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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. Deathtrap
    As a psychological thriller, it's not so much either thrilling or psychological as it is wonderfully absurd. [25 Mar 1982]
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  2. Johnny Dangerously
    Johnny Dangerously belongs to the comic genre known as the Dumb Movie, but it's a pretty smart example of how to be stupid. [22 Dec 1984]
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  3. LBJ
    Reiner is no Oliver Stone, but he does stir things up by presenting Bobby Kennedy in the villain's role as a serious jerk and crafty underminer.
  4. The First Purge
    Inside The First Purge is a scrappy little indie fighting to come out. Although this is the fourth installment in the Purge franchise, it’s a prequel to the other three, a chance to be born anew. A missed chance, as it turns out.
  5. Blue Chips
    As a movie, Blue Chips is more journeyman than star, but, once in a while, it hops off the bench and shows a surprising flash of talent.[22 Feb 1994]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Night of the Living Dead
    Savini seems to lose his grip in the second half, and what began as exhilaratingly horrendous settles into comfortable predictability. [24 Oct 1990]
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  7. Entanglement
    Entanglement suffers from an unsureness in tone, somewhere between quirky and sombre.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Escape from L.A.
    Escape from L.A. is too preposterous to be a good film. But in keeping with its title, it does provide a couple of hours of entertaining escapism. [12 Aug 1996, p.C1]
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  9. What We Did on Our Holiday
    A modest, winning comedy that overtly sneaks in its wisdom about life, worries and what really matters.
  10. Eddie the Eagle
    It is a rare biopic of any kind, let alone a sports bio, that merely celebrates participation. It’s that novelty that makes this simple comedy shine.
  11. Bobby
    Fascinating, even when it's fascinatingly bad.
  12. Booty Call
    At 70 minutes, this groin and groan comedy seems almost dismissively short, but don't believe the myths you've been told: longer is not always better.
  13. Moxie
    It’s tricky to give such a layered glimpse of high school in a movie that keeps its pace at a decent click. And while Moxie is just a small snapshot of those weird and wonderful years, it gives viewers a decent lesson in how to be an ally, without being preachy about it.
  14. Educating Rita
    The achievement of Educating Rita is a function of the distinguished performances, the agreeably archetypal situation and the scissor-sharp lines. [23 Sep 1983]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    Alexander narrates with a rueful, put-upon worldly wisdom that instantly enlists our sympathy, and the young actor Ed Oxenbould may be the most appealing junior loser we’ve seen since Peter Billingsley wished for an air rifle in "A Christmas Story."
  16. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well.
  17. Paper Heart
    This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Wednesday
    Big Wednesday is American writer-director John Milius' attempt to use surfing as a metaphor for life. It doesn't work. [27 June 1978]
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  19. The Cuban
    Perhaps sensing that the rest of his story - mostly focusing around the earnest do-goodery of Golja's aide - falls emotionally flat, Navarretta lavishes attention on his two marquee players, creating tiny moments of poignancy.
  20. U Turn
    The director veers off course and heads straight for mediocrity. It's a disappointing ride.
  21. Oblivion
    Oblivion is an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence.
  22. The Boys in the Boat
    The Boys in the Boat is a film made with such a gently dull spirit that you cannot help but wonder if Clooney put himself to sleep during production. Someone get this man a Nespresso.
  23. Spies in Disguise
    Spies in Disguise is often amusing, and it’s especially nice to see it convey a message of anti-violence, but the film falls short of being truly memorable.
  24. The House of Yes
    But it is bright, smart, sometimes wickedly funny, and crisply performed to the point where the acting seems richer than the script.
  25. Greta
    It's a jumbled mess, to put it mildly.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Skyjacker's Tale
    Even as he cuts confusingly between talking heads and time periods, Kastner elides key details that might have given viewers a more complex portrait of both the setting and his anti-hero’s role in the drama.
  27. The Craft: Legacy
    If the scariest thing to you is David Duchovny in a tight black T-shirt lecturing a group of 15-year-old women about how men need to take back their power, then The Craft: Legacy is a success.
  28. Draft Day
    There’s plenty of shimmying here, maybe too much, and lots of spin moves, but it’s missing on-the-field results.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Why Did I Get Married?
    The movie has a better sense of flow than his past efforts, and a few lengthy travelling Steadicam shots and some decent mountain scenery (supplied by B.C. rather than Colorado) help dispel the feeling that Perry has merely filmed another of his plays.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Michael Moore in TrumpLand
    From his limp, liberal feminist pulpit (from which he also spews sexist jokes), Moore makes a condescending case for why Clinton isn’t only the least-bad choice, but an actually good choice. His thesis? Basically: she’s the pantsuit Beyoncé!
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