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For 4,219 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Radio Days
Lowest review score: 0 Teen Wolf Too
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,423 out of 4219
  2. Mixed: 1,074 out of 4219
  3. Negative: 722 out of 4219
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    One Crazy Summer
    One Crazy Summer's only truly funny bit of business occurs when two evil kindergartners are transformed for no reason at all into pigs. You laugh here, not because it's riotously funny, but because the scene is one of the most stupid things you'll ever see...Much like the film it's contained in.
    • Miami Herald
  2. Smile
    Smile feels like one man's answer to movies increasingly overloaded with sex and violence.
  3. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Has all the depth of an episode of "Joey."
  4. Bella
    The film is more of an exercise in pandering and propaganda -- give your baby up for adoption, you selfish pig! -- than the heartfelt drama it aims to be.
  5. Sgt. Bilko
    Film remakes of old TV shows are all the rage in Hollywood. And several, including the inventive Brady Bunch Movie, have managed to seamlessly close the generation gap. Not so Sgt. Bilko, which succumbs to friendly fire. [02 Apr 1996, p.3C]
    • Miami Herald
  6. Cote d'Azur
    As far as titles go, Cote d'Azur doesn't quite cut it for this topsy-turvy French comedy, in which an innocent seaside vacation gets really messy once a family full of busybodies starts poking around in one another's business.
  7. Accepted
    Even if you're willing to overlook the preposterous plot holes in its premise, Accepted pushes its luck in its final half-hour.
  8. What Women Want
    A wobbly fantasy that relies on the actor's mischievous energy and rakish charisma for its laughs.
  9. Brother
    Kitano's most enjoyable, flat-out fun movie, provided you can stomach the violence.
  10. The Guru
    Swami says, “Steer clear of The Guru, a dismally dumb sex comedy, lest you waste $9 and 90 minutes of your life you will never get back.''
  11. Josie and the Pussycats
    A fair weekend distraction for 10-year-old girls.
    • Miami Herald
  12. Borstal Boy
    An important and interesting story, but the reform school itself never seems terribly harsh.
  13. The Private Archives of Pablo Escovar
    A mesmerizing documentary about the rise and fall of a drug lord, perhaps the biggest there ever was.
  14. Chaplin
    The film's one great asset, a real surprise, is Robert Downey Jr. in the title role. He grabs something of the Little Tramp's innate grace and anarchic wit, and he runs with it -- pratfalls with it and waddles off into the sunset with it. [08 Jan 1993, p.G5]
    • Miami Herald
      • Posted Jun 30, 2017
  15. In the Cut
    The movie is all moist grime and seedy atmosphere, and it's certainly something to look at: It's beautifully lurid. But it's an empty, unengaging movie, and by the end, it has become ridiculous, too.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Regarding Henry
    Only Nunn has enough charisma -- despite relying on a stereotype or two as Bradley -- to easily command attention whenever he's onscreen. If only he could have transferred some of that charisma to Ford -- and to Regarding Henry -- during the therapy sessions. [10 July 1991, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
  17. A Good Year
    Scott embraces the lightness of the material instead of trying to give it unnecessary weight, and even if he's far from the ideal filmmaker to choreograph bits of slapstick, A Good Year is never less than visually ravishing.
  18. The Box
    The Box is a mess, but it's a curiously haunting, intriguing, brain-tickling mess, and it delivers that "Donnie Darko" feeling in truckloads. Or should that be rocketloads?
  19. The Whole Nine Yards
    Sporadically amusing.
  20. Failure to Launch
    Bradshaw, who is funnier than you might suspect, also turns out to be the most fearless of performers.
  21. He's Just Not That Into You
    The fact that you won't remember any of these names for more than a minute should indicate exactly how much depth each character displays.
  22. The Matrix Revolutions
    It's a testament to the personalities of the actors, as well as the foundation laid by the original film, that we retain an emotional connection to the main players in Revolutions.
  23. In the Land of Women
    Manages to be entertaining, largely because of the appealing Adam Brody.
  24. In the Heart of the Sea
    You come away from the movie lamenting the missed opportunity and wondering what a stronger, bolder filmmaker would have done with this material.
  25. Jennifer's Body
    Not since Brian De Palma's "Carrie" has a horror movie so effectively exploited the genre as a metaphor for adolescent angst, female sexuality and the strange, sometimes corrosive bonds between girls who claim to be best friends.
  26. Real Men
    Real Men is too goofy for its own good, but not nearly funny enough. [21 Oct 1987, p.D5]
    • Miami Herald
  27. Bad Teacher
    Thank Segal in part, because the guy is always funny, and Timberlake gets some of the biggest laughs in a particularly crude sex scene (though the song with which his character woos Miss Squirrel is perhaps the film's funniest moment).
  28. Lions for Lambs
    And unlike other recent dramas such as "Rendition," the film never feels like it's preaching. Instead, it just urges: Whatever you believe, do something.
  29. Heartbreakers
    When the youngsters are out of the way and old pros Hackman and Weaver work, it's hard to really dislike Heartbreakers. Sometimes, it's even a little bit of harmless fun.
    • Miami Herald
  30. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Call it a victory for sincerity and style: Despite its familiarity, Blonde 2 doesn't make you want to pull out your hair by its (touched-up) roots.
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