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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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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Windtalkers
    The movie deals superficially with Native American pride and racism in the ranks, but it's hardly about the codetalkers at all: Neither Woo nor the screenwriting team of Joe Batteer and John Rice seem to appreciate the bitter irony in a Native American soldier protecting his land by serving the very government that took most of it from him in the first place.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Henry & June
    Kaufman tries to project a kind of professorial sobriety, hoping his film will seem classy and serious instead of raunchy. We think it could've used more raunch, and we're sure Henry Miller (whose favorite film was L'AGE D'OR) would have agreed.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eating
    Unfortunately, EATING lacks a main plot or any truly involving developments, and the film, after a promising beginning, loses steam.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Program
    THE PROGRAM was a surprisingly thoughtful entry in a season glutted with sports films. (RUDY; BLUE CHIPS; THE AIR UP THERE; ABOVE THE RIM; D2; and MAJOR LEAGUE 2.) The game sequences, in particular, are deftly choreographed and charged with a real sense of drama.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Surviving Picasso
    This movie is a dreary endurance test.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pink Floyd: The Wall
    Thematically the film is banal, and even its simple themes of alienation, loneliness, and paranoia are muddled and sapped of relevancy by the overblown treatment. Geldof is effective in the lead, and the animation sequences by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe are interesting and well executed, though too long.
  7. Johnny Suede
    Johnny Suede's stylish, dreamlike mood and abstract dialogue cannot compensate for its unsatisfying storyline and characters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Trouble in Mind
    TROUBLE IN MIND is offbeat, unique, and interesting, and for that alone it should be noted. It is a shame that none of the elements ever come together, so this film winds up being a beautiful, atmospheric mess.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Alone in the Dark
    This black sense of humor, combined with the playful performances of its excellent cast (especially Donald Pleasance, as the head of the asylum), raises Alone In The Dark a cut above the average maniacs-on-the-loose entry.
  10. Malevolence
    Mena's characters rarely do the sort of spectacularly stupid things that provoke derisive laughter from seasoned horror-moviegoers.
  11. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    Amiable, brightly colored spoof of '60s pop culture.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Black Windmill
    Disappointing effort from Siegel, although not without some interesting philosophical "hero-antihero" questions.
  13. Serendipity
    The pace is brisk and the details are carefully arranged, but there's no sparkle -- and what's a romance without that?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Tycoon
    Fitzgerald's unfinished novel transfers awkwardly to the screen but is saved from oblivion by that always-fascinating actor De Niro, who essays the role of the movie mogul (based on MGM's Irving Thalberg).
  15. Alien: Resurrection
    The plot is more of the same old running and screaming, but Weaver is worth the price of admission all by herself, which is just as well in light of the less-than-fleshed out characters by whom she's surrounded.
    • 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.
  17. The Producers
    The film falls short even as a record of Broderick and Lane's crowd-pleasing rapport: Both have done the show so many times that every scrap of life is gone.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Dragon
    An enjoyable pastiche of martial arts, romance, music, and video, THE LAST DRAGON presents a likable young hero, Leroy (Taimak), who aspires to become a kung fu master.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Conan the Barbarian
    A series of meaningless adventures punctuated with a lot of clanky, very bloody swordplay, Conan the Barbarian is best remembered for a scene in which Schwarzenegger punches out a camel.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jake Speed
    Although the film fails at a number of levels, most acutely in never making us care much about any of the characters or their problems, it possesses a loopy charm that makes it a pleasure to watch.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Reality Bites
    In fact, it's often genuinely funny--but it's still an establishment picture pretending it's not.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Innerspace
    Formulaic fun, helped by two winning leads.
  23. Bootmen
    Clichés negate bona fides; hence, the movie feels like a corny Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland vehicle with cussing. That said, the tapping is fabulous.
  24. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    Characters are undermined by the inexpressive animation that mars the majority of animated films: Their haunted inner lives are clearly meant to take center stage, but their faces are blank and two-dimensional.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tommy Boy
    If this pairing sounds like movie magic to you, we're sure you'll love the picture.
  26. Prom Night
    Formulaic to the core, this reworking of the fondly remembered high-school slasher picture works surprisingly well on its own terms.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bloodbrothers
    An ambitious and sometimes-incisive look at the inner workings of an Italian-American family.
  28. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    It's actually a sweet, often very funny story about a schlemiehl redeemed by love.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Newsies
    Sumptuous production values and fitfully impressive choreography notwithstanding, Newsies was a major misfire for Disney Studios.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Action Jackson
    First-class stunts, fine photography, and solid acting by Weathers and Vanity combine to lift this action film above its ludicrous story. Had the filmmakers not undermined the project with inane plot twists, unexplained motives, and absurd coincidences, this could have been a real winner.
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