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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. Kicking & Screaming
    Too bad the director ties everyone's laces together and they all go down in a jumble.
  2. Smokin' Aces
    It's hard to figure where it's going, and when the movie's over, it's even harder figuring where it's been. But the careening roller-coaster ride calling itself Smokin' Aces is such a hoot to be on, who really cares?
  3. The Kid
    A pleasantly lightweight confection.
  4. S.W.A.T.
    S.W.A.T. may be an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics, but by the end of this routine melodrama, it might as well stand for Standard Whacking and Trashing.
  5. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    McConaughey and (especially) Hudson manage to make it all work, maintaining their likability even in situations where they inevitably end up acting like jerks.
  6. Rules of Engagement
    This military courtroom drama is full of questions, but woefully short of answers.
  7. The Scorpion King
    Plays like Abbott and Costello Meet Conan the Barbarian.
  8. School for Scoundrels
    This may be Thornton's most arch, least persuasive performance. With Heder he's a vacant scowl. With Barrett he's a threatening yet toothless Cheshire Cat.
  9. A Slipping-Down Life
    A Slipping-Down Life may be low-key, but if you enter its unique atmosphere, you will leave exhilarated.
  10. 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.
  11. Last Man Standing
    The movie, in fact, is a lot like Willis' performance: impressive in an iconographic way, but really not nearly as much fun as it should be. It's like watching a spitting contest between totem poles. [20 Sep 1996]
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. The Ninth Gate
    A film that really has no idea what it wants to be, so it tries a little of everything, and does nothing very well.
  13. Pearl Harbor
    A brain-dead buddy-movie tearjerker with semi-tasteful romance and tasteful gore mixed in with the derring-do.
    • Baltimore Sun
  14. The Jacket
    Doesn't really go anywhere or amount to anything - a fatal flaw in a time-travel movie designed not only to keep you guessing, but to build genuine suspense as well.
  15. Stomp the Yard
    The movie lives and dies on the energy of stepping.
  16. Henry Poole Is Here
    To Pellington's credit, the performers eschew sentimentality.
  17. Hostage
    Especially discomfiting is the stream of kids in peril.
    • 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
  19. Renaissance Man
    The film is achingly conventional. [03 Jun 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
  20. The Center of the World
    Like "Tango," Wang's film also seeks to uncover whether sex without emotion is really possible, or worth the effort.
    • Baltimore Sun
  21. Kikujirô no natsu
    Provides an arresting journey through the Japanese countryside and culture.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Plunkett & Macleane
    Too much fun to ignore.
  23. It Runs in the Family
    It's so wispy that at the end you wonder: Exactly what runs in the family?
  24. Head of State
    In Head of State, Rock may be verging on becoming a heart-warmer.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Double Team
    Oddly, for such a terrible movie, it looks fabulous. [4 Apr 1997]
    • Baltimore Sun
  26. Along Came Polly
    In this movie, when the honeymoon is over it's really over.
  27. The Ring Two
    Remember mood rings? The Ring Two is a mood movie - a bad-mood movie.
  28. The Caveman's Valentine
    From the start, this movie sets the bar high -- then, unfortunately, runs smack into it.
    • Baltimore Sun
  29. Connie and Carla
    Connie and Carla is a good-hearted comedy that missteps by trying to become a moralistic one.
  30. The Village
    It doesn't take a genius IQ to figure out the movie's final twist far in advance, leaving the attentive viewer to wonder only about how Shyamalan will pull it off and to hope the movie doesn't turn silly.
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