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For 7,299 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 2.9 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: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. The Good German
    Here's what's good about The Good German: The look is fantastic; technically, the movie is a retro marvel. Here's what's bad: The script sucks; it keeps promising to be clever, engaging, subtle and completely fails to deliver.
  2. Stowaway
    Whenever the story’s central tension threatens to get interesting and complicated, the filmmakers deflate it in the most obvious of ways.
  3. Birthmarked
    The whole cast is capable. The comedy doesn’t pop, though, and even a nifty late-film reveal can’t save this film from failing to live up to its potential.
  4. Beaches
    Laughter, tears and Bette Midler: Santa's done a whole lot worse. [23 Dec 1988]
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  5. The Recruit
    Not even Pacino can save it.
  6. Days of Thunder
    Days of Thunder relies on charm, loud noise and a few racing sequences to print money with Cocky's visage on the bills: there can be no suspense because there can be no possibility Cocky will lose. [29 Jun 1990, p.C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Executive Decision
    Despite its lapses in credibility, the screenplay does offer both wit and numerous surprise twists, as well as all that non-stop action. And it's a nice change to see an action movie in which the hero, Russell's Grant, isn't some muscle-bound squinter. [15 Mar 1996]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  8. 7500
    Gordon-Levitt, absent from the big screen since 2016′s "Snowden," oscillates nicely between maintaining an air of remarkable calm and then breaking down completely, and he pretends to know what all those airplane buttons do quite well.
  9. Joker
    Joker reveals itself as very expensive cosplay: effective at first glance, but at its seams superficial, disposable and dishonest.
  10. Woodshock
    Woodshock is a sensuous, visual tone poem of human consciousness. It works even when the languid pace, disorienting shifts and Theresa's elastic perception of time stretch a little too thin.
  11. Quinceañera
    It's all such a throwback, and yet there's something rather sweet about the way this pot boils.
  12. 3 Men and a Baby
    An amiable crowd-pleaser, nothing more, nothing less. [27 Nov 1987]
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  13. The Rocker
    Silly, and unashamedly second-hand, the movie is essentially a Jack Black movie without Jack Black, which is, arguably, an improvement.
  14. Deep Impact
    Deep Impact, a triple-strand ensemble disaster flick, has a few good opening minutes, the biggest tidal wave you've ever seen in the closing minutes, and a cluster of little meandering melodramas in between.
  15. What Dreams May Come
    Too bad. What dreams may come, indeed, when such enticing foreplay ends with a consummation devoutly to be missed.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tea with Mussolini
    The most sentimental Italian movie about surviving the war since "Life is Beautiful."
  17. Water for Elephants
    When the tent folds and the dust settles, the question is not whether the movie is good – sorry, not a chance – but whether it's garish enough, sappy enough, Hollywood enough to rise to the level of being likeably bad. Is it, in short, a guilty pleasure?
  18. Jack Frost
    Parents should find the warm-and-fuzzy sentiments of the movie tolerable, mostly thanks to the reliable star, Michael Keaton. [11 Dec 1998, p.C3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. The Longest Yard
    Though Sandler's resemblance to a pro athlete is indiscernible, his mockery of authority and his penchant for buffoonery and slapstick violence make him more of an heir to Reynolds than might be expected.
  20. The Angry Birds Movie 2
    Just like its mobile incarnation, The Angry Birds Movie 2 simply pelts you with loud, shrieking diversions. The filmmaking has levelled up, but you’re still wasting your time.
  21. The Nutty Professor
    Not that The Nutty Professor should ever be confused with a good movie, but it is a perfect vehicle for the redisplay of Murphy's neglected talents, steering him away from the smug persona of his recent disasters and whisking him back to the cozy locale of his Saturday Night Live roots.
  22. Victoria and Abdul
    Frears has attempted to fashion a contemporary message of diversity and inclusion delivered by a tolerant and culturally inquisitive Queen in opposition to her hide-bound and racist courtiers, but in the end that theme is undercut by the film's own Eurocentric realities.
  23. Tower Heist
    Tower Heist is as over-inflated as those Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons that are featured in the movie's climax. Also similarly, it's entertaining in its own predictable way.
  24. City of Ember
    The movie begs for a a third-act showdown but, instead, the dramatic tension is allowed to leak away.
  25. Quickening
    To use the parlance of young people these days, Quickening is a mood.
  26. Good Boys
    The few parts of director Gene Stupnitsky’s film that feel new, then, don’t feel that new at all, from the ultra-shaggy plot to the gross-out gags that misunderstand the power that repetition might hold.
  27. The Brothers Grimm
    Sorry, but the real Grimms did a whole lot more with a great deal less.
  28. 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Regarding Henry
    AT the end of the preview screening of Regarding Henry earlier this week, I sat with one tear welling in the corner of my left eye and a nagging feeling of annoyance at having been so shamelessly manipulated. [10 July 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Flicka
    Yet -- and this must be said in all fairness -- as things progress, the magic of the story asserts itself over the audience.
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