McClatchy-Tribune News Service's Scores
- Movies
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
The performers are more competent than compelling, a common failing of faith-based films. Blame the edge-free, freshly-scrubbed characters that they play. Sadly, even as a safe-for-seniors saga ready-made for The Hallmark Channel, this is pretty thin gruel.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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It aims for that “Hangover” blend of the sick and the sentimental. And it doesn’t work.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 6, 2013
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As instantly forgettable as the pleasant but unremarkable tunes Miller, Sagal and assorted soundtrack artists sing during the film.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Nov 11, 2014
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Still waters may run deep, as the old saying goes. But Beside Still Waters there’s nothing deeper than “The Big Chill.”- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 6, 2014
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This generally mild-mannered comedy sinks or swims on Hart’s back. And as one scene makes clear, Little Man can’t swim.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jun 18, 2014
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- Posted Jul 18, 2013
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- Posted Oct 16, 2014
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Minor moments of slapstick may tickle the kids, but anybody older, especially those who remember what Williams was like in his prime and how funny Stiller was just two “Museum” movies ago, will wish this tomb had stayed sealed.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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A humorless, muddled, bloody and generally unpleasant thriller.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 25, 2014
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A stylish, moody and atmospheric tale contorted into a young adult horror story, it never works up a decent fright.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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Though it rarely looks as malnourished as say, “Europa Report” or “Moon,” Last Days on Mars does show how starved of new ideas sci-fi cinema is.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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Maybe they all took a gander at that random, ridiculous scenario and hoped that the car would be cool enough to bail them out. It isn’t.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 29, 2013
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It’s inoffensive, unless you take umbrage at the idea that the only people who know not to steal are True Believers and all that keeps society from an instant meltdown are the Faithful.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 2, 2014
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Roger Moore
It’s another pointless romp through Sandlerland — where the women are buxom, the kids have catch-phrases and the jokes are below average.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jul 10, 2013
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Like Vin Diesel, it has bulk, lumbering clumsily along as it repeats Diesel’s greatest hits — the ones that don’t require him to drive a fast and furious car.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 4, 2013
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If it weren’t for the well-intentioned moments of pathos — a tear or two, hear and there — Tio Papi would be a complete waste of time.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 4, 2013
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The pace is stumbling, the characters are broad, the makeup and the performances uneven, though Sorbo dives into his tactless, unethical indoctrinator role with Satanic glee.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Mar 23, 2014
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In Let Me Explain, you’re never NOT aware that you’re watching a gifted, rubber-faced/rubber voiced performer (his “Laugh at My Pain” concert film was a surprising hit in 2011) work too hard to make inferior material go over.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jul 2, 2013
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“Magic” lacks too many things to rank among Allen’s better recent films — the come-uppance and zeitgeist currency of “Blue Jasmine,” the frivolity of that don’t-think-too-much-about-this lark “Midnight in Paris.” But the biggest shortcoming is right there in the title, a tease if ever there was one.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jul 23, 2014
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At times, with its stiff, charisma-impaired cast, its digital sets and slo-mo slaughter, The Legend of Hercules has a whiff of the Augean Stables about it — if you catch my drift.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jan 9, 2014
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Planes looks, sounds and feels like a direct-to-video project, which in an earlier age when people still bought DVDs it would have been. In theaters, it’s nothing more than a laughless 90 minute commercial for toys available at a retailer near you.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Aug 8, 2013
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Filled with Smurf wholesomeness, Smurf puns and posi-Smurf messages about never giving up “on family,” The Smurfs 2 still sucks Smurfberries.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jul 30, 2013
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A harmless but almost charmless adaptation of a book by L. Frank Baum’s grandson.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted May 9, 2014
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Take Care manages, more often than not, to rise to the level of pleasant time killer, a rom-com with just enough surprises to justify getting those New York filming permits.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 2, 2014
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A slight and somewhat demure romantic comedy/friendship comedy built around two mildly interesting characters.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Dec 2, 2014
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Roger Moore
It’s never more than a theme park that isn’t worth the price of admission.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Sep 2, 2013
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A bloated all-star melodrama with none of the lean, mean legalese of a John Grisham adaptation, it’s a showboat’s movie cast with a lot of actors each promised “a big, cool scene.”- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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Rapace is all over the place with her performance — needy, then self-assured, enraged, then in love. The always feral Farrell seems as dismayed by her as the rest of us.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Mar 8, 2013
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Color City is thin gruel, even by recent, weaker Pixar standards.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Oct 1, 2014
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Mostly, it’s just a clumsy lecture about who we’re becoming, haves vs have-nots, with the haves armed to the teeth.- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
- Posted Jun 5, 2013
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