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For 1,952 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Gladiator
Lowest review score: 0 It's Pat: The Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,402 out of 1952
  2. Mixed: 293 out of 1952
  3. Negative: 257 out of 1952
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Death Warrant
    Death Warrant has two colors: dark red, dark blue. It has two moods: brooding and brutal. It makes prison look more attractive by adding fog machines and then filming everything in slow motion. [15 Sep 1990, p.C7]
    • The Seattle Times
  2. Look Who's Talking Now
    The sad fact is, this 90-minutecharade - like almost every movie ever made that features "Silent Night" on the soundtrack - will be showing up on late-night television every Christmas Eve into the next century. Talk about your nightmares before Christmas. [5 Nov 1993, p.D32]
    • The Seattle Times
  3. Bandit
    Bandit wants you to believe there’s some kind of moral underpinning to all this. There isn’t. There’s only another place to case, another outfit to don, another person to lie to, another bank to rob. No one’s born bad, but that doesn’t mean Bandit, the film or the man, is good, either.
  4. The Neon Demon
    It’s pretty. It’s empty. It’s pretty empty.
  5. The Sea of Trees
    The sparring couple at its center are played by Naomi Watts, a fearless actress who seems game for anything, and Matthew McConaughey, who just seems off his game here.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Marked for Death
    Just another big dose of mindless violence. [06 Oct 1990, p.C5]
    • The Seattle Times
  7. The Conjuring 2
    You loved “The Conjuring” in 2013. Now here’s “2,” with more, more, more of what you adored the first time around.
  8. Stella's Last Weekend
    The basics of Draper’s story hold promise, but the film derails because Jack and Oliver just aren’t charming as social pariahs.
  9. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    As long as the third and, one hopes, final installment is, it feels even longer. There’s more of it, much more, yet paradoxically, much less.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Lionheart
    Performances are lively, the story is incredibly stupid - and if you've seen one fight you've seen them all. Van Damme should market his next film as offbeat comedy - go for the laughs he'd get from the art-house crowd. [11 Jan 1991, p.26]
    • The Seattle Times
  11. Blackway
    Should you decide to watch all of Blackway, a decision I cannot endorse, you’ll get to know Lillian (Julia Stiles), a determined if rather personality-free woman who’s moved back to the small Oregon logging town where she grew up.
  12. The 5th Wave
    This picture stands as the best argument yet that the YA dystopia cycle has passed its sell-by date.
  13. The Rhythm Section
    You watch wondering what good actors like Lively, Law, Jeffrey and Sterling K. Brown (as a former C.I.A. officer) saw in this muddy screenplay, and why Morano, best known for the Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” couldn’t find a way to make them spark.
  14. Mojave
    In the cast, only Isaac makes a vivid impression, in a swaggery, relaxed turn that seems to imply that he’s in on the joke, or at least having a good time.
  15. The Best of Enemies
    The changes Bissell makes to the story are overly contrived, and the writing and editing are shaky. Most egregiously, Ann’s perspective is completely underwritten, without any personal history and the single humanizing factor of one daughter, who appears only briefly.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Quigley Down Under
    There must be dozens of film buffs out there with an unsatisfied hankering for Cinemascope Westerns. It's too bad, then, that Quigley Down Under fits the label, but doesn't deliver the goods.
    • The Seattle Times
  17. My Favorite Martian
    Essentially a mugging contest masquerading as a science-fiction farce, My Favorite Martian suggests that nothing really changes in the universe of bad Disney comedies. [12 Feb 1999, p.G7]
    • The Seattle Times
  18. The Hustle
    Hathaway and Wilson, instead of exuding odd-couple comic chemistry, seem to barely be in the same movie; they don’t click, with each other or with a bland Alex Sharp as their tech-bro mark.
  19. Trapped in Paradise
    As welcome as a race riot on Christmas Eve, this excruciating comedy is destined not to become a year-end television perennial. [02 Dec 1994, p.I32]
    • The Seattle Times
  20. The Forest
    The ever-game Dormer and that lovely green forest — which is, according to the press notes, played by a photogenic woodland in Serbia — deserve better.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Him
    Him is a bit like the red-faced drunk next to you at the Seahawks game: loud, fun at first, wearing thin after a few drives — asleep by the end.
  22. Masterminds
    There are some genuinely funny bits but, alas, far too few.
  23. Tulip Fever
    It’s all instantly forgettable. Except for the tulips — which, for the record, look stellar.
  24. Wish Upon
    The whole purpose of this teen horror movie is to show creatively gruesome deaths. If you prefer your horror flicks with a dash of wit or suspense, look elsewhere.
  25. Mr. Magoo
    The new "Magoo" ends with a statement that it doesn't mean to slight near-sighted people or prejudice anyone against them. But so few of the sight gags relate to Magoo's near-sightlessness that the apology is baffling. [25 Dec 1997, p.26]
    • The Seattle Times
  26. A Kid in King Arthur's Court
    Saddled with a script full of lifeless, mock-clever ideas (such as having the local blacksmith make a pair of Rollerblades), Gottlieb can only do his best to mollify his audience with a few fleeting hints of the movie's untapped potential.
  27. Revenge
    Hardly anyone comes off looking good in this glitzy and faintly ludicrous melodrama. [16 Feb 1990, p.34]
    • The Seattle Times
  28. ma ma
    Eventually, the film muddles its way into a self-indulgent, overlong mess, complete with a flowerlike beating heart, a miraculous new life and a lot of soccer. Long before anyone in Ma Ma expires, the movie does.
  29. The Love Witch
    Weirdest. Feminist. Movie. Ever.
  30. Mr. Jones
    Unfortunately, the script is so hopelessly superficial that very little of this registers. It's the work of Eric Roth, who wrote the unspeakable Billy Crystal comedy, "Memories of Me," and Michael Cristofer, a playwright whose most prominent previous screen credit was the disastrous "Bonfire of the Vanities."
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