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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 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: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. G.I. Jane
    Director Scott, flashy, fluid and at his best in the steely-blue claustrophic battle-training scenes, immerses the viewer in the process.
  2. The Void
    For fans of horror maestros John Carpenter and Stuart Gordon, nothing fills a void like good, old eighties-fashioned gore. Which is what we get from the writer-director team of Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, unabashed fans of Reagan-era blood, slash and goo.
  3. Funny Boy
    There is so much going on in this film, much of it so rich in detail, that you wonder how better the original material might work as a television series.
  4. Despicable Me 2
    An animated sequel that, despite not achieving the inspired lunacy of the first movie where Gru literally steals the moon, is smartly calculated to deliver squeals to kids and amusement to accompanying adults.
  5. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
    In Drowning by Numbers, there is a strange character called Smut, a precocious boy genius fascinated by sex and obsessed with death: his avocation is the compulsive cataloguing of dead animals. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover feels as if it could been made by that child. [31 March 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  6. 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.
  7. Oscar Peterson: Black + White
    With his elegant bio-doc Oscar Peterson: Black + White, director Barry Avrich discreetly (perhaps too discreetly) sniffs around the question of Peterson’s legacy and whether he truly received the respect he deserved in his lifetime.
  8. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    With all due respect to Japanese animation fans and pop-culture enthusiasts, life may be just too short to plunge into the busy world of Cowboy Bebop.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ted
    As unabashedly idiotic movie comedies go, Ted goes fairly well.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Visitors
    As it glides along from one pretty picture to the next, Visitors starts to feel less like a singular artistic gesture than a compendium of quasi-experimental film clichés.
  11. The Goonies
    The movie remains an embodiment of Spielberg's commercially cunning brand of clankingly retro filmmaking, despite the wit and charm brought to their Spiel-speak dialogue by the talented young performers, The Goonies is less a movie than an entertainment machine. [7 Jun 1985, p.E1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  12. Beautiful Boy
    The whole project labours towards an importance it never earns. In Beautiful Boy, the themes are vast but the picture is small, and the ensuing emptiness is what the characters are meant to feel – not us.
  13. Baghead
    A late summer treat. And in case you are wondering, yes, there is mumbling.
  14. The Woman in Black
    Though Radcliffe occasionally seems too stiffly callow to be completely convincing in this grown-up role, the movie is a proficient thriller with a potential appeal beyond the star's fan-girl audience.
  15. The Bookshop
    Coixet occasionally overplays her hand – a dropped headscarf, a sudden death – as does a constipated Bill Nighy in the role of the reclusive widower who is Florence’s one ally, but overall, the film is stealthily impressive.
  16. Saved!
    Neither outrageous nor subtle as a religious satire, but here's the good news for modern viewers: With it's unusual Christian backdrop, this is one of the most intriguing rite-of-passage teen comedies in a long time.
  17. Jagged
    Alison Klayman’s documentary about the making of Jagged Little Pill should be as raw as its source material, but plays it incredibly safe instead.
  18. My Scientology Movie
    What enlivens My Scientology is Theroux himself: watching him stumble from one idea to the next, interact with intense actors pulling their best Tom Cruise grins, butt heads with Rathbun, bicker with church insiders and throw their own idiotic lingo back in their faces.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sky High
    An engaging and surprisingly sharp allegory about high-school hierarchies and adolescent growing pains.
  20. 5x2
    In 5 x 2, the 2 are terrific; it's the 5 that needs work.
  21. Last Exit to Brooklyn
    Edel's Last Exit generates visceral voltage, but the nation illuminated is the pre-unification West Germany of a mere moment ago, not the United States of 40 years gone by. [04 May 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  22. The Five-Year Engagement
    A lot more cutting would have made this movie much funnier – but it should have taken place in the editing room, not on the screen.
  23. Free Guy
    Free Guy is here, it repeatedly reminds us, to have a good time, not a long-franchise time. But there is something so overwhelmingly corporate and safe about the thing that you can see the glimmer of a brand-new cinematic universe in every twinkle of Reynolds’ dreamy hazel eyes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About Last Night
    It’s high quality sweetness, as carefully prepped and prettily presented as any of the meals, cocktails and home decorating binges partaken of our quartet of love-locked converts to the way of the heart.
  25. Empire of the Sun
    Although Tom Stoppard's script lifts Ballard's spare dialogue directly from the page, the context in which it is placed is kitsch. [11 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Let the Corpses Tan
    It’s a profoundly weird film but hypnotic nonetheless.
  27. Micmacs
    A comedy should provoke more than smiles. Should have characters instead of show-offs. Although often charming, Micmacs seems so pleased with itself that it hardly needs an audience.
  28. Una
    These are not easy people to understand, nor to watch unravel, but they are urgent, complicated, captivating characters.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Fright Night
    Some of the special effects are chilling, but Fright Night lacks depth, wit and humor, and hence is neither absorbing, intelligent, nor funny. [08 Aug 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Plane
    It is all such gloriously smart stupidity that you cannot help but applaud everyone involved for sticking the landing.
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