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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. American Underdog
    American Underdog is a film so disjointed, so boring and so deeply uninspiring that it is difficult to root for anyone, or even think of Warner as a genuine underdog.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Five Feet Apart
    Five Feet Apart is an infuriating and unenjoyable take on first love.
  3. Deep Water
    I do see one bright future for this film: the Deep Water drinking game, where the Bingo squares read “Melinda’s dress falls off,” “Vic clenches his jaw,” and “Naked breast.” Everyone will end up very, very drunk
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    Detective Pikachu is unrelentingly weird. Thankfully, unlike Mario Bros., it’s also breezily watchable, if slightly insubstantial beyond its strangeness.
  5. The Lucky Ones
    If this is meant to look fresh while still being sensitive, it doesn't and it isn't.
  6. The Book of Eli
    So we're back on "The Road ," but this time Eli's coming – better hide your heart and, while you're at it, put your brain on hold, the easier to enjoy the action-filled sermon to come.
  7. Australia
    All in all, Australia is so damnably eager to please that it feels like being pinned down by a giant overfriendly dingo and having your face licked for about three hours: theoretically endearing but, honestly, kind of gross.
  8. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    All this holding back is a bad idea, especially as the subject of an entire movie.
  9. The Dark Half
    One more Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, done badly, even if the novel was written by Stephen-can-do-no-commercial-wrong-King, is not what the world needs. [23 Apr 1993]
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  10. Guest of Honour
    The restaurant story is wonderfully taut, with Egoyan in full control of his always extravagant imagery.
  11. Beauty Shop
    The results are so listless, dated and characterless.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Earth to Echo
    Would that the movie had gone the next step, and possibly imagined that this bright, shiny little E.T. had figured out how to get kids to do its sinister work for him by providing free WiFi and endless smartphone upgrades in exchange for undying loyalty, we might have had something altogether different on our hands.
  13. Viceroy's House
    The formula is a bit too neat and the dialogue is often painfully expository, but there are some fine performances – especially from Gillian Anderson as the earnest Lady Mountbatten – and plenty of compelling drama.
  14. Castle in the Ground
    While some of the more conventional genre beats could use more specificity, Klein gets such wrenching, charismatic performances that you’d forgive him of anything. This film will stay with you for a long, long time.
  15. Malcolm & Marie
    Malcolm & Marie is the worst kind of self-indulgent nonsense. It is an obnoxious gripe about everything and anything that is so devoid of wit and imagination that it ends up being about nothing at all.
  16. Astro Boy
    Astro Boy definitely sets himself up for a sequel, and the overall scenario is ripe to explore many current issues. But let's hope the creators trade in the well-used parts for some fresh material.
  17. Heartbreak Ridge
    The U.S. invasion of Grenada is treated with Highway's gung-ho simplicity as a flag-waving American triumph. That may make the conclusion of Heartbreak Ridge a personal victory for Highway, but it makes the film's heartfelt patriotism pathetic. [6 Dec 1986]
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  18. Astronaut
    I like the way McLeod handles the genre. The easiest thing to do would be for her to write Feore’s Elon Musk-y space-or-bust character as a villain, thus making it impossible not to root for her protagonist (who warns of a potential load-bearing problem with the space-plane’s runway). McLeod resists that urge though.
  19. White Squall
    The shipwreck comes too late to rescue movie from endless banalities. [02 Feb 1996]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  20. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
    The Mandalorian and Grogu is perfectly suitable as a summer flick to beckon you back to the theatres. But will it make a mark as part of the Star Wars mythology? This may not be quite the way.
  21. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    Again, as with "Star Wars," the interest lies at least as much in the set design and costumes as the narrative.
  22. Point of No Return
    A technically slavish and totally atrocious Hollywood remake. [19 March 1993]
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  23. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    As a 21st-century account of the soldier’s enduring alienation from the home front, Billy Lynn is highly effective. It’s what surrounds that account that doesn’t work.
  24. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    A splendid adventure sure to thrill children and fantasy buffs, while leaving everyone else passably entertained.
  25. Overboard
    Overboard is overdrawn and overblown: a lean romantic comedy has been enveloped in obesity. Garry Marshall's direction is worthy of a not very good television sitcom and John A. Alonzo's appalling cinematography gives the picture the appearance of having been shot through a cloud of mosquitoes. [18 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Awakening
    There is a rich movie to be made about this culture of fake seers and gullible marks, but it isn't The Awakening, a dull British import that never lives up to the pretensions of its period setting.
  29. Marley & Me
    Never brilliant but always solid and often wry, Marley & Me is what it celebrates -- an amiable overachiever.
  30. Deep Water
    It’s not half-bad. I mean, don’t get too excited – this is still a bad movie. But it is the kind of better-than-it-should-be bad instead of merely bad-bad.
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