TV Guide Magazine's Scores

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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:
7979 movie reviews
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Steiger and Ireland manage to give believable performances, but Bronson is unable to evoke a sense of hardness. The direction suffers from too little effective pacing and too much concentration on the pretty scenery.
  1. Director Rick Rosenthal ("Halloween II") seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense, relying on cliched shadows and grainy, handheld images supposedly shot by the increasingly terrified students.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Five people were credited with co-writing TURNER & HOOCH, and rarely have so many labored to so little effect. There's barely enough to make up an agreeable made-for-TV movie in this film.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Finney and Keaton each have their heavy dramatic moments, but there is nothing in writer Bo Goldman's script that hasn't been seen and heard in a thousand other films.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    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.
  2. The movie's uninspired animation (including primitive, blocky computer imagery) doesn't help, nor do its astonishingly stereotyped characters.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pryor--whose customary profanity cuts into the story's essentially sentimental nature--is able to energize the material, but in the end Bustin' Loose remains a minor effort from a major talent.
  3. Noisy and obnoxious, this flashy action picture is so hell-bent on seeming smart that it fairly forces you to think about how fundamentally stupid it is.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Since all these revisited series have run out of steam, this sorry sequel is only recommended for aging nostalgists.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's an action junkie's angry fix -- 130 minutes of sound and fury, signifying nothing but big bucks and boundless contempt for viewer intelligence.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pretty melodramatic stuff, given poor technical production by the studio, but saved by Quinn's bravura performance.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The violence is bloody, nonstop, and as pointless as the script.
  4. Hugely smug and annoying.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    It all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.
  5. Ruthlessly efficient and utterly predictable.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Parts of the film are nasty enough to grip the audience, but a large portion is muddled and sometimes laughably pretentious.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    It begins with a stale Hitler joke and ends with a miraculous quick-save that demonstrates just how poorly the Holocaust is served by the life-affirming requirements of Hollywood features.
  6. Cocky, vulgar and very noisy picture.
  7. While the transgressive trappings (especially the frank sex scenes) ensure that the film is never dull, Rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Corny and irritatingly simplistic though this fast-paced biography of 16th-century German religious reformer Martin Luther may be, it's undeniably entertaining.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This lowbrow romp doesn't even have the courage of its own infantile grossness.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Simply exhausting; it wants to be funny and sad and lighthearted and serious all at once.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    This intermittently interesting symbolic tour through European history once again places ideas over aesthetics and technique.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The jokes tossed into this feeble effort involve Cheech and Chong in drag, herpes, and an S&M porno adventure featuring the comedians' real-life spouses Shelby Fiddis and Rikki Marin.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Executive produced by B-movie veteran Samuel Z. Arkoff and indifferently directed by TV-trained Stuart Rosenberg, the film's reputation exceeds its achievements, and the true story angle has been vigorously disputed.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The script originally began life as a stage play, but still feels underwritten.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Not everyone will be comfortable with a story that's as geared toward recruitment as any Army film, be it God's or Uncle Sam's.
  8. The film is never dull.
  9. A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.
  10. It's got turns, it's got an attractive cast that gets shish-kabobed with ruthless regularity. It's just tired.

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