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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. I Am Not an Easy Man
    As it happens, this movie is an expansion of Ms. Pourriat’s 2010 short film, “Oppressed Majority,” which was a punchier, and not particularly comedic, allegory of sexual assault. That picture can be found on YouTube; I don’t think it’s good either, but it’s more genuinely thought-provoking than its expansion.
  2. Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
    "Heading Home” is not a movie with much interest in geopolitics. It roots, roots, roots for its home team — and does little more.
  3. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
    Special effects in which the actors appear repeatedly in black outline and occasionally distorted perspective; and an assortment of tricks (rearing up on hind wheels, blushing and blinking his lights) that possesses a somewhat limited power to captivate...Reluctant adults marched off to "Herbie" by tiny press gangs may take what consolation they can from the scenery, featuring France and Monaco.
    • The New York Times
  4. Herbie Rides Again
    The problem with comedies as witless as this is that the villains are much more appealing than the good guys. One winds up rooting for the fellows who would tear down the Plaza to put up a 100‐story, glass‐andbrass breadstick.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
    There are some witty moments, as when the straight man, Proctor, played as usual by Lance Kinsey, uses a squeaky rubber squeegie to wash a window while his partner, Harris (G. W. Bailey), holds a stethoscope to the window to eavesdrop on a conversation taking place on the other side. But most of what takes place in Police Academy 6, from the flying billiard balls to the exploding cigars, are things you have seen someplace before. [3 March 1989, p.1-17]
    • The New York Times
  6. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
    But the formula is pretty long in the tooth by now, and all the extra turns of plot can't disguise that.
  7. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    The Police Academy series seems to shoot for an ever younger crowd. The optimum viewer for Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol would be a 10-year-old boy. Even better, it would be a whole pack of them. That's not to say the film isn't funny; it means only that the sense of humor being addressed is very specific. Stay away if drawing room farce is what you're after.
  8. RoboCop 3
    Where the director Paul Verhoeven infused the original Robocop with an attitude of mock solemnity, Robocop 3 has the energy and style of a cartoon free-for-all. [05 Nov 1993, p.C29]
    • The New York Times
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles was directed by Steve Barron, who has a number of music videos to his credit, and shows off the skills of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, without which there would have been no film at all.
  10. 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
    For most moviegoers over 12, this, the fourth Three Ninjas movie, will be interminably boring. But it's possible that young children will enjoy the film, since it falls into both the action category and the children-are-smart-adults-can't-do-anything-right genre.
  11. Jungle Cruise
    Jungle Cruise is less directed than whipped to a stiff peak before collapsing into a soggy mess.
  12. The Prodigy
    The movie’s occasional chills do little to obscure the thin plotting, problematic pacing and a central mystery that’s left aggravatingly vague.
  13. Jetsons: The Movie
    Jetsons: The Movie will appeal only to small children, and only to the most patient among them.
  14. My Father the Hero
    Katherine Heigl, playing the teen-age daughter who is mistaken for Mr. Depardieu's girlfriend, parades about in skimpy bathing suits, displaying almost everything but a sense of humor.
  15. Once Upon a Crime...
    The cast of Once Upon a Crime performs energetically, as if the material was funny, although most of the time it is not. As a general rule, films whose plots revolve around lost dogs are apt to be short on comic inspiration, and this one is no exception.
  16. Leave It to Beaver
    Leave It to Beaver is the sort of movie that could be described as good clean fun if it happened to be good or fun.
  17. Richie Rich
    If Richie Rich has the ingredients for a sweet-natured fantasy of ultimate childhood bounty, the movie, directed by Donald Petrie, lacks any sense of wonder. Its visual perspective is decidedly grown-up and demystified.
  18. Flipper
    Ought to please an undemanding kiddie audience, but Flipper offers little else in the way of excitement or plot.
  19. The Little Rascals
    The main trouble is that The Little Rascals is caught in a time warp, lost between the ingenuous ragamuffins of the early talkies and the more willfully streetwise children of today. So even working the title into the screenplay becomes a strain.
  20. Angels in the Outfield
    A big dripping scoop of marshmallow sentiment topped with whipped-cream spirituality. [15 July 1994, p.C10]
    • The New York Times
  21. A Walk in the Clouds
    Here, instead, is Keanu Reeves in one of his off roles, sleepwalking dutifully but seeming to share the audience's bewilderment over how he wound up in this awkward, slow-moving story.
  22. Larger Than Life
    Although the screenplay by Roy Blount Jr. comes up with some potentially sidesplitting situations, the director, Howard Franklin, who shepherded Mr. Murray through the equally limp Quick Change six years ago, methodically subverts them.
  23. The Swan
    Director Asa Helga Hjorleifsdottir never displays the passion that her characters suggest in their stories. If her film ever diverged from its ubiquitous images of misty mountains or its plodding piano score, perhaps its characters’ incessant mythmaking would convey deeper mysteries, inner worlds that are not visible to the eye.
  24. Bel Canto
    A movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.
  25. The After Party
    The movie is relentlessly fluffy.
  26. Phantom of the Paradise
    Phantom of the Paradise is an elaborate disaster, full of the kind of facetious humor you might find on bumper stickers and cocktail coasters.
  27. What Men Want
    While What Men Want starts off as a stinging critique, it undermines that message with one of Hollywood’s favorite idiotic subplots.
  28. Iceman
    Randau’s script, though, is an implacable plod from one bashing to another.
  29. Strange Brew
    A movie that's barely there. The McKenzies are genial enough, and once in a while they're vaguely funny. But their film is so ephemeral that you may hardly be aware of watching it, even while it's going on.
  30. Distant Constellation
    Said to be intended as a reflection on shifts in Turkish history and identity, it is too diffuse and withholding to add up to a cogent result.
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