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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. World Traveler
    Freundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Creepshow 2
    Whereas Romero's approach to this material is distinctly tongue-in-cheek, Gornick makes the mistake of giving the stories a straightforward treatment that merely heightens their inherent weakness. Both pictures use animation to tie things together, though the cartoon work in both is weak.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
    Only Michael Winslow, repeating his uncanny ability as a sort of human sound-effects machine, is able to give any life to this, but his efforts are like reviving a beached carp. They don't come any worse than this.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Apple
    Shot in Berlin and set in the far-off future of 1994, The Apple was clearly designed to duplicate the success of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and failed dismally, in large part because the music is so stupendously banal.
  5. Final Destination
    Serviceable enough, if you come to it with sufficiently modest expectations.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Down Periscope
    Exactly what you'd expect. This moderately amusing formula comedy is the screen debut of sitcom star Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), who plays a naval commander charged with piloting a WWII-era submarine in war games against the high-tech nuclear fleet.
  7. Runaway Bride
    Lack of chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts sinks this souffle.
  8. All the Rage
    The climactic shootout might have more impact if we actually cared about the so-called characters.
  9. Restless
    This intermittently charming look at East-meets-West culture shock in contemporary Beijing seriously overreaches its grasp.
  10. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Most of the film's imagination and energy seem to have gone into the clever casting and flamboyant costume and set design.
  11. The Jimmy Show
    Whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer, unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Mutant Aliens
    The general level of mayhem, the sudden transformations that are Plympton's trademark moves and the pervasive irreverence will no doubt delight Plympton's legion of fans; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    O Jerusalem
    Formulaic film recounts the tumultuous birth of Israel.
  14. Arthur and the Invisibles
    This is director Luc Besson's first attempt at combining animation with live-action, and while the look of the film is impressive, he should have focused more of his efforts on fleshing out the script that he adapted from two of his own "Arthur" books.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Moon 44
    It's eye-filling, to say the least, but there's not much tension or sense of danger.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hot Dog... The Movie
    The film's only plus is some superb ski photography.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Flashpoint
    Kristofferson acts like someone who has just awakened and would like to go back to sleep--something many in the audience found themselves doing.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To the Devil a Daughter
    Beautifully photographed in locations from Bavaria to London to the English countryside, and including some excellent special effects from Les Bowie, TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER deteriorates a bit in its relatively ludicrous ending. The film does, however, boast some truly frightening images of black magic rituals, a gruesome birth scene, and a very immodest Kinski.
  19. P.S. I Love You
    It's tough going relieved only by some lovely Irish scenery. -
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
    FREDDY'S DEAD is one of the weaker entries, with overt violence downplayed, perhaps because Freddy has become something of an institution, star of the silver screen as well as a short-lived TV series and innumerable merchandizing ploys.
  21. Annie
    This charming musical based on the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie features many memorable songs and pleasant dance numbers.
  22. Fat Albert
    Basic knowledge of the original series is mandatory, but the more familiar you are, the more glaring this movie's considerable deficiencies will seem.
  23. Reign of Fire
    Some great things can found in this fluidly kinetic film, well-directed by X-Files series and movie veteran Rob Bowman, including no-nonsense dialogue, epic photography and a terrific score. It's too bad the story is so sloppy and stupid.
  24. Cry_Wolf
    But clichéd rapid-fire editing and cheap-looking digital-image manipulation drain away every ounce of atmosphere, and overexplanation blows what could have been a darkly ambiguous ending.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Return of Swamp Thing
    With its endless string of good-naturedly cheap jokes and its comic-book style, The Return of Swamp Thing is good campy fun, spoofing its horror premise effectively.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    August
    Stylish, well acted drama.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Men's Club
    Director Peter Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels (working from his own novel) apparently tried to make a film like THE BIG CHILL for mature men, but the stagy result of their efforts will leave viewers cold. All of the characters are so broadly drawn that they become laughable, rather than interesting.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Morons from Outer Space
    A sporadically funny spoof of aliens-from-outer-space films that begins to run out of fresh ideas after the first 30 minutes.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nightmares
    In this quartet of scary tales, two stories work and two don't.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
    This might have been a terrific movie. It has all the right ingredients: a beautiful woman in an odd situation, a background as colorful as any movie ever made, a script by veterans Lorenzo Semple and David Newman, and a historic comic strip. So what went wrong? Blame must be laid squarely on the shoulders of John Guillermin, who directed the movie as if he weren't sure if it was adventure, comedy, or camp.
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