The film currently holds a 71 % " Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 38 reviews, which made its critical reception above average but is much lower than The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, which received 100 % and 98 % critical approval, respectively.

On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 57 out of 100, indicating " mixed or average reviews ".

During its theatrical run the film grossed $ 2. 4 million, currently holds a 100 % positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has developed a cult following.

Based on 47 reviews, the film holds a 100 % " Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 71 % based on 24 reviews.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

The film currently holds a 71 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

" Mike Bogue of American Kaiju said the film " not liv up to its potential ," but added that " colorful and elaborate spectacle eventually won me over " and " the main story thread dealing with the eventual reconciliation of the divorced couple adequately holds the human plot together.

The Saw film series holds the Guinness World Record of the highest-grossing horror franchise in history.

" The film holds a rare niche in Hollywood history as having been completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited with new, juiced up scenes added to better exploit the box office chemistry that shined between Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and the notoriety of their personal relationship.

The film holds a 98 % " Certified Fresh " rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

It currently holds a " fresh " rating ( 67 %) on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews, making it Michael Bay's highest rated film and his only film labeled as " fresh ".

The film holds a 91 % " Certified Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 42 reviews, with an average score of 7. 5 / 10.

More than 40 years after its release, the film enjoys a reputation as a classic and still receives positive reviews ; Night of the Living Dead currently holds a 96 % " Certified Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, and it is regarded by many as one of the best films of 1968.

The film holds a 4. 5 / 5 rating at Yahoo!

The film holds the distinction of being the musical film with the most Academy Award wins ( 10 wins ), including Best Picture.

As of January 2011, the film holds a " Certified Fresh " rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an aggregate rating of 79 % based on 42 critical reviews, and the consensus, " Pivoting on the unusual relationship between seasoned hitman and his 12-year-old apprentice — a breakout turn by young Natalie Portman — Luc Besson's Léon is a stylish and oddly affecting thriller ".

On the critics ' website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 100 % " Certified Fresh " rating, based on 50 reviews.

Space Cowboys was critically well received and holds a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was, " too secure within its traditional story structure to make much seem at risk.

With the approval of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, a musical version of the film was staged, enjoying a successful workshop in Toronto and performances at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004.

The film was very well received with critics, currently holding a 96 % " Certified Fresh " approval on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating, " While frothy to a fault, Four Weddings and a Funeral features irresistibly breezy humor, and winsome performances from Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.

The film has a 70 percent approval rating on Metacritic from 28 reviews.

Eisenstein's film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, presenting Ivan IV of Russia as a national hero, won Joseph Stalin's approval ( and a Stalin Prize ), but the sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II was criticized by various authorities and would go unreleased until 1958.

Without obtaining approval from his boss, Vogel bought the rights to the script, despite the high price of US $ 2 million and the stipulation that Shyamalan could direct the film.

Nevertheless, the film enjoys a 71 % approval rate on the website Rotten Tomatoes.

He was dismissive of the popular 1988 Bruce Willis action film Die Hard (" inappropriate and wrongheaded interruptions reveal the fragile nature of the plot "), while his positive review of 1997's Speed 2: Cruise Control (" Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure ") is the only one accounting for that film's 2 % approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes critical website.

He also expresses his approval of the proliferation of young people writing film reviews today on the Internet.

Nimoy was given casting approval over who would play the young Spock in the newest film.

The film has mostly positive critical reviews, receiving an 85 % approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

The plot is depicted in the film as having Mary's tacit approval.

It was released by United Artists without the MPAA logo in the credits or title sequence, since the film did not receive Production Code approval.

It was not written in response to the Dies investigation, as Cohan himself had been shopping his own story around for a while before Jack Warner bought the rights, and Cohan retained final approval on all aspects of the film.

Meisel wrote the score in twelve days because of the late approval of film censors.

* John Lennon loved the film and refused to return the videotape and soundtrack he was given for approval.

As of January 2011, the film holds a 100 % approval rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

The film received a " rotten " 44 % approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes, indicating mixed reviews.

In 2007, he appeared as Shylock in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of The Merchant of Venice as well as " Breakfast with Scot ," the first gay-themed film ever to receive this type of approval from a professional sports league ( NHL ).

The film holds an 41 % " Rotten " approval rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 22 reviews.

Because it dealt with the taboo subject of " narcotics ," Hollywood's Production Code refused to grant a seal of approval for the film, and it was released without the MPAA's seal of approval.