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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Big Fat Liar
    Offers little in the way of pleasure, even to its target audience -- the easily pleased and undemanding.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Amy's Orgasm
    Julie Davis, tries desperately to fill (Woody)Allen's Coke-bottle glasses, but it fails. Miserably.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thunderbirds
    When all is said and done, the movie's a steaming plate of corn -- and, indeed, that's part of the pleasure. Myles, though, delivers a fine comic performance with no strings attached.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Victor Frankenstein
    McAvoy’s performance is a deep, deep shade of gonzo and by far the most enjoyable aspect of Victor Frankenstein — you don’t often see over-acting this enthusiastic or this flecked with spittle.
  5. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Like so many movies with a keypad for a brain, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is another exercise in making us feel the irritation associated with having to stand behind some game hack for our turn to play.
  6. Criminal
    Kevin Costner should stop trying to be so nice. His best performances have been as baddies.
  7. The Wicker Man
    As it is, LaBute has cleverly repurposed his creepy source material. This Wicker Man, which wasn't screened for critics, is a nutty atonement for the gender assaults of his filmmaking and playwriting past, including "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," and "The Shape of Things."
  8. Shottas
    A slick but dull new shoot- ' em-up from Jamaica, doesn't penetrate the mysteries of high-rolling, high-risk thug life.
  9. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
  10. Are We Done Yet?
    The movie needs Richard Dreyfuss .
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Space Chimps
    Short, cheap, weird, and passably diverting.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Graffiti Bridge
    Like Purple Rain, the record/film that made Prince a superstar, Graffiti Bridge is a hodgepodge musical that has a few satisfying bits - and a lot of sharp music - but fails as a narrative. [03 Nov 1990, p.22p]
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  13. Underworld: Evolution
    They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of Getting By
    If the director had brought any toughness of perspective - or at least the self-lacerating humor of 2002's "Igby Goes Down,'' still the reigning champ of screwed-up-Manhattan-prepster films - we might be able to digest George's follies without cringing.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Tape
    This frantic farce about a married couple whose video frolic goes viral would be much less bearable without the topspin Segel imparts to even his silliest dialogue. But he looks hollow-eyed and gaunt, like a man starving himself to prove a point. I want the old, lumpy Jason Segel back. Eat, bubbe, eat.
  16. Gone
    Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you.
  17. Body Shots
    Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale.
  18. Pure Luck
    This take, like so many Hollywood takes on French comic originals, is diligent, but, with too few exceptions, irredeemably soggy. [09 Aug 1991, p.42]
    • Boston Globe
  19. 3 Ninjas
    3 Ninjas is a skilled balancing act, a throwback to Disney's old live-action family films, starring and targeted to pre-teens. [07 Aug 1992, p.30]
    • Boston Globe
  20. Pan
    Passable adventure that offers the occasional flash of real cleverness.
  21. Parental Guidance
    Parental Guidance is overly generous with regard to the silliness. However, it's not clueless. Crystal seems determined to give as generously as he gets. When a bully whacks him, Crystal covers the bully in vomit. Good for him.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    When actors are as great as De Niro and Pacino, watching them in a movie like Righteous Kill is deadly.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Fly Me to the Moon is a crummy movie for kids, yet it still holds out the prospect of past wonders and future marvels. It's one small step for a housefly, one giant leap for 3-D.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Name Is Bruce
    Perhaps because Campbell is a purist at heart, My Name Is Bruce is as awful as anything he has done - a broadly silly gore comedy in which no gag is too cartoonish to be indulged in at least once and preferably three times.
  25. Cradle 2 the Grave
    This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed.
  26. 8 ½ Women
    The problem with 8 1/2 Women isn't that what you see is what you get; it's that what you see is all you get.
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  27. Assassin's Creed
    The effect is less video-game-turned-movie than zombie movie minus zombies: stilted, static, s-l-o-o-o-w. The ending couldn’t set up a sequel more clearly if “To be continued” appeared on a title card. Don’t count on it. Game on? Game over.
  28. The Wild Life
    The Wild Life, while pleasant, is just too flat to meet the challenge.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Belly
    This sickeningly violent film, starring a bevy of rap stars, marks the feature debut of hot video director Hype Williams, and while there are hints of his trademark trippiness, this is basically an utterly joyless endeavor. [04 Nov 1998, p.E6]
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conan the Barbarian
    As for the movie itself, it's tolerable.
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