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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. Mr. Destiny
    Even though the new film is an obvious rip-off of It's a Wonderful Life (by way of Back to the Future), and even though much of this material is familiar from Taking Care of Business, Mr. Destiny might have been watchable if director/co-writer James Orr (Tough Guys) had demonstrated any comic timing whatsoever. [12 Oct 1990, p.4]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  2. The Roommate
    A timid thriller that manages a couple of mild jolts and a couple of creepy-cringe-worthy moments in its Variations on a "Single White Female" theme.
  3. Saw 3D
    Any signs of life the series showed in the last installment (Saw VI), a dash of humanity here and there, were premature.
  4. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
    Many years ago, Mel Brooks made up his mind about what was funny and he hasn't budged since. [30 July 1993, p.21]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  5. Immigration Tango
    Sadly, Immigration Tango is like a slow-dance with your sister - perfunctory, awkward and without a hint of heat.
  6. The Spy Next Door
    Limp and lifeless, this Next Door neighbor should be evicted to DVD.
  7. Texasville
    Where The Last Picture Show was emotionally involving and dramatically episodic, Texasville is sprawling, badly paced and remote. [29 Oct 1990, p.C1]
    • Orlando Sentinel
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
    I admit, I jumped a couple of times in the beginning, but as the movie progressed, it lost its horror and picked up its stupidity. [20 Aug 1993, p.21]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  9. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
    Its star, Brandon Routh, is just as miscast as a droll, world-weary "investigator of the undead" as he was as a boy-Man of Steel back in 2006.
  10. Total Eclipse
    With DiCaprio and Thewlis cast as 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in Total Eclipse, you'd figure that the new film would almost have to be worth watching -if only for the acting. You would be mistaken. [01 Dec 1995, p.23]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  11. Remember Me
    The film’s tone is all wrong, the pacing is dead and the veering between sex, sadness and sado-masochistic violence is enough to give you motion sickness. It’s a bad movie.
  12. The 'Burbs
    The folks who made The 'burbs appear to be card-carrying members of the School of Non-Urban Humor. Basic to the philosophy of this school is the misapprehension that anything occurring outside city limits is intrinsically amusing.
  13. The Last Airbender
    This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 - gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. "I See Dead People's" career gurgling down the drain.
  14. Stay Tuned
    Not only does the new film generally fail to skewer TV's follies, it isn't even as entertaining as television. And I'm not talking about really good television, like Seinfeld and Murphy Brown. I'm talking about the usual stuff, like Three's Company and Mork & Mindy. [17 Aug 1992, p.D2]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  15. Son in Law
    Let's just say that compared to Son-in-Law, Green Acres is Noel Coward.
  16. Flatliners
    Far-fetched as the premise is, I was willing to give the film the benefit of the doubt for the sake of the impressive cast. But as Flatliners rolled along, its pretentiousness became increasingly toxic.
  17. Son of the Pink Panther
    This movie will finally kill off the series.
  18. Die Hard 2
    Whatever small pleasure there is to be found in this loud dud is due mostly to the residual good feelings from the first film.
  19. Steel
    "Steel" isn't offensively exploitative, just awkward, goofy and terminally sluggish. But then, how fast-paced could a movie be whose central character clumps around in 75 pounds of body armor? [15 Aug 1997]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  20. Dawn of the Dead
    Director Zack Snyder choreographs this like a video game, emphasizing the body count over character.
  21. Mr. Magoo
    Mr. Magoo manages to be faithful to cartoon's format without capturing an iota of its charm. [26 Dec 1997, p.24]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  22. Necessary Roughness
    The whole movie, in fact, is one big blooper.
  23. Nothing But Trouble
    Throughout the movie, there are occasional "joke" lines, most of which are pretty lame but at least they establish that this is all intended as comedy. For the most part, however, the humor depends upon the audience's finding the movie's repulsiveness funny.
  24. Flesh and Bone
    The actors are so impressed by the seriousness of their dialogue that they respectfully wait a minute or so after each line is spoken before speaking the next one. Remove the pauses and the movie would run about 20 minutes. [12 Nov 1993, p.20]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  25. Jaws: The Revenge
    Abetter title for Jaws The Revenge would be Jaws The Refund. A refund is what a lot of people who go to see this picture will demand. This Time It's Personal, the tag line for the new film's ad campaign, doesn't seem quite right either. This Time It's Terrible would have been more accurate.
  26. Creature
    Absurdly plotted, ineptly scripted and haplessly acted, Creature is a new variation on the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" theme.
  27. Caddyshack II
    This PG-rated romp is bland bananas compared to its R-rated predecessor. Besides, immediately following the liberating craziness of Animal House, another slob comedy didn't seem like such a bad idea. Now, after nearly a decade of slob comedies, the last thing we need is yet another, tamer one.
  28. Wild Orchid
    Movies like Wild Orchid give sex a bad name...The only thing to be said for this embarrassingly inept film is that, in its own schlocky way, it does intermittently manage to get a libidinous buzz going. This is not an especially tough thing for a movie with sex scenes to do, but it's something.
  29. Revenge
    Revenge isn't sweet. It's crude, ugly, pretentious, repulsive, obnoxious and just about unwatchable.
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