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For 901 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Driving Miss Daisy
Lowest review score: 0 Revenge
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 519 out of 901
  2. Mixed: 225 out of 901
  3. Negative: 157 out of 901
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  1. Consenting Adults
    What's unusual about Consenting Adults (which opens today) is that virtually everything is implausible. In fact, my bull detector hasn't beeped so much since the last time I went shopping for a new car. If I were to list everything that happens in the film that strains credulity, I'd be here until Woody and Mia get back together. Plus I'd make some of you angry by revealing too many secrets. [16 Oct 1992, p.19]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  2. Mighty Joe Young
    This rather basic story is really just a place to hang the action scenes, which should have been the movie's glory. But those scenes turn out to be the worst things about Mighty Joe Young, in which the action is edited, MTV-style, for maximum incoherence.
  3. Miami Blues
    Miami Blues is more interesting than any bad movie I've seen in months, but it is still a bad movie.
  4. Night and the City
    Aside from Robert De Niro and his totally inappropriate performance, the cast is a mixed bag.
    • Orlando Sentinel
  5. Three Fugitives
    It would be wrong to blame Martin Short alone for the failure of Three Fugitives. Francis Veber, the French filmmaker who wrote and directed the film, must accept much of the responsibility.
  6. My Fellow Americans
    In a film that could have been called Grumpy Old Prexies, Garner makes a decent replacement for Walter Matthau. Garner and Lemmon, game troopers both, do what they can to wring laughs out of material that went out with the Eisenhower administration.
  7. Space Jam
    If the movie isn't a total loss that's because Jordan, Bugs (voice by Billy West) and their friends have an undeniable charm and because some of the classic gags that director Joe Pytka (a TV-commercial guy), producer Ivan Reitman (Twins, Junior) and the screenwriters have adapted from the Looney Tunes shorts are hard to spoil completely.
  8. The Boy Who Could Fly
    Backhanded compliments are pretty much the only ones The Boy Who Could Fly deserves. The subjects, here, are childhood and illness: topics that otherwise tough-minded people are inclined to approach with uncharacteristic sentimentality. But though the film is both sappy and cliched, it's not as sappy or cliched as might be expected. All things considered, it could have been a lot worse.
  9. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
    If there is any reason at all to create a big-budget, 2 1/2-hour film epic about Columbus, it is to bring the explorer and the people around him into focus as human beings. But that's just what director Ridley Scott fails to do. [09 Oct 1992, p.17]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  10. Inkheart
    So while we can appreciate the decent effects, the bang-up settings and a good cast, we can only hope they got some sight-seeing in on their days off. Whatever magic there was on this shoot is probably in their home movies.
  11. Mr. Holland's Opus
    Mr. Holland's Opus pretty much plays things straight. There are occasional jokes, but, basically, it's a clumsy tear-jerker. The biggest laughs in this one aren't intended. [19 Jan 1996, p.24]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  12. The Haunting
    It's not enough to have the characters act scared and then to throw in a bunch of special effects. It's absolutely essential to creep out the audience, and that's what De Bont neglects to do. [23 July 1999, p.17]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  13. Kansas City
    A production that's strong on atmosphere but weak in the plot department. Watching this often-tedious film, you begin to feel as if you've been kidnapped - which is appropriate, anyway, since the story concerns an abduction.
  14. Wayne's World 2
    Possibly the most disappointing sequel since "Jaws 2". [10 Dec 1993, p.19]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  15. Fathers' Day
    There's an air of desperation about this movie - a sense that the stars are yearning to do something so patently undemanding that it just can't miss.
  16. Unlawful Entry
    But weird as that is - and as insensitive as the studio's decision about the film's release date may be - the big question for most people is whether Unlawful Entry is a good movie. I think it isn't - not because the film exploits the Rodney King incident specifically, but because it is so exploitative generally. [27 June 1992, p.E1]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  17. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    As an evening out: Its many faults notwithstanding, Bonfire does have at least one thing going for it. The movie is a mess, but, like Wise Guys, it's a lively mess.
  18. Back to School
    The most jarring casting mistake (even more jarring than the miscasting of Dangerfield) involves Keith Gordon, who plays Thornton's son. Gordon, who has shown himself to be an intense and quirky actor in such films as Christine and Dressed to Kill, is a smoldering presence in what ought to be a light, comic role. His psycho-killer eyes just don't fit here.
  19. Death Becomes Her
    If you tried to remake a cheapie zombie flick with a big budget and an eye on the mass audience, you'd end up with something like Death Becomes Her. This new horror-comedy has to be one of the most heartless mainstream pictures ever made. [31 July 1992, p.17]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  20. 3 Men and a Little Lady
    When the comedy is on this level, all the actors can do is to hang on and hope for the best. [23 Nov 1990, p.7]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  21. Escape from L.A.
    Failed attempts at satire aside, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. is basically a routine action picture. [09 Aug 1996, p.22]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  22. Metro
    But eventually, the soulless violence and shoddy plotting wear you out. By the end, you'll start to feel like one of the hostages. [17 Jan 1997, p.A2]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  23. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
    Issues of forced cuteness aside, the recent Pump Up the Volume did the alienated-youth bit more insightfully than this movie does. Pump Up the Volume was savvy enough to have its young hero make statements such as "I say down with all guidance counselors. Make them work for a living." In Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, the troubled teen's confidante is the school's guidance counselor.
  24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
    If the new film is considerably less imaginative than your average Punch-and-Judy show, it is, nevertheless, a step up from last year's turtle-fest.
  25. Straw Dogs
    An exploitation picture built on redneck cliches and big city liberal outrage, it's not all bad. But it is a pretty unpleasant wallow in the obvious.
  26. Faster
    Whatever brownie points Tillman scored with "Notorious", Faster is that wake-up call that he's no John Woo.
  27. The Mechanic
    It's a modestly effective but jaw-droppingly violent picture.
  28. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Tedious time-killer of a kiddie comedy.
  29. Dear John
    Hallstrom and his low-heat stars can’t find the pulse of this corpse.
  30. The Perfect Game
    The characters in The Perfect Game speak old school “Hollywood Mexican.” In other words, they speak English with accents that we haven’t heard since the golden Age of Speedy Gonzalez.
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