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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. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    The movie blows, me hearties, but don't you dare miss it...Why? Johnny Depp, that's why...This has gotta rank among the weirdest performances in the zany annals of the silver screen.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Congress
    There’s something to be said for a movie that manages to baffle and dazzle in equal measure. If Daffy Duck had taken up political and media theory, his brain might look like this.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Eating
    It's hard to say how much the talking-head segments are based on the actors' real-life eating experiences, but they save the film by displaying a depth of emotion, candour and ironic good humour that - unlike many of the scenes in Eating - appears to be genuinely felt. [12 Jul 1991]
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  4. Honeymoon in Vegas
    Just when you think it's going to rollick, this lazy movie rolls over and plays dead When Honeymoon's ends, it's not a moment too soon. [28 Aug 1992]
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  5. Blood Quantum
    It is as much a gusty dissection of colonialism as it is a gut-spilling splatter-thon.
  6. Green Zone
    Screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) is the real culprit here, creating a crude paint-by-numbers fiction that keeps yelling about the importance of the truth while hurtling in the opposite direction.
  7. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Sometimes, you'd swear he's (Penn) reprising his performance as a mentally handicapped man in "I Am Sam."
  8. King of California
    If you're looking for a screwball comedy about bipolar disorder -- and who among us is not? -- then this picture fits the bill fine. However, if you're picky enough to want a good screwball comedy about bipolar disorder, well, I'm afraid the wait continues.
  9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    There's a missing element whose absence, forgive me, I can't help but lament. This is a movie about magic that ultimately lacks the magic of movies."
  10. Master Gardener
    In Schrader’s strong, meditative hands, everything gels together to create an entrancing work that is serious and, very nearly, profound.
  11. The Limehouse Golem
    It doesn't quite succeed, in spite of a playful, self-consciously unreliable narrative that mixes flashbacks and fantasy solutions to the case.
  12. Hardcore
    On the most rudimentary levels - basic believability and coherent exposition - Hardcore is a joke without a punch line. [03 Mar 1979]
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  13. Borg vs. McEnroe
    The result is a stylish, watchable film, but one with a slow pulse. Game, set and almost a great movie.
  14. The 11th Hour
    Like any good religious sermon, it follows its scary vision of hell with a possibility of last-minute redemption.
  15. The River Wild
    It's her first action flick, and Meryl Streep ends up with a watered-down script: the metaphoric journey is without resonance and the actual journey is without thrills. The River Wild is awfully tame. [30 Sep 1994]
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  16. Octopussy
    It soars, all right, but it does it on automatic pilot. [10 June 1983]
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  17. Falling
    Mostly, Falling succeeds because Mortensen is playing by his own uncompromising rules. The result is a vision that may grate, but will never be lost to memory
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Unsane
    Unsane culminates in a nauseating crescendo of violence, with women sexually assaulted, their necks snapped and their bodies chucked into garbage bags and trunks. After #MeToo, this stuff is feeling not just unpalatable, but suspect.
  19. Undertow
    Green may be right to avoid the melodramatic waves of the conventional thriller. But, if so, he needs to dive a lot deeper than this -- there's just not enough under in Undertow.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Jungle Book
    Adventure, romance and fabulous travel opportunities, all for a few bucks. [23 Dec 1994]
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  21. Single White Female
    As an esthetic work, the movie is dismissable. As a social artifact, however, it's intriguing. Textually and sub-textually, intentionally or inadvertently, just what is being said here? [14 Aug 1992]
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  22. Night Raiders
    With Night Raiders, Goulet can confidently claim to be today’s most effective practitioner of Indigenous sci-fi, a subgenre in which time-tested cinematic thrills – speculative fiction, violence, a heightened sense of style – act as Trojan Horses for themes that audiences might otherwise ignore. Everyone wins.
  23. Spring Breakers
    Whether the film is uniquely brilliant or dismissively dumb is not the issue here. Either choice can (and will) be offered – it’s the choosing that counts.
  24. Stowaway
    Whenever the story’s central tension threatens to get interesting and complicated, the filmmakers deflate it in the most obvious of ways.
  25. The Cat's Meow
    The result is good gossip, entertainingly delivered, yet with a distinctly musty odour, its expiry date long gone.
  26. Open Water
    The movie is also banal in ways that are irritating and second-rate.
  27. Happy Times
    Happy Times may be the last of the "little" films from this remarkable director for some time.
  28. Triangle of Sadness
    There are movies that are on-the-nose and then there is Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness, a satire™ that is so pharyngeal that it is the cinematic equivalent of a COVID-19 swab.
  29. Revenge of the Electric Car
    Given Paine's penchant for B-movie-sounding titles, let's hope he gets to make it a trilogy that concludes with The Electric Car Lives!
  30. Let Him Go
    A skilfully executed thriller that is narrowly aimed at one demographic – audiences over 50 who like a little violence with their late-life dramas – but succeeds at entertaining just about anyone who comes across its dusty, blood-soaked path.
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