McClatchy-Tribune News Service's Scores
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For 601 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Score distribution:
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Positive: 363 out of 601
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Mixed: 133 out of 601
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Negative: 105 out of 601
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Roger Moore
It all adds up to perfectly banal kids’ entertainment, with just a single decent plot twist, a few cute lines and a tried and a couple of trite and true messages — “Trust yourself” and “stop polluting” stand out.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 10, 2014
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Your enjoyment of Horrible Bosses 2 is almost wholly dependent on your tolerance for clusters of funny actors, babbling, riffing — and in the case of Charlie Day, screeching — all at once.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Nov 25, 2014
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It’s not a bad film, this first-half of the concluding chapter of “The Hunger Games.” But it is, from first scene to last, just a tedious good-looking set-up for what one might hope would be a more lively, and perhaps better lit and ventilated finale.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Nov 19, 2014
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Hollywood will be hard pressed to top this lean Canadian indie picture that knows it’s just another dumb werewolf movie, but has fun with that knowledge.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Nov 11, 2014
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- Posted Nov 1, 2014
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Convincing shaky cam or not, in the end all we’re left with is what we started with, just another bigfoot movie.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 21, 2014
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Charles Dance is the Nosferatu-garbed monster in the cave, a balding, toothy villain in the great tradition of British vampires — Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale among them. The moment he shows up, all shadowy menace and prophecy, “Dracula” gets interesting.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 8, 2014
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A slick, upbeat Church of Latter Day Saints-backed documentary that aims to answer the image of the church and its members “shaped by the media and popular culture.”- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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You’re Not You fails to bring us the fear or the tears that this story warrants. It sticks in the mind no longer than it takes you to change shirts after that ice bucket dunking.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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Yet another “Blade Runner” knock-off, a sci-fi dystopia about robots getting too smart for humanity’s own good on an already sun-cooked Earth.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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Catch Hell has physical torture and sexually explicit mind games. It has a star who seems resigned to his fate and willing to give up and savage bumpkins straight out of “Deliverance” ready to take out their hatred of Hollywood and Hollywood values on him. That description gives this simple, ferociously feral thriller more depth than it deserves.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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Here’s the sort of scruffy action comedy that suits the post-box office-draw careers of one-time hipster John Cusack and fading action star Thomas Jane. It covers the costs of a fun few weeks of working vacation in Australia and provides a few on-screen laughs along the way.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 1, 2014
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There’s nothing surprising about this late ’60s tale, including its connection to the modern ghost stories told in “The Amityville Horror” and “The Conjuring.” But what it lacks in originality it makes up with in hair-raising execution. You will scream like a teenage girl.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 1, 2014
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There are a TV season’s worth of soap opera betrayals, melodramatic traumas and blundering efforts to learn from and escape this media miasma.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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Hector might have been better off staying at home and reading a book, which also pretty much applies to the audience, in this case.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 27, 2014
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Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz (“Terribly Happy”) can’t hide his cards and rarely even tries to. He’s stuck with a script that has “Promise you won’t kill us,” maybe the silliest line ever uttered to a murderer, but that features some dandy threats, some by the villain who doesn’t drive the Jaguar.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 24, 2014
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It’s a sentimental, sometimes moving affair... It is also at times a reminder of how hard it is to manage a decent Civil War movie on a limited budget, and how hard it is, even today, to tell a Civil War tale untainted by revisionism.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 24, 2014
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There’s no humor and no pathos. The Cuckoo-Clock Heart, pretty as it is, lacks any heart at all.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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The sylvan setting and short bursts of dramatic interplay are more interesting than coherent in this brief, undeveloped adaptation.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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If it’s not convincing as either a find-one’s-faith parable or clever spoof of pop Christianity, at least it’s relevant.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Scribbler is just daring and interesting enough that you can see why a fairly accomplished cast — from Cassidy to Dushku, Gershon to Campbell — was drawn to it, even if the execution underwhelms.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 19, 2014
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Smith peoples the film with the same cast, including Kris Kristofferson as Hazel’s grandpa and Tom Nowicki as the aquarium’s benefactor. There just isn’t enough for them all to do. Freeman gets the few funny lines, which are all the same.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 10, 2014
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“Eleven” turns out to be an overreach, with too many voices to be anything but superficial, too few (she skipped sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America) to be thorough.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 9, 2014
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A historically interesting story is painted in broad, colorless strokes, alternating as it does between soap opera and slapstick.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 2, 2014
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When the Game Stands Tall is a solid if unsurprising and uninspiring melodrama.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 21, 2014
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"A Dame to Kill For” isn’t the shock to the system “Sin City” was. But whatever its plot repetition and warmed-over tough talk cost it, this is still a movie like few others you’ve ever seen, a 3D slice of Nihilistic noir that will have you narrating your own guts and guns story on the drive home, chewing on a toothpick as you do.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 20, 2014
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Antonio Banderas pretty much steals The Expendables 3. But at this stage in that winded franchise, that amounts to petty theft.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 13, 2014
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This dark comedy has a lot of promise for about half its length. Then, unfortunately, it settles into the mundane genre picture that it seems doomed to be.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 12, 2014
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As impressive as the effects can be, as effective as the blend of TV news helicopter POV shots, security camera footage, cell-phone video and storm chaser images mimicked here turn out, the human stories are given short shrift in this “spend our budget on effects” action picture.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 7, 2014
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The action beats are bigger and better than they’ve ever been in a Ninja Turtle film — brawls, shootouts, a snowy car-and-truck chase with big explosions and what not. But in between those scenes is an awful lot of chatter and exposition. For a film that aims younger (save for the die-hards who grew up with this franchise), that’s deadly dull.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 6, 2014
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