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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. The One I Love
    Here’s a date movie that will neither cozily cheer you nor satisfyingly thrill you, but instead leave you scratching your head.
  2. The Cloverfield Paradox
    Uziel's screenplay has some clever geopolitical ideas – though it's hard to tell how many of those came before or after it was Cloververse-ified via a tour through Abrams's magical mystery factory – but its twists feel routine, its narrative spine limp and its conclusion especially rushed.
  3. Dirty Grandpa
    It’s the direction, not the script, that really kills the picture, as Mazer limps along from the chugging contest to the half-naked conga line to the car chase without ever raising the laughs he needs from the comic set pieces or the tension he needs from the dramatic developments.
  4. Snatched
    Snatched piles bad ideas on good ideas and lame bits of gross-out humour on genuinely funny bits of character work, without ever building enough dramatic force or comic energy to craft a full movie from the results.
  5. Viva
    An unlikely Irish-Cuban co-production, Viva is, like its central subject, beautiful to look at but ultimately lacking depth.
  6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Too much diary, not enough movie.
  7. Angel Has Fallen
    There’s no thrill to this thriller. Nor is there nuance to the characters.
  8. Krull
    Krull is only half bad, which makes it half good, which puts it a broadsword ahead of most films set in the land of the mightily mythic. [30 July 1983]
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  9. The Viral Factor
    The Viral Factor is deliriously far-fetched. And one wishes director Dante Lam (The Beast Stalker) could have at least had some giddy fun smashing all his toys around. But his new film is tediously overwrought and drably made, with scenes punctuated by synthesized drums out of eighties American TV drama.
  10. Brooklyn's Finest
    Each of the actors has strong moments but the relentless intensity becomes monotonous.
  11. The Secret Garden
    The latest adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel is not necessarily a bad film, just an unnecessary one. Given that we’ve already been treated to about a dozen film and TV (and anime!) adaptations, there is little that Munden and his creative team offer that is essential.
  12. Volcano
    In a few sound bites, we get the picture and the picture's motto: the smug and selfish coast is an order of disaster-flick toast waiting to burn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Critters
    Critters mounts a moment or two of suspense, but director Herek has as much wit and even less visual imagination than the people who created Night of the Comet. [16 Apr 1986, p.C6]
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  14. When the Game Stands Tall
    Jim Caviezel, as coach Ladouceur, doesn’t get much to work with, the script reducing the man to a two-dimensional motivational speaker awash in “there’s no I in Team” platitudes.
  15. The Pursuit of Happyness
    Both Smith and his son are appealing presences, but The Pursuit of Happyness seems to take place in a sociological vacuum. Gardner's insight into his difficulties begins and ends with the thought that, in the pursuit of happiness, there's a lot more pursuit involved than happiness, and unasked political questions seem to dangle ominously over the entire movie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Switch
    Blake Edwards' latest comedy about a man who comes back in a woman's body has some laughs, but it lacks his usual style, wit and humanity. Switch suffers from glitch. [16 May 1991]
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  17. You Kill Me
    You Kill Me is not so much a bad film as one filled with missed potential and marked by the seams of compromise.
  18. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    The bargain-basement knock-off of this movie, minus Manville and Dior, would not look out of place on Lifetime or Hallmark.
  19. Man on a Ledge
    None of it rings true, except perhaps the presence of an ambitious local TV news reporter (Kyra Sedgwick) who begins recording every macabre moment with relish.
  20. Brightburn
    The film is not nearly as strong as its villain. It is, however, just as immature.
  21. Instinct
    Pardon my pulling anthropological rank, but Instinct -- a movie about an ape-man savant -- seems a quart low on common sense.
  22. Guidance
    The film is not significant, but it is principled and sweetly subversive. And, like high school, if you’re not careful, you might just learn something from it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Lights
    It works best when it doesn't take itself seriously, and some of the ways in which ESP is faked are briefly engaging, like short con games or magic tricks revealed. But, finally, the film doesn't offer the sense of release, or of surprise, that it seems to take for granted.
  24. Girl Model
    It is hard to know whether to applaud directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin for exposing the underside of the fashion business – or demand they abandon their documentarian stance and rescue young Nadya on the spot.
  25. Paranormal Activity 3
    The first 45 minutes of this film feel like far too much normal and not nearly enough para.
  26. The X Files
    What we have here is a pretty good TV show huffed and puffed into a rather mediocre film.
  27. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    Like almost every other major studio film this summer, Fallen Kingdom plays dumb, and happily.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Best Man Holiday
    Traditionally, Christmas movies are about the power of the holiday spirit to conquer all in the name of seasonal detente, and The Best Man Holiday, although sprinkled with bad behaviour and salty bon mots, is traditional right to the twinkly-tipped top of the tree.
  29. Bad Santa
    Perhaps for Zwigoff, directing someone else's script, this was just a job of work. If not, the talent who made "Crumb" and "Ghost World "has now made his first movie mistake.
  30. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
    The less-than-original theme is illuminated with grace and insight, with sensuality and spirituality, and Oshima stumbles only twice. Unfortunately, the missteps are major. [16 Sep 1983]
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