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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. Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
    This is fun and there are few kids who won't have a good time of it. But it's no Honey, I Shrunk . . . The first movie was more interesting and inventive, with the tiny kids facing the jungle terrors of a giant lawn and the aerial attack of a zeppelin-sized bee.
  2. Swamp Thing
    Swamp Thing isn't completely successful at banishing the old corkers and stereotypes, but it's a harmless, watchable comic-book thriller, refreshingly suitable for kids of almost any age.[10 May 1982, p.C2]
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  3. Little Nikita
    Little Nikita would be nothing without River Phoenix's hair. It's the most engaging, the most watchable thing in the film. It has body. It has character. It even has drama. In other words, it has everything that's missing from the rest of the picture.
  4. The Equalizer 2
    It’s purely unintentional, but the little numeral dangling, like a broken, mangled finger, from the end of the title of The Equalizer 2 signals more than the fact that this is a sequel to the 2014 action thriller about a violent vigilante. It also lets you know that there are two, and only two, pleasures to be had here.
  5. Life After Beth
    The promise of its premise is squandered all too soon in what becomes yet another tiresome exercise in the way-overworked zombie genre.
  6. Introducing the Dwights
    Amusing only for its performances, including those of Chittenden and Wilson. The cast cannot hide the movie's derivative shortcomings, which only remind us that we've seen better and funnier elsewhere.
  7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Scrat's annoying ubiquity -- is just one piece of evidence that Dawn of the Dinosaurs has been focus-grouped and is now trying to please its presumed young audience a little more than is healthy.
  8. Dedication
    Theroux and company could be said to be "Garden State"-ing, or trying to. Instead of that film's sheen of the touchingly weird, Dedication finds a whole lot of the coldly dumb.
  9. Boiling Point
    Boiling Point is a bad cable movie -- USA as opposed to HBO -- temporarily masquerading as a theatrical release; even the presence of one hot actor, Wesley Snipes, can't elevate it past lukewarm status. Dennis Hopper, here reduced to an unamusing caricature of himself, further cools things down. The end result, if truth-in-titling were in effect: "Tepid Point."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow White
    True, the CGI dwarves (not “dwarfs,” thank you) are a pox upon the eyeballs, but other than that? It’s pretty good.
  11. The Brothers
    A lively, affectionate and well-acted romantic comedy, takes a raunchy look at relationships from the black male perspective.
  12. Flawless
    A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
  13. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    For a quicker and more startling survey of Hong Kong stunts gone wrong, just check out the blooper clips that conclude any '80s Chan flick.
  14. Afternoon Delight
    The movie’s a mixed bag, but Hahn makes the most of her opportunities. Casting directors would be wise to take note.
  15. King Lear
    William Shakespeare would need a sense of humor to view Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear" without getting steamed up in his bodkins.
  16. Tombstone
    Highly stylized fashion-wise but awkwardly unfocused in its plotlines, it aims for the western iconography of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone but never gets past its own directorial hurdles.
  17. Fat Man and Little Boy
    Fat Man seems unsure of which human story to concentrate on.
  18. Fuel
    It is stylistically breezy but deeply sincere, as Tickell offers a thoughtful, well-researched argument for alternative energy.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lolo
    Lolo presents a sympathetic take on the ways that midlife romance can push us to reevaluate our relationships, even — maybe especially — the ones we think we know best.
  20. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    At heart, “Eurovison” seems content to be more dumb rom-com than sharp music satire.
  21. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    When I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
  22. Duplex
    This is a one-note deal, and it doesn't take long before you want to, well, just move out and leave these characters in their rent-controlled limbo.
  23. Lifeforce
    The screenplay, by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, is just one long passage of exposition: someone blows up or dries up or whatever, you wonder why that's happening, and then someone explains it. This they call suspense. [25 June 1985, p.C8]
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  24. Going in Style
    It’s the chemistry among these three fine actors that keeps Going in Style afloat, lifting it from the formulaic and forgettable — which, essentially, it is — and making it genuinely, if modestly, enjoyable.
  25. Passenger 57
    It's a kung-fu Die Hard picture, and, frankly, just plain silly.
  26. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
    There are only so many ways to photograph black starry space and the under-bellies of spaceships, and the films that got there first used them all up.
  27. Prom
    Nor will you find much excitement, tension or resemblance to actual teen culture in this whitewash of the quintessential rite of passage.
  28. The Zero Theorem
    The Zero Theorem doesn’t fully earn the elaborately conceived scaffolding on which its relatively tame ideas are hoisted.
  29. How to Talk to Girls at Parties
    Setting the film in the punk heyday underscores the film’s themes of personal freedom and defying authority. And there are heartwarming touches, despite a plot that is muddied by sci-fi mumbo-jumbo about cannibalism.
  30. The Guilt Trip
    Anne Fletcher's lifeless comedy about an overbearing mother and her exasperated adult son, has no flawlessly delivered punch lines. It doesn't even have a hangnail.
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