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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. Nixon
    This three-hour opus, bearing only the eponymous title of Nixon, is an intriguing ramble through the social psychology of man and country alike. Indeed, the simple dialectics that both animated and marred Stone's earlier work are redeemed here precisely because they're invested in a single, complex personality - consequently, this film is more character-driven than any of its predecessors. [20 Dec 1995, p.C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. Premium Rush
    On the byways of any bustling metropolis, here is what the combination of bicycles + cars + pedestrians is certain to produce: (1) nasty accidents and (2) ferocious debates. More surprisingly, on the silver screen in Premium Rush, here is what the same combination fails to produce: a good action movie.
  3. Bad Reputation
    We learn a little about Jett’s activism, and hardly anything about her personal life.
  4. Splice
    Despite acting under the computer-generated encumbrances of that monkey tail and those centaur legs, Delphine Chanéac does something remarkable with Dren – she makes her a disturbingly sexy thing.
  5. Thirteen Lives
    When Howard focuses on the head-scratching mechanics of the mission itself, Thirteen Lives excels – and its many claustrophobic underwater scenes likely play excellently inside the confines of a darkened theatre. But by the time we’re in pure rescue mode, it is almost too late. What should be the highest of high-stakes dramas arrives with a drippy thud.
  6. Barbershop
    Comes as a pleasure. It's a comic drama set in a Chicago hair salon where the characters are engaging and the story has a bustling richness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    Blissfully entertaining sequel to last year's Spy Kids, Rodriguez is once again just as good -- if not better -- than the gadgets at hand.
  8. Mothering Sunday
    Triumphantly, Young’s work with her ever-changing (and aging) character succeeds in bringing a complicated and resilient character to life.
  9. Elf
    Elf is jolly but could have been jollier, funny but could have been funnier, charming but ... well, point made.
  10. The Way Back
    The movie makes for quite a hike. It's also, at times, a bit of a slog.
  11. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    For such a mush-ball teen movie, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants carries a welcome amount of grown-up emotional truth.
  12. The One I Love
    Here’s a date movie that will neither cozily cheer you nor satisfyingly thrill you, but instead leave you scratching your head.
  13. Harriet
    There is such a thing as being too reverential, and too many scenes – including one where a roomful of white abolitionists applaud Tubman – insist on Tubman’s greatness, instead of letting us discover it.
  14. The Return
    Though the stately pace can be frustrating, its anti-war stance ultimately feels modern and urgent.
  15. Guidance
    The film is not significant, but it is principled and sweetly subversive. And, like high school, if you’re not careful, you might just learn something from it.
  16. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a fun enough distraction.
  17. Cobb
    In a virtuoso turn, Tommy Lee Jones delivers an over-the-top performance, but it works for the obvious reason that everything about Cobb is oversized. Except for one commodity - there's not an ounce of sentimentality on the guy (nor in this film - it too is unlikely to please the crowd). [23 Dec 1994]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The problem with this spinoff is, like homework, you’d rather be doing something else with your time.
  19. Elio
    Disney and Pixar’s latest outing delivers on some frontiers, but puzzles on others.
  20. Bandslam
    Lack of sparkling teen chatter prevent this movie from being a slam dunk.
  21. Earth Girls Are Easy
    Earth Girls Are Easy is a 100-proof hoot, an intoxicatingly inventive movie that spins a fresh variation off a familiar theme. It's a high-octane frolic, pure and simple (but never simple-minded), a flick that owes more to ALF than to E.T., and far more to Busby Berkeley than to Rod Steiger. A wacky journey into the cinematic beyond, it defies every label but one: Fun, Fun, Fun. [12 May 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  22. Mission: Impossible III
    Though Abrams doesn't possess a fraction of the visual pizzazz of the two previous MI directors, Brian De Palma or John Woo, his incarnation is, from a narrative perspective, better made.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mystery Men
    This spoof's heart is genuinely warm.
  24. The Return of the Living Dead
    The Return of the Living Dead, a parody of George A. Romero's unforgettably frightening Night of the Living Dead, is not for everybody, but it's one of the funniest films of its kind ever made. [16 Aug 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  25. Frankie and Johnny
    Scrape off its grimy exterior, and it too is a fairy tale, but one with ambitions of realism, one that tries to co-exist in our world, one that pretends to be something it isn't. Frankie & Johnny ends up lost in limboland, stumbling onto a whole new genre - call it kitchen-sink unrealism. [11 Oct 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  26. Delicatessen
    Delicatessen is a carniverous sausage - lots of fat, a few meaty bits. [10 Apr 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  27. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a bunch of bon mots in search of a larger theme. Happily, the mots are so very bon that the two hours breeze by quickly enough.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. Deadpool 2
    Never before have the demands of my inner man-child been so stirred, though, than while experiencing Deadpool 2, a movie that feels scribbled in pencil crayon, drenched in Jolt cola and coated with the dust of a thousand discarded bags of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
  29. The Way Back
    It’s a solid effort. There are guts here, just not quite enough glory.
  30. The Land Before Time
    The film as a whole, beautifully drawn and gracefully set into balletic motion, teaches a few welcome lessons regarding ecology and racial tolerance. [19 Nov 1988]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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