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For 7,296 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: 4,353 out of 7296
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7296
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7296
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stick It
    Even though William Safire doesn't fit in the target demographic, Stick It is more valuable as a survey of modern American teen argot than as a movie.
  2. Wonder
    Owen Wilson cries, but audiences will more likely roll their eyeballs at writer-director Stephen Chbosky's outrageous emotional manipulations.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pride
    One wishes the makers of Pride had stuck with non-fiction, because their movie reduces Ellis's story to the level of generic sports-flick hokum.
  4. Shoot 'Em Up
    A furious 90-minute trailer of a movie that exceeds the speed limit for action films established by Quentin Tarantino's recent "Grindhouse."
  5. It: Chapter Two
    It Chapter Two is a film in need of a good ending. How badly it needs that ending is never in question, either. Hell, the movie cries out for help on the subject.
  6. Final Destination 5
    Periodically, thanks to the 3-D, a long and pointy object emerges from the screen, threatening to impale the viewers through their eyeballs, enhancing the movie's guilty pleasure by reminding us that we, too, are made of vulnerable flesh and bone.
  7. The Silence of the Lambs
    The plot is squeezed dry in this bloody Valentine from Hollywood and becomes annoyingly predictable. Thriller stumbles on its own success
  8. Jingle All the Way
    For those who are looking for a Capracornish sentimental tale about the Christmas spirit lost and re-discovered in the harried modern world, this holiday film is far too acerbic and frantic to play the heart strings. [22 Nov 1996, p.D6]
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  9. Draft Day
    There’s plenty of shimmying here, maybe too much, and lots of spin moves, but it’s missing on-the-field results.
  10. World Traveler
    As beautiful to look at and as emotionally disconnected as its central character.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Karate Kid
    The Karate Kid is too long and lyrical, with several tedious scenes between Macchio and Morita as youth and experience. Avildsen is sometimes unsure whether he wants to be tough or forgiving, and the film has a big build-up for the fight scene, but an ending so abrupt it downplays the outcome. [22 June 1984]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eight Legged Freaks
    So if you're in the mood for a scary flick, the kind where people can't resist going into the huge hole in the wall where the family Pekinese just disappeared to the sounds of being masticated, this is the one.
  13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Without warning, the picture falls hard into the very trap it had so studiously avoided, the one marked Expensive Gimmick... The same feature that begins like no film you've ever seen ends like every cartoon you've always avoided.
  14. Urban Legend
    Like Frankenstein's monster before the lightning strikes, it's all recycled cold flesh and bolts, without a twitch of originality.
  15. Sanctum
    To wit, stick that camera down an aquatic cave, wrap a paper-thin plot around it, slap the whole thing up on an IMAX screen and call it a movie. More truth in advertising: Call it a lame movie.
  16. A Time to Kill
    Director Joel Schumacher has pulled no mawkish punches, wringing every drop of emotional potential from the script (adapted by screenwriter Akiva Goldsman from John Grisham's popular novel) down to the last manipulative glance and close-up. Call it A Time to Overkill.
  17. 30 Minutes or Less
    Approximate time spent laughing: 30 seconds or fewer.
  18. This Is Where I Leave You
    As with so many movies where the script constructs experiences that are contrived and off-putting, you hope the actors can capture the emotional truth of some scenes, even if the entire apparatus feels bogus.
  19. Joker: Folie à Deux
    Why so serious, Phillips seems to be saying, in this follow-up. Relax, it’s all entertainment. The challenge, however, is that Joker: Folie à Deux is more ponderous rather than acting as a riposte. It has its moments of movie magic, but they largely get overshadowed by the weight of this redemption endeavour.
  20. Sweet Dreams
    And despite the technically impressive quality of the soundtrack, the movie, directed by Karel Reisz, misses the music. [4 Oct 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. John Q
    Like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert, John Q. is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause.
  22. Piranha 3-D
    Piranha 3D is more funny than disgusting, even when screen fills with half-nude swimmers, bobbing like human dumplings in a roiling vat of borscht. This isn't just sick, it's clas-sick!
  23. Rollover
    Miss Fonda has thought to make a thriller out of that unthrilling process. [12 Dec 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. The Way I See It
    There is certainly much to celebrate and remember about the former U.S. president’s tenure, but Souza, and Porter, don’t seem much interested in anything approaching nuance.
  25. Mighty Aphrodite
    Fans of Allen, the comedian, will be glad to hear there are more chuckles here than in his last film, "Bullets Over Broadway." Fans of Allen, the plot craftsman, will find a lot less discipline and imagination in the writing. In truth, Mighty Aphrodite is mighty slight.
  26. Hacksaw Ridge
    It is almost as if Gibson is daring his audience to turn away from his opera of barbarity – but perversely, his violence is the only compelling element of Hacksaw Ridge. Perhaps ironically for a war film, the rest of it is mostly a draw.
  27. The Hunted
    Friedkin has huffed and puffed and blown up a single chase sequence into the whole damn movie. You got your hunted, you got your hunter, and away they go. And go and go.
  28. Creation
    As angst-filled as if it were "Amadeus" and "Lust for Life" rolled into one.
  29. French Girl
    French Girl’s crude and at times infantile slapstick humour is offset by livelier beats between the cast, whose cross-cultural banter is littered with flashes of genuine wit.
  30. Rumor Has It...
    The real weak point is Reiner's listless direction, with too few scenes that almost gel and too many that fall flat.
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