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For 6,371 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,474 out of 6371
  2. Mixed: 3,422 out of 6371
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6371
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fortress
    While confined to the futuristic prison interiors, the film works reasonably well; but once Lambert springs his wife from the women's section and escapes, the limitations of budget and narrative imagination start to show. As it moves away from the ensemble feel of the early scenes, this quickly degenerates into a part explosive, part sentimental star vehicle.
  2. Careful
    Uniquely weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Thing Called Love
    Phoenix is fine in an odd, transitional role, but Mathis (who looks more like his sister than his girlfriend) really steals the show with a bright, sassy performance.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hard Target
    The movie's firepower would shame the devil. It's what Hollywood wanted Woo for: bigger, brighter explosions.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Manhattan Murder Mystery
    As light and brazenly generic as Allen's early work. As a result, it is both unusually insubstantial, and, at least in the second half, extremely funny.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Secret Garden
    Frances Hodgson Burnett's much-loved children's novel could all too easily come across on screen as the last word in period fustian, but the unforced approach of Holland and scriptwriter Caroline Thompson pierces to the emotional core of a still potent tale.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Body Bags
    Made for cable with many has-beens from hell.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Fugitive
    Ford is up to par for the strenuous stuff, but falls short on the grief, anxiety and compassion, allowing Tommy Lee Jones to walk away with the show as the wisecracking marshal on Kimble's trail.
  9. The Wedding Banquet
    Never patronising his characters, Ang Lee combines comedy, both subtle and raucous, with acute social asides.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    So I Married an Axe Murderer
    The crass Scots jokes are irresistible; Alan Arkin's cameo as a mild-mannered police chief is sheer perfection; and the cultish references to Beat poetry should please slumming hipsters. Like an exploding haggis, funny but extremely messy.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Another Stakeout
    There are explosions, car chases, a climactic shoot-out, and a comic dog. Comedy and suspense sensibly packaged; but very old hat.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hocus Pocus
    The ugly trio - Midler, Najimy and Parker - perform a show-stopping version of 'I Put a Spell on You' at a Halloween party, but otherwise it's slim pickings.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rookie of the Year
    First-time director Stern - Macaulay Culkin's punching bag in the Home Alone films - gives a broad performance as the pitching coach who knows nothing about baseball. Approach with aspirin.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Branagh and Thompson, as Beatrice and Benedick, seem on the whole happier with the romance than the comedy - but do a fair job with some of the best verbal jousting in the language.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What's Love Got to Do with It
    Along with the usual streamlining of history, we get a good deal of first-hand emotion and little critical perspective.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dennis the Menace
    A smooth blend of sentiment and slapstick.
  17. Hard Boiled
    Anyone who saw The Killer will have a fair idea what to expect, from the intense male bonding to the hyper-kinetic editing style. What's new here is a rich vein of anarchic humour (will they evacuate the maternity ward before the hospital blows up?) and a bluesy back-beat of philosophical musings on a cop's sad lot.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like Water for Chocolate
    It's overlong, but that reflects the nature of Mexican cooking: like water for chocolate, which must be brought to the boil three times, the characters continually bubble and boil over.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Super Mario Bros.
    Yes, designer David L Snyder has done wonders with the set; yes, there's decent photography and effects; yes, the giant Goombas are splendid. But the whole is not a dinosaur, it's a dog. It will baffle kids, bore adolescents, and depress adults.
  20. Sankofa
    While there's no doubting the sincerity of writer/director Gerima's film, one can't help sensing more than a little déjà vu in his account of the manifest evils of slavery.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Made in America
    After the first half sets up intriguing racial/political/biological conundrums, the second simply lets them go hang. Energetically directed with a fair smattering of funny lines.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sliver
    Stone looks distinctly ordinary in this glossy, glassy sex-thriller.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hot Shots! Part Deux
    Unlike its grim predecessor, there are at least two chuckles this time round, a slapstick routine at a Buddhist monastery and a witty Apocalypse Now gag.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Map of the Human Heart
    Fate intervenes at an indecent rate, serving up plenty of misunderstandings, but the mise-en-scène is stunning. Go with the floe.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Posse
    The jarring 1990s sensibility of this over-directed, under-written movie extends to style as well as content. Worst of all is the blatantly fetishistic attitude the director adopts towards his posturing macho star.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dave
    A buoyant comedy in the Capra tradition.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
    Unlike most film star biopics, this is especially strong on the films themselves, with skilful re-creations from Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon. Less successful is the subplot in which Lee faces up to his inner demons, depicted as a fantastical giant samurai figure.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blood In, Blood Out
    Clearly a labour of love for director Hackford, the film oozes integrity and is heavy with the stench of an authentic milieu; but forceful set-pieces and astute cultural observations are lost amid a sea of confusing (and eventually dull) stand-offs between warring gangs.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tokyo Decadence
    Lacking the intellectual, emotional and philosophical rigours of, say, a film by Oshima, this brazenly voyeuristic nonsense is finally as incoherent and unilluminating as it's hackneyed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Night We Never Met
    The film has three amiable leads and doesn't overstay its welcome.
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