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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 2 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. Cats & Dogs
    There are the gadgets and the effects. But Cats and Dogs definitely could have been more fetching.
    • Baltimore Sun
  2. The Caveman's Valentine
    From the start, this movie sets the bar high -- then, unfortunately, runs smack into it.
    • Baltimore Sun
  3. Scream 3
    Even if Scream 3 lacks the punch and verve of the first two installments, it manages to wring some ironically metaphysical comedy from the movie-within-a-movie motif.
  4. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    In Robert Gordon's script, Handler's hilariously literate bouts of psychological torture develop no consistent tone, voice or momentum.
  5. Kalifornia
    It's a promising concept, albeit melodramatic, but what keeps the movie from halfway working is its infernal preciousness. [03 Sep 1993]
    • Baltimore Sun
  6. The Next Karate Kid
    This film feels like a desperate attempt to squeeze a few last bucks out of what was once a very obliging cash cow.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Operation Dumbo Drop
    At one point, Liotta's character complains that he has ended up "in an episode of 'McHale's Navy.' " That's not too far off. If a sitcom is all you really want out of Operation Dumbo Drop, by all means, put on a parachute and jump. [28 Jul 1995]
    • Baltimore Sun
  8. Auto Focus
    Auto Focus is a gutless wonder.
  9. Meet Dave
    More palatable than "Norbit" but equally uninspired, Murphy's benign, pedestrian Meet Dave mostly gives us "Mr. Ed," with a bit of Crazy Eddie mixed in.
  10. What About Bob?
    Murray is very funny in the early going when his irritation-shtick is allowed full play; when he turns doughily benign in the late going, he's much less interesting. [17 May 1991]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Graffiti Bridge
    There is some plot, but it is wispy at best and frequently gets in the way of the music.
  12. Rush Hour 3
    It's actually surprising that Chan is as engaging as he is. He's a canny performer in a canned-goods movie.
  13. Last Chance Harvey
    This movie is genial, forgettable piffle about the perhaps-beginning of a maybe affair. It's a romantic daydream so slim that it barely leaves the requisite sweet aftertaste.
  14. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The blend of chic histrionics and ultra-bright daylight imagery make much of the movie resemble a network soap opera with an on-location interlude. It looks as cheap as life is held in Medellin.
  15. The Stepford Wives
    Great casting ideas, like Glenn Close and Christopher Walken as "the King and Queen of Stepford," don't pay off, because the filmmakers' increasingly desperate twists alter the basis of the characters.
  16. Team America: World Police
    Proves that marionettes can be as foul-mouthed and profane as their cartoon counterparts, but not nearly as clever.
  17. Sin City
    Sin City is a seedy tribute to rugged masculinity disguised as a rogue's gallery, all the better to please college boys who like their sentimentality slicked with grunge.
  18. 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.
  19. Serendipity
    Maybe the best way to see Serendipity is to take a cue from the characters and wait a few years.
    • Baltimore Sun
  20. Safe
    Frequently fascinating, it never builds into anything profound.
  21. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    There's no character to root for in this movie, no potential triumphs or resounding failures, just the sense of people going through the motions because they can't bother to think of anything better to do. And that's not a lot to hang your moviegoing hat on.
  22. Around the Bend
    What makes the film work better than its nearly unbearable cuteness suggests is the casting of Christopher Walken as the son; the movie has yet to be invented that Walken can't improve simply by showing up.
  23. In Good Company
    Has its heart in the right place, and could have been an insightful rumination on corporate shortsightedness and mid-life obsolescence. Instead, it's another one of those Hollywood films whose feel for the workingman's life seems to come exclusively from other movies.
  24. Jade
    Friedkin still has it: The car chase is the best thing in the movie, though so unconnected to the plot it could have been added without changing Eszterhas' script a whit. But, that excitement over, the movie ultimately self-destructs in the matter of its own ending. [13 Oct 1995]
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    In Spy Kids 2, Rodriguez tries to hold his family-spy saga together with the digital equal of rubber bands and chewing gum.
    • Baltimore Sun
  26. Things We Lost in the Fire
    This movie asks us to "accept the good" in life - not a bad message. But to overpraise Things We Lost in the Fire would be to accept the mediocre.
  27. The Doors
    You don't see The Doors, you survive it. [01 Mar 1991]
    • Baltimore Sun
  28. A Goofy Movie
    A Goofy Movie is filled with rock sequences that aren't hard enough to please real teen-agers but are too hard to attract any grown-ups. The music sounds like it was composed by Marie Osmond on PCP. [07 Apr 1995]
    • Baltimore Sun
  29. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Even with the great Ken Watanabe lending command and compassion to the role of General Kuribayashi, it's a formless slog across a treacherous field.
  30. No Reservations
    Too bad director Scott Hicks and screenwriter Carol Fuchs didn't look more closely at their source material, a 2001 German film called Mostly Martha. That film used the same basic premise but injected real conflict into the mix, in ways sexual, culinary, even ethnic. That film tried to do something, even while it was entertaining us.
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