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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 3.1 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. The Shadow
    Alec Baldwin, star of The Shadow, looks great in his tux, and maybe he can even act, but the script doesn't give him the chance. It can't decide whether it's in the humour department or the thrills business. [01 Jul 1994]
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  2. Wyatt Earp
    Do we at least perk up during the ol' gunfight at the O.K. Corral, or the vacant lot at Fremont Street, or wherever the hell it did take place? Sorry. Kasdan never was an action director, and he clearly hasn't gone to school for this flick. Bang, bang, I'm dead, you're not, next scene - I've seen livelier shoot-outs at a soccer match. [24 Jun 1994, p.D1]
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Getting Even with Dad
    One of those unmemorable summer movies about which the only good thing you can say is that it has charm. Nothing for everyone. [17 Jun 1994]
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  4. The Lion King
    For all the undeniable merits, it somehow feels manufactured, and thus, to a degree, calculated - the product not of a collective imagination taking esthetic chances, but of an imaginative collective putting the rivets into a well-wrought plan that can't go awry.
  5. Speed
    De Bont knows how to edit a pulse-pounding sequence, he knows how to keep the screen white-hot, and he sure knows how to blow things up real good. What he doesn't know is how to slow down - this premise is perfect for him.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    Crystal has a likable screen persona, and he's gracious in sharing his stage, but the movie is essentially an expensive (if quite possibly profitable) act of self-indulgence. [10 June 1994]
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  7. Renaissance Man
    It transforms that bottom line into a saccharine border, framing the picture with enough faux inspiration to keep Hallmark in cards for a month of Mother's Days. [03 Jun 1994]
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    • 16 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beverly Hills Cop III
    There is, admittedly, something splendidly subversive about putting the movie's arch-villains into a children's theme park - the ultimate symbol of both apple-pie family values and the whole U.S. entertainment industry. There are no real worms in this apple, however; like most flicks conceived as marketing vehicles, it's hollow at the core. [27 May 1994, p.D3]
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  9. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Writer/director Gus Van Sant, who's built his reputation on the romantic decadence of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho," completely misses the poetry and the irony of the book. [20 May 1994]
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  10. Maverick
    For all its cinematic assets, Maverick seems a less charming vessel than the show I watched at my daddy's knee.
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Crooklyn
    Spike Lee's Crooklyn is a charming little movie. [14 May 1994]
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  12. Being Human
    Being Human is just that, and it's a profound delight. [06 May 1994]
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  13. Kika
    What we have here is a romp, a funny romp at times, with a clear satiric intent and the expected quota of outrageous style - likable enough, yes, but a rather flimsy thing, a zany fest with its mind on cruise control. [17 June 1994]
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    • 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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  15. Serial Mom
    Water's kinky view of the world has simply been overtaken (hell, swallowed up) by the sheer warp of reality. [13 Apr 1994]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Rock West
    Given the stereotypical elements that director John Dahl and his co-writing brother Rick have used to construct Red Rock West, it's surprising that the result is a neat and prickly little thriller, dressed up in cowboy noir clothing. [07 Jan 1994]
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  17. Cronos
    A Mexican feature from writer/director Guillermo Del Toro, it's a modern vampire tale that occasionally rises to the level of competence but never inches any higher. [20 May 1994]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bitter Moon
    Bitter Moon isn't perfection, but this truly creepy story of obsessive love and even more obsessive hatred is deliciously, horribly, compellingly watchable. [22 Mar 1994]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hudsucker Proxy
    The Coen brothers have made the A-list of writer/directors with their big-budget replicants of Hollywood genres, but the wisecracking Hudsucker Proxy is all comic sound and fury signifying nothing All talk, no substance. [11 Mar 1994, p.C3]
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  20. Four Weddings and a Funeral
    British humour at its eclectic best, a deliciously heady mix of dry wit and ribald farce.
  21. Sugar Hill
    On one side, Sugar Hill is an admirable picture with strong performances. On the other, it's a victim of narrative cliches. [25 Mar 1994]
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  22. Blue Chips
    As a movie, Blue Chips is more journeyman than star, but, once in a while, it hops off the bench and shows a surprising flash of talent.[22 Feb 1994]
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  23. The Getaway
    Seeking both conventional action and quirky atmosphere, it achieves a little of each and not enough of either. [15 Feb 1994]
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  24. Romeo Is Bleeding
    It ain't hell and it ain't heaven; it's just, more or less, another two-star movie. [4 March 1994]
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  25. Body Snatchers
    What they've created is a movie that, lacking any resonance, is a soulless clone of a more vibrant original. [04 Feb 1994]
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  26. Iron Will
    The dogs and the snow and the flag-waving and the choo-choos are all reduced to TV-sized portions. Just as well, I suppose - think of it as audio-visual aerobics, forced training for next month's big bout in our living-rooms. [14 Jan 1994]
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  27. In the Name of the Father
    He gets much of what he wants, but not all of it, and not all of the time - the film is just too eclectic on occasion, a bit jumpy in its tone and its pacing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Grumpy Old Men
    Grumpy, dopey and wheezy. In this dispiriting spectacle of feuding codgers, two of the finer comic actors of their genration are reduced to being cute and talking dirty. [31 Dec 1993, p.C3]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tombstone
    A little bit like a barroom brawl: noisy, senseless, silly but somehow watchable.
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  30. Philadelphia
    This Hollywood movie about a gay man afflicted with AIDS is evocative, understated and ultimately deeply affecting. Hard-earned tears of truth. [22 Dec 1993, p.C1]
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