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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. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Essentially a journey from point A to point B, a simple classic plotline on which to hang a collection of set pieces -- some delightful, some wacky, some tediously hackneyed.
  2. Signs
    The problem with Signs is not that the movie is pretentious -- or ambitious -- enough to try to combine "The Book of Job" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The problem is that Signs manages to be both so terribly serious and so unimportant at the same time.
  3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    At this point, the effect of Myers' one-man Sixties love-in already feels less shagadelic than just shagged out.
  4. Intact
    Shot mostly at night, in high-contrast images, punctuated by rock-video collages, Intacto is nothing if not hip, but its questions are more coffee-shop hypothetical than genuinely profound.
  5. Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
    With its exotic setting and its beautiful cast, this Dangerous Liaisons is lovely rather than wicked.
  6. Riot Girls
    Thanks to Iseman and Kwiatkowski’s heartwarming chemistry, Collins’ sharp dialogue and Vuckovic’s pointed direction, you find yourself running in step with two young women who are smart, interesting, brave and brilliantly capable. And that makes confronting the realities of their mission a little less terrifying.
  7. Bridget Jones's Baby
    So despite the conventionalism of the film’s final minutes, I’d like to raise a glass of Chardonnay and toast Bridget Jones’s Baby on its (mostly) hilarious, and long-anticipated, homecoming.
  8. Cars 3
    The car-as-human idea was never Pixar’s biggest brain wave and as Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) hits the track for a third outing, the Disney animated franchise is running on fumes.
  9. Moonlight Mile
    Occasionally feels like a Neil Simon rewrite of "In the Bedroom," as it see-saws between hard truths and quirky humour.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Finding deep meaning and satisfaction from this story will be difficult, but if it’s style over substance you’re after, then you’ll revel in the comedic chic.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pearl Jam Twenty
    Even those more neutral about Pearl Jam will find it impossible not to enjoy director Cameron Crowe's driving retrospective of the band's stage-diving 20 years, at least on some level.
  12. Savages
    So why does Savages feel so calculated, cutesy, free of suspense and trashy only in the uninteresting sense? No doubt, Stone is trying... but it all feels more like flexing atrophied muscles rather than creating a believable experience.
  13. Roll Bounce
    There's the roller-disco music and skating, which isn't so much hot as a hoot.
  14. Molière
    The result is as off-putting as biting into a confection in which the sugar has been replaced by salt.
  15. Mission: Impossible
    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make heads or tails of this Byzantine thing. [22 May 1996]
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  16. Independence Day
    Emmerich succeeds only in making his previous venture, the marginal Stargate, look positively inspired by comparison.
  17. Sliding Doors
    Ultimately, Sliding Doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness, shutting down all that early promise.
  18. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    There will be occasional tears, there must be frequent laughs and the whole contrived structure has the calculated quaintness of Ye Olde Pub at a EuroDisney theme park.
  19. The Drama
    There is some drama here, all right. But the curtain can’t draw down soon enough.
  20. Dawn of the Dead
    This time the script makes scant metaphoric use of the mall. In fact, metaphors are generally in short supply here. Scares too.
  21. Surviving Progress
    Though often fascinating and beautiful to look at, Surviving Progress falls into the adapting-a-book-into-a-movie trap. Trying to do too much too fast.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Hand
    There are some genuinely witty lines, but The Hand is no comedy. In the end, it must rank as one of the more original efforts to find danger in mundane places. [18 May 1981]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    Bold, intelligent and provocative.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Murder by Death
    A drawing-room murder mystery that had some extremely funny moments. [24 June 1978]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  25. Limitless
    Add it all up, including the nifty twist at the end, and what we have here is a fun Hollywood flick with a good head on its shoulders.
  26. Nobody 2
    As the medley of violence continues, Stone’s mugging goes from giddily sinister to hammy and exhausting. Same goes for Nobody 2, and also the post-John Wick wave of action movies it’s part of.
  27. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World never breaks out of its own confines of homage and imitation. The movie ends up as an awkward, ungainly hybrid: large, but inconsequential.
  28. Day Watch
    Ranks as one of the most elaborate, stunt- and effects-filled summer movies currently in the theatres. Unfortunately for its box-office prospects, it's also in Russian, which narrows its audience to action junkies with a foreign film bent.
  29. Rubber
    Though it's undoubtedly ingenious, for such a clever movie, it's a shame Rubber couldn't be more fun.
  30. Junior
    A happy, healthy, bouncing baby of a movie. [23 Nov 1994]
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