Newsweek's Scores
- Movies
For 875 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 562 out of 875
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Mixed: 246 out of 875
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Negative: 67 out of 875
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David Ansen 60
As long as it stays focused on showbiz, Bewitched is light, frothy fun. But Ephron insists on turning Bewitched into a love story, and that's when the fun starts to seep out of the movie. -
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Ted Gideonse 80
Despite its bizarre intellectual project, Le Pecheur's film is seductive and shockingly sexy. -
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Critic Score 40
Midler's performance does not stand out. She remains very much Bette Midler. -
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Critic Score 50
Couldn’t have arrived at a better time: movies have been so bad lately that audiences are positively starving for something mediocre. -
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David Ansen 20
Like people who compulsively giggle whenever they tell you bad news, the movie runs for cover in lame, comic shtick. -
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David Ansen 30
Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair are asked to humiliate themselves many times over in The Sweetest Thing, and they do it with such game good spirits that they ought to get the actor’s equivalent of a Purple Heart. -
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Critic Score 20
Unfortunately, the strong ensemble cast is not able to hold together this often wayward and meandering story. -
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David Ansen 30
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has written quips, not characters and Joel Schumacher still seems miscast as a Bat-action director: he stages the mayhem confusingly and the comedy too broadly. -
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Ted Gideonse 10
The crude humor in Drop Dead Gorgeous does not have a moral point to it. It's just crude. -
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David Ansen 20
I staggered out of this shameless, interminable movie feeling as if I'd been force-fed a ton of mealy, artificially sweetened baby food. -
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David Ansen 30
Sarah Thorp’s lazy script lurches from the lame to the ludicrous. -
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Ted Gideonse 10
As dumb as the film is, the actors escape relatively unscathed. -
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David Ansen 20
Screenwriter Ropelewski piles one silly plot contrivance upon another, and the characters start behaving like nitwits. -
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Critic Score 50
Congo is basically the old African ooga-mooga movie brought into the P.C., high-tech age. -
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Ted Gideonse 10
Matthew Lillard of "Scream," flies like his nickname and tries to bring the film some comic relief not already provided by the stultifying stupidity of the script. -
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David Ansen 10
The folks who served up this formulaic swill seem to think comedy grants you a free pass from credibility. Our lonely hero's artificial Yuletide enthusiasm is more than odd: it's not recognizably human. -
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Critic Score 20
The flick's ultimate flaw? For a movie about space travel, it's an awfully uninspired trek. -
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Critic Score 10
After the schadenfreudian thrill of watching beautiful people humiliate themselves wears off, it has the same annihilating effect on your will to live. -
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Critic Score 10
It stinks. The movie is so inert -- and Madonna’s performance so starkly amateurish -- that it’s impossible to take it seriously as an allegory about class and gender. -
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David Ansen 0
If you harbor any fond feelings for the original, stay far away from this mess. -
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David Ansen 40
This is an elaborate production, but all the jazzy sets and explosions in the world can't disguise the story's complete lack of urgency. -
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Ted Gideonse 10
The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché. -
