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For 4,672 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,964 out of 4672
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4672
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4672
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  1. Sex and the City
    Amid the style, sass and sexiness is plenty of sentimentality, especially at the satisfying conclusion.
  2. Goal! The Dream Begins
    The film is capably acted and somewhat inspiring.
  3. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    It's impressively ambitious, though great new personalities and fresh storytelling suffer for the sake of fan service.
  4. The Handmaid's Tale
    If there can be a best-selling novel with a cult following, Margaret Atwood's feminist-futuristic The Handmaid's Tale qualifies. I'm not sure if the screen version has the stuff to become a cult movie - but if so, credit timeliness, visual style and a few performances. Most of all, timeliness. [07 Mar 1990, p.4D]
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  5. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    Albert Brooks may have come up with the funniest movie premise of the year in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
  6. Being Flynn
    Robert De Niro has made several unwise choices in roles recently, and his belligerent wannabe writer in Being Flynn definitely adds to that list.
  7. Lucky Number Slevin
    This pop-culture-infused mistaken-identity thriller ultimately grabs hold and beguiles, though its convoluted plot takes a while to get going.
  8. Rounders
    Most novel is Rounders' message that the real sin isn't giving into vice but denying your God-given talents and not risking it all.
  9. Shooter
    Despite gripping chase sequences and a few awe-inspiring fiery explosions, gaping holes in the convoluted plot make Shooter heavier on style than substance.
  10. Robin Hood
    Cate Blanchett brings little but an arch toughness to the role of Marion, and, in a highly improbably climactic scene, proves herself a veritable knight. Crowe and Blanchett share a perfunctory romance, with few sparks.
  11. The Tigger Movie
    The story isn't a grabber.
  12. Flightplan
    This B-list thriller portrays air crews as inept, at best, and callous and cruel at worst.
  13. RocknRolla
    A well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark "Mockney" style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.
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    Crash
    Crash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive. The film is a stunning document of our alienated civilization, all the more compelling with its dolorous, almost liturgical tones.
  15. In Too Deep
    Begins sinking in the shallow end almost at once.
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  16. Grumpy Old Men
    The film barely skims the grimmer realities of growing old - sickness, money problems, loneliness and death. Still, you couldn't think of two better Grinches to spend the holiday with than Lemmon and Matthau. [23 Dec 1993, p.5D]
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  17. Multiplicity
    My hope is that if they do a sequel, they focus on No. 4. Love the way he carries pizza wedges in his wallet [17 July 1996]
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  18. Aladdin
    The memorable songs return (with some new additions), the movie razzles and dazzles with huge dance sequences and impressive production design, but it’s definitely a more grown-up tale than the original 1992 animated classic.
  19. Emancipation
    The heart of the matter gets lost amid the action-movie elements – with shades of "The Revenant” and “Glory" – though a dedicated Smith emotionally steadies the film through its rougher spots.
  20. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
    This savage parody of the many recent coming-of-age-in-the-ghetto melodramas is rude, crude and outrageous. It's as likely to elicit gasps from the politically correct as chuckles from the impossible-to-shock. [15 Jan 1996, p.4D]
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  21. Tea with Mussolini
    The movie is so aggressively ingratiating that it's probably not to be fully trusted, yet it works suprisingly well on its own limited terms[14 May 1999, p. 8E]
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  22. De-Lovely
    De-Lovely has its moments of delight. Its defects lie mostly in failing to fully delineate what made musical icon Cole Porter tick.
  23. Vanity Fair
    Thackeray said that he wanted "to leave everybody dissatisfied and unhappy at the end of the story." Nair may have had other intentions, but by film's end, audiences are bound to be left dissatisfied with the choppy and confusing storytelling style and unhappy about the missed opportunity.
  24. Lilo & Stitch
    That old “Ohana means family” riff still hits right in the feels, though what this latest outing lacks most is the first film’s electric charm.
  25. Narrow Margin
    Peter Hyams, who merely wrote, directed and photographed this loose remake, has refined (and in many ways, improved) the material by adding a helicopter-car pursuit and other nifty boondocks action. But mostly, it's Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - just as it is in the punchy RKO original, a 70-minute staple of cable TV. [21 Sep 1990, p.6D]
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  26. Hysteria
    The comic elements of this semi-factual tale are heavy-handed, and a key romance falls flat. Despite its titillating subject matter, Hysteria is only mildly stimulating. The final third of the story meanders during a tedious trial and clumsy speechifying.
  27. We Are Marshall
    Its use of trite "Win one for the Gipper" dialogue, overbearing soaring music and conventional plot devices makes it far too formulaic to truly move us.
  28. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    It's serviceable, but certainly not much fun.
  29. Penguins of Madagascar
    This is a joyless, frenetic film that is very rarely funny.
  30. She's the One
    Credit McGlone for humanizing and even making funny one of the most insufferable big-screen boors in recent memory. Cheating on his wife, doing what he can to undermine his older brother's already rocky marriage, McGlone is setting himself up for a fall. Burns' lower-key acting style makes him a cool straight man during their frequent bandyings, into which dad Mahoney (also abandoned by his wife) always adds his own two cents. You probably have to love a guy who claims that his failure to believe in God isn't enough to keep him from being a good Catholic. [23 Aug 1996]
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