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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. Speed Racer
    Chances are, after they've passed the two-hour mark, viewers will share the same collective, if unspoken, wish: Go, Speed Racer. Go.
  2. W.E.
    Conceived and directed by Madonna, W.E. is a gorgeous mess.
  3. Moving
    All in all, the picture goes down fairly easily, and by any estimate it's an improvement over other Pryor nonconcert films such as The Toy or even Brewster's Millions.
  4. Seven Pounds
    The movie is pretty unabashed about the all-but-corny sentiment: Each of us has something to give.
  5. The Hotel New Hampshire
    Irving is a generalissimo of literary assault techniques, shameless about shifting his emphasis from, say, the lewd to the sanctimonious on a moment's notice if he perceives an emotional advantage, particularly one lending itself to convulsive moral indignation. [17 March 1984, p.C8]
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  6. Three to Tango
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  7. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Never asks its target audience of self-referential baby boomers and their littles bundles of joy to take it more seriously than it takes itself.
  8. Steal This Movie
    It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string.
  9. Little Black Book
    If you think it's worth it to sit there for 97 minutes for three or possibly four laughs, then you are beyond help.
  10. He's All That
    In the end, He’s All That is not all that — not even a little bit of that.
  11. Bravetown
    I would call the movie a trainwreck, except it’s really four or five separate trainwrecks.
  12. Rebound
    Why -- when there are so many funnier, smarter, more gifted performers who can't get arrested in Hollywood -- why, for the love of all that's good and holy, does Martin Lawrence get to keep making movies?
  13. Turner & Hooch
    Howl and damnation, if this isn't just one long, stomach-turning drool joke.
  14. Color of Night
    A convoluted psychosexual thriller that promises the moon and gives us Bruce's butt.
  15. Tooth Fairy
    Tooth Fairy is cute. Which is to say that Dwayne Johnson is cute. How could anybody with the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger (circa 1984) and the smile of Cameron Diaz not be, especially when dressed -- albeit briefly -- in a pink tutu?
  16. Æon Flux
    With the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.
  17. Arthur
    This Arthur is an exercise in time-travel tedium, a trip to the Land That Funny Forgot.
  18. Loverboy
    The film's premise is hopelessly ludicrous. Plus, though Patrick Dempsey is an agile light comedian, he's hardly plausible as a lady-killer. Patrick Swayze he's not. Alfalfa, maybe.
  19. Against the Ropes
    A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.
  20. Bird on a Wire
    Screwball romance, action picture. Summer movie.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Has the stink of man-musk all over it.
  22. Abandon
    Consider the title your best advice.
  23. Inspector Gadget
    The movie, based on the TV cartoon series, is exceptionally pleasant, and there's just enough humor to make it enjoyable for adults.
  24. Jeepers Creepers II
    Functional but tiresome.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    It really should be arrested for impersonating an interesting movie.
  26. Shanghai
    Shanghai is an exercise in retro glamour, alluring decadence and tough-guy posing, all of which it delivers in sufficient quantities.
  27. Under the Cherry Moon
    An unconscionable mess of unyielding crassness, from the overall tone, which celebrates gaucherie all the while it's saying that love is what really counts, to the sound mix, which makes most of the dialogue, which is larded with impenetrable slang, doubly impenetrable. [04 Jul 1986, p.C2]
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  28. Employee of the Month
    Rarely has an actress exuded such blank nothingness as Simpson, a one-woman vapid delivery system who sucks the energy and joy out of every scene she's in, like some freakishly well-endowed black hole.
  29. Space Jam: A New Legacy
    If this is corporate synergy fired up to a terrifying new level, there’s still enough heart at the movie’s center to keep it from becoming all business.
  30. Big Fat Liar
    An innocent comedic revenge fantasy that somehow manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
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