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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. Sade
    Despite Auteuil's performance, it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road, where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug.
  2. Red Obsession
    Fittingly, it’s finally a film about transience and continuity.
  3. Wall Street
    Despite some casting problems, director paints a convincing portrait of a frenzied world. [11 Dec 1987, p.D1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  4. Secret Window
    A poet is not a pirate (except in his dreams), and, minus the gold in his teeth and kohl over his eyes and trinkets in his tresses, Depp is handicapped here -- for all his deft brushwork, he can only do so much with a flat character on a small canvas.
  5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    From my doddering perspective - rheumy with a view - Volume 3 puts plenty of cinema into the picture but leeches all the charm out of the tale.
  6. Snake Eyes
    Great pictures are seamless; in this one, you can not only see the seams but count the stitches.
  7. Don't Move
    Don't Move comes to seem as static as its title -- we just don't learn enough to compensate for feeling so little.
  8. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Surely the real story of Enron is that so many accountants, lawyers, bankers and politicians were willing to call a dog a duck in order to remain happy insiders in the world's biggest pyramid scheme.
  9. Scary Movie 4
    Writing, casting and pacing are vital. Scary Movie 4 doesn't let any gag get stale. It's rapid-fire, hit-and-miss and hit-and-strike comedy.
  10. Akeelah and the Bee
    Normally, such saccharine inspiration only manages to clog the heart, not warm it. But there's a true original in this den of clichés and her name is Keke Palmer.
  11. Overlord
    It’s an intense and sharp opening that would impress Spielberg, if he could hear the dang thing. Nearly the entire movie is torpedoed by its cranked-to-11 sound mix, with a good chunk of dialogue drowned out by whirring airplanes and myriad explosions.
  12. Don Jon
    What becomes increasingly apparent is that Gordon-Levitt hasn’t exactly decided what Jon’s problem is, in a character that seems partly an expression of male wish fulfilment.
  13. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    Underneath this clangy, pounding, speedy, thin, energetic confetti-shower of a movie is a collection of missed opportunities begging to be noticed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
    Dick will probably lighten a general audience of some of the narrower cliches about the sordidness of a bought sexual transaction. [31 Oct 1986]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  15. The Assistant
    The film succeeds in showing how men with power can openly do essentially whatever they want as long as their company is successful, but it still left me wanting something more.
  16. Rich and Famous
    One of the pleasures of "Old Acquaintance" was watching two fanged pros chew scenery. One of the pleasures of Rich and Famous is watching two toothless amateurs gum everything in sight, including each other (the penultimate confrontation, when the teddy bear, symbol of the friendship, is ripped into stuffing, is outrageously funny). [10 Oct 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tadpole
    Smart and sophisticated entertainment, whatever its shortcomings, and it deserves to be encouraged. Not the behaviour it portrays, of course; but the worldly common sense of knowing that most people have a secretly ambiguous view of sexual prohibitions, and that this is the fertile ground of great comedy.
  18. Goodbye Lenin!
    It's mainly a hunt for ironies, usually playful but occasionally poignant, and the search is definitely successful enough to merit our attention -- although maybe not the two-hour running time.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Smallfoot
    Where Smallfoot shines, though, is – like Warner’s Looney Tunes and Animaniacs before it – its slapstick physical comedy.
  20. Auto Focus
    When the bloody climax comes, we look on apathetically, as desensitized to the violence as a pornographer is to sex.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    More than sufficiently funny.
  22. Sister Act
    What we have here is a piece of comic fluff that, in the hands of these actors, gets turned into an occasionally charming piece of comic fluff. [29 May 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  23. Enduring Love
    Ultimately, the movie suffers from the same fate as its characters. That first explosive scene creates a state of shock, leaving everyone and everything to drift about in a numbing vacuum.
  24. Zoom
    Though Zoom skillfully weaves together animation and live action, I was not stoned when I watched it, and I’m not a fan of plot-plot-plot. So it left me meh.
  25. Bad Reputation
    We learn a little about Jett’s activism, and hardly anything about her personal life.
  26. American Hardcore
    In a better work, the filmmaker would talk to hardcore punks about their parents, affairs, regrets, dreams and day jobs in an effort to explore the fledgling movement. Here, however, we get little more than a marathon MTV rap session, as Rachman drives about North America, yakking with aging punk heroes about the good ol' bad ol' days.
  27. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    It's no fun looking after a determined, self-justified alcoholic; or even watching him waste away. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life accepts its subject on his own terms. And the compromise feels like capitulation before its hero's last record spins to a close. The death of a ladies man is pretty grim sport after the ladies have gone.
  28. Rush
    The problem with car-racing movies, though, is that they are car-racing movies. Has any director found a way to spare audiences the eventual tedium of watching automobiles go around and around a track and instead capture the thrill of the sport?
  29. Paris, je t'aime
    I love the City of Light as much as any starry-eyed provincial, but Paris, je t'aime tries even my considerable patience.
  30. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The best one can say is that it's a smart cartoon, and a fairly exhausting viewing experience.
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