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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. My Spy
    Unfortunately, the actual incarnation of My Spy is a hot mess, full of more confused character motivations and emotional blackmail than the season finale of "Love Is Blind."
  2. The Oranges
    A comedy about a middle-aged dad who has an affair with his neighbour's daughter, The Oranges does not taste freshly squeezed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Toy Soldiers
    If the viewer squirms with embarrassment, it's not over how Petrie has directed his camera or his excellent young cast - it's his heavy-handed material that's beyond redemption, and since he co-wrote that material he has a lot to answer for. [26 Apr 1991]
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  4. Seed of Chucky
    This movie is about the opposite of political correctness. It's about rooting for the bad guy and the black ending, and shouting at the screen whenever you feel like it. If you like that sort of thing, go see it. If you don't, then don't.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    We Are Your Friends
    If you suspend your disbelief for some of the weaker plot points and unnecessary use of the c-word, the film is palatable.
  6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Yet these are precisely the sort of pictures that divide audiences over a central question: Are those strings being honestly played or just shamefully pulled? Of course, the answer determines whether you feel moved or merely manipulated.
  7. The Sleepover
    A giddy and fitfully amusing mashup of "Adventures in Babysitting," "Date Night," the Spy Kids franchise and, um, "Wet Hot American Summer," The Sleepover is the latest entry in Netflix’s experiment in catch-‘em-all entertainment.
  8. Immortals
    Thrills are in short supply, but so are annoyances. This is a maintenance-free ride.
  9. Lavender
    After a car accident “aggravates an old skull fracture trauma,” Jane returns to the family-death-farmhouse, where she takes way too long to figure out the incredibly obvious person responsible.
  10. Mirror Mirror
    Call me Grumpy, but this seems less an adaptation than a random assault.
  11. Festival in Cannes
    Festival in Cannes is definitely Jaglomesque, but can't get that tricky balance right -- the result is a picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.
  12. Breakin' All the Rules
    A story only slightly more complex than your average episode of "Friends."
  13. Beyond the Sea
    Vanity: the surest road to mediocrity.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Calling
    Port Dundas remains snoozy and depopulated even when throats are cut and stomachs thrown to the sheepdogs, and so does the movie.
  15. The Ringer
    The Ringer is a movie whose good intentions shine a lot brighter than its art.
  16. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    The lively verbal sparring between the good and evil sorcerer-apprentice pairs sustains the movie, but, with a predictable plot, by-the-numbers action-movie jolts and no real sense of wonder, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is really just a pumpkin.
  17. The Addams Family
    The film’s writing is unambitious; there’s little to cause adults to smile knowingly.
  18. Beaches
    Laughter, tears and Bette Midler: Santa's done a whole lot worse. [23 Dec 1988]
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  19. Ravenous
    It's not really serious, not especially funny, and not noticeably scary. Strikeout.
  20. Johnny English Reborn
    Like the incompetent spy himself, this is a comedy that will sneak up on the skeptical and defy low expectations, producing something smart enough to neatly balance the thrills and the yuks.
  21. Kafka
    With the help of an impeccable cast and with a style steeped in the past, Soderbergh has placed the persona of Kafka under a lens, and the soul he discovers is his own. [31 Jan. 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  22. You, Me and Dupree
    The resolution includes an overlong and underfunny chase scene.
  23. Rebecca
    For some reason that shall forever remain a mystery to all those but director Ben Wheatley and the almighty Netflix algorithm, 2020 has delivered one of the most unnecessary remakes in the history of an industry built upon revisitation: Rebecca.
  24. You Should Have Left
    You Should Have Left will, however, make you seriously rethink your next Airbnb rental. And maybe even push you to watch "Mortdecai," just to see what a real horror looks like.
  25. Tommy Boy
    Then I remember another law that says fat dumb guys are always likable, so I'm really trying my best, and I pretend to laugh once or twice, but it's hard. [3 Apr 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 46 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Airheads
    Airheads is a movie so direly muddled it actually manages - no mean feat this - to seem more stupid than the rock biz idiocy it aims to satirize. [5 Aug 1994]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  27. Book Club: The Next Chapter
    The best thing about Book Club: The Next Chapter is just seeing these remarkable actresses do what they do best. I hope Hollywood can make better use of them in the future.
  28. Yes Day
    Ultimately, Yes Day doesn’t commit to either being a full-out family fun movie or a family drama.
  29. Honey Don't!
    Honey Don’t! attempts another go at a mock, low-brow outing reimagined through a queer lens, but suffers irrevocably from an uncompelling mystery, patterned by a series of gags that leads nowhere.
  30. Beverly Hills Cop II
    Beverly Hills Cop II puts its mega-star through a medieval trial, an ordeal by dullness. Survive these surroundings, Eddie Murphy, and you must truly be one very funny guy. Well, Eddie survives, barely, and taking our cue straight from him, so do we, almost. [22 May 1987]
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