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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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  1. Missing in Action
    Missing in Action is thus never especially compelling, even as a B-movie, because it is never remotely believable. Nonetheless, Norris' appeal is so quiet and uncomplicated that, although the film exploits the issue of MIAs as thoroughly as any movie has to date, Missing in Action is never offensive. [20 Nov 1984, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
  2. Trust the Man
    The film makes coupling look less like bliss and more like an exhausting series of skirmishes that can send one party scurrying into infidelity or out the door in search of something better.
  3. Miss Congeniality
    The players are game. Too bad they don't have much of a coach or a plan.
  4. Brooklyn's Finest
    By turning Brooklyn's Finest into a morality tale, Fuqua lets the movie slip right through his undeniably talented fingers.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Recess: School's Out
    If your kid is a fan of Disney's "Recess," one of the hotter properties on ABC's Saturday morning cartoon lineup, the new inspired-by-the-TV-show movie, Recess: School's Out, will be quite a hit.
    • Miami Herald
  6. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Another joyless, brain-numbing adventure through lackluster Indiana Jones territory.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    If Andrews oozes regal poise and Hathaway radiates movie star allure -- and they do -- credit the actresses, not this flimsy fairy tale.
  8. The Final Cut
    Taxes the patience of even the most willing viewer with its sheer nonsense: It's distractingly illogical.
  9. Flipper
    Kids will probably be entranced by Flipper's antics, even if he is played by three dolphins and an animatronic robo- Flipper. But for baby boomers who remember the squeaky clean, black-and-white TV series, the new Flipper will seem like a farce. [17 May 1996, p.5G]
    • Miami Herald
  10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
    A movie about lunatics with chainsaws that is neither funny nor frightening. [25 Aug 1986, p.C5]
    • Miami Herald
  11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan moves slowly, languidly; its art direction is often lovely, and despite their truncated screen time Lily and Snow Flower do make you care about their fates. But you would have cared more without all the distraction.
  12. The Lovely Bones
    The result is almost suffocating: a movie that has been tinkered and fussed with until there is no spontaneity left -- no warmth or life or messiness.
  13. My Father the Hero
    My Father, the Hero is an entertaining coming-of-age comedy. [4 Feb 1994, p.G4]
    • Miami Herald
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bones
    Director Ernest Dickerson uses elegant visuals, suspenseful editing and lighting to give Bones its edge.
  15. The Time Machine
    Most of Wells' details are there, and so is the basic premise, but the soul of the thing -- the point -- is missing.
  16. The Family Man
    Sidesteps from the premise of "It's a Wonderful Life" far enough to avoid copyright charges, but not far enough to avoid unfavorable comparisons
    • Miami Herald
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Drive Me Crazy
    That it manages a certain air of likability is due solely to the considerable charms of Grenier.
    • Miami Herald
  18. The Big Bounce
    Mostly, though, The Big Bounce isn't offensive, or even terrible. It's just lazy, relying on numb moviegoers to fork over cash thinking they'll see the next "Get Shorty" or "Out of Sight."
  19. Joe Somebody
    The best scenes in the movie belong to James Belushi.
    • Miami Herald
  20. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    Unfortunately, Insurgent can’t quite live up to its intriguing set up. Even if you’re curious about it, the movie is often plodding and frequently nonsensical, with action that never feels novel or exciting.
  21. Sanctum
    The bigger problem with the film, which is genuinely unnerving at times, is what happens when the cavers are not in immediate peril, because they talk.
  22. Phantasm II
    In the end, Phantasm II is a bland mixture of the horror movies its predecessor spawned. [8 July 1988, p.C5]
    • Miami Herald
  23. Won't Back Down
    Nothing wrong with a movie having a point of view, but watching people spout jargon or exposition doesn't really make for riveting entertainment.
  24. Daredevil
    For all its ambition, Daredevil can't overcome the fact that at its colorful center lies a perfect blank in a bad suit.
  25. Big Top Pee-wee
    Even with sex, Big Top Pee-wee seems dry and juiceless. [22 Jul 1988, p.C7]
    • Miami Herald
  26. Transcendence
    Transcendence is "Her" for dummies.
  27. Trade
    Trade's wake-up call needs to be heeded, but its missteps detract from its devastating message.
  28. Stone Cold
    Nothing here for the time capsule, make no mistake. But the Boz seems to have found a calling. [21 May 1991, p.C1]
    • Miami Herald
  29. Total Eclipse
    Director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) re-creates 19th-Century Paris beautifully, and poetry scholars might find the movie worthwhile strictly for its subject matter, but Total Eclipse comes off as a big downer that confuses dreariness with substance. [03 Nov 1995, p.6G]
    • Miami Herald
  30. High Road to China
    No more than a mild diversion. [21 March 1983, p.C6]
    • Miami Herald
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