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For 8,159 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Falling from Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Jupiter Ascending
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,088 out of 8159
  2. Mixed: 1,243 out of 8159
  3. Negative: 828 out of 8159
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  1. Kazaam
    As for Shaquille O'Neal, given his own three wishes the next time, he should go for a script, a director and an interesting character.
  2. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure.
  3. Dark Crimes
    This is a well-made, well-acted and sometimes intriguing but also coldly cynical and manipulative murder mystery.
  4. Staying Alive
    Staying Alive is a big disappointment.
  5. Hollow Man
    Hollow Man can think of nothing more interesting to do than spy on his girlfriend and assault his neighbor.Too bad. Really too bad, because the movie is supported by some of the most intriguing special effects I've seen.
  6. Godsend
    It's a thriller, a bad thriller, completely lacking in psychological or emotional truth.
  7. Her Alibi
    Endless, pointless and ridiculous, right up to the final shot of the knife going through the cockroach. This movie is desperately bankrupt of imagination and wit, and Tom Selleck looks adrift in it.
  8. The Love Guru
    Myers has made some funny movies, but this film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents.
  9. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    An idiotic ode to macho horseshite (to employ an ancient Irish word). It is however distinguished by superb cinematography.
  10. The Wizard
    The Wizard is finally just a cynical exploitation film with a lot of commercial plugs in it, and it is so insanely overwritten and ineptly directed that it will disappoint just about everybody and serve them right for going in the first place.
  11. Another 48 Hrs.
    If it does nothing else, Another 48 HRS reminds us that Murphy is a big, genuine talent. Now it's time for him to make a good movie.
  12. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
  13. Collateral Beauty
    Collateral Beauty is a fraud. It is built on a foundation so contrived, so off-putting, so treacly, the most miraculous thing about this movie is this movie was actually made.
  14. Couples Retreat
    Among the better things in the movie, I count Vaughn's well-timed and smart dialogue.
  15. Ready to Rumble
    The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell."
  16. Turk 182
    The sad thing about Turk 182! is that, the whole project sounds like a High Concept movie, in which the idea of the Turk was allowed to substitute for a story about him. Sure, it would be neat to see a movie about a guy like this. But not this movie.
  17. Formula 51
    A fourth-rate "Pulp Fiction" with accents you can't understand.
  18. Beautiful
    It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.
  19. Eight Crazy Nights
    Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest.
  20. Half Past Dead
    It goes through the motions of an action thriller, but there is a deadness at its center, a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing.
  21. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    The dialogue in places leans toward the banal, but a couple of plot twists help hold interest.
  22. The Cobbler
    The Cobbler goes from bad to you-have-to-be-kidding in that final act, when we’re given a big reveal that makes no sense, even in the context of a bat-bleep crazy fable.
  23. The Bounty Hunter
    Why, oh, why, was this movie necessary?
  24. Reagan
    This is a competently made film with decent cinematography and production design, and the casting is never less than ... interesting, but it favors a simplistic approach and a narrative that verges on adoration.
  25. Running Free
    I seem to be developing a rule about talking animals: They can talk if they're cartoons or Muppets, but not if they're real.
  26. The Ladies Man
    Desperately unfunny.
  27. Saving Silverman
    So bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve.
  28. Vanquish
    Many scenes are bathed in a sickly green, as if we’re watching everything through cheap night-vision goggles; others are tinted blood-red. No matter what filters are used, there’s no disguising this is garbage wrapped in a glossy package.
  29. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
    What did we really, sincerely, expect anyway, from a movie in which Karl Malden plays a character named 'Wilbur,' and Slim Pickens plays a character named 'Tex'?
  30. New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?
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