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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. Pumpkin
    Fitfully daring, Pumpkin isn't quite sure what it's about -- the tone bounces between thudding satire and toothless camp parody -- but it's definitely a bad-mannered child of our times.
  2. Chasing Liberty
    It can be accurately described as a loud soundtrack occasionally punctuated by the faint vestige of a plot. Or as a lush travelogue that sometimes gives way to sporadic bursts of chirping dialogue.
  3. Life of the Party
    A truly gifted comedic actress, McCarthy is wasting her talents with this vanilla-flavoured story.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    She's the Man
    Nothing classes up a teen movie better than the classics.
  5. Mad City
    And veteran director Costa-Gavras, whose early work ("Z", "State Of Siege", "Missing") proves that he's no stranger to sociopolitical complexities, might well have been the man to make it. But not from this script -- it starts off as puerile and then regresses.
  6. Tracers
    With escape as its theme, this thin-plotted pleaser comes hard and goes fast, its rush premium but fleeting.
  7. The 'Burbs
    A more inspired director might have salvaged something else, but Dante's point-of-view camera and consciously quirky angles just don't cut it. His horror-genre shots are stylized but not stylish, a by-the-numbers parody without any redeeming individuality. [17 Feb 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  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. Pain & Gain
    The script’s occasional gestures toward making this an allegory of the failed American dream are extremely unconvincing in the context of a movie that revels in the excesses of macho culture while laughing at the hapless and stupid who can’t get it right.
  10. Straw Dogs
    The film has one sly, ominous touch Peckinpah would have liked. David is writing a script on the defence of Stalingrad, a battle that swallowed two million lives. Otherwise, the new version is a vigilante action film bereft of subtlety or restraint.
  11. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
    The kind of schlock that is impervious to criticism. Take it seriously and you look like a fool; evaluate it on its own comic-strip terms and you are reduced to talking about costumes and special effects. [04 Apr 1979]
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  12. The Tomorrow War
    It is a fool’s errand to imagine what someone like Verhoeven would have done with The Tomorrow War’s material – this is a movie made for the express purposes of delivering some lazy woo-hoo summer fun, not any kind of sneaky subversiveness.
  13. The Singing Detective
    At one point, Downey's character is asked, "What are you gonna do with all this rage, this hate?" and he snaps back, "I'll probably just write serious literature." On TV, where the material seemed both serious and literate, that bit of black humour felt prophetic. On film, it's just a good joke.
  14. Ayurveda: Art of Being
    Although filmmaker Pan Nalin is a believer in Ayurveda,there is little in the film to convince anybody else.
  15. Mona Lisa Smile
    First things first: As one of my wise editors noted, no person who can flash as many teeth as Julia Roberts should ever star in a movie called Mona Lisa Smile.
  16. Club Dread
    A splatter of scenes that relocate the funny-bone in the lower anatomical regions -- sometimes hitting the mark, occasionally a glancing blow, often missing completely.
  17. American Assassin
    This movie is not just badly executed, it's also stupid.
  18. Evening
    The characters, full of blue-blood archness and angst, are partial to self-conscious speechifying.
  19. Takers
    The new heist movie Takers is surprisingly okay.
  20. The Son
    The Son is a film that is very cruel to its characters, and by extension to its long-suffering audience.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Pretty Persuasion
    It is also extremely well-written in the fearless way of a smarty pants on a roll in the university cafeteria.
  22. Whatever Works
    As Whatever Works creaks along, the attention-getting nastiness of the first half dissipates and it turns into just another Woody Allen overacted sex farce. Of all the insults hurled about in the film, perhaps the worst is its pandering conclusion. What exactly does Allen take his audience for? A bunch of mindless zombies?
  23. Hoodwinked!
    What big ambitions you have, Grandma. And what a disappointingly modest follow-through.
  24. Extraordinary Measures
    Best when Fraser is on screen. Ian McKellen, who starred with Fraser in "Gods and Monsters," called him the most natural actor he'd worked with, marvelling at Fraser's ability to disappear into roles.
  25. Uncharted
    There is something perversely impressive about a movie that can make globe-trotting adventure seem so relentlessly boring.
  26. Into the Blue
    Stockwell takes an especially leaden screenplay, floats the dull thing up from the depths of mediocrity, and makes it cinematically buoyant. Within limits, that is.
  27. The Sum of All Fears
    How's this for frightening: The casting of the lightweight Ben Affleck as a CIA agent who holds the fate of the entire world in his pretty-boy hands. Can't deny it, that got my heart pumping like a bunny.
  28. How to Deal
    Just the umpteenth replay of the girl-meets-boy/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl story.
  29. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
    In short, it's much fatter with less matter and a distressing shrinkage in thought.
  30. That Was Then... This Is Now
    Says the audience: "Howcum they make movies like this?" [9 Nov 1985]
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