Mr. Showbiz's Scores

  • Movies
For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Brigham City
Lowest review score: 0 Dude, Where's My Car?
Score distribution:
720 movie reviews
  1. A mockumentary about small-town beauty pageants that's so confidently unfunny it's DOA.
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  2. A laughable disaster: an agonizingly long, perversely dull, childishly conceived fantasia on marital sexual angst that could only have been made by someone (like Kubrick).
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  3. It might be the scariest movie ever made.
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  4. Pie has some nice surprises and is enjoyable in a smutty, sitcom way. It offers up the outrageousness of "There's Something About Mary" without wallowing in cruelty.
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  5. In terms of raw wit and fearless satire, the South Park kids put Mike Myers and Adam Sandler to shame.
  6. The Spy Who Shagged Me is impossible-to-resist summer fun that left me feeling, dare I say, randy for more? Oh, behave.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    A smart, sometimes pissingly funny romantic comedy that is also oddly unmoving and predictable in spots.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.
  7. Election is a bracingly intelligent adult comedy that shrewdly captures adolescence.
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  8. Go
    John August's script is exciting, witty, original material, and this film's got the talent to match.
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  9. This wildly imaginative thriller is a futuristic head trip you most definitely want to take.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's the awesome, metaphysically charged spectacle of man doing terrible things to man within the multicolored and multifarious cathedral of Nature.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The result is a film that is as witty, astute, and romantic as its timeless subject.
  10. It's the funniest, saddest performance of the year in a film of uncompromising wit and heart.
  11. This historical epic about the "virgin queen" of England's early life moves with the crackling urgency of a contemporary political thriller.
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  12. A profoundly moving human drama, a quasi love story about two lost men who form an unlikely friendship.
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  13. American History X is a crash course on how to make a message movie that resonates with crackling power.
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  14. Has one of the most stupendously tasteless premises in cinema history, and much of the time when this movie tries to beckon a smile, the effect is closer to astonished nausea.
  15. Offers effortless charm, wit, and originality in spades.
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No Hollywood film within recent memory has achieved such richness and originality of texture, such a compelling amalgam of passionate human drama and awesome technique.
  16. The Truman Show is one of the films for which the '90s will be remembered, and it is not to be missed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In a season of mechanized spectacle and brain-dead comedies, Bulworth is a brave and bracing exception.
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  17. Billed cleverly as a comedy from the heart that goes for the throat. If only Brooks had had the guts to avoid the schmaltz.
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  18. Will take you by surprise as a romantic, fast-paced, entertaining spectacle that deserves to earn back every penny spent to produce it.
  19. Intelligently written, sharply directed, and beautifully played.
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  20. That rarest of independent films -- it's risky and exciting.
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    See L.A. Confidential. Be astonished at discovering anew how very, very satisfying movies can still be. And how fine that can feel.
  21. A bully good romp, and it thumbs its nose at the bloated blockbusters towering over it at the multiplexes by ending the moment it arrives at its raucous, richly deserved climax.
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  22. Myers has hit upon a genuinely original schtick, and that fact alone is immeasurably groovy.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Until he (Smith) learns the difference between what has meaning and what's meandering, what feels real and what feels contrived, he'd be better off sticking to the funny stuff.
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