Wednesday stuff.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Warlock
    This is a hoot, the kind of hammy horror romp you wouldn't kick out of the video on a wet Wednesday night.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Godfather: Part III
    A dreadful disappointment.
  29. Kindergarten Cop
    As a one-off this could have inoffensively scraped by on thin charm alone. But don't forget kids, it gave rise to such monstrosities as Last Action Hero, Junior and Jingle all the Way…
  30. The Long Walk Home
    Like Driving Miss Daisy this deals with a white employer and a black servant in the times of revolution, not only that but in both films it's a jaded view with the servant being loyal and not a 'friend'. Besides that small problem, it's a moving film with a steady performance from Spacek, but by the end it has definitely become Goldberg's film.
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