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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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor brings Seth Rogen's hot streak to a sudden halt.
  2. Homefront
    The new Jason Statham movie Homefront aims to be retro, greasy comfort food but despite its lowly ambitions, there’s barely enough spice here to merit a decent burp.
  3. Bran Nue Dae
    The movie feels trapped in the 1980s and feels like a missed opportunity.
  4. Beyond Borders
    The mould for all these stories of hot lust and burning cities, creamy-skinned rich girls and their bitter lovers is that grand and grotesque cinema monument, was "Gone With the Wind." You can't go there again and you shouldn't want to.
  5. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    By happy coincidence, their names – Bitey, Loudy, Stinky, Lovey and Nimrod – pretty much double as a plot summary.
  6. Southpaw
    The melodrama is uncomfortably high; the checked-box plot is manipulative.
  7. The Puffy Chair
    It's a slacker flick, it's a relationship pic, it's a road movie all under the same hood.
  8. Winnie Mandela
    Winnie begins as hagiography and ends in hellish confusion.
  9. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    At this point, the effect of Myers' one-man Sixties love-in already feels less shagadelic than just shagged out.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Interview
    The end result of this showcase for Buscemi's writing, acting and directing chops is so uneven and mixed in small details and overall tone that it's anybody's guess if it's one for the Oscars or the Razzies next year.
  11. Silk
    Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
  12. Daddy's Home
    Daddy’s Home is not the world of Peak Ferrell, where jokes fly fast and absurdism rules the day. Instead, it is a land of predictable punchlines, easy sight gags and easier paycheques.
  13. Lions for Lambs
    Lions for Lambs appears to have taken its inspiration from Al Gore's stolid "An Inconvenient Truth," using the stage lecture and Power Point presentation in lieu of dramatic momentum.
  14. Righteous Kill
    In pairing the two icons, Righteous Kill is definitely an event. What it isn't is much of a movie. Such a waste.
  15. Salt
    For all its action thrills, Salt is relatively humourless fare.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everyone's Hero
    Some films, like "Shrek," "The Incredibles" and "Finding Nemo," manage to strike the right balance. Others, like Everyone's Hero -- opening today -- do not.
  17. August: Osage County
    Although a couple of performances here may earn Oscar nominations, by the time you’ve sat through the wreckage, you’re left with the sense that this really must have worked better onstage.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Adventures in Babysitting
    Amusement parks are fine, but with the danger gone, Adventures in Babysitting seems a lot like going to the park when all the scary rides are closed. [03 July 1987]
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  19. Undiscovered
    The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
  20. Life or Something Like It
    This is an excellent movie for watching Jolie, one of the more entertaining sidelines in recent Hollywood movie going. There are two firsts for her here: Angelina does blonde and, more importantly, Angelina does comedy.
  21. Cronos
    A Mexican feature from writer/director Guillermo Del Toro, it's a modern vampire tale that occasionally rises to the level of competence but never inches any higher. [20 May 1994]
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  22. Deliver Us from Eva
    In every way but one, this is just another genre pic on another mundane outing.
  23. Heaven Help Us
    As directed by Michael Dinner from Charles Purpura's script, the movie combines the anti-Catholic satire of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You with the rowdy sexuality of Porky's and the stereotyping of every mediocre teen film ever made. [8 Feb 1985]
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  24. Swamp Thing
    Deserves - to be "watched" with steam on the windshield and passion in the air. When the monster in a monster flick packs all the fearsome wallop of an overripe avocado, one needs some diversion.[8 June 1982]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Valiant
    Valiant is weak tea next to the best of Pixar and DreamWorks.
  26. Beautiful Boy
    The whole project labours towards an importance it never earns. In Beautiful Boy, the themes are vast but the picture is small, and the ensuing emptiness is what the characters are meant to feel – not us.
  27. The Mothman Prophecies
    The result is a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through.
  28. The Hoax
    The Hoax is a fraud, and not a very good one at that. Stay with me here because we're about to spiral down the rabbit hole: The movie is a fictionalized account of writer Clifford Irving's fictionalized account of his own fictionalized account of wacky billionaire Howard Hughes.
  29. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Like a lot of things about Zack and Miri, the porn title feels like it's trying too hard.
  30. The Dogs of War
    Dogs of War takes its title from Julius Caesar but its cue from Julia Child. Based on Frederick Forsyth's novel, the film is meant to be an intimate study of soldiers of fortune. But it ends only as a shallow, pseudo-elliptical lesson in how to whip up a frothy coup when time is pressing and the guests are about to arrive. [17 Feb 1981]
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