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For 1,750 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:
  1. Positive: 1,089 out of 1750
  2. Mixed: 587 out of 1750
  3. Negative: 74 out of 1750
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brazil
    It's a strange, hypnotic, completely fresh vision, not of the future per se, but into Terry Gilliam's own mind.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Young Sherlock Holmes
    Be sure to watch the film all the way through the end credits for a clever post-credit cookie (a rarity for this era).
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Live and Die in L.A.
    For those who enjoy indulging in an exciting, moody, stylized cop drama molded from the best of templates and carved out of '80s pop art, To Live and Die in LA is a truly great way to spend an evening.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Re-Animator
    The script is very clever, funny and tightly written, and manages to avoid almost every horror movie cliche.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phenomena
    The movie has a much more open feel than Argento's other films and offers an interesting counter point to his work. The film also exercises Argento's effects work. There are several great scenes where a swarm of flies comes to Jennifer's rescue.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Back to the Future
    It's funny. It's sad. It's imaginative. It's great sci-fi, and terrific family entertainment. In short, Back to the Future is brilliant.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    St. Elmo's Fire
    Well written, well made, well acted, St. Elmo's Fire is a quintessential film about the strange middleground between youth and adulthood.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cocoon
    Cocoon has its flaws, to be sure, but it's an ambitious, visually stirring piece of sci-fi drama. The performances from the cast (both young and old) are terrific, and visual effects are quite gorgeous.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Big ambitions inspire great designs; little things bring them to life. Nausicaa has both in abundance.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A View to a Kill
    I was at least able to follow the plot (which is not to say it wasn't as ludicrous as any Bond film -- just that I could follow it). But most of all this movie has camp value -- it's fun to sit there and make fun of every last detail, and that redeems it quite a bit.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Trancers
    Directed with a threadbare and minimalist style by producer Charles Band, Trancers is the ultimate science fiction cult classic.
  12. Private Resort
    With Private Resort, I guarantee you'll be laughing well after it ends - and if you do it right, your chuckles will probably have precious little to do with the film itself.
  13. Gymkata
    The end result here is comically entertaining, but entertaining nevertheless - although if you are conditioned to enjoy only those very complicated scenes from newer movies this might be laughable in a less enjoyable way.
  14. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
    If you're in the right mood and watching with others who can appreciate the art of a bad movie, A New Beginning is somewhat of a laugh riot.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Amadeus
    The movie is simply luxurious: huge, ornate stage settings; bright, colorful circus like street scenes; gorgeous costumes. [2002 Director's Cut]
  16. Last Hurrah for Chivalry
    Even if it doesn't quite stand with the 36th Chambers and King Boxers, Last Hurrah for Chivalry is a very good movie, both because it features a great many well-executed fight scenes and explores the early days of Woo's cinematic style.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Conan the Destroyer
    Conan the Destroyer is not an awful follow-up, just a mostly unnecessary one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in America
    Watching the film takes some patience. You have moments where there's 10 seconds or more of silence in between dialogue. When it gets violent, it's not the psychotic glee we're used to from Quentin Tarentino and his acolytes, it's simply the way things were in that life, unvarnished and brutally honest.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Natural
    Directed by Barry Levinson (this was his sophomore theatrical feature following Diner), the film is quite moving. Redford delivers a great, soft-spoken, naturalistic performance and he's paired with a solid all-star cast. Randy Newman's score is absolutely terrific, too. One of the best he's ever done.
  20. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
    No, it's not the final movie in the series, but it's the end of a particular era for Jason, and it's a good way to go out for the hockey masked killer.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Romancing the Stone
    Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are wonderful together. They look great when they're in bed together and they look even better when they're fighting. Throw Danny DeVito into the mix and you've got a very enjoyable, watchable trio of heroes.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Spinal Tap
    There are too many classic moments in this film to possibly count, and I won't even bother trying to quote lines or describe gags.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Footloose
    The movie is predictable and formulaic and all of those things, but it's great in spite of itself.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Be or Not to Be
    The cast (including Brooks, Anne Brancroft, Christopher Lloyd, Tim Matheson and Oscar-nominee Charles Durning) does their best to keep the laughs flowing.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    D.C. Cab
    The movie's inherent flaws and jumble of subplots and side characters barely make a scratch into the stereotypes and cookie-cutter story.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Christmas Story
    Best of all, it's just a story of a kid's Christmas. There is no big spiritual redemption, no one has to learn a lesson.
  27. Sleepaway Camp
    You may argue whether it’s “good”, but damn it if Sleepaway Camp isn’t a super fun, crazy and, most importantly, an incredibly memorable movie
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Never Say Never Again
    Never Say Never Again never reaches the escapist thrills of vintage Connery and Moore; it cares too much about getting sued than it does about giving the actor a vehicle worth coming back to.
  29. Pieces
    Pieces is a work of manic inspiration whose weirdest and wildest moments are strangely as integral as the ones bound indelibly to its utterly conventional plot. It's silly, it's absurd, it makes no sense, and whole scenes come and go without a link to anything else in the film, but it may be some of the most fun you'll have being scared at the movies.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Deathstalker
    A genuine masterpiece of B-movie awesomeness. It's surprisingly imaginative, ambitious and off-the-wall. It's got goofy puppet creatures, it's filled to the brim with nudity and sex, and padded with plenty of gags, gore and graphic violence. It's the stuff of B/C-movie dreams.
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