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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. The Parent Trap
    It's an enjoyable film, carried along by the perennial strength of the story... But it won't have the staying power of the original.
  2. To Dust
    To Dust’s humour is of the one-trick kind – an odd couple on an odd mission – but there is soul and small pleasures to its fly-by 92 minutes.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Code 46
    It all contributes to a vision of the future that is as haunting as it is dispiriting.
  4. Killing Them Softly
    A stylish, brutal affair that delivers grim atmosphere and punishing violence but loses impact in telegraphing its political punches.
  5. Along Came Polly
    [Hoffman] gives gross-out comedy a whole new depth.
  6. Unfinished Business
    Not without charm, Unfinished Business mixes the cute with the raunchy. Penises adorably happen. But besides the schlongenfreude, there’s a subtext about how-did-I-get-here lives, and righting oneself before it’s too late. Is the star himself listening?
  7. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Though rich in visual style, the movie is unbalanced in performances and script, ranging, from scene to scene, from go-for-baroque grandeur to strident excess.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Killer
    The Killer goes on too long and never properly stitches together into the plot its strands of suspense and romance, but it never lacks for ballistic racket. A few scenes in recent movies have seen the firepower under which that whitewashed church disintegrates at movie's end; a few, but not many. [12 July 1991]
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  9. The Substance of Fire
    Consequently, your reaction to the film will pretty much hinge on your opinion of the play. Ho-hum is my humble verdict.
  10. Julia
    With a plethora of archival material and strong interviews, this documentary argues that the exuberant Julia Child was a protofeminist who invented the profession of TV chef as she introduced the notion that food should taste good to the land of the Jell-O salad.
  11. Smokey and the Bandit II
    You don't mess with a sure thing. So Smokey and the Bandit II is carefully designed to cash in on the same box office bonanza as its namesake. The plot - about transporting an elephant to the Republican Convention - is obviously just an excuse to get this cartoon show on the road, where the cast can ham it up unashamedly.
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  12. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    The most disturbing aspect of the movie is not the sex scenes (shot from the waist up) but her face, especially in her porn-star persona: a frozen little smiling mask that suggests a paradoxically intense vacancy.
  13. His House
    Ultimately, Weekes’s story, which pivots on a minor-key twist that doesn’t quite earn its intended gasps, falls just short of justifying its feature-film length. There is an excellent short film hiding in the corridors of His House – it just needs a slight renovation.
  14. Bird Box
    Bird Box could easily be reduced to, “It’s A Quiet Place meets Blindness crossed with The Happening!” And that high-concept pitch wouldn’t exactly be wrong.
  15. Into the Wild
    The result is a road movie with a lofty message that too frequently gets lost in its own thematic barrens.
  16. Team America: World Police
    Give it an A for concept -- a bizarre marionette version of a Jerry Bruckheimer-style action movie; B for its occasional moments of convulsively funny comedy; and D for the politics, for pandering to exactly the kind of reactionary sentiments it purports to satirize.
  17. Uncle Buck
    Once again, Candy does his slob-with-a-heart-of-gold number. He's good at it. He can be a funny fellow. He can even carry a mediocre picture all by his lonesome, squeezing a lot out of a little. What he can't do is squeeze that much out of this little. [16 Aug 1989]
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  18. Little Voice
    Ultimately, Little Voice comes to us from an indeterminate place that is no longer the theatre but not quite the movies. Let's call it music videoland -- best just to sit back and enjoy golden-oldie tunes belted out by a quicksilver mimic.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Operation Dumbo Drop
    Operation Dumbo Drop is at times lost on four-year-olds, but it serves up what Disney summer flicks should - adrenalin and sugar. [28 Jul 1995]
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  20. Holes
    A movie that feels a bit like digging a hole in the ground -- an exercise that may build character but doesn't seem to accomplish much else.
  21. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    This is a prequel superior to its predecessor – we’re not bored with board-game ghoulishness yet.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Almost Christmas
    Almost Christmas isn’t likely destined for holiday mainstay status, but it’s a comfortably watchable family film, buoyed by a strong cast, and very few saccharine moments. Like Walter’s pie, it might be impossible to digest were it any more sweet.
  23. Saving Face
    There's almost a perverse pleasure in watching occasionally weak performers mar an essentially sound screenplay. That's the saving grace of Saving Face -- Wu gets the hard part right.
  24. Sex Is Comedy
    This is amusing, and even poignant in the final moments.
  25. Hulk
    Whereas the psychology is surreal and wonderfully fluid, the action is too real and surprisingly listless, displaying little of the kinetic zip, or the sheer lyricism, that Lee brought with such memorable effect to "Crouching Tiger."
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Returned
    The Returned can’t transcend its packaging as a genre piece: It swaps out an entire set of horror-movie manoeuvres for trite, TV-style thriller tricks.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Broken Flowers
    It's like watching a man trying to scratch an itch by eating an egg. It doesn't address the problem. It's also the sort of thing that Europeans love to think about America -- everybody looking, nobody finding -- and it might explain why this decent, but by no means great, film won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Eating
    It's hard to say how much the talking-head segments are based on the actors' real-life eating experiences, but they save the film by displaying a depth of emotion, candour and ironic good humour that - unlike many of the scenes in Eating - appears to be genuinely felt. [12 Jul 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. Pledge
    It’s not that every film has to achieve some grand epiphany, but Touch Me Not is not nearly as satisfying as the primal act it’s obsessed with.
  30. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Apart from the mobile camera and a moderately challenging time-jumping script, this is weepy women's cable-television fare of the tears-and-cuddles variety.
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