TV Guide Magazine's Scores
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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
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46% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
| Highest review score: | Badlands | |
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| Lowest review score: | Terror Firmer |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
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Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
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Negative: 914 out of 7979
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It waffles constantly, and we never know if the creators are for or against gambling.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The first fruit of wunderkinder Alicia Silverstone's First Kiss Productions, this muddled thriller-cum-romantic comedy of errors suggests that she might want to lay off the producing for a few years.- TV Guide Magazine
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes employs calculatedly bad acting, ridiculous special effects, and inane dialog. Though it succeeded to some degree in achieving its goal, it's a thoroughly dull, unfunny effort.- TV Guide Magazine
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Ken Fox
Farley -- one of the few comedians who could ever be justly accused of debasing the pratfall -- has made a film that's tantamount to watching an overweight man slip on a banana peel for nearly 90 minutes.- TV Guide Magazine
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An $18 million, star-studded disaster film, which in itself is a major disaster.- TV Guide Magazine
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During all of this tediously staged action, the virginal female heroine, Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett), suffers hallucinations about the young Jason. Not surprisingly, these scenes — which feel as if they belong in another movie — are among the most effective in the film, a welcome distraction from the mundane mechanics of the rest of this predictable effort.- TV Guide Magazine
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Even the most ardent Cheech and Chong fans will have a hard time finding much to enjoy in this pathetic showing from the drug-oriented comedy duo.- TV Guide Magazine
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A dreadful remake of the French farce LE JOUET (1976), THE TOY is poorly written, over-directed, and filled with sophomoric attempts at humor. Only Richard Pryor's personal energy manages to save it from being complete rubbish.- TV Guide Magazine
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There isn't one laugh in this so-called comedy...The resulting situations are so moronic that the movie is unwatchable.- TV Guide Magazine
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Although the premise of getting or not getting a first driver's license is a solid-enough base for 90 minutes of teenage comedy, License to Drive misses the point on all counts.- TV Guide Magazine
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While doing nothing to dispel the stereotype that skateboarding is the sport of brainless jackasses, Casey La Scala's directing debut does feature some nifty boarding action.- TV Guide Magazine
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Though it is silly, sleazy, and graphically violent, The Toxic Avenger does hold a bit of warped charm for fans of this sort of thing.- TV Guide Magazine
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The old talking-animal routine gets a bit of an update in that this time the animal is vulgar and profane in a way Mr. Ed or Francis the Talking Mule would never have been. But that's about the extent of the inventiveness in this unfunny comedy.- TV Guide Magazine
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Blake Edwards's obssessive concern with cross-dressing and sexual role switching has hopefully been purged in SWITCH, an obvious, dim-witted rehash of GOODBYE CHARLIE, saved from total failure by Ellen Barkin's bright, energetic slapstick performance.- TV Guide Magazine
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This could have been trashy fun, if it had moved along briskly a la CLASS OF 1984. But it's self-important and dreary, marred by murky cinematography and painfully unconvincing pauses for character development.- TV Guide Magazine
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Daisy Miller as a book is a good read, but the film by Bogdanovich is truly a dud in spite of handsome sets and an intelligent writing job.- TV Guide Magazine
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Steve Simels
The truth of the matter is that, given the thoroughly manipulative, red-herring plot twists that get her to the happy ending, most audience members will have ceased to care about whether she lives or dies long before the matter is settled onscreen.- TV Guide Magazine
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Unfortunately, Petrie's idea of dramatic tension is to expose more boyish flesh as the movie progresses. And as more and more lumpy young pectorals are flashed, more and more people and objects are exploded. All this is accompanied by a persistently obnoxious soundtrack that features patriotic fanfares. And as the four different plots bump into each other like blinded laboratory animals, we begin to feel empathy if not pity for everyone involved.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Pokey, blood-spattered, cheap-scare-larded prequel.- TV Guide Magazine
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While Lynch ladles on the random weirdness around the edges, it is Lee who keeps the film centered, with a harrowing but poignantly sympathetic portrait of a woman's descent into horror and madness.- TV Guide Magazine
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Steve Simels
Think "The Lion King" redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
In the hands of a more gleefully provocative filmmaker, this variation on the standard erotic-thriller stew of sleaze, tease and murder, this ludicrous farrago might have been tawdry fun.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The spectacle of the near-naked Ricki (Lopez) striking sexually provocative yoga poses while floridly extolling the virtues of female genitalia is particularly mortifying, but it's only one of many horribly miscalculated scenes.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
