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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. Bird on a Wire
    Obviously a great respecter of rules, John Badham directs with a metronome, here some glossy action, there some witless banter, dispensing the two like different colored Smarties popped from the box. The bird in Bird On A Wire is a turkey. [19 May 1990]
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  2. Abandon
    Don't abandon Abandon. In the movies' long weekly line-up, it stands apart -- innocent of banality, and guilty of nothing more damning than intelligent effort that falls a tad short.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Jeepers Creepers II
    The monster isn't very interesting (or scary) to look at: he's just an oily, overgrown gremlin.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget may be a live-action movie, but at its heart it's more cartoonish than most cartoons.
  5. Biker Boyz
    The fun of Biker Boyz should be in the racing, and though director Reggie Rock Bythewood throws around a lot of techniques, nothing really ignites.
  6. A Man Apart
    A paint-by-numbers vigilante movie with the usual rogue cop, murdered wife and trail of vengeance.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    War
    A kind of dumbed-down, souped-up action thriller in a quasi-"Lethal Weapon" mode.
  8. The Eye
    A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Employee of the Month
    How bad does a film have to be to get the death doughnut? Disgracefully bad.
  10. Phat Girlz
    If it weren't for Mo'Nique's fresh, appealing screen presence, Phat Girlz would fall flat.
  11. The Unholy
    Eventually, The Unholy reveals itself not to be an entertaining ride to Hell but an earnest sales pitch for the power of Christ. Fair enough. But for Easter 2021, I was hoping for something a little more enjoyably demonic and less been-there-redeemed-that. Let us pray.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Canyons
    The Canyons is actually anything but gratuitously sensational. On the contrary, it’s rather restrained, even conservative affair, far more interested in expositional conversation and a sustained tone of bleached-out melancholy than cranking up the heat.
  13. Space Jam: A New Legacy
    The corporate-synergy-ness of it all is both deeply distressing and unintentionally fascinating.
  14. Big Fat Liar
    Big Fat Liar becomes a progression of increasingly elaborate slapstick stunts, in the brutal, noisy "Home Alone" vein, in which the complexity of the pranks rarely yields a commensurate comic reward.
  15. Hard Rain
    The characters don't stay still long enough for the audience to worry about them. The high-priced actors (Freeman is especially wasted) are so much flotsam in the big water-tank action scenes.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Thunderbirds
    Simply put, this is a bad, bad film, this summer's answer to last summer's "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman." A dog for the dog days of summer.
  17. Victor Frankenstein
    McGuigan’s visually vivid Victor Frankenstein races to its lightning-storm finish, running over the solid (if not electrifying) acting of McAvoy and Radcliffe.
  18. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    A superior entertainment to both "RE 1" and "Alien vs. Predator."
  19. Criminal
    The disappointment here is that an intriguing psychological premise about a personality swap is never used to do anything more than provide the juice for a run-of-the-mill action movie.
  20. The Wicker Man
    The Wicker Man is one of those "what were they thinking?" movies.
  21. Are We Done Yet?
    If all this sounds familiar, it should. Fathers seldom fare very well in family comedies.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Space Chimps
    Space Chimps might have been saved, in fact, by using real monkeys in the astronaut roles. Or, better yet, by having a monkey in the director's chair.
  23. Underworld: Evolution
    Classic style over substance, with some gruesome-looking creatures and settings and non-stop shooting and biting (both the vampires and werewolves get their teeth into it). But, alas, at almost two hours, it is much ado about nothing.
  24. The Art of Getting By
    The Art of Getting By is distinguished by a dullness that's almost akin to being in high school again.
  25. Captive
    The film's police-procedural action is unimaginatively presented, but Oyelowo is compelling.
  26. Three O'Clock High
    Unfortunately, Siemaszko's performance is less tour-de-force than schtick-de-sitcom.[9 Oct 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 36 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Sex Tape
    The most important question is one that should be answered before setting foot in the theatre, and it is this: How badly do you want to see Cameron Diaz’s butt? If your answer is so very badly, or even pretty darn bad, then by all means, buy a ticket.
  28. The Wolf and the Lion
    To director Gilles de Maistre’s credit, a story about two astonishingly different animals – who still share a friendship – is rife with footage that puts almost every Dodo video to shame. Yet sadly, nearly all human interactions weigh it down to the point of creating a frustrating, dramatic and heavy-handed film.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pure Luck
    Gag is short-lived in predictable plot In this empty confection. Martin Short reprises every character he's ever played, while Danny Glover's detective is straight out of Lethal Weapon. [09 Aug 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Rollover
    Miss Fonda has thought to make a thriller out of that unthrilling process. [12 Dec 1981]
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