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For 6,392 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 3.5 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: 2,485 out of 6392
  2. Mixed: 3,432 out of 6392
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6392
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  1. How Do You Know
    Listen to the rhythms of "Broadcast News" - from Holly Hunter's daily crying jags to William Hurt's cock-of-the walk patter - and you'll hear how romantic comedy can approach an art form, a roundelay that requires the ear of a conductor. How Do You Know, James L. Brooks's latest, has such tone-deaf passages that it feels made by a totally different man.
  2. The Nun
    Hardcore genre fans will appreciate visual shout-outs to shriekers like The Exorcist III and City of the Living Dead, while Conjuring devotees will enjoy the “aha” moment of a concluding callback that brings the saga full circle.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Care Bears Movie
    Adults forced to accompany three-year-olds to the movie would have had a little moment of satisfaction when the time came to shovel the Care Bear toys out of the house into landfill sites.
  4. If I Stay
    For a drama pretty much aimed at 12-year-old girls, it’s less superficial than you’d expect.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Sands
    In the absence of real substance, Donaldson's stylish direction borders on the self-conscious, though cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr captures images of startling richness and clarity.
  6. Musical Chairs
    In many ways, this effervescent drama from Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) upends conventions, even when it sticks to a familiar narrative path.
  7. Fifty Shades of Grey
    Fifty Shades of Grey is a sex-positive but hopelessly soft-core erotic drama that fails to be even a fraction as titillating as the E.L. James books that inspired it. And yet, that’s exactly why it works.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Undercover Blues
    Disappointingly infantile.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Earwig and the Witch
    The way Earwig (which was actually made for Japanese TV) sacrifices Ghibli’s visual USP is less of a problem than the way it surrenders the studio’s accustomed emotional beats.
  10. Mortal Kombat II
    In the mood for two hours of relentless fights, gory kills, clichéd McGuffins and unmemorable characters, all served up in a weightless CG environment? Mortal Kombat II punches a hole in all those boxes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
    Gail Morgan Hickman's complicated script manages a couple of nice twists, but it's too formulary to pursue the ambiguities it reveals. Most enjoyable is the clear thread of self-parody, which keeps the laughs and bullets coming thick and fast.
  12. The Meg
    The Meg proves only that, at least cinematically speaking, great-white movies may have finally jumped the shark.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The End
    An engaging attempt to take the piss out of the crocodile tears that have been gleefully exploited since Love Story.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Man Called Horse
    Self-touted as an authentic picture of Sioux manners and customs, the film to some extent delivers the goods (despite sacrificing a great deal of credibility by absurdly casting Judith Anderson as a malevolent old crone). But the Sun Vow sequence, lingered on in enervatingly gloating detail, ultimately defines it as exploitative.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Foxy Brown
    Grier is an actress able to convey an amazing and unflinching strength, and she reveals the film for the dross it is.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Appaloosa
    The film has its moments, but is rendered virtually unwatchable by Furie's mania for weirdly mannered camera angles (you spend half the time peering round, over or under obstacles behind which the action is strategically placed) and enormous, pointless close-ups.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Futureworld
    The script, which labours under polysyllabic mumbo-jumbo at times, is infantile, while the performances, apart from a sprightly Danner as Fonda's TV cohort, are spineless.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Song Remains the Same
    It's gruellingly long, the four-track stereo relentless, and the music a mechanical recreation of Zeppelin standards (eg. 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Stairway to Heaven).
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Five Days One Summer
    A film which creates drama more out of gesture and nuance than dialogue, and employs a lush setting which overwhelms instead of pointing up the characters' emotions.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Condorman
    A pathetic shadow of the Frank Tashlin/Jerry Lewis Artists and Models.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joker: Folie à Deux
    Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga bring music but zero merriment to a bold and often brilliant sequel.
  22. Project X
    Deeply irresponsible, this a film that will give parents seizures-and Roger Corman a big old smile.
  23. Another Happy Day
    You could get whiplash watching this bipolar drama jerk between extremes: For every extraordinary scene - such as an authentically awkward exchange between Bosworth and estranged dad Thomas Haden Church - there's a sequence or three that might be extended collegiate acting exercises.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The River
    The message of continuous hardship is somewhat at odds with the same impulse towards idyllic lyricism that Rydell brought to On Golden Pond. Vilmos Zsigmond contributes his usual handsome photography, but this is one river that seems unlikely to run.
  25. American Mary
    The movie sags after Mary’s weak-willed acquiescence to crime, instantly turning her into a dull-eyed monster. You know her procedures are bound to stray from elective, but it’s hard to care.
  26. The Last Days on Mars
    Once the undead start walking, however, the film loses some of its footing: Most of the bloodletting is staged with quick-cut inelegance better suited to the hack horror production of your choosing, though there’s still a potent air of hopelessness that lingers as the cast is winnowed away "Ten Little Indians"–style.
  27. Knight and Day
    This smug and callous action-comedy is about nothing but teeth.
  28. The Upside
    This really is an incredibly cheesy remake—the original was already pretty cheesy—starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, doing their best with a script that cranks out all the odd-couple movie clichés.
  29. The Magic of Belle Isle
    Though the story's wrapped-with-a-bow finale is never in doubt-ol' Meathead remains a populist, pandering Hollywood man through and through-Belle Isle still manages to cast enough of an enchanting spell.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Zardoz
    The script gradually falls apart into a mess of philosophical pottage under the whimsically pretentious Tolkien influence. But visually the film remains a sparkling display of fireworks, brilliantly shot and directed.
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