This new SAW film is so utterly unimaginative it doesn't even count as hommage; it's just a smudgy copy of a still chilling original.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Formulaic hodge-podge that trades on a certain demographic's affection for the bogeymen of their formative years.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
This amateurish comedy features some amazing sequences shot in Moscow. But everything else about it is second rate.- TV Guide Magazine
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Contrived, slapdash and utterly false, this action thriller with a cynically soft center exemplifies the worst end-product of contemporary Hollywood formulas.- TV Guide Magazine
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The title duo serves up more idiocy, this time by dispensing drugs from an ice-cream truck--a concept that will appeal to few these days. The failure to come up with a strong script, character development, plot, authentic humor, or basic entertainment doesn't improve matters any.- TV Guide Magazine
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Even the special effects are lame in this one, offering a latex shark that is about as realistic as a fake goldfish. Poorly directed by Joseph Sargent, who relies heavily on blood and fast editing to create tension since there certainly isn't any written into the script.- TV Guide Magazine
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Director Damiano Damiani occasionally conveys a few genuine chills between bouts of unintentional laughter, but overall the film is a failure.- TV Guide Magazine
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Unfortunately, the filmmakers here seem to lack any notion of how to create a well-crafted vehicle, and the whole thing comes off as an uncertain, shoddy attempt to wring box-office dollars from sniffling audiences.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Even Spade's most dedicated fans would probably be better off staying home and watching a "Just Shoot Me" rerun.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
There's at least one ending too many, Union regularly vanishes for long stretches of the movie, and director Michael Bay's unmitigated pandering to viewers who whoop with glee whenever someone gets it between the eyes is genuinely distasteful.- TV Guide Magazine
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Women are treated with little respect by director Wilder, while men are portrayed as bad little boys who mean no harm. The so-called farce is just degrading prattle that drags on much longer than it should.- TV Guide Magazine
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Director Richard Fleischer demonstrates a keen understanding of the potentials of the 3-D gimmick here, but there is little else to recommend this dull retread.- TV Guide Magazine
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The film is so dark -- literally -- it's often hard to see what's going on.- TV Guide Magazine
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The opening half-hour, as Pat and former music video director Bernstein conspire to keep the secret while depicting the banal existence of this truly irritating character, is reasonably entertaining. The remainder of the film has some amusing moments, but the story goes nowhere, and if the film ran longer than its 80 minutes, it would have become too tedious to tolerate.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Director Jamie Blanks "Urban Legend" appears to be carving himself a career making slasher movies for a new generation; unfortunately, he's in no way improving on the originals.- TV Guide Magazine
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The film should have featured more absurd and nonsensical elements. Certainly the plot is ridiculous, and so completely illogical that to see it fall by the wayside in favor of some inspired lunacy would not have been a loss.- TV Guide Magazine
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Frank Lovece
That rare, unfortunate thing, a total misfire of a movie.- TV Guide Magazine
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While the master is at work, there are laughs galore, but the film nonetheless constitutes cheap exploitation of the memory of a man who convulsed audiences for years.- TV Guide Magazine
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Ken Fox
The cast isn't bad but the movie is, and Amir's use of Holocaust imagery is cheap and unnecessary; Jo and Alexander could just as easily have died on the Titanic. At one point the dialogue is completely drowned out by the roar of the surf, and that is no doubt a blessing.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all.- TV Guide Magazine
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Cynical and contemptuous of its audience, this lazy sequel oozes an insufferable air of self-satisfaction.- TV Guide Magazine
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Up The Academy is another in the seemingly endless parade of inane teenage comedies.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
In search of inspiration and the human spirit triumphant, they managed to cook up a pot of sanctimonious, reductive claptrap (which the credits confess was only "inspired" by Quinn's book) that's not in the least instructive or entertaining.- TV Guide Magazine
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Uniformly dull and predictable, save for the sight of Borgnine turning into a goat-headed demon--not much of a stretch, perhaps--and Travolta (in a small role) melting along with the rest of the cast.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
An arty fright flick that's neither artistic nor the least bit scary.- TV Guide Magazine
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This big budget mish-mash is almost unbelievably derivative and shockingly cheap looking.- TV Guide Magazine
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The humor here is forced, incoherent, and sophomoric, made worse by Thomas Chong's amateurish direction.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The less said about the story's twists and turns the better, except to warn that they become increasing preposterous with each passing minute.- TV Guide Magazine
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Frank Lovece
A lovely soundtrack by Irish balladeers the Saw Doctors can't make up for the rest of this belabored labor of love.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The pacing is slack, the comedy has an oddly sour tone and frankly, no matter how hard the script tries to paint Sean as a petty martinet with a stick up his butt, it's hard not to sympathize with him.- TV Guide Magazine
