Sentences with phrase «than the critics average»

Certainly better than the critics average of 41 on here.

Not exact matches

Taken may have a commercial blockbuster, earning more than $ 145 million, but it was hardly a darling with critics, averaging mixed reviews at best.

Critics argue that the quality of life of overweight people is lower than that of those with average weight.

During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing wage, a proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.

The average age of reservists is significantly older than that of regular troops and they are much more expensive to train per head, critics claim.

Critics Consensus: Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real - life game.

It's the first time in three years that one of the majors has averaged above 61 (the cutoff we use to indicate generally positive reviews from critics) for its annual release slate, and Disney's strong 2015 average score puts it 11 points higher than its nearest major competitor (Universal).

Critic Consensus: Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real - life game.

Critic Consensus: Sharper and wittier than your average period piece, The Lion in Winter is a tale of palace intrigue bolstered by fantastic performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins in his big - screen debut.

Though the studio's average Metascore was actually a few points higher in 2011 than in 2010 — and though it placed third among the major studios in overall quality — Warner films generally failed to excite critics last year, with only the Harry Potter film, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, and the Steve Carell rom - com Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Critics Consensus: Sharper and wittier than your average period piece, The Lion in Winter is a tale of palace intrigue bolstered by fantastic performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins in his big - screen debut.

However, I've yet to hear much personal discussion on it from anyone other than the critics and it would seem that Farhadi has still some way to go before he gets the recognition he deserves among your average film enthusiast.

Overall the movie was much better than the average critic is rating it, but because it isn't an original idea, and it's not a phenomenal movie, the critic will want to slam it.

Men critics in areas other than film wrote an average of 6 film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average of 3 film reviews.

All in all, Danny Collins leaves a film critic feeling okay and perhaps an average moviegoer better than that, as evidenced by the film's formidable 7.2 average user rating on IMDb, where the scribe's every film is overrated.

Not only are women outnumbered as film critics, staff writers, other types of critics, and freelancers, women also review fewer films on average than men.

Male critics write slightly longer reviews, on average, about films directed by and / or with at least one woman writer (average of 485 words) than about films directed and / or written by males (average of 473 words).

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to universally favorable reviews, Get Out might well do better with critics than moviegoers, based on the many empty seats at my screening and the upsettingly mediocre 6.1 average user rating it held pre-release on IMDb, a site whose votership has exhibited some regrettable tendencies to vote down certain racially representative works.

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better - than - average competitive swimmer.

More popular with fans than critics, Salem averaged 6.8 out of 10 on Metacritic and 7.2 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Data Base.

He then pointed out that The Order 1886 is one of the few games that received a higher user score on Metacritic than the average critic score.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

My tolerance for gross - out humor is higher than the average pointy - headed critic's, and, out of self - preservation, I have trained myself to take my pleasures where I find them in these lumpy jamborees.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

Rather than a sign that the attention span of the average reader is waning, as some critics will argue, long - form... [Read more...]

Who knew that a game that had a not so good launch and holds a Metacritic average of 63/100 has more online players than the highly praised fan and critic favorite Killzone 2?

But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.»