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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. Mommie Dearest
    The Face is her face, the mannerisms are her mannerisms and Miss Dunaway manages magnificently to depict a woman whose acting off- screen is no better than her acting on.This is theoretically a modern horror movie about mother love but it is actually one of the funniest movies about how not to make a movie ever made. [25 Sept 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. Henchmen
    With the zippy (if slightly confusing) animated feature Henchmen, the stooges and underlings of the world unite – literally, in the Union of Evil.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Attack
    Despite its explosive subject matter, the movie has been carefully calibrated not to offend anybody.
  4. The Eagle Huntress
    This carefully massaged doc, with its spectacular aerial views of the landscape and the hunt, is a heartwarming story about perseverance and talent – if you believe it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Held
    The film is scary not in its extraordinary imaginings but in the mundane familiarity that underpins those imaginings.
  6. Open Water
    The movie is also banal in ways that are irritating and second-rate.
  7. Stage Beauty
    At best, the film makes a more convincing case for the adventure of artificiality: Take Billy Crudup, add a little rouge to his cheeks and suddenly: Voilà, the guy can act.
  8. The Santa Clause 2
    Frankly, if I were Mrs. Claus, I might be looking for Santa Clause 3, outlining the grounds for annulment.
  9. Any Which Way You Can
    The movie is less a sequel to the original, in fact, than it is a remake - a more energetic, more absurd and possibly more entertaining remake. [17 Dec 1980]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Trolls
    Despite the tiresome story, it’s a hard film to dislike.
  11. Burn After Reading
    It's clear that Burn After Reading is a wannabe cult favourite -- some viewers may embrace it; many more will just want to burn after watching.
  12. I Saw the Light
    Perhaps a better name for Marc Abraham’s well-crafted biopic would be His Cheatin’ Heart, for this motion picture concentrates on the marital distress between a philandering Williams and his flat-singing wife (played with vibrancy by Elizabeth Olsen).
  13. The Other Woman
    Apparently intended as a blend of "Bridesmaids" and "The First Wives Club," it’s often oddly engrossing, almost despite itself, largely thanks to the performances and the free rein the director gives his stars.
  14. Excess Baggage
    No one is likely to mistake Excess Baggage for a great movie, but it is an intriguing piece of pop sociology.
  15. Revenge
    As is the case with such movies – where every character's passing glance hints at a dark secret – everything is not as it seems, and the story quickly collapses into itself.
  16. Clay Pigeons
    Where it stumbles is in the script by Matt Healy, which is often clever, but never quite takes hold.
  17. The Magnificent Seven
    Pure blockbuster gloss – perfectly fine for a Saturday afternoon matinee, but instantly forgettable once you’ve emerged from the dark of a multiplex.
  18. The Transporter
    This is a film where there isn't the slightest doubt about the dramatic outcome. But the marketing will be a cliffhanger.
  19. Naqoyqatsi
    Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence.
  20. Eddie Murphy: Raw
    Murphy's brand of crude is studied and sleek, all high-polish and sheer calculation. As a performer, he's stylishly smooth; as a comic, that very smoothness is both his greatest strength and his abiding weakness. [22 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  21. Love, Gilda
    Love, Gilda reveals this but does not probe it. With various soft and admiring interviews, it relies mainly on Radner’s own words to hint at how dark things got.
  22. All the King's Men
    Some performances carry a picture, this one bench-presses it. Sean Penn's work here is so mesmerizing, so intense, so guaranteed to put him front and centre when Oscar reads out the nominees, as to almost obscure the multiple failings of the misguided movie around it.
  23. Possession
    Some books just aren't meant to be movies -- what once was confidently distinguished now seems merely average and a tiny bit desperate.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Escape Plan
    A display of old-school muscle-buddy connivance that’s as flatly preposterous as it is shamelessly entertaining.
  25. Dark Blue
    After a decade of silence, surely Hollywood can do better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    As an epic action movie, Mongol is satisfying enough. Think "Braveheart." Think "300." Just don't think too much.
  27. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Looking like some gorgeous fan painting come to life, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring is pictorially spellbinding.
  28. Die Another Day
    Every hero needs to be revitalized by a little humiliation, and for at least the first 40 minutes of Die Another Day, Bond's dressing-down seems to do him and the movie franchise a world of good.
  29. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Among the lessons that Monsieur Ibrahim conveys to Moses, and the most appealing aspect of the film, is to delight in sensual pleasure.
  30. Jandek on Corwood
    A revealing portrait of outsider music nerds.
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