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For 7,302 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: 4,357 out of 7302
  2. Mixed: 1,829 out of 7302
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7302
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  1. Emperor
    Aside from Jones’s broadly entertaining performance as the egotistical Supreme Commander, the movie, directed by Peter Webber (The Girl with the Pearl Earring), is a dud.
  2. Tomb Raider
    The emotional underpinnings of the story feel incomplete, to the extent that the film is too busy with death-defying survival scenes and pointed guns to truly reckon with Lara’s abandonment as a child.
  3. Chicken Little
    The problem is that Chicken Little settles for what's expedient and safe and, over all, lives down to its title.
  4. Child's Play
    Like every classic toy, the franchise has been remodelled in hopes of customer satisfaction. Luckily, this smarter, funnier Child’s Play actually works.
  5. 21
    What a big cheat of a movie. Wanting to be everything to everybody – a tough gambling picture, a revenge-of-the-nerds fantasy, a Vegas caper flick, a sweet little romance, a simple morality tale – 21 is just a bet-hedger dealing from multiple decks, designed to leave you with an occasional tidbit to like but nothing at all to love.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
    The problem with Sucka is that the film is more clumsy and lifeless as a comedy than most of those blaxploitation pictures were as drama. Sucka instead is so awkward as to take two steps back for every one step forward: the film uses black women, for example, as rudely as did the movies it sends up. [17 Feb 1989, p.C3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  7. Gran Turismo
    Gran Turismo can never rise above its stakeholder’s portfolios because it’s never interested enough in its human characters.
  8. Civic Duty
    It wants to make an important political statement, which might have been dandy if it had anything remotely cogent to say.
  9. The Santa Clause 2
    Frankly, if I were Mrs. Claus, I might be looking for Santa Clause 3, outlining the grounds for annulment.
  10. The Core
    The only pressing burden in this deep interior world is the question: What in or on Earth is a cast this good doing in a movie this ridiculous?
  11. Orange County
    This is a picture with a perfect sense of proportion: There's a mini-Hanks, a mini-Spacek and a mini-Kasdan in a mini-comedy that's minimally entertaining.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Super Troopers
    When Farva sees O'Hagan in civilian wear -- a denim jacket and blue jeans -- he asks his boss, "Where'd you get the Canadian tuxedo?" Such moments may not be as exciting as the sight of Homer Simpson at the CN Tower, but they'll do.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    300: Rise of an Empire
    By throwing herself headfirst into scenes that a more cautious actress might beg off, Green earns herself a citation for valour – a Purple Heart in a movie that’s otherwise way too grim and grey for its own good.
  14. Lockout
    Pearce pumps a surprising amount of levity into his one-liners – sure, it's still hot air, but at least the banter comes fully inflated.
  15. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
    John Carpenter, unable to decide what kind of movie he wants, alternates between his thriller-hardware mode (Escape from New York) and his touchy-feelie mode (Starman). The result is that adults may fall asleep in their seats during the dreary chase sequences, while children are going to holler "Ick!" and escape to the candy counters during the mushy stuff. [28 Feb 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  16. Sleeping with the Enemy
    Varying the pace, altering the tone, Ruben definitely keeps us off balance. Not as good as it could be, a far sight better than it might have been, this is a movie that puts the lie to the computer's stern dictum: garbage in, passable entertainment out. [08 Feb 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Just Cause
    Ultimately, Just Cause is just middling. And that's a shame because, for two blistering acts, it promises to be a suspense thriller worthy of the name. [17 Feb 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Operation Dumbo Drop
    Operation Dumbo Drop is at times lost on four-year-olds, but it serves up what Disney summer flicks should - adrenalin and sugar. [28 Jul 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. I'm Still Here
    Unlike Sacha Baron Cohen's rude semi-documentary satires (Borat, Bruno), I'm Still Here never finds a satiric justification for all this grotesque behaviour.
  20. The Girl on the Train
    Whatever the locomotive power of the novel, this film adaptation only limps into the station.
  21. High Crimes
    This thing's got more plot than an Alliance convention. Unfortunately (to extend the comparison), not a whole lot of it makes a lick of common sense.
  22. Dummy
    A contrived little comedy, Dummy definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.
  23. Orgazmo
    Pretty limp, and works far better in theory than practice.
  24. Angels & Demons
    Though complete redemption of Brown's fiction may not be possible, Howard's new film at least represents an upgrade from a mortal to a venal movie sin.
  25. The Longest Yard
    Though Sandler's resemblance to a pro athlete is indiscernible, his mockery of authority and his penchant for buffoonery and slapstick violence make him more of an heir to Reynolds than might be expected.
  26. One Day
    The effort is admirable, the movie not so much, and yet, contrary to most pictures, it does improve towards the end. At least a little.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Up for Love
    Dujardin and Efira are both charming and beautiful, and the film glistens in its breezy cobblestoned scenery.
  28. The Secrets We Keep
    A solid, well-acted, and slightly predictable drama of morals whose novelty evaporates once you realize that the general beats of the story itself have been presented before, to far more haunting effect.
  29. Tolkien
    Stately, handsome and ferociously romantic, the new biopic of British high-fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, though there is some excellent tea drinking to be had.
  30. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    Semi-wonderful at best.
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