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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. No Man's Land
    A low-horsepower chase movie with Charlie Sheen and D.B. Sweeney...Peter Werner, with plenty of documentaries and "Moonlighting" episodes to his credit, directs this out-of-gas look at the young and the mobile. What this movie needs is more macho, more moxie, more attitude. Fill it up, and make it high testosterone.
  2. Starship Troopers
    It's exactly like "Star Wars" -- if you subtract a good story, sympathetic characters, intelligence, wit and moral purpose.
  3. The Devil's Double
    In the end, The Devil's Double is one long balance sheet. On the plus side are the dueling performances of Cooper, which anchor the film. On the minus side is a seemingly interminable litany of violence, abuse and degradation. They cheapen the film by nudging it in the direction of a splatter flick.
  4. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    Takes a turn for the dark side that will satisfy the franchise’s adult fans even more.
  5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    For those with no vested interest in this protracted and supernatural soap opera, but who do care about cinema, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 will be, unsurprisingly, a silly and somewhat cheesily made waste of time.
  6. 80 for Brady
    A serviceable mash-up of sitcom and sports flick, 80 for Brady should please fans of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and/or Tom Brady. Everybody else might want to call a timeout.
  7. Breathless
    It's foul, with so little left to the imagination that we get a look between his toes. [13 May 1983, p.19]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    National Champions
    As an attempt to expose college athletics for what it is — a laughably lucrative hierarchy that relies on free labor by student-athletes to line the pockets of coaches, commissioners and other bigwigs — National Champions gets a notch in the win column.
  9. The Black Hole
    Despite its obviously derivative elements and lack of flair in certain areas, notably writing and casting, the movie is at worst an entertaining redundancy, a brisk and diverting pastiche of familiar science-fiction adventure hokum. [24 Dec 1979, p.C1]
    • Washington Post
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Working Man
    The latest collaboration between ever-reliable Brit of Few Words Jason Statham and writer-director David Ayer — who teamed up more fruitfully on last year’s “The Beekeeper,” a revenge flick as wonderfully unhinged as its title — seems to belong to a bygone, channel-surfing era.
  11. The Last Boy Scout
    It's a kill movie, the filmic equivalent of a hate crime.
  12. The Spy Who Dumped Me
    Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Laugh a little bit, but prepare to be overwhelmed a lot.
  13. The Sea
    There's a little too much over-the-top drama, as well as superfluous detail, in this Icelandic film.
  14. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."
  15. Dopamine
    Shakespeare asked, "Or in the heart, or in the head?" It's not a new question by any means, but it's one that is given a fresh and refreshing adult twist by Decena's heady yet steady-handed Dopamine.
  16. Secondhand Lions
    It's less a children's movie made for contemporary children than a children's movie made for people who still remember, and pine for, how children's movies were made 50 years ago.
  17. Tai Chi Zero
    A martial-arts ad­ven­ture with more video-game and comic-book DNA than the traditional kung fu flick, Tai Chi Zero is good, if empty-headed, fun.
  18. Ping Pong Summer
    Ping Pong Summer may not be an instant classic, but it knows its time and place. There’s a humble honor in that.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    It's a fluffy, mildly inspiring, celebration of the hero leading up to his big moment.
  20. The Watcher in the Woods
    Watcher in the Woods represents a botched effort by the Disney studio to locate a suitable opening somewhere within the flourishing genres of supernatural and horror fantasy.
  21. Be Kind Rewind
    The films of Michel Gondry aren't for everyone, but viewers who vibe to his playful, cerebral, wildly imaginative sensibility might get a kick out of Be Kind Rewind.
  22. Wild at Heart
    What "Wild at Heart" feels like is a kind of housecleaning -- a disjointed collection of images and odd snatches of ideas that the director couldn't make room for anyplace else. They have no context, and as a result, no power to thrill or disturb.
  23. Casa de mi Padre
    With Casa de Mi Padre, it's often hard to tell the difference between when it's making fun of bad movies and when it's being one.
  24. Hook
    Spielberg and Co. have finally made their Disney movie -- or better yet, their film version of a theme park at Disneyland. It's sort of like "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "It's a Small World" rolled into one. It's a helluva contraption, and certainly one to be marveled at. It gives good ride.
  25. 300
    It's kind of a ghastly hoot, and while I suppose it does no harm, it also contributes nothing. It's a guilty unpleasantness.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Race to Witch Mountain
    Race to Witch Mountain has Johnson, who lifts the script above its conventional cat-and-mouse stratagems with his buoyant wiseacre timing.
  27. Any Given Sunday
    It's about as deep as electronic white noise.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lock Up
    Put the whole movie down to cartoonery...This is a drive-in theater battle of wills between the forces of evil and the forces of good.
  29. Life of a King
    The film is an effective, even heartwarming, tale of one man’s commitment to teaching that playing by the rules is more important than winning.
  30. Irreconcilable Differences
    The film aspires to some sort of commentary about the modern problems of career-minded spouses. Shyer and Meyers are trying to tap a modern vein but they don't know where to put the needle; all they get is water. This is a film with Perrier in its veins. [28 Sep 1984, p.C4]
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  31. Mother of Tears
    This lurid celebration of shock, schlock and the shamelessly perverse finds the 67-year-old grandfather of torture porn scraping the bottom of his admittedly limited creative barrel.
  32. Goya's Ghosts
    Handsome but stilted.
  33. The King Is Alive
    Becomes a strung-together collection of interesting, semi-interesting, boring and sometimes embarrassing (seemingly improvised) moments from the cast.
  34. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
  35. Scream 4
    The problem is, the movie doesn't really care if we are laughing with it or at it.
  36. Water for Elephants
    Big, slick and showy. It is also undeniably effective entertainment.
  37. X-Men: Apocalypse
    At times, “Apocalypse” can be great fun, even if it doesn’t know when to hand its car keys to a friend and ask to be taken home.
  38. Despicable Me 4
    Like Maxime’s roach-man, “Despicable Me 4” is a hallucinatorily imaginative yet overstuffed amalgam of unrelated elements.
  39. The Ticket
    At its worst, the movie is a blunt critique of materialism, but there are some smart moments along the way in this methodically paced drama, which puts more emphasis on atmospherics than storytelling.
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