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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. Persuasion
    If I may persuade you, however: Watch the film for whimsy. Read the book for passion.
  2. Next
    Ultimately, Next is just the next Nic Cage vehicle, another quirky story that allows him to do his patented neurotic balancing act in an askew world. The problem here is not just that Cage's shtick is wearing as thin as his hair; the role is a bad fit.
  3. The House That Jack Built
    The only truly shocking thing about this new work, though, is the fact it took this long for von Trier to make a movie about a serial killer. For a man who loves blunt provocation, the subject should’ve been first on his hit list.
  4. Big Daddy
    The film lacks the moronic consistency that graces the Sandlerian oeuvre at its most pristine.
  5. The Roads Not Taken
    An exercise in miserablism that, although clocking in at an ostensibly tight pace, feels never-ending.
  6. A Bad Moms Christmas
    Yes, it's up to the older generation to provide the comedy here, and they do it fairly consistently, with the delicious Christine Baranski carrying most of the movie as Amy's mom.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Star
    Clumsy, derivative, mildly amusing and ultimately forgettable.
  8. The Replacement Killers
    A plot so thin you could filter coffee through it.
  9. Halloween Kills
    There is something entertaining, or maybe just enjoyably puzzling, about what Gordon Green and McBride think a Michael Myers movie could or ought to be. If it ain’t dead, don’t kill it.
  10. Barnyard
    The disturbing thing in this preposterous piece of family fluff from writer-director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the Oscar-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) is the sight of bulls with udders.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    PCU
    The laughs are lame in this annoyingly outdated spoof of political correctness. [5 May 1994]
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  12. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    A British flick based on the first novel in a popular teenage spy-thriller series by Anthony Horowitz, looks promising but, unfortunately, doesn't measure up.
  13. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence is not bad, as in the sense of inept; it's artful enough to show how truly trite it is.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jake Speed
    Jake Speed is slower than a dying bullet, its tongue so firmly in its cheek that it can't enunciate a single sentence pleasingly. [30 May 1986, p.C5]
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  15. Suburbicon
    There is no harm in allowing Clooney to further stretch his directorial muscles – "Good Night, and Good Luck" is not bad – but there ought to be a law against wasting such talents as Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and poor ol' Oscar Isaac in this hollow exercise.
  16. Return to Oz
    Dorothy's friends are as weird as her enemies, which is faithful to the original Oz books but turns out not to be a virtue on film, where the eerie has a tendency to remain eerie no matter how often we're told it's not. [22 Jun 1985, p.E3]
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  17. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    Some might find it stimulating. Others will find it bonkers. Watching Jude Law do a slow-motion howl, for example, is certainly … something.
  18. 6 Underground
    A riotous and gleefully delirious assault on the senses. It is vulgar. It is absurd. And it is completely enthralling.
  19. Clue
    If you see Clue only once, and it's hard to imagine seeing it more than once, even for the five different minutes, the "A" is by far the best, featuring as it does (this does not give away the identity of the murderer) a splendidly funny shtick from Madeline Kahn. [13 Dec 1985, p.D5]
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    • 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.
  21. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Yes, The Mysterious Island is everything a 12-year-old boy could want – endless adventure involving a reckless adolescent hero, with a pretty girl in a clinging T-shirt around to watch him struggle.
  22. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Barrymore's charm helps make Beverly Hills Chihuahua a congenial family outing.
  23. Larry Crowne
    Next semester, the stars should drop Speech 217 and enroll in Chemistry 101 – they dearly need some.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    For Keeps?
    Nice try, spermatozoa. You look forlornly out of place in this make- believe version of reality, where pregnancy intrudes on those well placed to cope with it, and moral issues are fudged wherever possible. [15 Jan 1988]
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  25. Mad Money
    The pocketing of tired bills headed for the shredder, the producing of tired movies headed for the theatre -- it's all just recycling.
  26. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    It's a sitcom-y ensemble film (complete with product placement) that feels like you're flipping around the TV dial.
  27. Black Adam
    Johnson, who is also a producer here, having shepherded Black Adam through a decade and a half of development, gets off relatively easy. The real victim, or perhaps perpetrator, is Collet-Serra.
  28. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    Feels like a five-year-old with a megaphone, excitedly yelling about his latest bulldozer-soldier-dinosaur smash-kill-squash-everything game.
  29. Superintelligence
    Superintelligence arrives this week as a comedy with actual charm, wit and, yes, laughs.
  30. Cinderella
    The movie is basically a sumptuous almost two-hour long music video/musical. And as we wind down the summer – looking ahead to yet more uncertainty in the fall (Variants! Elections! Just Life In General!) – it’s delightful to indulge in a flight of fantasy.
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