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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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  1. P.S. I Love You
    This sappy thing is a two-hour cheat that never plays fair for a nanosecond.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Not only does the 3-D format grant you a front row seat at this Jonas Brothers concert, but it puts sweet, sweaty Joe (he's the cute one) practically in your lap. For most JoBro fans, that alone is worth the price of admission.
  3. Mary Magdalene
    Mary Magdalene is ultimately an unnecessary cinematic resurrection.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Convoy
    One good thing B-grade trucker movies have is a quality we can call non-intellectual honesty. As a rule, they have no pretentions to do anything other than amuse the viewer. Peckinpah tries to do more and fails. [03 July 1978]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. Citizen Ruth
    A screwball comedy about the abortion issue? First-time writer-director Alexander Payne gives it a college try.
  6. Can't Hardly Wait
    [The soundtrack] manages to serve up new rock, eighties dance music, rap and Barry Manilow -- a combination custom-made to annoy audiences of all ages.
  7. 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy
    3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy fails to live up to either its promise or title.
  8. Clockers
    This is an adaptation that must have been hard to screw up, yet screwed up it has been. If the movie is far from dreadful, it's even further from the searing experience it could have been.
  9. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    First a bit about the movie, which really isn't one -- more like a 48-minute press release promoting the glories of NASCAR.
  10. Taking Woodstock
    Ultimately, even Lee appears to lose interest, flashing none of his usual visual panache and, at the end, content to forego any considered conclusion for a hunk of lumpy irony.
  11. Edge of Darkness
    The larger shell game here is that Edge of Darkness is offered as a political thriller, but with real-world politics removed. What we’re left with is a familiar mechanism for delivering a vicarious, violent, wish-fulfilment fantasy, with Mel in a familiar position, in the driver’s seat, pedal to the metal.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    P.S.
    P.S.'s ending, a cautiously happy conclusion, feels like an afterthought.
  13. Jungle 2 Jungle
    For his part, Allen spends much of his time falling -- out of hammocks, off of logs, down from balconies, a geometric progression of comic ingenuity guaranteed to delight the child in all of us. Occasionally, he's joined by fellow tumbler Martin Short, who appears to be making a lucrative career of playing in the very movies he once so wickedly parodied. [07 Mar 1997, p.D6]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  14. The Heat
    If this were funny, The Heat would add up to your average buddy-cop comedy. Except that it’s not funny, at least not very and not often.
  15. Gridiron Gang
    If you like your sports movies, especially your football movies, larded with more clichés than a politician's stump speech, Gridiron Gang begs to be seen.
  16. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    It's the most jumbled and tonally confused movie yet.
  17. Outcast
    Ultimately the ham-fisted Outcast shares less in common with Eastwood’s "American Sniper" than it does with his "Unforgiven" from 1992 and that western’s regretful killers.
  18. Fanboys
    Turns out a movie about an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds can really set your teeth on edge.
  19. The American President
    These days, when presidential bouquets are named Gennifer Flowers, and when we all know what Jack Kennedy did beneath the White House covers, this sort of Capra-corn, even in the guise of light comedy, just doesn't have the same taste. More salt, please, and hold the butter.
  20. Cars 2
    Just who is Pixar aiming this movie at? Contemporary children or their great-grandparents?
  21. The Scorpion King
    The style here is much more in the spirit of the smash and slash of the Conan movies than the banter and computer-generated monsters of the Mummy movies.
  22. Lost & Found
    A mundane sitcom with feature pretensions, the kind where the comic "situation" is simply a coat-rack for hanging a rag-tag assortment of inflated sight gags and telegraphed punch lines.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Opening Night
    Cassavetes' latest film, Opening Night, tries to deal with aging, a problem of genuine importance to an increasing proportion of the population but the movie ends up floundering and finally sinking beneath its own weight. [23 Dec 1977]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. The Lovely Bones
    The book floats sublimely above its dark theme; the movie sinks into the ridiculous.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Untraceable
    While the punishments and triumphs are absolute, the entertainment value is highly equivocal. This ultimately relegates Untraceable to the ranks of so-so thrillers with legitimate but half-developed intellectual aspirations. And since you inspired the movie in the first place, part of the responsibility rests on, well, you.
  26. The Beach Bum
    The Beach Bum feels like a similar display of prized possessions – only that one of you (Matthew) is taking us on a tour of his bongo- and bong-filled bedroom, while the other (hi, Harmony) is just leading us to his toilet.
  27. Man on Fire
    If your idea of a bargain is two bad movies for the price of one, then shell out for Man on Fire. And don't fret about that incendiary title because this thing is all fuse.
  28. Despicable Me 3
    A splashy ending does something to redeem the action before setting up the characters for a potential sequel but who needs more Dru?
  29. The Legend of Tarzan
    There’s also not much chemistry between Skarsgard and Robbie in a film that hints at the Greystokes’ great sex life but barely shows it. Instead, we get flashes of flesh that are hilariously dated in their obviousness.
  30. Top Secret!
    Kilmer is an improvement on Robert Hays of Airplane], but both gents perform with the facility you'd expect from a random sampling of Gentlemen's Quarterly models; like any svelte clotheshorse, Kilmer is good-looking yet self-effacing and he doesn't seem in the least perturbed that his wardrobe upstages him.[25 June 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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