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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. Scarborough
    The film manages to showcase Scarborough’s beauty, even when things look bleak.
  2. Pitch Perfect 2
    Although it works well as an encore, the likelihood is that this thing isn’t over until the Fat Amy zings again.
  3. High Art
    Has a subtle magnetism, and a real human pulse, especially as it concentrates on its two main characters.
  4. Thank You for Your Service
    Not once does anyone question the war or their involvement in it. We can't depend on big answers from filmmakers, but to not ask big questions seems like a dereliction of duty.
  5. The Emperor's Club
    Turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach.
  6. I Spy
    The missing ingredient, of course, is script.
  7. Murder by Numbers
    This is the kind of film where the audience has to sort through the sequences, like visiting the green grocer's: liked that bit, can do without those.
  8. Fathers' Day
    Hollywood's big-screen answer to France's 1983 charming film Les Comperes is a wacky star vehicle wildly out of control. [9 May 1997, p.D1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  9. Bollywood/Hollywood
    Fabulous idea/faulty execution is the review.
  10. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    The acting is uniformly strong and the camera work is winningly claustrophobic, but the film is one note.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Big Hero 6
    Consider it a more family-friendly "Guardians of the Galaxy," with the added kiddie appeal of a big, inflatable windbag to laugh at and love.
  12. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    It does the job just fine. That job, as director George Lucas freely admits, is quite simply to thrill the beating hearts and the inquiring minds of 12-year-old boys.
  13. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Kasparov is a compelling film subject: suave, sardonic and as emotionally high-pitched as he is intellectually gifted.
  14. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Sometimes, you'd swear he's (Penn) reprising his performance as a mentally handicapped man in "I Am Sam."
  15. Our Kind of Traitor
    Scratch off Lewis as a contender for the new Bond actor. As for McGregor, he may have failed his audition as well. Our Kind of Traitor is tense enough, but lacks lustre and pizzazz. Perhaps a better-utilized Harris could have popped things up.
  16. The Equalizer 2
    I’m not sure audiences are getting what they deserve with this plodding, so-so action-thriller, but they’ll get what they’ll pay for: Washington as a relentless old-man on a moral-code mission of setting things right (and sometimes setting things on fire).
  17. The Rescuers Down Under
    Seen from any chronological vantage, this isn't a superior flick - think of it more as great radio with average pictures. [16 Nov 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  18. The Portrait of a Lady
    Jane Campion makes a beeline for the repressed sexuality, and loses the nuance. [17 Jan 1997]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. Gone Baby Gone
    Very few movies end so much better than they begin. For that reason, and only that reason, this is an exceptional picture.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Snow Angels
    Thoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.
  21. Identity Thief
    McCarthy delivers the moment of pathos in a totally different voice, tears staining her puffy face, as feelings awfully real and tainted in tragedy bubble up from deep within the comic persona. It’s startling, it’s wholly incongruous, yet it’s undeniably moving. God, how this woman can act and, within the brief frames of that different film, how we long to see the rest of it.
  22. Mean Girls
    Lohan, in her third lead role in a year, is a good reactive young actress, and London, Ont., native Rachel McAdams is excellently evil, a dose of poison in a pretty lacquered container.
  23. The Commune
    The problem is it’s not that bizarre a love triangle and the interesting tangle of supporting stories and complications get short shrift by focusing there in the second half.
  24. Wimbledon
    While Bettany and Dunst are both appealing, their chemistry lacks much fizz. As it is, the pair seem less like lovers than bouncy transatlantic cousins.
  25. King Kong
    The verdict? King Kong may be a great movie event in a "Jaws/Titanic" sense of blockbuster impact and cultural talking point, but it is not a great movie.
  26. Inferno
    Perhaps Howard’s dutiful obligation to Brown’s treasure-hunt oeuvre will end here, with the temperate Inferno sparking a resurgence to follow. Dante wrote that “The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.” Here’s hoping that Howard has some shine left in him.
  27. Rocky V
    Rocky V, for all its faults, is not awful. It is inferior to the charmingly naive, Cinderella-in-sweat-pants opener of 14 years ago, but it's far superior to every other overdetermined installment. [21 Nov 1990, p.C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. Radio
    A feel-good flick that doesn't make you feel too bad -- in this genre, that almost qualifies as a ringing endorsement.
  29. Being Flynn
    In this tale of two lives, Being Flynn gets the emphasis wrong. The success that has many fathers is altogether predictable; it's the despicable orphan of failure who has us in his thrall.
  30. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    In five years’ time, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Far from Home ranked near the bottom of everyone’s favourite MCU efforts – the film evaporates, Endgame-style, immediately after viewing.
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