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For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Cop Land
    A good film prevented from being a great film by an act of well-intentioned but misguided casting.
  2. Captain Marvel
    This shiny and progressive and golly-gee packaging misrepresents how Captain Marvel made its way into the world, and what it is actually about. Namely: money, the easy exploitation of intellectual-property, artistic conformity and queasy politics that undermine whatever liberal notions it’s peddling.
  3. Dolphin Tale
    A potentially appealing story about a rescued disabled dolphin gets smothered with inspirational family values guff.
  4. A Better Life
    Speaking of moves, A Better Life is an interesting one for Weitz, who produced "American Pie" and directed "The Golden Compass" and, ahem, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Whatever the reason (his grandmother was a Mexican movie actress), this film feels more personal that just a gig.
  5. The Notorious Bettie Page
    Anyone expecting another dark satiric film in the same vein of Harron's earlier movies will be disappointed. Perhaps as befits a bondage-themed picture, The Notorious Bettie Page is very restrained, even a little starchy.
  6. Rental Family
    The star’s eager-to-please persona and overgrown puppy-dog physicality keeps the film from falling into complete shtick. It is all the more remarkable a feat given that Phillip is a complete cipher of a character.
  7. The Eight Hundred
    While the scale of Hu’s production is indeed impressive in its giganticness, and likely plays excellently on the IMAX screens for which it is intended (I had to settle for watching it on my television), The Eight Hundred falls a few hundred yards short of war-movie greatness.
  8. undertone
    The film works best when it is only Evy and her headphones on the screen, the character’s head (and ours) becoming overwhelmed by some truly impressive, singularly creepy sound design.
  9. Clockwatchers
    Quite consciously, Sprecher has dramatized that wry riff from Frank Zappa: "Life is high school with money." [12 Jun 1988, p.C3]
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  10. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Delivered without irony or subtext but lots of gentle humour, a kind of family fare that is rare on the big screen these days.
  11. The Innkeepers
    Admittedly, it's been a long time since Kelly McGillis was being hyped as "the next Grace Kelly." But of all the films in all the world for whom the former Top Gun lust object could have done a walk-on, this lacklustre haunted-house feature is the one she chooses?
  12. One Hour Photo
    One Hour Photo is two-thirds of a movie -- the last act is a bit of a shambles.
  13. Northfork
    Just when the movie seems set to soar, there's a drag factor -- it keeps getting weighed down, if not sunk, by an anchor of ponderousness.
  14. Blue Juice
    The movie seems much, much longer than its 90-minute running time. [15 June 1998]
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  15. Quartet
    Essentially Masterpiece Theatre comfort food, a chance to watch fine actors act without too many complications.
  16. Prometheus
    There's definite mastery here, but it's hardly a masterpiece.
  17. Northern Soul
    It thrills because Constantine, a noted British photographer, shows instead of tells.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bonjour Tristesse
    What Chew-Bose gets so right about these characters is their very performativity, building a lifestyle where everyone is legible to each other despite a desire to remain unknowable.
  19. Goon
    What a disappointment.
  20. Always Be My Maybe
    The journey here, over all, is still worth it, full of Asians making jokes, talking dirty and getting it on – like any good rom-com.
  21. The Queen of My Dreams
    While The Queen of My Dreams works in some places, it’s too disjointed a narrative to truly immerse the viewer into the technicolor universe.
  22. The French Lieutenant's Woman
    Two great beginnings disappoint in the end. If the novel is a dying form, film treatments are the poison. [21 Sep 1981]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Renoir
    Gilles Bourdos’s film is more conventional than its mould-breaking subjects deserve.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Straight Time
    Straight Time is an exquistitely crafted film, loaded with good performances, propelled by excellent direction and brimming with heart-wrenching suspense. Unfortunately, it is also overwhelmingly depressing. [24 Mar 1978]
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  25. Big Bad Wolves
    While Big Bad Wolves delivers the Hostel-like torture jolts with ruthless precision, the movie is also a rudely funny satire of a macho, paranoid culture where the protection of children is used to justify any conduct.
  26. The Pursuit of Happyness
    Both Smith and his son are appealing presences, but The Pursuit of Happyness seems to take place in a sociological vacuum. Gardner's insight into his difficulties begins and ends with the thought that, in the pursuit of happiness, there's a lot more pursuit involved than happiness, and unasked political questions seem to dangle ominously over the entire movie.
  27. Eight Below
    At two hours, Eight Below becomes rather repetitive and arduous in its final stretch, the rescue mission. But the canine cuteness, breathtaking action and acts of bravery are worth braving the Disney elements -- overpowering, poignant music, an unnecessary romantic subplot -- if you like your movies doggy-style.
  28. The Bad Guys 2
    Whenever Rockwell’s purr comes on, which is often given Mr. Wolf’s central role, the whole affair sings, uniting both children who are naturally entranced by the actor’s delivery and adults who get Oscar-calibre work in an otherwise forgettable kiddie flick.
  29. Bombshell
    Ambivalent and tepid as it attempts to fashion a tick-tock thriller from Ailes’s downfall.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Belle
    Needless to say, Belle is a handsome piece of selectively reupholstered history, but its lesson on the victories of social progress in England seems almost as narrowly perceived as Dido’s own view of the world from the immaculately trimmed Mansfield lawns.
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