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For 9,317 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 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: 5,172 out of 9317
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9317
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9317
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  1. Doc Hollywood
    Doc Hollywood has its moments, including some nice comic turns by Barnard Hughes as a curmudgeonly doctor, Bridget Fonda as the local coquette and David Ogden Stiers as Grady's folksy mayor. And Julie Warner is certainly hot stuff. But Caton-Jones' approach is too facile, and his use of Southern-cracker cliches too offensive, to capture my vote. [02 Aug 1991, p.D1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  2. 88 Minutes
    If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment.
  3. Miles Ahead
    Cheadle the actor is nearly perfect in the role.
  4. Vampires
    The lead actors on both sides of the vampire divide are all strong personalities.
  5. Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    Nobody Else But You takes a novel concept and a willing leading lady and squanders both through drab, lifeless storytelling.
  6. Barenaked in America
    These guys are very normal off stage, making them easy to like and not very exciting to watch.
  7. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Handsomely weathered John Hurt, as Pelagia's father, gives a performance of such unhackneyed dignity that it provides a moral compass for the action and helps to keep the ricocheting emotional content of the film in balance.
  8. Memphis Belle
    Memphis Belle goes off in several different directions at once, and the result is a movie that's scattered and unfocused. [12 Oct 1990, E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  9. Amen.
    Unfortunately, structural flaws and a built-in lack of suspense keep it from being nearly as moving as it was intended to be.
  10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Greed is boring.
  11. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    What's impressive about Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats is how he marries his goofy, comic side with his dramatic side.
  12. Rounders
    It should have been the poker equivalent of "The Hustler." But it suffers from iron-poor blood. No energy. It just lies there.
  13. Surviving the Game
    Instead of building in impact, the film feels smaller as the cast dwindles. You get the feeling that the most important actors are getting killed first, so that they can go off to act in better movies. [20 Apr 1994, p.E5]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  14. Pretty Persuasion
    Only partly successful.
  15. Valiant
    Despite a decent cast of mostly British voice actors and better-than-average computer animation, the movie seems rushed at 76 minutes and is only marginally funny.
  16. Viva Riva!
    A fast-moving Congolese crime thriller loaded with graphic sex and violence - basically an exploitation picture. But it's hard to surrender to the gritty flow because the story is stitched together from such crushingly familiar bits.
  17. Do I Sound Gay?
    It’s cute and easy to watch, though we can’t overcome the feeling that it’s an unambitious film about an ambitious topic.
  18. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    There’s lots of eye candy, and the pace is fast, but somehow the movie falls short. You’re forgiven if you get the idea that “Scorch Trials” suffers from “middle movie” fatigue.
  19. Goosebumps
    Although the film’s content falls squarely within the PG rating, it provides about 20 percent more visual terror than you’re probably expecting. Plus, the presence of a scary clown should automatically trigger a special MPAA rating. (PG-C?) Take your 5-year-old knowing that he may be visiting your bed every night between now and Halloween.
  20. Ladybugs
    Ladybugs isn't a very good movie; but it's a Rodney Dangerfield movie, and that's not bad. They used to call pictures like this ''star vehicles.'' Here the story, the plot, the other actors and everything else serve as nothing but a bland backdrop for Rodney Dangerfield's humor and appeal. [28 March 1992, p.C3]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  21. Spun
    Has no insights, no point, no urgency and no importance.
  22. Heist
    Even a mediocre David Mamet movie is still a David Mamet movie. That means there are lines to savor, partly because the lines are so good, partly because they are so Mamet.
  23. Chapter 27
    An uncomfortable ride.
  24. A Quiet Passion
    The film refuses to soft-pedal Dickinson’s heartbreaking descent into bitterness and near-misanthropy, but sometimes operates with a heavy-handedness that’s certainly at odds with her poetry.
  25. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
    Flawed, flaky and exasperating, it's held together by two powerful eccentrics.
  26. Conspiracy of Silence
    Feels like a personal vendetta.
  27. Incendies
    Skillfully made and offering moments of great power, the French Canadian drama Incendies nevertheless overplays its hand, piling tragedy on tragedy until we feel browbeaten with misery.
  28. 360
    Much like its own characters, it dithers too much - and it dares too little.
  29. Hollywoodland
    The film, actually, is a little like Reeves himself: It starts promisingly and trails off into indistinctness and mystery.
  30. The Take
    Eventually, the plot feels more perfunctory than palpable, but Watkins is careful not to drag things out. All in all, we don’t mind being taken along for the ride, yet in the end, we’re ready to disembark.
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