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HER ALIBI veers with little purpose from bland drama to heavy-handed slapstick, with rhythm, characterization, and plotting better suited to television than the movies.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The gags are familiar collegiate stuff, involving horny young men, horny old whores -- horny young tramps -- silly foreigners, uptight authority figures, homosexuals and sassy fat women.- TV Guide Magazine
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The air of low-budget Eurotrash is unmistakable. Almost everybody has an unidentifiable accent.- TV Guide Magazine
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Candy manages to squeeze a few laughs from the crude and cliche-ridden script, but Paul Flaherty directs broadly and obviously, with little feeling for comic pacing.- TV Guide Magazine
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This unnecessary sequel to the 1977 cult item Attack of the Killer Tomatoes picks up where the latter left off, as, over footage from the first film, we are told that the human race has survived the onslaught of the giant killer fruit, yet some are still traumatized even at the sight of a normal-sized tomato.- TV Guide Magazine
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Ethan Alter
Continuity errors are as numerous as product placements and though shot on location, the movie captures none of London's local color.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Director Jesse Peretz, onetime bassist for The Lemonheads, cut his teeth on music videos and appears to have embraced the austere aesthetics of Dogme 95 filmmakers without comprehending that an interesting story and well-developed characters are supposed to be part of the package.- TV Guide Magazine
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Surprisingly, the special effects aren't bad but they're wasted in a film that features a vomiting contest as a highlight. Skip this one.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
This bare-bones plot is merely an excuse to string together a series of gross-out jokes involving bodily fluids, private parts, food and genetic deformities.- TV Guide Magazine
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A worthless attempt to cash in on a lot of sniggering innuendo and crude slapstick.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
Muddled tale of demonic hijinks and devil worship. It's terrible.- TV Guide Magazine
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Maitland McDonagh
The parade of eccentrics never ends, and Stone's near-miraculous achievement is to drain the life right out of material so sordid you'd think it couldn't help but be interesting. A must to avoid.- TV Guide Magazine
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This vulgar, supposedly comic horror tale about vampire hookers and religious morons is just plain gross.- TV Guide Magazine
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Dumb sex comedy...Not much here except loads of beautiful women in swimsuits.- TV Guide Magazine
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A disaster. Mason founders in his poorly written role, and none of the film's endless series of gags is the least bit funny.- TV Guide Magazine
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THE HUNTER is more dead than alive. Supposedly based on a real bounty hunter's life, this episodic film never focuses on anything long enough for the audience to care about it, and characters race in and out of the story without introduction or development.- TV Guide Magazine
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A potentially amusing comic premise -- dropping a pair of anarchic stoners into the spaced-out, sanctimonious world of New Age bio-dome enthusiasts -- gets submerged in a shower of witless gags and the feeble one-joke persona of MTV celebrity Pauly Shore.- TV Guide Magazine
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It's not all that scary, either, making this psuedo-horror film largely a waste of time for even hard-core fans of the genre.- TV Guide Magazine
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A lumbering journey that conveys none of the joy or mystery of exploration. Star Gerard Depardieu's unintelligible line readings and director Ridley Scott's murky mise-en-scene make it a hard film to hear and see, let alone like.- TV Guide Magazine
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This poorly plotted film concerns three middle-class suburbanites who turn to crime when faced with poverty.- TV Guide Magazine
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The strange thing about this film is that there are some interesting--albeit half-baked--ideas floating around in the script, and the direction shows some skill and style. However, the plot is ludicrous from start to finish, the characters one-dimensional, and the world-view simplistic.- TV Guide Magazine
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Vadim's direction is pretty tedious, and his main aim seems to be titillation.- TV Guide Magazine
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Laughable exploitation film results in a complete waste of time and talent.- TV Guide Magazine
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Airheads commits the cardinal sin of satire: it's not sure what it's making fun of.- TV Guide Magazine
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Ken Fox
Filled with long, obviously improvised pseudo-philosophical ramblings about nothing -- and that's before the drugs kick in.- TV Guide Magazine
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The film attempts to mock both slasher movies and the mentality that produces them, but its humor is so sophomoric that it's a little like the pot calling the kettle stupid- TV Guide Magazine
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Angel Cohn
S-s-s-smokin'? Hardly, this sequel to the 1994 Jim Carrey flick "The Mask" should have been snuffed out in the drawing room.- TV Guide Magazine
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Ski Patrol is lame-brained entertainment stuffed with tired gags and stale slapstick.- TV Guide Magazine
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THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH is about as entertaining and memorable as a sports celebrity Miller Lite commercial.- TV Guide Magazine
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Frank Lovece
The annoying Reg Rogers, on the other hand, who plays Little Caesar creator Raoul Berman, delivers his lines like a stoned Pee-wee Herman, and the scene in which Billy Crystal mutters and drools in a restaurant is just disturbing for anyone who admired his work in the past.- TV Guide Magazine
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