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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. Becky
    With its gore and brutality and general nihilistic sensibility – not to mention an eyeball scene that would make Bunuel blush – Becky is not fit for 95 per cent of the populace, especially those who might innocently click on the title after recognizing the star of their favourite CBS sitcom. But for those who like to get dirty with this kind of scuzzy chaos, then this is near-perfect slimeball cinema.
  2. Blue Steel
    Director Kathryn Bigelow, who earlier proved in the vampire movie Near Dark that she has a thing for denim, leather and blood, is merely the overture to the violent shocks and severe sexual confusions (dozens of them) that give Blue Steel its dissonant, disruptive power. [16 Mar 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. Boogie
    Boogie is, finally, Huang’s cinematic realization of his dream, a debut filmmaker’s warts and all.
  4. Gerry
    Somewhere between profound and ludicrous, kind of like a cross between "Waiting for Godot" and "Dude, Where's My Car?"
  5. Family Business
    Done up strictly for laughs, this might have been fine. But the picture actually starts taking itself seriously, and that spells instant yawns. [16 Dec 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  6. Cocaine Bear
    The movie, about a doped-up black bear, is a much more lethargic affair, as if the apex predator’s supply was swapped out for some Ativan.
  7. Observe and Report
    One of those comedies that is more peculiar than actually funny.
  8. Until the Light Takes Us
    Contains fascinating footage – material from the 1980s that looks to be the work of angry, ancient Norse warriors. There is, however, almost no perspective here. Perhaps the filmmakers succumbed to a condition associated with a city east of Oslo – the Stockholm Syndrome.
  9. The Magnificent Seven
    Pure blockbuster gloss – perfectly fine for a Saturday afternoon matinee, but instantly forgettable once you’ve emerged from the dark of a multiplex.
  10. Good on Paper
    A witty tale of deceit and betrayal, it’s an uncomfortable look at the values we tend to buy into and why.
  11. Eddie Murphy: Raw
    Murphy's brand of crude is studied and sleek, all high-polish and sheer calculation. As a performer, he's stylishly smooth; as a comic, that very smoothness is both his greatest strength and his abiding weakness. [22 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  12. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
    Fails to ever come alive as a human comedy in the manner of the best mockumentaries.
  13. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    While Lawrence and his producing partners got deserved flak for breaking up Collins' third novel, Mockingjay, into two films, they've learned the wrong lessons here, compressing what should have been either two films or a miniseries into one excessive production.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
      • Posted Nov 9, 2023
  14. The Little Things
    Hancock (The Blind Side, The Founder) keeps the action moving briskly and with little tonal confusion, highlighting just what a polished studio-favoured professional can do when given gobs of money and zero intellectual-property obligations. And his trio of leading men are all given ample space to play to their strengths.
  15. Bran Nue Dae
    The movie feels trapped in the 1980s and feels like a missed opportunity.
  16. White Bird
    As Sara and Julien bide their time in the barn, escaping into their imagination, Forster keeps himself interested by turning the movie into an ode to cinema.
  17. Bee Movie
    Maybe Bee Movie is another ground-breaking show about nothing – a hornet's nest of hype for a fat hive of nothing. If so, pay up and get stung.
  18. Allure
    The drama is memorable but often feels grimly unpleasant rather than moving. And, as always, it’s frustrating to see Montreal cast as some anonymous and unilingual North American city.
  19. Strangers on the Earth
    Journeys more often than not are not what we expected. And neither is Cook's unpredictable and reflective work, set to a brooding solo-cello score and filled with whatever metaphors you need. We are alone on this trip – take it, and this marvellous film, at your own pace.
  20. The Little Drummer Girl
    A bouillon cube, a bland and boring thing with only a meagre resemblance to its source. [23 Oct 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. Assault on Precinct 13
    One of this enlightened B-movie's many pleasures is French director Jean-François Richet's handling of atmosphere and setting. Shot almost entirely at night in a blinding snowstorm, the crime drama is an intriguing remodelling of a classic film noir.
  22. Because of Winn-Dixie
    The problem is that director Wayne Wang seems deaf to the tonal differences between coming-of-age, magic realism and children's comedy.
  23. Penguin Bloom
    This isn’t some cutsey, bordering-on-laughable inspiration porn. It is more patient, messy and dead-serious than its sight-gag of a poster might have you believe. This doesn’t mean it’s a great movie – just a passable one.
  24. *batteries not included
    FOR BATTERIES Not Included, intelligence is not required. [18 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  25. Vacancy
    This is a no-cable, no-wake-up-call, cash-only dump of a film, where you breathe through a hankie and bring your own Lysol.
  26. Terminator: Dark Fate
    Ultimately Dark Fate is nothing more than a run-duck-and-repeat production – an extraordinarily familiar, if efficiently made, exercise in Terminatorology. If the franchise pattern holds, it’ll be back.
  27. Black and Blue
    A one-two punch that marks a step forward in Taylor’s brand of stylish and heightened thriller films.
  28. Copycat
    There's are nagging problems with the script, which feels like it has lost a few pages during its rewrites. Instead of an orderly, inexorable pressure of events, we get a surfeit of red herrings, followed by the rather uninteresting killer simply stepping out of hiding.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Dream Team
    The Dream Team is a jolly romp of a movie. It won't make you think very much, but it's just about guaranteed to make you laugh. [07 Apr 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Empire of Light
    From the projectionist played by Toby Jones who regularly pops up to vocalize what everyone onscreen and the audience is already well aware of – movies are an escape, of course! – to its eye-rolling treatment of Hilary’s mental health, Empire of Light is the most noxious kind of faux-benevolent “prestige” cinema.
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