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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Recess: School's Out
    An amusing and entertaining animated feature, and it's harmless enough for the elementary-school set.
  2. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake.
  3. The Final Cut
    Fairly well done but deadly dull futuristic thriller.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Feast
    Follows a common horror flick recipe (people under siege from hungry monsters--so much for Greenlight's search for originality), adding a dash of humor to keep things from becoming too much of a checklist.
  5. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Ends strong, in an ultimately smoother, smarter sequel.
  6. Scoob!
    As corporate directives go, Scoob! has a lighter spirit (until the obligatory protracted action climax) and swifter throwaway gags than either of the live-action “Scooby-Doo” remakes offered. (Thank God for Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini, though. I start each day with that prayer.) The animated “Scoob!” aims younger, and mostly is better for it.
  7. Flipper
    But writer-director Alan Shapiroisn't content to focus on aquatic mammalian high jinks. Instead, he must pack in virtually every family movie cliche of the '90s. [17 May 1996, p.C]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cruising
    This isn't a particularly great flick, but Pacino's performance is first-rate. [24 May 2002, p.C1]
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  9. D.E.B.S.
    So what started as a female "Agent Cody Banks" happily and seamlessly becomes so much more, with style and substance existing in unusual harmony for a spy spoof.
  10. Office Christmas Party
    Office Christmas Party, which delights in a grotesque carnival of the worst behavior, and still has its heart firmly in the right place.
  11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The gentle erotic undertow in the friendship of Snow Flower and Lily has been toned down, and replaced by … niceness.
  12. The Lovely Bones
    Jackson has not cast himself well, though. He has slathered the imagery in the wrong kind of wonderment and hyperbole, both on Earth and in heaven.
  13. G
    Cherot shot G on a tight schedule, but instead of this age-old indie predicament generating a certain scrappy passion, the film just looks cheap.
  14. My Father the Hero
    My Father, the Hero isn't just a one-joke movie, but believe it or not, that's by far the best joke. [4 Feb 1994, p.K]
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  15. The Time Machine
    It's a movie that robs the story of its politics and point and never really matches the charm of the '60s film.
  16. The Family Man
    I didn't believe it, and I don't think the people who made The Family Man did either.
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  17. Drive Me Crazy
    An innocuous teen film.
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