overrate
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- v make too high an estimate of
- Critics routinely overrate movies that are indifferent examples of endangered genres that the critics loved when they were kids.
- Not, it appears, very much, and to call these paintings "visionary," as Cowart does, is to overrate them.
- It's a sorry enough spectacle to make admirers of The Sixth Sense wonder if they didn't overrate that movie, and the director's whole oeuvre? Is Shyamalan a sham?.