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For 1,471 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Blair Witch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 818 out of 1471
  2. Mixed: 501 out of 1471
  3. Negative: 152 out of 1471
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  1. Muppets from Space
    There hasn't been a great Muppet movie since the first one, in 1979. Muppets From Space is the most entertaining of five sequels since then, although it isn't anything special. Yet we can all appreciate the way it's packaged, with one adorably round eye on the kid market and the other focused on grown-ups buying the tickets. [14 July 1999, p.1D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  2. Please Give
    When the fadeout comes, viewers may feel as unsatisfied with the movie as these characters are with their lives.
  3. Chloe
    The movie maintains its posture of mystery long after the solution is evident, and the best suggestion is to just smirk with the flow.
  4. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    The relevant question now isn't who John Galt is, but how much demand there will be for what the producers supply.
  5. Fifty Shades of Grey
    Fifty Shades of Grey isn't the howling pornucopia it could be, but it's sexy enough, spank you very much.
  6. Renoir
    Renoir is beautifully filmed and scored, yet with the emotional pull of watching exquisitely textured oil paint dry.
  7. The Frighteners
    So many oddities are thrown in our faces that The Frighteners becomes measured by its occasional imaginative moments, rather than as a complete entertainment. [19 July 1996, p.5]
    • Tampa Bay Times
    • 42 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Leave It to Beaver
    Leave It to Beaver turns out to be a pleasant time-waster and a future video babysitter. [22 Aug 1997, p.8]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  9. The Back-up Plan
    Even stock characters -- Zoe's tirelessly supportive friends and relatives -- get style points for giving jobs to old pros Klein, Linda Lavin (Alice) and "Mr. C" himself, Tom Bosley. Of course, the babies are adorable.
  10. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is a sweet-spirited romp that could give clean-minded silliness a good name once again. [16 July 1993, p.6]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  11. Iron Man 2
    It's as slick and fun as summertime entertainment should be. Downey is still an arresting presence, glib to the nth degree and supremely confident that he's smarter than anyone else.
  12. Ant-Man
    Never thought I'd type this about a comic book movie, but Ant-Man needs to take itself more seriously.
  13. Storks
    It's occasional fun, but that's about all, folks.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    A Good Man in Africa
    Some prime stiff-upper-lip comedy surfaces above a messy morality tale. [09 Sep 1994, p.10]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  15. Ender's Game
    Plenty of ideas float through Ender's Game but the notion of honing a child into a war machine is one that sticks. Writer-director Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's novel doesn't offer much else, bottled up with battle jargon and special effects debris as it is.
  16. Takers
    The heist movie genre gets a hip-hop makeover in Takers, a movie loaded with as much style as ammunition.
  17. Evil Dead
    I learned a total of two things from watching Evil Dead: No camping kit is complete without duct tape, and sometimes end credits are worth sitting through for a movie's best gag.
  18. Life
    Espinosa overcomes any shortcomings in originality and logic with one of the most satisfying finales in recent memory. First impressions are important but a clever last impression makes Life worthwhile.
  19. Escape Plan
    Escape Plan is so dumb it's adorable, as any movie pitting Sylvester Stallone's grunt against Arnold Schwarzenegger's accent should be.
  20. Strange Days
    Strange Days - on and off screen - should be a lesson to filmmakers not to use virulent, touchy subjects for entertainment shortcuts. Bigelow has created a state-of-the-art movie machine, with all the moral and political complexity of an Etch-a-Sketch. [13 Oct 1995, p.10]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  21. Despicable Me 3
    Despicable Me 3 doubles down on Steve Carell's silly way with words, a smart idea after too much Minions gibberish spoiled Part 2. They're still here, in smaller doses and somewhat funnier for it.
  22. Last Flag Flying
    Linklater tinkers with Ponicsan’s memorable characters while asking practically the same performances of his actors that Ashby did. Of course, if a viewer isn’t familiar with The Last Detail then Last Flag Flying gets by as an okay grumpy old soldiers tragicomedy. The rest of us know better because we’ve seen far better.
  23. Thor
    All that director Kenneth Branagh must do with Thor is not mess it up, and he succeeds. But that isn't enough. The results aren't as exhilarating as the first "Iron Man," but Downey can't play every superhero.
  24. Wrath of the Titans
    An imagined conversation between Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes, after the premiere of Wrath of the Titans...
  25. Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
    America's foremost smart aleck Dennis Miller adds grand giggles to familiar gore in Bordello of Blood. [17 August 1996, p.2B]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  26. Set It Off
    Set It Off doesn't say anything especially original, but it says it loud and proud. [06 Nov 1996, p.1D]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  27. Eddie the Eagle
    Somehow, the loose ends fit together, as rag-tag plucky as Eddie himself. What Eddie the Eagle has that last week's more historically accurate Race didn't is charm to spare, especially in Egerton's performance.
  28. Everest
    Director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns) essentially made a faux documentary with big stars and better lighting.
  29. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    It's a valuable history lesson crammed into a creatively uninspired movie. Wiki-cinema, if you will.
  30. Oz the Great and Powerful
    It took brains to create such a sumptuous fantasia with pixels and keyboard swipes. Now, if it only had a heart.
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