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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. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    High School Musical 3 wore me out, but I'm not the target audience. My favorite high school musical was "Hamlet 2."
  2. Rocky Balboa
    The original Rocky would have found a way to ground that encounter in reality, to engender honest emotion and give audiences an Everyman hero both noble and believable. This film is too busy worshiping its hero to bother.
  3. Matchstick Men
    Instead of exploding, it implodes.
  4. My Sister's Keeper
    A bit like a real-world horror film with "heart," right down to the trick ending.
  5. Gladiator
    Well, it's better than "The Phantom Menace."
    • Baltimore Sun
  6. Crash
    New York critics have anointed Crash in advance as the Second Coming, but it's just another over-ambitious first movie.
  7. Tape
    Despite its adrenalized actors, Tape is a tired return to the roots of the American indie movement's popular surge a dozen years ago. It could have been called "sex, lies and audiotape."
  8. Doubt
    The problem with Doubt is its dramatic certainty.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tuxedo
    If it weren't for a few genuine Chan novelties and the presence of the goofy Jennifer Love Hewitt, this much-delayed and re-edited mess would be a total loss.
    • Baltimore Sun
  10. Cats Don't Dance
    It's too film-savvy for kids who won't catch the allusions to Clark Gable and W.C. Fields, but it's too film-simple for buffs and too boring for adults and too magenta-bright for critics. It's completely human proof! [26 Mar 1997]
    • Baltimore Sun
  11. One Fine Day
    It's so routine and predictable it grows quickly wearisome, its inventions are thin and its wit is witless. You feel the clumsy manipulations coming hours in advance, and when they come, they seem to take forever to finish. [20 Dec 1996]
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. Little Children
    Instead of being supple and expansive like the book, this Little Children is heavy-handed and snarky.
  13. The Cat's Meow
    This movie's biggest contribution to film history will be resurrecting Davies' reputation as a natural comedian stuck in deadly costume pictures because her lover wanted her placed on a pedestal.
  14. Catch and Release
    It's not a comedy-drama, really. It's let's-all-share therapy in beautiful Boulder, Colo.
  15. I Think I Love My Wife
    Despite the nice touches at the corners, the center does not hold. In I Think I Love My Wife, there's too much emphasis on the Think.
  16. The Shipping News
    Hasn't got quite the right sound as it did in Annie Proulx's novel.
    • Baltimore Sun
  17. We Were Soldiers
    The movie never generates the authority it needs to be all that it can be.
  18. Quills
    One gets the feeling Kaufman was so intent on putting fury and fanaticism on-screen, he forgot about having it serve any greater purpose. Which makes Quills the film equivalent of one of de Sade's novels: artifice, without art.
  19. xXx: State of the Union
    This is a movie about guns blazing, men punching, speedometers straining and explosions exploding. On all those levels, it succeeds just fine - which makes for a great amusement-park ride, but perhaps not much of a movie.
  20. The Other Side of the Bed
    Too bad it doesn't deserve to fold the bedsheets of Paul Mazursky's L.A. roundelay "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969).
  21. Return to Never Land
    Ragged and frenetic.
    • Baltimore Sun
  22. Swingers
    There're some low New York laughs in Swingers and some nice clothes if you like bad taste, but on the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. At least they know how to make a sandwich in that town!
  23. Frida
    All honesty, rebellion and suffering, but no depth.
  24. Hollywood Ending
    The overarching joke, of course, is that most movies are so lousy they might as well have been made by blind men anyway. Hollywood Ending is only mediocre, but you may leave wondering, what's Allen's excuse?
  25. Godsend
    Godsend is two-thirds of a good movie, with a final third that's just downright awful. So much wasted potential only makes the whole thing that much more painful.
  26. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    It's mindless, which is rarely true of French cinema, dull, which is rarely true of Hong Kong films, and portentous, which shouldn't be true of any film about a man-eating dog.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chasers
    Chasers"is a road picture with a few genuinely funny comic scenes and a number of good performances. [30 Apr 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
  28. The Chorus
    Unabashedly sentimental and just as unabashedly cliched.
  29. An American Rhapsody
    For a movie with such a vibrant real-life base, An American Rhapsody is surprisingly low-impact.
  30. The Ghost and the Darkness
    The movie has considerable intensity, particularly when it views hunting as a form of counter-guerrilla warfare, with the gunboys wandering into the thickets, daring the big cats to come bite them and get a bullet for their trouble. It's best trick, though, is a straight steal from "Jaws" in which the lion -- I couldn't tell if it was "Ghost" or "Darkness" -- slides across the savannah in the high grass, just a form in the seething stalks, its tail alone visible, like a fin in the glassy water. There's a primordiality, a natural human fear of things with teeth and fangs, really provoked by that image. Too bad the movie couldn't have checked into that vein more often. [11 Oct 1996]
    • Baltimore Sun
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