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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Winnie the Pooh
    The narrative, cobbled together from various Pooh stories by an army of writers, is held together reasonably well by John Cleese's soothing narration.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Mogul
    A good, breezy once-over-lightly on the life and times of a Hollywood titan, but not much more.
  3. The Ringer
    The Ringer is a movie whose good intentions shine a lot brighter than its art.
  4. The Hills Have Eyes
    There are scenes that may make your stomach feel uncomfortable for a moment but rarely stories that will upset your equilibrium.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    The director also makes a nod to Japan's rich history of genre filmmaking by casting action legend J. J. Sonny Chiba as a cigar-smoking yakuza. Chiba's presence momentarily classes up a passable youths-ploitation flick into a transcendent piece of movie trash.
  6. Jumper
    Woefully short on script, the picture ends up disappearing down the wormhole of its own premise.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Days on Mars
    Although ably directed by feature first-timer Ruairi Robinson, and gamely performed by a cast professional enough to feign alarm and surprise, The Last Days on Mars ultimately confirms what science has already spent billions of dollars establishing: There’s just no life here.
  8. Norwegian Wood
    This is the one Murakami work that would seem an ideal candidate for the leap from page to screen. It should be a good movie. But it isn't.
  9. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    Destined to disappear into the quicksand of time, too innocuous to be hated, too bland to be remembered, just awaiting some bright optimist in a distant future to press the do-over button.
  10. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    The result is less a screenplay than a manic quote machine.
  11. Eddie and the Cruisers
    In the race to make that great rock and roll movie in the sky, Eddie and the Cruisers is a pit stop. [24 Sept 1983]
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    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dolittle
    If the muddled plot and aesthetic chaos of Dolittle leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, seek the antidote – an episode of "Planet Earth."
  13. Celebrity
    It would be easy to dismiss Celebrity as merely a wafer-thin picture about the wafer-thinness of our narcissistic culture. But the truth is shallower and even less engaging -- this flick should have been called “Unpleasantville.”
  14. Rudo y Cursi
    It's really a lazy comedy that is content telling a crude and corny Hollywood story with a Mexican accent.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Euthanizer
    Euthanizer shocks from the outset, and nauseates by the conclusion. Exactly what fans of this gut-churning genre sign up for.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crooked Arrows
    Crooked Arrows is no "Rocky." It lacks the emotional momentum required for that. But if it's just light, family-friendly entertainment you want, Crooked Arrows fits the bill.
  17. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Kogonada fills the vacuousness in the script with knowing nods to all the performance and illusion we commit to when taking the leap – whether in love or (in its meta way) at the movies.
  18. Click
    The only effect is to produce that most commonplace of Hollywood paradoxes -- a mood simultaneously frantic and listless.
  19. Black Snake Moan
    This is one of those ludicrous, semi-offensive, semi-entertaining potboilers that feels as if the script were dragged out from someone's naughty-book stash.
  20. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    Parents seeking comfort in death to stay close to a lost child, as in Don’t Look Now, or being emotionally exhausted providing care in impossible circumstances, as in The Exorcist, feel like items being checked off in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, not genuinely felt or grappled with.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Driver
    Perhaps Hill simply failed in his attempt to make of The Driver something more than an action picture. The trouble is that he doesn't do enough to elevate the film above the level of the genre. [29 July 1978]
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  22. Juice
    Juice takes a black director, a black cast and a black theme - ghetto youths come of age - and turns the whole exercise into a white-bread,middle-of-the-road film. You root for it to rise to the challenge, to be better than it is, but it sticks to the straight course - polished enough yet steadfastly predictable, just another sentimental slice of mean-street life. [22 Jan 1992]
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  23. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The one source of relief comes from the score -- a sampling of period ditties by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Neil Young.
  24. Prime
    Prime seems aimed at prime-time television, with endless iterations on the same theme of "frustrated relationship" that will finally get resolved during sweeps week in the season before cancellation. Call it: My Mama, the Shrink.
  25. Jack Reacher
    World-weariness is not really the energetic star's best driving gear. Nor are declarations of menace intended to identify Jack Reacher as a modern-day mythic avenger. When he tells an enemy, through his clenched choppers, "I mean to beat you to death and drink your blood from a boot," the effect is, unintentionally, popcorn-spitting funny. Talk about overreaching.
  26. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    The film has its moments and some things to say about honesty and selflessness, but the plot is manipulated and the ending is not an ending. Truth be known.
  27. The Last Station
    Fitfully interesting, occasionally cringe-worthy, this is the sort of stagy production that mixes ribaldry and campy overacting that evokes summer theatre productions.
  28. Elektra
    For the better part of this movie, Elektra appears to be a sensible, stylish young superhero.
  29. Inside Deep Throat
    This feeble documentary ends up perpetuating the very hypocrisy it means to probe.
  30. Boundaries
    Filled with lovable eccentrics, Boundaries tries too hard to avoid the commonplace as its jolts erratically down the well-travelled, heavily signposted route that is the big-hearted road-movie.
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