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For 9,307 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,163 out of 9307
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9307
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9307
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hot Shots!
    If anyone steals the air-show with his deadpan, it's Lloyd Bridges as Admiral (Tug) Benson, a total maladroit whose body has been wounded in every major battle since the Little Big Horn massacre and who has flown 21 missions without ever landing his airplane (he was shot down every time). Bridges gets away with some wonderfully corny lines and sight gags. [31 July 1991, p.E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  2. Blackthorn
    Blackthorn imagines a scenario for Butch's later years and gives us a different kind of Western - somber, reflective and set in the elevated plains and salt flats of Bolivia.
  3. Addams Family Values
    Addams Family Values is so much better than the first film -- partly because Sonnenfeld, who made his directing debut with the first film, has refined his directing chops, but mostly because Rudnick has contributed a delightful, mock- macabre script. [19 Nov 1993, p.C1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Traitor
    The film is stylishly shot, although the current action-movie look might be dated in a few years.
  5. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    Let us recall that the first film was, in its blithely vulgar way, hilarious. And let us demand a moratorium on coked-out-baby jokes, which seriously kill the buzz.
  6. Bugs!
    By the standards of most IMAX films, this is a bizarre entry, a documentary about bugs that was produced by Terminix, the pest control company.
  7. Laurel Canyon
    Ultimately lacks the narrative muscle that could have made it great. But it does have McDormand, who is great in this, her best showcase since "Fargo."
  8. Blue Gate Crossing
    Blue Gate Crossing is 85 minutes of wistful gloom.
  9. Blue Crush
    Just one big wipeout.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beijing Bicycle
    Moderately engaging tale.
  11. Rumble in the Bronx
    An awkward hybrid of Asian and American film techniques. It's also an uninvolving story that casts Chan in the role of a fish out of water and gives him little opportunity to show his exuberant personality.
  12. Sunlight Jr.
    The film is merciless in showing the obstacles faced by a down-and-out couple in strip-mall Florida, but there's a modicum of hope in the genuine love the characters share.
  13. The Sword in the Stone
    Maybe the film works best as nostalgia for Baby Boomers who recall the picture from their childhood.
  14. Capitalism: A Love Story
    No matter where you stand, there's no denying "Capitalism" is flat-out polemic wizardry.
  15. Secretariat
    In Secretariat, the fictionalized bits are simple exaggerations - broad, Disneyish adjustments in races and other realities.
  16. She's So Lovely
    Considering that most movies, even today, don't present a woman's romantic or sexual behavior in anything other than a spirit of judgment, She's So Lovely has to be regarded as something unique.
  17. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    There are phony movies made every week, but this is in a different category - a phony movie that seems a distortion of something real, a phony movie offered in place of the real movie von Trier could have made, but it would have cost him something. Some blood, some truth, some soul. What we're left with instead is an empty gesture.
  18. Wah-Wah
    To label the parents in Wah-Wah dysfunctional doesn't adequately describe their wildly inappropriate behavior.
  19. Fast & Furious 6
    It's stupid but glorious -- Dominic (Vin Diesel) and his crew of high-spirited street racers are hired by an FBI agent to hunt down an international terrorist in London. Ridiculous and entertaining from start to finish.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted May 23, 2013
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lilting
    Lilting works because of the superb performances from its two leads, especially Whishaw, whose tortured gloom offers a striking contrast to the cool, unflappable “Q” role he presented in “Skyfall.”
  21. This Must Be the Place
    Worst of all, in promoting its hero's eccentric journey as a voyage of healing, the movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence. It turns boring and cute and begs us to love it.
  22. Muppets Most Wanted
    Children in the audience may not be thrilled at the highbrow humor and lack of pointless action, but tough luck. Life is more than "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" and "The Smurfs" sequels.
  23. Onward
    Onward goes on and on, but it barely moves forward. Long before its 114-minute running time has elapsed, it has overstayed its welcome.
  24. Ransom
    Beneath the handsome production values, the steady motor of Ron Howard's direction and the solid acting of Mel Gibson as a flashy airline tycoon whose son is abducted in Central Park, Ransom is pure poison: the kind of hang-'em-high rouser that feeds off our basest impulses and prods us into cheering the hero on as he commits grisly, retributive acts of violence.
  25. Port Authority
    Port Authority is never in a hurry. It often feels like it’s being lived as you watch. That won’t satisfy viewers who need a tight narrative with recognizable beats, but if you’re looking for an immersive love story that takes you places you might not know, that challenges your conception of what romance looks and feels like, Port Authority is a great place to stop.
  26. 13 Tzameti
    The film's simplicity and intensity are aided by the crisp black-and-white photography of Tariel Meliava. Director Babluani's greenness shows itself in the ending, which is weak, but the film nevertheless stays with you.
  27. Extract
    Isn't an instant classic, but it bumps along agreeably.
  28. Abominable
    Abominable delivers all the notes you expect from family-friendly animation these days. And, thankfully, a little bit more.
  29. Role Models
    A funny and twisted movie from beginning to end, closing with an emotional payoff.
  30. Hamlet
    Cast adrift in this aimless movie, Ahmed seems lost. His performance is one in an unfortunate tradition of weepy Hamlets, and his problems are compounded by the fact that his weepiness is unconvincing. Each time he teared up while delivering a soliloquy, I felt that he was trying to sell me a used car.
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