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  • 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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Alec Baldwin is on camera for barely eight minutes in Glengarry Glen Ross, the tightly wound — and actually very fine — film adaptation of David Mamet’s play. But his big speech, whipping up the assembled real estate salesmen with reptilian gung ho, could stand as a compressed version of what makes Baldwin, when bad, so good.
  2. The Last of the Mohicans
    The first hour of The Last of the Mohicans plays like a convoluted history lesson. I appreciate that Mann has enough respect for the audience's intelligence to sketch in this briar patch of conflicting loyalties. But he outlines the interlocking factions without really making it clear, in dramatic terms, what each one stands for.
  3. Innocent Blood
    Inocent Blood is an unbelievably lethargic horror comedy directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London). Anne Parillaud, the French star of La Femme Nikita, is less sexy than morose in the role of a modern-day vampire who preys on mafiosi. Why mafiosi? For no good reason other than that it allows Landis to stage a lot of scenes in which cut-rate Italian hoodlums stand around yelling at each other.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School Ties
    In illuminating how upper-class bigotry can encompass both the actively fascist and the politely passive, School Ties is actually one of the more realistic — and least insufferable — entries in the recent prep-school genre.
  5. South Central
    Whatever its melodramatic shortcomings, South Central offers a wrenching view of modern youth-gang violence by demonstrating, with desperate candor, that the civilized alternatives are fast disappearing.
  6. Singles
    But here they’re all still young and flannel-y and full of hope—and nobody needs an app for that.
  7. Husbands and Wives
    Husbands and Wives is a big, spongy ball of therapeutic angst. I hope Woody Allen continues pouring his life into his movies, but next time he’d do well to keep the couch off camera.
  8. Wind
    Wind sometimes dawdles, but it’s a sports movie with soul.
  9. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
    Mostly about the prospect of getting your skin ripped by fishhooks.
  10. Sneakers
    Sneakers is an agreeably lightweight caper thriller that has absolutely nothing to do with Reeboks or basketball.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Where the Day Takes You
    In Where the Day Takes You, a prettified look at teen homelessness in Hollywood, even a junkie’s vomit looks designer.
  12. Bob Roberts
    This nose-thumbing mock documentary is so prescient, so astonishingly up-to-the-minute, it creates the eerie effect of having been ripped from tomorrow’s headlines.
  13. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    At once hypnotic and baffling, filled with surreal motifs and symbols, Fire Walk With Me could be the most rarefied teen horror film ever made: It's like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honeymoon in Vegas
    Way oversold in movie theaters, this pleasantly small shaggy-dog comedy seems more at home on the small screen — even if you do forget why it is you’re smiling by the time the tape finishes rewinding.
  15. A Brief History of Time
    Directed by the ingenious documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line), A Brief History of Time held out the promise of being an audacious, brain-bending experience. Instead, it's plodding and disappointingly conventional.
  16. Single White Female
    A clever, by-the-numbers gothic thriller. Single White Female is entertaining claptrap.
  17. Unforgiven
    As enjoyable as most of Unforgiven is, Eastwood's shades-of-gray moralism feels like a whitewash.
  18. Raising Cain
    In the lurid and gonzo Raising Cain, writer-director Brian De Palma doesn’t just rip off Alfred Hitchcock. He rips off himself ripping off Hitchcock: He rides over the top of self-parody into a kind of loony-tunes reflexivity.
  19. Death Becomes Her
    The trouble with Death Becomes Her isn’t that its comic vision is too dark but that it has no shadings, no acerbic glee. Zemeckis gives nastiness such a hard sell he forgets to take any delight in it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Enchanted April
    By the end of Enchanted April, there isn’t a single character—not even the spiky flapper—who retains much of an edge. That’s what’s appealing about the movie (everyone walks away happy) and also forgettable (everyone walks away mush).
    • 50 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
    Honey has enough charm, good humor, and wry gut laughs to smooth over the dull patches and flaws in logic.
  22. Cool World
    Ralph Bakshi's first feature in nearly a decade would like to be a down-and-dirty "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," but Bakshi isn't up to the task.
  23. Universal Soldier
    Viewers primed for a postapocalyptic blowout will be disappointed to learn that Universal Soldier is set in the boring old present day, and that until the climactic clash the film is slow-moving and short on firepower.
  24. Gas Food Lodging
    Gas Food Lodging is really about the same thing Thelma & Louise was about: It’s a portrait of working-class women betrayed and abandoned by men. Yet I vastly preferred this movie’s generous and buoyant tone.
  25. The Best Intentions
    The Best Intentions is the most moving film I’ve seen this year.
  26. Prelude to a Kiss
    Prelude to a Kiss is squishy yet blah. It teaches the characters a lesson they don’t need to learn.
  27. A League of Their Own
    From its jokey, one-note characters to its endless baseball montages, A League of Their Own is all flash, all surface.
  28. Unlawful Entry
    An efficient, intense formula thriller.
  29. Batman Returns
    Batman Returns offers many jolts of pleasure, yet it’s also a mess — a gilded sketchbook of a movie that keeps falling open to random pages.
  30. HouseSitter
    Every time Housesitter seems about to turn wild, it gets waterlogged with heart.
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