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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. Minamata
    Despite its poignant subject matter, much of the film feels like a pastiche of political thriller, romantic drama and tortured-genius cliches.
  2. Caveman
    Priceless it ain't, but if the kids are determined to enjoy it, the brain damage should be minimal. [18 Apr 1981, p.D3]
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  3. Love and Other Drugs
    A jagged little pill of a movie from baby boomer avatar Edward Zwick.
  4. Grandview, U.S.A.
    Grandview, U.S.A., shot in the picturesque small town of Pontiac, Ill., opens with some pleasantly misleading evocations of Breaking Away, then degenerates into one of those blithely cretinous entertainments that leave you despising characters you were presumably meant to like. [08 Aug 1984, p.F9]
    • Washington Post
  5. Playing by Heart
    An amateurish jumble of romantic and tear-jerking overtures from novice writer-director Willard Carroll. [28 Jan 1999, p.M20]
    • Washington Post
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Take the Lead
    The young cast members are full of attitude and heart. But the film is long on flashy dance sequences and short on depth, character and craft.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Party Girl
    Party Girl, which director and co-writer Mayer made for less than $1 million, is hip and contemporary without being archly so.
  8. Rocky V
    The only good thing you can say about "Rocky V" is that at least Stallone has the sense to throw in the towel.
  9. Bride & Prejudice
    A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.
  10. Little Pink House
    Litte Pink House feels like it’s only ever checking off the requisite moments of civic outrage, while failing to connect with viewers on a level that’s deeper than the average made-for-TV issue-of-the-week movie.
  11. Agnes Browne
    A generally well-made tale of humor and hard luck.
  12. The Current War: Director's Cut
    The main problem, despite committed and at times vivid performances by the three main actors — and a mostly perfunctory supporting appearance by Tom Holland as Edison’s loyal assistant Samuel Insull — is the sheer amount of information that the movie tries to convey.
  13. Someone to Watch Over Me
    What with these pictorial pollutants, he loses sight of plot. "Someone" suffers somewhat from Scott's blind spot, but it's still a reasonably enjoyable romantic thriller with "Platoon's" Tom Berenger on his best behavior.
  14. Star Trek: Generations
    A flawed but funky adventure.
  15. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
    And all this twaddle about how people are more important than dollars, in a sequel that was rushed out by producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to capitalize on the summertime windfall of "Breakin' " is almost hilarious.
  16. King of the Corner
    A warm, unexpectedly moving portrait of a man on the verge of what could either be a dreadful or delightful second chapter.
  17. The Conspirator
    In The Conspirator, Wright announces in no uncertain terms that she is back and more than ready for her close-up.
  18. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    Lessons will be learned about teamwork and reconciliation, and many jokes will be told along the way. Some of those jokes are pretty funny.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Prom
    Lovers of musicals will groove on the shamelessness of its footlights worship.
  20. The Lion King
    There’s something about this Lion King, which, like the original, has its narrative roots in “Hamlet,” that feels so much more Shakespearean and — there’s no other word for it — so much more tragic than the 1994 feature-length animation, in which the story’s darker themes were subliminal, not center stage.
  21. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    See the problem here? There are so many subplots, it’s like herding cats.
  22. MirrorMask
    So single-minded in its reach for fantasy, it becomes the genre's evil opposite: banality.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Frankie
    Thanks to a superb cast and a welcome strain of comedic energy, Frankie turns out to be more than a pretty travelogue with melodrama.
  24. The Astronaut Farmer
    Sure, it's the corniest of conceits, but "Astronaut" taps delightfully into one of our deepest cultural values: the one about the pursuit of happiness. And the movie's unpretentious lightheartedness, which echoes the old-fashioned, corn-fed lore of Frank Capra, or even "The Andy Griffith Show," makes it blissfully easy to sign on for this good-natured voyage.
  25. Tusk
    Tusk seems to harbor no grander ambitions than to create a gross-out gag.
  26. Harry Brown
    Michael Caine delivers a stunning performance in Harry Brown, a rancid little revenge fantasy that probably doesn't deserve him.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Screamers
    The film paraphrases a quote from Hitler before he invaded Poland in 1939 (a quote still in hot dispute): "Who still speaks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" This documentary does. Whatever its flaws, that alone makes it worth seeing.
  28. All the Pretty Horses
    Thornton, writer-director of the superb "Slingblade," has a gift for depicting down-and-dirty scenes among men. And when our three principal characters go riding from Texas to Mexico, this is the best part of the movie.
  29. Evelyn
    As vivid as many scenes are, there are just as many that seem taken directly out of the Cute Irish Movie notebook.
  30. Fever Pitch
    If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
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