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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Jet Lag
    The script is definitely mediocrity mixed with complication.
  2. Slacker
    It's unclear as to how we are supposed to feel about these monologuists, the majority of whom are twentysomething; nothing is how I felt about them, but perhaps I was tired. [27 Sept. 1991]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    The problem with Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, which is the second movie in four years about the sensational 1983 crime (the other was a Dutch production with Rutger Hauer as the dapper snatchee), is that it follows the kidnappers out the door instead of sticking with the coolly composed man behind it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Iron Eagle
    The vulgarity and jingoism of Iron Eagle prevent it from functioning even as breezy entertainment. [17 Jan 1986, p.C10]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. Little Man
    Little Man will probably satisfy fans of the Wayans.
  6. Jason X
    This time the action takes us out of the usual campgrounds and girls in underwear into the realm of outer space, where no one can hear you screaming "Enough already."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Noah
    What could have made Noah work is the same sense of urgency – of fateful craziness – that made "Pi" so memorable, and which also factored into the fatal obsessions of "The Wrestler" and "Black Swan" (two very flawed movies that admittedly benefited from stronger lead performances than the one here).
  8. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Mottola’s film is the unfortunate result of too much talent met with a clunky script – and the movie crumples under the weight of the cast’s star power.
  9. Jetsons: The Movie
    Not surprisingly, the menage breaks down in the first few frames, depriving us on two counts - we get neither the smart-aleck naivete of yesterday nor the self-conscious slickness of today. [6 July 1990]
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  10. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    But hey, at least Zwick and company carve out some time for Tom Cruise to run, with Reacher dashing across a busy avenue for about 18 seconds or so. It’ll make for a great supercut one day.
  11. They Live
    From its eccentric score (a mix of spaghetti western and funky blues) to its bizarre casting (ex-wrestlemanaic Roddy Piper in the lead role), the flick leaves us off-balance and guessing. By the time we figure out there's not much to guess at, the credits roll by and the jig is up. [5 Nov 1988]
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  12. Freaks
    This is clearly a film that favours concept over narrative expansion, and it suffers for this.
  13. Double Team
    Instead of story or suspense, Double Team offers a busy sampling of eye candy. [4 Apr 1997, p.C6]
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  14. Last Night
    Last Night is a New York morality play: A film in love with (lower) Manhattan that is suspicious of real romance. What it lacks is Allen's sense of horseplay; his appetite for lunatic adventure. When you take a bite of the Big Apple, you're not supposed to nibble.
  15. Red Dawn
    The filmmakers have altered the premise from the unlikely to the ridiculous.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    One Missed Call
    Give this call a miss.
  17. Walking Tall
    Okay, it's just a movie, but his "reward" just doesn't cut it, even on a basic storytelling level. A crooked casino and a nephew's experiment with drugs are not enough justification for the hero's violent acts of vengeance.
  18. The Recall
    Nevertheless, as the sort of rote horror movie that’s fun to laugh at, The Recall has its moments.
  19. White Nights
    White Nights is too ponderous to have the pizzazz of trash and too dumb to have the insight of art - it's a lumbering behemoth of a film in which the extraordinary talent of its one authentic star, Mikhail Baryshnikov, is exploited in a Cold War cartoon that suggests a musical adaptation of Ayn Rand's anti- Soviet novel, We The Living. [22 Nov 1985]
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  20. Halloween: Resurrection
    It's all very pat and, ultimately, annoying.
  21. Fatal Affair
    Fatal Affair will live up to the first half of its name, and you’ll be bored to death.
  22. Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
    Properly handled, any one of these characters could be made, just barely, believable. But here they simply go off, like rockets, exploding out of nowhere and racing across the screen, one after the other.
    • 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.
  24. The Champ
    Fat and sassless Champ a loser on all counts. [09 Apr 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  25. How to Deal
    Just the umpteenth replay of the girl-meets-boy/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl story.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    A run-of-the-mill movie hero.
  27. Ouija
    It is harmless, frighty fun for teenage audiences, but adults will leave theatres with their bejeebers intact.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Kill Your Darlings
    It adds nothing to our understanding of "Howl," and the movie is exactly what the poem isn’t: ordinary.
  29. Domino
    There is the overwhelming sense that Domino was not directed by any one person at all, but rather spliced and diced by committee into something barely watchable.
  30. Trapped
    There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Watching Trapped simply makes us feel guilty.
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