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For 7,294 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: 4,351 out of 7294
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7294
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7294
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  1. Who's Harry Crumb?
    Match your expectations to the level of the humor - measurable at about knee-high to a snake's belly - and you just might enjoy Who's Harry Crumb? I mean, we're talking low comedy here, boasting more pratfalls than another losing night at the Gardens. But there is a redeeming factor in this manic equation, a high-flying blimp by the name of John Candy. [08 Feb 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. Albino Alligator
    With its jazzy saxophone noodlings during the opening credits and its bruised black-and-blue look, it's so quaintly and conventionally pulp that you feel like filing a report with the cliché police.
  3. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Unfortunately, once these creatures do come to life for a second outing, the promise soon evaporates and the clever comedy, built largely on crisscrossing anachronisms and various sly cultural references, is not enough to sustain a romp that is all rather predictable.
  4. Manhattan Night
    Brody plays opposite Yvonne Strahovski, whose femme fatale is less like Lauren Bacall and more like Sharon Stone. Unfortunately, Strahovski’s flat portrayal lacks the basic instincts of Stone, though she does uncross her legs, and that is central to the curve-balling, sex-tape plot.
  5. Bee Season
    Though bathed in ecclesiastical light and a work of obvious craft and ambition, Bee Season is grimly serious and rather full of itself.
  6. Femme Fatale
    Even if it's accepted simply as glitter-sprayed trash, sophomorically plotted and incompetently acted, Femme Fatale is a uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody.
  7. The Devil Inside
    All hell breaks loose and it's a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
  8. Slums of Beverly Hills
    There's an alchemy that can transform personal experience into a great film, but it was nowhere nearby when Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this lacklustre first feature.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Knowing
    A catalogue of made-in-America delusions, hallucinations and cosmic catastrophes that draws on environmental fear-mongering in one reel and evangelical lore the next.
  10. It Might Get Loud
    The trouble is, once you get past the historical information and chummy interviews, you have to put up with the inevitable risk of any ad-hoc jam session: It Might Get Boring.
  11. Robin Hood
    Well, the Hood would never stand for it and neither should you. Defy authority and watch this movie on a plane instead.
  12. Wendy
    Yet after half an hour in Wendy’s world, it is clear that Zeitlin has exhausted both his visual imagination and whatever narrative interest he had in Barrie’s tale other than “kids, they grow up fast.”
  13. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, is still offbeat, but more in the sense of unco-ordinated than syncopated.
  14. Greedy Lying Bastards
    On the downside, Rosebraugh’s own film is too self-righteous and his attempts to play a humour-challenged, lightweight version of Michael Moore in front of the camera is a misfire. The climate-change deniers are comforting, though obviously wrong. Greedy Lying Bastards is grating, even if it’s right.
  15. Bad Company
    Feels stale, bloated and willing to get by on sheer familiarity.
  16. Lone Wolf McQuade
    Lone Wolf gets mad as a bee-stung boxer dog. [18 Apr 1983]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. The Libertine
    A movie that serves up what its debauched subject would never have countenanced -- sanitized smut with a moral attached.
  18. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    All this holding back is a bad idea, especially as the subject of an entire movie.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blended
    The movie offers nothing new or special, but at least it isn’t as painful as watching Sandler walk Al Pacino through a Dunkin’ Donuts rap.
  20. Sea of Love
    Sea Of Love has got a lot of things going for it: it's got two strong lead performances; it's got some down-and-dirty dialogue and a few sexy scenes and a couple of yuks and a nifty title tune. What it ain't got is plot, and thus suspense, and thus thrills. [15 Sep 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. Basic
    Confused, and confusing.
  22. Head of State
    You can see Rock hedging his bets right from the opening frames.
  23. The Reader
    So why, despite everyone's best efforts, does all this bigness seem so small and unfocused and simply not up to the task?
  24. The Soloist
    As a drama, The Soloist is stuck before it starts.
  25. Jungle Cruise
    Jungle Cruise taps into a type of thrill-ride nostalgia that feels algorithmically created. Everything about the film is just right, from its charismatic stars to its jungle hijinks to its heart-to-heart chemistry between Lily and Skipper – all of it only slightly updated for a 2021 crowd.
  26. Sgt. Bilko
    Writer Andy Breckman and director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinnie ) don't even try to recapture or eclipse the past. Instead, they offer the movie a comfortable plug-in-and-play system for their well-known comic stars to be all that they can be. [29 Mar 1996]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Porky's
    Porky's is crafty, offensive retro-fantasy for one gender. [20 Mar 1982]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. The American
    The dread in the film is so quickly forgotten. What remains is an urge to fly to Italy, rent an apartment in a medieval city and invent your own adventure.
  29. Resistance
    Eisenberg does an admirable job porting his typically nervous energy into Marceau, a man who’s not portrayed as a full-blooded hero so much as a sincere, if naive, nebbish constantly wrestling with his fears and doubts.
  30. Brother Bear
    The oddest movie to come out of Disney since Herbie ran out of gas in Monte Carlo, Brother Bear is a cartoon about a boy who becomes a man by learning how to be a bear.
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