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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Prime
    Prime serves as yet another showcase for Streep; to prove how expertly she plays a Jewish mother with a Ph.D. in psychology, just imagine Barbra Streisand in the role -- you'd have a farce only a step above slapstick. With Streep, you get a smartly observant comedy that never overplays its hand.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Rock
    Connery and Cage are a compelling team and redeem the film from ruin despite the mechanical plot, an excessive body count and a miraculous recovery (you'll know it when you see it).
  3. The Legend of 1900
    There's a ton of joy in The Legend of 1900 -- but it's laid on so thick that one ends up more numbed than stirred, overcome by one too many Hallmark moments.
    • Baltimore Sun
  4. Tortilla Soup
    The whole cast is good. It's too bad all that good work isn't in service to a better, or certainly more original, script.
    • Baltimore Sun
  5. Ask the Dust
    Ask the Dust is more than an amorous period piece. It's a strongly bitter, strongly sweet poem in prose and motion.
  6. Shrek the Third
    So far in this year's cartoon feature sweepstakes, Shrek the Third rules.
  7. City of Ember
    It's lumpy, odd and tonally all over the place, but its vision gets to you, and its payoff delivers a tough kid's catharsis.
  8. Undisputed
    Few directors are able to showcase actors with fast-cutting techniques. Hill is an ace at it because everything about his action is organic.
  9. Kiss of the Dragon
    Jet Li and Bridget Fonda form a terrific bond in this action film. And the choreography adds a nice kick, too.
  10. American Pie
    An uninteresting take on a tired formula that is only occasionally funny and usually pretty gross.
    • Baltimore Sun
  11. Ocean's Twelve
    You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.
  12. Away We Go
    Maya Rudolph's subtle, lyrical portrait of a patient wife and expectant mother enlivens and elevates Away We Go, an erratic couple-on-a-quest film.
  13. Glory Road
    The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking.
  14. The Indian in the Cupboard
    The movie felt slow and didactic; it lacked the kind of forward thrust that a narrative mechanic such as Spielberg would have engineered.
  15. Everything Is Illuminated
    Rambles and sometimes wobbles like a runaway movie. But Schreiber's instincts keep the film frolicsome and vital.
  16. The Invention of Lying
    The cascade of ideas proves to be both pleasurable and frustrating. As the movie retreats into a happy-ever-after ending, even its outrageous lies seem more like little white ones.
  17. The Yards
    Caan is so good as a man who watches helplessly as everything he's worked for crumbles around him, that he steals the picture from both Wahlberg and Phoenix, the ostensible stars.
  18. Keeping Up with the Steins
    Garry Marshall, old pro that he is, couldn't be more endearing as the grandfather, struggling gamely to make things right.
  19. Holy Smoke
    A quirky and satisfying love story.
    • Baltimore Sun
  20. Osmosis Jones
    David Hyde Pierce is hilarious as Drix, a take-charge dose of medicine. No performer is better at wringing laughs from an unflappable --- make that semi-flappable - delivery.
  21. The Ring
    What we have here is a suburban-legend movie stripped of rough edges and cut off from any depth that might have made it insidiously haunting.
  22. My Wife Is an Actress
    Combine the title with the image of a dazzling female and a frazzled male, and you've got the movie perfectly.
  23. The World Is Not Enough
    The movie's already peaked, even before the opening credits.
  24. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    Good intentions are no substitute for good filmmaking, and Spy Kids 3D is nothing more than a retread in flashier clothing.
  25. Body of Lies
    Leonardo DiCaprio brings straight-razor reflexes and rooted emotion to the role of a deceptively rugged CIA man.
  26. Little Buddha
    This peculiar film is more than one beer short of a six-pack. It's part massive folly, part screwball tract and part steel nerve, even a little heroic. [25 May 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
  27. Happy Endings
    Roos suffers from fallen archness in his interminable new movie Happy Endings. He wants to be mischievous and ambitious and "human," all at the same time. He ends up with delusions of tragicomic grandeur that leave an audience fed up and dissatisfied.
  28. 13 Going on 30
    The best thing about 13 Going on 30 is that an ever-game Jennifer Garner is cheerfully convincing as a 13-year-old in a 30-year-old body. The worst thing is the feeling we've seen this movie before, done better.
  29. Kinky Boots
    The movie is so determinedly lightweight that it floats above the fray, stopping only for the occasional mild chuckle.
  30. Smart People
    A third of the way through Smart People, I channeled Randy Newman's "Short People" and thought, "Smart people got no reason to live."
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