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For 1,617 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Children of a Lesser God
Lowest review score: 0 Down to You
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 952 out of 1617
  2. Mixed: 532 out of 1617
  3. Negative: 133 out of 1617
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  1. Steel Magnolias
    The densely populated movie, pumped up with unnecessary crowd scenes and a handful of utterly extraneous male characters, is as garish and busy as a TV game show. As directed by Herbert Ross, it is so intent on persuading the audience that it is having a heartwarming emotional experience you almost expect TelePrompTers to flash in the theater, instructing you to laugh and cry. [27 Nov 1989, p.92]
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  2. The Thing
    There's a big difference between shock effects and suspense, and in sacrificing everything at the altar of gore, Carpenter sabotages the drama. The Thing is so single-mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep. [28 June 1982, p.73B]
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  3. Stick
    Leonard's tight, vivid brushstrokes have been turned into cinematic graffiti. [6 May 1985, p.73]
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  4. Neighbors
    The ads for Neighbors call it "a comic nightmare"; it's more like a sour case of creative indigestion. [21 Dec 1981, p.51]
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  5. The Final Conflict
    Not only the silliest chapter in the Omen trilogy, it's the dullest and most inept. [30 Mar 1981, p.83]
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  6. Author! Author!
    There's nothing sadder than a movie that tries to be adorable and isn't. Author! Author! tries so hard that the screen seems to sweat. [05 Jul 1982, p.72]
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  7. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
    It is perhaps not presumptuous to take the blind man as the director's image of his ideal viewer, but here, I think, Allen becomes overly cautious. Had the man been blind and deaf, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure would have achieved the stature of a true masterpiece. [11 Jun 1979, p.99]
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  8. Death Wish II
    Pseudo-lush but crummy flick. [15 Mar 1982, p.78]
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  9. Honkytonk Man
    Eastwood has no more singing talent than Citizen Kane's mistress, and this oh-so-well-intentioned movie takes more than two tepid hours to show us the boy becoming a man, the man achieving his dream and somebody singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot over his grave. They'll have to come for to carry you home after this one. [27 Dec 1982, p.62]
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  10. The 'Burbs
    Attempting a slapstick satire of suburban paranoia and xenophobia, Dante lavishes his considerable skills on a one-note, repetitive Dana Olsen screenplay which, at best, contains enough invention for a 20-minute skit. [06 Mar 1989, p.58]
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  11. Three Men and a Cradle
    3 Men and a Cradle has precious few laughs. Shot in a strangely grave, twilight style ill suited to the sitcom premise, the movie plods dully from one foreseeable irony to the next. [26 May 1986, p.72]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Burnt Offerings
    The movie merely piles on one special effect after another - none of them too special - and stalls for time. Even the title is a sham: nobody ever so much as lights a match. And nobody - not even the most gullible moviegoer - can expect to receive any present. [08 Nov 1976, p.108]
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  13. Less Than Zero
    My advice to moviegoers: Just say no. [16 Nov 1987, p.108]
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  14. Pale Rider
    By the time Pale Rider wends its solemn, deliberate way to the final showdown, all of its tantalizing potential has bitten the dust. The woefully inadequate screenplay by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack takes every mundane turn available, reneging on its mythical promises. [1 July 1985, p.55]
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  15. The Clan of the Cave Bear
    The Clan of the Cave Bear is dog. [27 Jan 1986, p.69]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sphere
    With the talent involved in Sphere -- director Barry Levinson, novelist Michael Crichton and actors Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharon Stone--how could it fail? Somehow, it does.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Possession
    Neil LaBute’s Possession is bad, but not spectacularly bad, which is disappointing.
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  18. Firefox
    This is one of those films where lots of things happen but there's no real excitement. [28 June 1982, p.73B]
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  19. Hollywood Ending
    You know a romantic comedy is in trouble when you root for the hero not to get the girl.
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Horse Whisperer
    It's punishingly dull for fully half of its two hours and 45 minutes.
  21. Endless Love
    With pretty Martin Hewitt as David and pretty Brooke Shields as Jade, what you get is an overwrought teen make-out movie. [27 July 1981, p.74]
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  22. Psycho II
    You don't have to be a Hitchcock idolater to see that this dumb, dull, plodding, pseudo-camp bore is a callous, commercial parasite. [13 June 1983, p.78]
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  23. Heaven's Gate
    An epic vision isn't worth much if you can't tell a story. This, in a nutshell, is the problem at the heart of the three-hour-and-39-minute debacle called Heaven's Gate. In his painstaking quest for period authenticity and his reliance on the operatic set piece, Cimino has lost all sight of day-to-day reality--and all sense of dramatic truth. [01 Dec 1980, p.88]
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  24. Class of 1984
    One of the nastiest movies of our time, it pretends to be horrified by endemic violence in our schools while actually exploiting violence with a coldblooded cynicism that's worse than the violence itself. [30 Aug 1982, p.61]
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  25. Die Another Day
    Flat, distressingly witless -- To put it bluntly -- the thrill is gone. Nobody did it better. But that was then.
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  26. The Blue Lagoon
    The Blue Lagoon is really an exploitation film whose core is so soft it's turned to an overripe mango. [23 June 1980, p.75]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Coneheads
    An amiable comedy without a thought in its point head. [2 Aug 1993, p.55]
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  28. Irreversible
    Irreversible takes an adolescent pride in its own ugliness. “I Stand Alone" told me something about the world; this one tells me more than I want to know about the calculating mind of its maker.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Very Thought of You
    Despite some funny lines and situations, this comedy falls short.
  30. Meteor
    Director Ronald Neame, who once made good movies, has instructed his actors to shout as much as possible. The rest is special effects -- and not very special ones at that. [05 Nov 1979, p.101]
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