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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. Just Friends
    A welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.
  2. Sunshine
    That last wrong turn completely undoes a picture that had been steering a very impressive course.
  3. The Matrix Reloaded
    Inevitably, the one ingredient that does remain constant are the performances -- once again, there aren't any (the lone exception is Gloria Foster's mommy Oracle, although, even here, the shine is off the joke). Of course, for the hyperactive principals, this gig isn't about acting -- it's about athleticism, which suits Keanu Reeves's talents just fine.
  4. Satisfaction
    As rock-and-roll flicks go, director Joan Freeman's Satisfaction , is a real bar band of a movie; it's derivative, unambitious and uneven, but it's also not half bad. If you bend your mind around its most awkward moments, it also offers at least some of what the title promises. [19 Feb 1988]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. Arctic
    The actor offers an incredibly committed and determined performance, but by the film’s end, you wish he’d be able to get back to doing what he does best: eating.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Byzantium
    Female-forward and class-conscious, allegorical and adventurous, Byzantium is almost the anti-Batman.
  7. Magic Mike
    Two things do redeem the film somewhat. One is the near-uniform excellence of the cast, led by Tatum, who has a compelling, eminently watchable aw-shucks charisma, and newcomer Horn as the cute, concerned sister. The other is the easy, naturalistic flow and ebb of Reid Carolin's dialogue, which gives none of his characters a vocabulary or insights above his or her station.
  8. News of the World
    Hanks is sturdy as ever, grounding the proceedings in a warm sense of familiar, fatherly comfort. But the rest of the film feels weightless, and at parts unbelievably dumb. One mid-film shoot-out in particular is executed with such listlessness that it’s a wonder Greengrass was able to stay awake while filming it.
  9. Deathtrap
    As a psychological thriller, it's not so much either thrilling or psychological as it is wonderfully absurd. [25 Mar 1982]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  10. Rough Night
    Tropes are necessary for comedy. But tropes alone aren’t funny. What’s funny is a singular point of view that rises up to show us what’s absurd about our embedded expectations. Until more movies starring women are allowed to be truly audacious, we’re in for a lot of rough nights at the cinema.
  11. Up and Down
    Uneven and erratic and far too busy, its flashes of brilliance dimmed by overambitious meanderings.
  12. North Country
    For all North Country's blockbuster elements, the film remains a curiously uninvolving affair.
  13. Ghost Rider
    This time out, writer and director Mark Steven Johnson has bounced back with a movie so full of camp spirit it should come with tents and a marshmallow roast.
  14. Entanglement
    Entanglement suffers from an unsureness in tone, somewhere between quirky and sombre.
  15. I Heart Huckabees
    So I didn't Huckabees, nor did I entirely not it. Rather, when the end draws nigh and judgment beckons, I'm doomed again to dither in the tepid netherworld, that vast limbo where movies are only half-decent and movie-going is merely half-ed.
  16. The Tomorrow Man
    The quirky romantic comedy The Tomorrow Man relies on the believability of their late-in-life love in order for the film to work. Which it does, to some degree – that degree being small-story preciousness and the simple pleasure of eating popcorn while watching Blythe Danner and John Lithgow watching television as they eat popcorn.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Young & Beautiful
    Never amounts to anything more than its title’s shallow descriptors.
  18. Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You
    With too much salutation and not enough action, this is a (fine) companion to the album but not a freestanding film.
  19. Year of the Dog
    The ironic, cheery-bland tone, the two-dimensional characters and episodic structure, say "comedy," while the events in the script say "bipolar depression."
  20. Jindabyne
    Adapting a great short story, like Carver's "So Much Water So Close to Home," into a movie poses a dilemma: How to flesh it out to feature length without destroying what made it great in the first place?
  21. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    The SFX set pieces are pretty lame, mostly involving a lot of weary running around and tense, ticking-clock urgency. What elevates Secret of the Tomb is the classicism of its humour.
  22. Hardware
    To his credit, writer-director Richard Stanley, a South African native now living in England, brings his own bloody specialties to the banquet, and Hardware, although neither original nor especially thought-provoking, does serve its intended purpose by sending the hungry horror film fan away from the table satiated and nauseated. Compliments to the chefs. [12 Oct 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  23. Pineapple Express
    Perversely enough, the comedy is what keeps the picture rolling; it's the so-called action that persists in bringing the thing to a screeching halt.
  24. J.T. Leroy
    Yet despite the efforts of its stars and the inherent juiciness of its source material, the film falls flat when it should bounce with surreal glee. Perhaps it’s because Kelly is only telling half a story here.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ted
    As unabashedly idiotic movie comedies go, Ted goes fairly well.
  26. Terminator: Dark Fate
    Ultimately Dark Fate is nothing more than a run-duck-and-repeat production – an extraordinarily familiar, if efficiently made, exercise in Terminatorology. If the franchise pattern holds, it’ll be back.
  27. RoboCop
    Robocop isn't going to win Verhoeven any medals - the focus remains on action, guns and gore - but it's a flashy movie with enough wit to be more than just another dumb bucket of bolts. [17 Jul 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. Miss You Already
    In a big, engrossing performance that is the film’s chief delight, the reliable Australian actress Toni Collette plays Milly.
  29. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Spiritual V-8 juice.
  30. Love and Other Drugs
    Love & Other Drugs is quite the little cocktail of mood-brighteners, a movie narcotic easy to take and, since the effects wear off quickly, even easier to forget.
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