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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. A View to a Kill
    There is some magnificent stunt work, which only underscores how inadequate Moore has become. Moore isn't just long in the tooth -- he's got tusks, and what looks like an eye job has given him the pie-eyed blankness of a zombie. He's not believable anymore in the action sequences, even less so in the romantic scenes.
  2. Double Impact
    There's one thing worse than a movie with two Jean-Claudes: A movie with two Jean-Claudes and bad fighting.
  3. Make Your Move
    Some of the dancing really is spectacular. Scenes from the competing clubs include impressive choreography and gravity-defying moves. If only the poorly delivered, trite dialogue and predictable plot aimed as high.
  4. Toys
    Unfortunately, it has no story. Toys is deader than a doornail.
  5. Jupiter Ascending
    It seems that Andy and Lana Wachowski have never lost that childlike ability to dream. But they also haven’t mastered the grown-up power to rein it in. The story they tell in Jupiter Ascending could probably occupy an entire television season. There’s way too much here for one movie to hold.
  6. Homefront
    Isn’t Statham’s best — or most brutal — work, but it’s not bad.
  7. Saw II
    It's clear this sequel (directed by Darren Lynn Bousman) doesn't have the same smartness (I speak relatively) of the original. Nonetheless, "Saw" fans can still look forward to involuntary incineration, wrist and throat slashing, bullets through brains and the bashing of someone's head with a nail-festooned club.
  8. The Benefactor
    It isn’t unusual for a good premise to have a faulty execution. The Benefactor suffers from a conclusion that feels inauthentic to the real perils of addiction, as well as to its own story. The only remarkable thing about it is Gere, who really should stick to filmmakers worthy of his talent.
  9. SpaceCamp
    A kind of landmark of exquisite bad timing. And that's the most intriguing thing about it. [6 June 1986, p.D3]
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  10. RoboCop 3
    As for the conflict, it's hardly riveting and often it's downright silly. The sets and effects betray their downsized budget. And the Japanese bashing is less artful than in Rising Sun, though just as obnoxious.
  11. The Man Who Cried
    The driving drama of such a desperate situation is lost in the movie's casting silliness.
  12. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    Still manages to one-up its predecessor, 1997's unintentionally campy "Anaconda."
  13. Poltergeist III
    Gary Sherman, the film's cowriter and director, has set up a showcase for scary effects, and some of them are rather nice, in a grisly sort of way. It's clear that Sherman knows how to engineer this sort of thing. What's also clear is that without some semblance of an actual movie around them, these pyrotechnics really start to get on your nerves.
  14. Man on a Ledge
    Man on a Ledge has its diverting moments, but by the time it has reached its too-pat final twist, it turns out to be a title desperately in search of a movie.
  15. Jack Frost
    Crass, dumbed down and stickily sentimental, it's a flavorless confection that clearly had too many chefs tugging at the taffy.
  16. A Kiss Before Dying
    Writer-director Dearden, who earned his gruesome credentials as the screenwriter on Fatal Attraction, underlines his leading lady's lack of rudimentary skill by leaving the soundtrack full of dead air and amateurish articulation during numerous conversations. He's also repeatedly drawn to Hitchcock allusions that slip out of his grasp. [26 Apr 1991, p.E1]
    • Washington Post
  17. Deep Impact
    For a suspense drama, Impact is a slack, oddly enervated and mawkish soup of largely lethargic performances.
  18. Double Dragon
    A Ninja turtle soup of computer gimmicks, karate chops and kiddie Confucianism.
  19. Wild Wild West
    A rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir –- that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst.
  20. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Although the new version, which stars Keanu Reeves, is likely to make audiences pine for the meta-irony of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," it's not a complete failure.
  21. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
    Spiral, which involves the hunt for a serial killer by the police force of a nameless metropolis, is a thriller, a mystery, a police drama, but it hews closely to “Saw’s” grisly curriculum.
  22. Duets
    A conceptual train wreck, with half an idea scattered like disaster debris all over the screen.
  23. The Cell
    Riveting in its low way. It traffics in imagery profoundly disturbing.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    This film does other power-of-dance movies one better by downplaying the dancing and underscoring what its brethren often lack: a compelling, wrenching and wonderfully inspiring story.
  25. Peaceful Warrior
    All this stuff is probably right. It's just that the director, Victor Salva, underscores his points with thunderous obviousness and manipulates us through ham-handed plot gambits.
  26. Beastly
    Getting teens to look past the superficial may be a noble goal, but when they're staring at the pretty but talentless Pettyfer, it's a hard lesson to take seriously.
  27. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    "Wolverine" is full of angst, and yet has had virtually all the soul wrung out of it in an effort to create a live-action cartoon. But cartoons are rarely so unwieldy, or force a director -- in this case, the largely unsung Gavin Hood -- to juggle so much impossible plotline.
  28. Brick Mansions
    Visually, Brick Mansions is a duller and more conventional film than “District B13,“ which was, if nothing else, a sourball-flavored form of eye candy.
  29. Dracula Untold
    The film isn’t awful. There are moments of handsome cinematography and occasional effects that both frighten and impress.
  30. Green Lantern
    It's neither amusing nor exciting enough to ensure a long-running franchise.
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