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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. The Paper
    Even though Howard captures the texture, the personalities, and the often-breakneck pace of a big city newsroom, the movie feels oddly light and feathery. In its last third, it briefly threatens to become a biting dark satire before settling on a disappointingly conventional path. Still, there's an awful lot of star power at work here, some of it hard to resist. The Paper is old-fashioned Hollywood entertainment: flashy, breezy, and not at all challenging. [25 March 1994, p.5]
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  2. Road Trip
    Plot? There is no plot. You want plot, go read "War and Peace."
  3. The Way of the Gun
    Sporadically engrossing in a pulpy kind of way.
  4. Lee Daniels' The Butler
    Lee Daniels’ The Butler is creaky and sentimental and schmaltzy. The movie lacks any of the unhinged qualities of Daniels’ previous films (The Paperboy, Precious, Shadowboxer).
  5. Jennifer 8
    Jennifer 8 is handsome, dark and menacing, as you'd figure a big-budget whodunit about a serial killer ought to be, but it's also clean out of control. It's one of those thrillers in which the real suspense is over how long it will be before you say, "Oh, come on." [6 Nov 1992, p.G5]
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  6. Howard the Duck
    There's good stuff around the edges of the film -- all that word play and all those visual gags demand that you pay attention lest you miss something even in the slow scenes. But at the center, no magic. [01 Aug 1986, p.D1]
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  7. Life as a House
    Makes for a compelling comedy-drama about family ties. It's only when the cancer takes center stage that the movie feels like a wash.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Man with One Red Shoe
    Fans of the droll style of actor Tom Hanks will chuckle through The Man With One Red Shoe, a story that builds a comic house of cards on a mistaken identity. [20 July 1985, p.4]
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  9. Friday Night Lights
    It's all amiably hackneyed, but it sucks you in anyway.
  10. Peggy Sue Got Married
    The film is all very wistful, and at its best moments has an exquisite mystery to it, the lure of the memory play. And even when it isn't working, there's Turner to watch. That's something. [10 Oct 1986, p.D1]
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  11. Plunkett & Macleane
    A tad too raunchy for its own good.
  12. The Last of the Mohicans
    What we have here is a story out of early American history as retold by American pulp fiction, staged by a director with a sure touch for melodrama. [25 Sep 1992, p.G5]
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  13. Keeping the Faith
    Does more than pay lip service to its subtexts.
  14. Singles
    Singles is never dull; Crowe keeps the pace moving with gimmicky devices such as direct address, flashbacks and catchy title frames to introduce new segments. The result is a chummy movie about a group of singles hurtling toward a fairy-tale ending. It's pleasant enough, but fans of Crowe will probably crave more. [18 Sept 1992, p.G5]
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  15. Swimming Pool
    Seductive, ultimately frustrating.
  16. Henry Poole Is Here
    A large part of the movie's appeal can be attributed to Wilson, more dour than he's been in ages and yet more interesting, too.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Where the Heart Is
    Everything that cynical moviegoers despise and the tender-minded adore.
  18. Betsy's Wedding
    Betsy's Wedding is as "high concept" as they come -- it's all in the title, and once you know the cast, you pretty much know where it's going and how it will go. And still, it's cute, in a forlorn, co-opted sort of way. [22 Jun 1990, p.G5]
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  19. All About My Mother
    The work of a talented filmmaker coasting on his own fumes.
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  20. The Matrix Reloaded
    This cold, generally soulless movie does feel like it was made by people who are taking themselves way too seriously. Remember the delicious anticipation you felt when The Empire Strikes Back was over? You won't feel that way when The Matrix Reloaded reaches its cliffhanger finale. You'll just feel relief.
  21. Doc Hollywood
    So Doc Hollywood is warm and cuddly and not at all loathsome. It is much better suited to television than to the big screen, though it does serve to showcase Warner, who is attractive and engaging. And durn it all, you just can't hate it. [02 Aug 1991, p.G5]
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  22. Black Rain
    At a little over two hours, Black Rain is a good half-hour too long, and the style gymnastics are eventually wearying. But Scott's work is always fascinating to watch, even as it grinds you down. And Douglas now has something heroic about him that enhances, if it doesn't quite transcend, the plot-by- numbers. It's fun watching the two of them volley. [22 Sep 1989, p.G5]
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  23. I'm the One That I Want
    It's hard to connect with long minutes of self-pity by a temporarily has-been celebrity.
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  24. Sneakers
    Sneakers is tremendously entertaining when the team is working to breach unbreachably secure institutions. [11 Sep 1992, p.G5]
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  25. Boiling Point
    It's not much, Boiling Point. But it's not what you expect, either. At this time of year, when the big news is Indecent Proposal, that's saying something. [19 Apr 1993, p.C5]
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  26. Vitus
    Deep down, this is a film about childhood dreams and the determination to make those dreams come true. With such a positive message, you can't help yodeling on your exit from the theater.
  27. Dan in Real Life
    Dan in Real Life is basically a slightly less-sappy version of "TheFamily Stone."
  28. The Tailor of Panama
    If The Tailor of Panama doesn't quite gel, the attempt is still worth savoring.
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  29. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Features the lamest story of any CG-animated feature to date.
  30. No Small Affair
    No Small Affair, while no big movie, confirms that it is possible to tell a story about a kid in love without depending on the French-tutor contrivance or the girls'-locker- room giggle. [09 Nov 1984, p.C10]
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