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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. All About the Benjamins
    This is a movie fantasy, folks -- like James Bond, without the smarm and martinis.
  2. 21 and Over
    Certainty, then, is the watchword, and you can be certain of three things: There will be plenty of juvenile energy to power the vehicle; there will be a few mild chuckles en route; there will be no reason to remember the ride the instant it ends.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Time of Their Lives
    Director Roger Goldby tinkers with important issues around aging, only to steamroll it all with a slipshod script.
  4. Safe Haven
    It’s hard to argue with the title here – Safe Haven, indeed. This is all about safety in the Hollywood workplace. Why make a movie when making a Hallmark-card-with-dialogue is so much less risky?
  5. The Final Conflict
    Graham Baker, a British director of television commercials, makes a debut that is technically auspicious, and Robert Paynter and Phil Meheux, the cinematographers, have approximated the rich, chocolaty chiaroscuro of The Godfather saga. Does anyone care? [24 Mar 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  6. Ice Age: Collision Course
    Toddlers will dig the shenanigans, but bewildered adults should root for the annihilation of this tapped-out series.
  7. 1941
    Not only is it mindless, it is also racist. Not only is it racist, it is also incompetent. Not only is it incompetent, it is also unfunny. [17 Dec 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  8. The Real Cancun
    The Real Cancun is no crime; at worst, it's a kind of staged tribute to "Porky's" done by amateur actors.
  9. Spice World
    Critic-proof, devoid of plot or acting, and quick to mock anyone who might make something of it.
  10. Point Break
    “Bodhi,” in Sanskrit, is short for “being of wisdom.” In Hawaii, “Keanu” means “cool mountain breeze.” And, in Hollywood, Point Break means never having to bother with a plausible plot.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Erased
    Erased, I predict, is a word that will be used to describe what happens to your memory of this cloned facsimile of a movie immediately after watching it.
  12. Elektra
    For the better part of this movie, Elektra appears to be a sensible, stylish young superhero.
  13. Mr. Destiny
    Mr. Destiny is a sedated puppy of a movie - meant to be all warm and cuddly, it just lies there like a furry lump, waiting for an invigorating spark that never comes. You almost feel sorry for the inert thing - it wants so much to be loved, and does so little to earn it. [16 Oct 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  14. The Mummy
    And the living are pretty lifeless themselves. As led by the often wooden Tom Cruise playing the U.S. soldier who inadvertently wakes the dead, and directed by an indecisive Alex Kurtzman, the cast is offered some passable action sequences but struggles with weak dialogue and uneven comedy.
  15. Vacation
    Unlike Griswold vacations past, the peril in which the family finds itself isn’t leavened by anything funny.
  16. Love Hurts
    The plot and most action sequences here are as cookie-cutter as the community homes Quan’s Gable is selling.
  17. Fatal Affair
    Fatal Affair will live up to the first half of its name, and you’ll be bored to death.
  18. The Bubble
    There is semi-purpose and not insignificant pleasure to be had in Apatow’s experiment. The Netflix production isn’t the comedy kingmaker’s best film by a wide margin (though it is his shortest, which still isn’t saying much), but it works in spite of itself.
  19. My Best Friend's Girl
    An ugly, strictly-for-meatheads comedy that can only be recommended to couples who wear matching Tie Domi Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys out on a date.
  20. Jonah Hex
    The best part of Jonah Hex is Josh Brolin on a horse. Especially when he's not saying anything, just moseying into or out of town. Too had he never moseys into a better movie.
  21. Collateral Damage
    Morally simple, action packed and explosive.
  22. Raise Your Voice
    The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?
    • 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.
  24. Grandma's Boy
    An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Grudge 2
    Those ghosts might want to find a new vocation, because their work here is done.
  26. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Try as I might, I cannnot activate your interest in this bloated excuse for a movie.
  27. The Only Living Boy in New York
    Director Marc Webb proved he could do youthful love and heartbreak as well as anyone in his debut feature (500) Days of Summer. Here, working with a script by Allan Loeb (The Space Between Us, Collateral Beauty), he puts all the pieces together, but can't make the magic happen.
  28. Detroit Rock City
    The tuneful melodies of their favourite band grace the soundtrack, but let's not confuse this with a rock 'n' roll movie -- the music is just the blank canvas awaiting the higher art of the gross-out.
  29. Bedtime Stories
    Bedtime Stories does divide into two types of comedy: There's the story comedy, in which Skeeter dresses in costume when he performs slapstick and insults people, and then there are the real-life scenes, when he does the same things in regular clothes.
  30. House of D
    A bunch of scenes in need of a tighter narrative and, more importantly, a raison d'être.
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