IGN's Scores

For 1,756 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Dark Knight
Lowest review score: 19 Leatherface
Score distribution:
1756 movie reviews
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everything about this "movie" is a joke. What really pisses us off is the fact that: a) Ben is now white (yes, white!); b) there are people doing drugs; and c) there's a sex scene! What in the hell? Not making things any better is a simply ridiculous ending that just about abandons all hope for the movie's success.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The movie plays up sexual innuendo more than a group of junior high school kids, and it comes across almost as juvenile. Some of the jokes are indeed funny, but there aren't enough laughs to propel things through the dry spells.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jim Brown: All American is visually impressive, but about halfway through the documentary it gets so defensive and excusive that it stalls. It's as if Lee is forming a defense case rather than exhibiting the man's life.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    If Spirited Away can be considered the top anime film of this age, Castle of Cagliostro is most certainly its age-old counterpart, and a true masterpiece.
  1. Stephen Sommers' throwback to adventure films and screwball comedies has managed to become a modern classic, and a paean to a type of movie that rarely gets made these days.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alas, The Edge is a film that, quite ironically, loses it.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    You know you are in trouble when the back cover of the DVD boasts that "There'll be a lot of thrillin' before Steel himself can start chillin'."
  2. While playing with the trope he made famous, Wes Craven crafted a lighter, more self-reflective tone for Kevin Williamson’s script to shine a light on everything we love (and everything we think is kind of silly) about slasher movies.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Less neurotic than Woody and more fun than the average Sandra Bullock flick, it's a guy flick disguised as a chick flick.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There is a good story to further the violent adventures of Snake along; this is far from it. There are awesome, in-joke-with-your-friends guilty pleasures, and then there's Escape From L.A..
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A harmless and fun dark comedy that you'll enjoy casually watching from time to time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The film is a beautiful work of art to look at with some scenes that you just want to pull off the screen and have framed on your wall. Its use of color, character designs, and subtle CGI combine to create one of the best-looking traditionally animated films ever made.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you're able to suspend disbelief, the film's strengths outweigh the many weaknesses. The action sequences are a lot of the fun. The adventure is exciting. And the story perfectly replicates the style and tone of a classic adventure or Saturday matinee serial.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A wonderful slice of pulp alien-invasion sci-fi with a dash of conspiracy thriller tossed in for good measure. It plays as a clever X-Files knockoff and as a funny camp classic all at the same time. Low budget sci-fi pictures like these are rarely this entertaining, or good for that matter.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Chinatown had sex, greed and water, Body Heat had sex, greed and high humidity, while Mulholland Falls has alluded-to sex, hats and cigarettes bundled with radiation sickness and anachronistic pop psychology references. (Palminteri spouts endless Sensitive Guy pabulum that's supposed to be ironic. It's not.) It's a mess and a shame, considering all the talent involved.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The writers are comic geniuses, and the experience is so enjoyable that upon viewing This Island Earth's non-MST3K version, a grin will cross your face as you remember this parody masterpiece.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's so great about Brain Candy is what's great about every classic comedy: it's thoroughly quotable, infinitely watchable and so rich with detail that you'll be laughing at something new every time you watch it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's more oriented to the kiddies than Nightmare, but if you want something to watch with your little cousins or nieces or something that will give you something to enjoy as well as them, and you've already seen Tarzan 28 times, check this one out.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    [A] one-note, flat comedy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An entertaining, if a bit predictable, romantic comedy with a good cast. Expect anything more from it and you'll come away disappointed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Mortal Kombat games are all about having fun, and so is the movie, whether it's "good" cinema or not.
  3. Tommy Boy is one of those films that you can watch over and over again. It seems to be on every "Buddy Movie" list and it's always out at Blockbuster.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Zane is an absolute blast, whether doing a little dance or trying to steal his way into each character's soul, he's having too much fun.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's rarely funny when it's supposed to be, and often unintentionally hilarious when it's not. But to be fair, that's not all de Sauza's fault. Some of the dialogue might have been funny had the punchlines not been botched by Van Damme's awkward accent and flat delivery.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Despite the editing flaws, and the weaker aspects of Branagh's performance and direction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the better adaptations of the original, nearly 200-year-old story.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tombstone is incredibly entertaining. While not entirely original and not always well executed, it manages to keep your attention for the entire 130-minute duration. And let's face it, Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is what really sets it apart.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's quite possibly the greatest Batman movie ever.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The classic humor of this film still remains.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Carlito's Way, like Casualties of War and Mission: Impossible, seems to stand at a nexus between commercial fealty and directorial idiosyncrasy; it's a sort of half-breed film that exudes personal vision but functions satisfactorily for the multiplex crowds at the same time.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The script – which revolves around a serial killer and explores the idea of traumas both mental and physical – isn't particularly strong, but the direction is, as always, first-rate.

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