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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Passenger 57
    In a few of the action sequences, director Kevin Hooks evokes the entertaining preposterousness of the James Bond series. Still, as high-wire action melodrama Passenger 57 is almost laughably implausible.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jennifer 8
    A lukewarm thriller.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Intervista
    Sublime moments encounter clunkiness and bad overdubbing until it’s hard to know what’s on purpose, but you certainly envy the Fellini family/crew their experiences in service of a man who so appreciated his life’s pursuit (or what he called ”this alibi”).
  4. The Lover
    Of course, the hollow drama of The Lover might not matter so much if these two actually did something interesting in bed. As it is, they barely get out of the missionary position. With far more explicit (and inventive) erotic films available at almost any video store, one has to wonder: How much point is there to portraying sexual passion as serious and ”adult” if you only end up taking all the fun out of it?
  5. Night and the City
    For all its promising elements, Night and the City confronts us, yet again, with one of the most dismaying paradoxes in contemporary movies: that the actor who once seemed the heir to Brando, Clift, and, yes, Widmark — the actor who once got so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the screen — now plays characters who don’t seem to have any inner life at all.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 16 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dr. Giggles
    At this late date, the rules of the adolescent slice-‘n’-dice genre have codified into ritual (teens + sex = death), suggesting that those who rent this may have bigger problems than just bad taste.
  7. Consenting Adults
    This is the sort of cloddish thriller in which characters keep putting themselves in dangerous situations because…the movie requires them to be in dangerous situations. The one true surprise has nothing at all to do with the plot: It’s Kevin Spacey’s hair. Dyed a glittering blond, it sets off his smirky, come-hither mug with maximum perversity.
  8. Under Siege
    In the brutally efficient Under Siege, Seagal, with his soft-spoken nihilist charm, attempts to move beyond limb-snapping exploitation and into epically scaled mainstream thrillers. He succeeds — but only because this sort of slick action bash doesn’t require a star with much personality. At this point, personality might only get in the way.
  9. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
    At 2.5 hours, 1492 is even harder to sit through than last month’s schlock extravaganza Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. In each case the filmmakers have fallen into a similar trap. Out of some vague mixture of historical ”duty” and commercial myopia, they’ve presented Columbus as the same cardboard visionary we learned about in school.
  10. Romper Stomper
    As an expose of the new wave of racist youth-gang violence, Romper Stomper lacks depth, psychology, a sense of social background. Yet Wright’s flagrant attempt to humanize his skinheads-to turn them into bona fide movie characters-is, in its way, dramatic and vaguely honorable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Mighty Ducks
    The film spends most of its time tracing Bombay’s predictable transformation from supercompetitive to supercompassionate coach, a metamorphosis that will most likely bore young audiences who don’t yet know what a mid-life crisis is, let alone identify with one.
  12. Of Mice and Men
    Lyrical, stirring, and beautifully acted — a seamless adaptation of a novel many will recall with almost too much familiarity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reservoir Dogs
    You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them.
  14. Glengarry Glen Ross
    The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit.
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