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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. Violet & Daisy
    The actors can’t compensate for a story that ultimately sputters.
  2. Love in the Time of Cholera
    Lush, extravagant, sad and touching, Love in the Time of Cholera still feels weirdly insubstantial when all the febrile passion has abated. Like a fever it breaks, passes and is forgotten.
  3. Meet Joe Black
    Meet Joe Black, with Brad Pitt, is a near-death experience: Time seems to stop as we stiffen in our seats and the actors all whisper as if they're at a wake.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Final Season
    Nathan Wang's score borrows blatantly from "The Natural" and is slathered on thick in all the big emotional scenes. They establish the right nostalgic mood, but it's broken with that loud "ping" of a metal bat every time a kid gets a hit.
  5. For Love of the Game
    The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works.
  6. Twentynine Palms
    It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir. What it all means, of course, I have no idea.
  7. American Wedding
    If you do not bring pride, good taste or sense to this third American Pie installment, you'll have a good time.
  8. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
    But just as Pee-wee Herman's films are vehicles for his shtick, Elvira is mostly Elvira wisecracking and busting out of her dress. She's fun, a Transylvania Valley Girl grown up into the Queen of the Bs, but after 96 minutes you may start thinking more fondly about those '50s and '60s camp classics she's usually interspersed with.
  9. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Has its moments of fun, many of them having to do with Reilly's deadpan comic style. But the movie lacks the original edge of its better predecessors.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Uninvited
    Experienced horror fans will probably stay one step ahead of the game, but it's still a nice ride.
  11. Basic Instinct
    What we have here is a movie with not just one, but a family pack of psychos.
  12. The Aftermath
    There’s a ripping good story buried somewhere in The Aftermath, an intriguing but ultimately disappointing story.
  13. Unaccompanied Minors
    Unaccompanied Minors, a sort of junior league version of "The Breakfast Club," never achieves the universal appeal of John Hughes's 1985 film about youth and authority.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Kogonada gives us a bighearted sentimental “Journey,” and there will be audiences who will be there for it. But I hope for his next movie, he remembers he’s better at smaller favors.
  15. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
    The script's a plodder, and the acting's unbearably stilted. The movie's intentions are like the starry constellations that inspire the eponymous hero: out of reach.
  16. Skin Deep
    Watching it, you feel as if you're being hammered to death with champagne corks.
  17. True Colors
    True Colors rushes by at a hectic pace, never allowing the story to gain momentum. Despite good performances from the two leads, the film has the feel of a cautionary stampede. While it aspires to lofty heights, it never really goes much beyond the rules of behavior prescribed by the Boy Scout Handbook.
  18. Wonderland
    Overblown, overheated, overdirected, overacted, overlong.
  19. Still of the Night
    Still of the Night emerges as not only failed, synthetic Hitchcock but also failed, synthetic slasher and failed, synthetic love story. [18 Dec 1982, p.C1]
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  20. Death Race
    It isn't so much a movie as a superheated, highly conductive miracle substance for the pure transmission of masculine aggression and misogyny.
  21. Not Easily Broken
    Exerts an unmistakable appeal, thanks to an absorbing story and fine performances from Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson.
  22. Machine Gun Preacher
    It gets the bullet points of Sam Childers's life, but misses the target.
  23. Instinct
    A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.
  24. The Forgotten
    An uneasy mix between "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the "The X-Files," and one not nearly as smart as either.
  25. I Do... Until I Don't
    The story often feels like a collection of (so-so) jokes, forcibly strung together in a tenuous narrative.
  26. Missing in Action
    Chuck Norris fans will not be disappointed by Missing in Action, a bang-bang-you're-dead exploitation flick from the Cannon Group in which the action is rarely missing. [19 Nov 1984, p.C3]
    • Washington Post
  27. Retribution
    Director Nimród Antal (“Predators”) does a serviceable job of keeping everything interesting and suspenseful, if not exactly fresh.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Back to Black
    The new movie, in fact, has been made with the approval of the Winehouse family; coincidentally or not, “Back to Black” has the feeling of a whitewash.
  29. Trust the Man
    Trust the Man quickly begins to feel hopelessly derivative of other, better movies.
  30. Monte Carlo
    Dependable entertainment for young girls.
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