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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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  1. Meet the Robinsons
    A barrage of pop-culture jokes, time-travel high jinks and plucky orphans that's as confusing as it sounds, and riddled with plot holes to boot.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Stuck
    A drum-tight, extremely grisly thriller. And odd as it may sound given the subject matter, it's also surprisingly funny.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Nina's Tragedies
    No amount of style or good acting can disguise the fact that this downbeat Israeli comedy is little more than a sudsy soap-opera with a distinctly unsavory aftertaste.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sunshine Cleaning
    It's a solid depiction of a relatable story, and it's absolutely modest about all of it, especially stylistically, where things stay remarkably reeled in.
  5. Private
    For a movie rooted in reality, Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo's taut psychological drama is in desperate danger of drowning in metaphor.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Wondrous Oblivion
    As lightheartedly as the film plays, Morrison manages to say quite a few serious things about immigration and otherness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Word Wars
    If the idea of playing Scrabble conjures up dreary images of dull evenings with aged family relatives, you haven't met the subjects of Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo's irresistible documentary.
  8. The Polar Express
    The film's characters, computer-animated over motion-caputure footage of flesh-and-blood performers, are as blank-eyed and rubbery-looking as moving mannequins -- the stuff of nightmares, not dreams.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    La Cage aux Folles
    In less assured hands, this could have wound up as a disaster, but director Edouard Molinaro was skillfully able to film the long-running play and wring every drop of humor from it.
  10. Edmond
    Written in the aftermath of a bitter divorce, Mamet's paranoid rant -- an explosion of middle-aged, white-collar, white-men's rage at losing ground to everyone, from women, hustlers, African Americans and homosexuals to the younger generation nipping at their heels -- is as bilious as ever, but time has overtaken and defanged it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Natural
    Somewhat overly sentimental, lacking the novel's subtlety, and less interesting when the action leaves the ball park, Barry Levinson's beautifully shot film is nonetheless a charming fairy tale.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Eyewitness
    Director Peter Yates takes Tesich's basically wobbly story and makes much more out of it, driving the tale and the characters at a hectic pace and providing some truly unnerving moments.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Eiger Sanction
    Unlike his brilliant work in directing westerns, Eastwood falls victim to stodgy pacing and ludicrous acting. The Eiger Sanction does, however, contain some brilliant, breathtaking mountaineering sequences in which Eastwood did his own stunt work.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kill Me Again
    Well-crafted and competently acted, Kill Me Again is anything but a terrible film; however, like so many other films that have struggled mightily to pay homage to the great films noir of the past, it fails to come to life on its own terms.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Wackness
    A deeply personal coming-of-age story steeped in heady nostalgia and all the creative myopia that too often comes with it.
    • TV Guide Magazine
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Kentucky Fried Movie
    Depending on one's mood, or level of sobriety, it can be a hysterical picture that pokes good natured fun at American movies, TV and commercials.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Manhattan Project
    This exciting, if conventional, teen thriller effectively makes its points about the dangers of the nuclear age. It features a fine performance from Lithgow as the brilliant yet troubled scientist, and writer-director Marshall Brickman does a nice job of emphasizing human values.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Drawing Restraint 9
    A gorgeous feature that's both passing strange and undeniably beautiful.
  19. Sólo con tu pareja
    Banned for many years in director/cowriter Alfonso Cuaron's native Mexico, his debut feature is a bawdy comedy that pivots on the comeuppance of a serial philanderer.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vanishing Point
    A fairly interesting, but somewhat muddled, road movie starring Newman as an ex-cop who now drives cars from Denver to San Francisco for a living.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Isle
    The film nevertheless exerts a strange sort of power that makes for compelling viewing, even as its images force one to repeatedly look away.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hammett
    Like The American Friend, Wenders's previous meditation on American genres, Hammett is less concerned with its storyline than it is with focusing on an American myth. As such it is not to be missed.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Slap Shot
    The on-ice violence is hyperreal, the emotions believable, and the laughs plentiful in this slightly off-the-wall comedy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Idolmaker
    THE IDOLMAKER takes itself too seriously, but is nonetheless one of the best and most energetic film treatments of the early days of rock 'n' roll and a fine depiction of how performers are groomed for stardom (far superior to THE ROSE).
  25. Brick Lane
    Restrained and decorous to a fault.
  26. The Faculty
    Exactly the kind of sporadically clever, button-pushing fright-fest that keeps genre fans hanging on until something more fulfilling comes along.
  27. The Count of Monte Cristo
    This is solid entertainment, and the time Caviezel and Pearce spent training for their sword fights pays off handsomely.
  28. Willard
    Production-designed within an inch of its life, this remake's best conceit is the casting of Crispin Glover as its socially maladroit rat fancier.
  29. Mail Order Wife
    The result, a dissection of the complicated dynamics of sexual and economic exploitation, is pitiless and occasionally inspired.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Oleanna
    As a piece of theater, Oleanna's stylized dialogue and strict three-act schematic structure probably worked in the drama's favor; but on film, the techniques are jarring within the naturalistic settings. Mamet, who has written and directed three previous films, should have known better than to preserve the excessively theatrical aspects of his material.
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