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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 1.1 points 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. Cool World
    The only thing that keeps Cool World from imploding is that Bakshi turns it into a series of animator's riffs, with little explosions of toon action erupting like video game novas into the foreground of the story that isn't happening. [10 Jul 1992]
    • Boston Globe
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fog
    This new Fog floats in on the fumes of the 1980 John Carpenter original, but the surprise is that it's arguably better.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let's Go to Prison
    It's a remarkably laugh-free comedy that takes on a dark subject and skitters along its surface.
  4. Taxi
    Too much of Taxi is just tired.
  5. The Musketeer
    The images are pretty, and Gene Quintano's screenplay gets everybody from point A to point B, though with no discernible knack for wit or subtlety.
    • Boston Globe
  6. Norbit
    The only recommendable thing about Norbit is that he's not as bad as every other person in this movie.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    View from the Top
    Who on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?
  8. The Trumpet of the Swan
    The film is gentle and carries a simple moral.
    • Boston Globe
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Fockers
    Is there a statute of limitations for how many good actors can be wasted in a bad movie?
  10. Fantastic Four
    Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twisted
    Eerily similar in its story line to "In the Cut," the much pasted Meg Ryan sex-and-death thriller that came out last year. Only it's worse.
  12. Little Man
    I laughed at the Wayanses' movie, and I don't even hate myself for it.
  13. Because I Said So
    A sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches.
  14. War Room
    It’s only in the late going that the marital drama turns somewhat more authentic, helping to restore a bit of the audience’s, well, faith.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolittle
    And while I understand Downey wanting to make a movie for his kids, the world might be better served if, at long last, he made one for himself.
  16. Babylon A.D.
    When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Echelon Conspiracy
    There's nothing in Echelon Conspiracy as suspenseful or entertaining as your average episode of "24."
  18. Trixie
    There are so many wonderful moments in Trixie and so few films like it that you wish Rudolph had given it a few more rewrites.
  19. The Choice
    In the end, though, the film disappointingly, even lazily, shies away from being anything more than you’d expect.
  20. Madame Web
    Johnson tries her best, and O’Connor is good for a few laughs, but “Madame Web” is a lost cause. The special effects are confusing and the action scenes are poorly edited. By the time we get a rote explanation of Webb’s powers, it’s too late to care.
  21. Van Wilder
    Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Basic Instinct 2
    The accidental comedy sensation of the year to date.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tideland
    The results are dull, of all things. The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito,
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zoom
    Pure Saturday matinee kiddie fodder and this close to going straight to DVD.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Slightly better than it should be. For Tucker Max, this possibly represents a triumph.
  26. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    For some, Atlas Shrugged Part II is a ridiculous movie. For others, it's scripture.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Filth and Wisdom
    Worst of all, the movie's simply not very shocking. Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.
  28. 2016: Obama's America
    Well, fair's fair. George W. Bush got Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 9/11." Now Barack Obama gets Dinesh D'Souza and 2016: Obama's America. Both films are wildly partisan attack documentaries made by wildly partisan and generally annoying polemicists (D'Souza is more personable, actually, than Moore).
  29. Innocence
    It’s an idea that could make for decent genre viewing, if only its cast had some range, and its indie reach didn’t exceed its mainstream-polished grasp.
  30. Skyline
    The Strauses don't care about how to keep an audience. Their movie has no sense of suspense or dread - Skyline is an apocalypse movie that plods like one of Romero's zombies.
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