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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. All Eyez on Me
    Shipp nails the energetic, motor-mouthed cadence of the outspoken Shakur. But the film surrounding Shipp is rough going.
  2. Just Visiting
    Recycled French farce isn't a bad thing, but do they really like all those pratfalls?
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  3. Never Die Alone
    Purports to be literate film noir but comes off more like the overwritten project of a film school kid who just memorized his textbook on the style.
  4. The Life Before Her Eyes
    Beautiful, horrifying, exasperating and just plain weird.
  5. Radio
    Although his is not a perfect film, Tollin employs his soap-opera dialogue and aim-for-the-solar-plexus message quite unapologetically.
  6. No Escape
    Unfortunately, No Escape can't stay 10 steps ahead of its misguided politics and overly dramatic storytelling and crumbles under its own preposterous climactic denouement.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Shopaholic
    A thin, largely unfunny comedy that marries lazy filmmaking with bad timing.
  8. The Rite
    For an hour The Rite, as scripted by Michael Petroni, delivers the expected, but with panache.
  9. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.
  10. Laws of Attraction
    It's a middling film that wastes a lot of good opportunities, as well as two fine, charming co-stars.
  11. Raising Helen
    You can take the director out of television, but sometimes you can't take television out of the director. Although Garry Marshall has been making movies for longer than he spent creating such series as "The Odd Couple," "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley," his work retains the scent of the small screen.
  12. The Other Side of Heaven
    Captures a breathtaking exotic landscape cluttered only by the smugness of its characters.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    At its best, The Seeker is a pretty vivid fantasy book come-to-life; it does a decent, passable job of adding to the canon of kid-lit flicks.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bad Santa 2
    This lazy sequel is a lump of coal in a dirty stocking.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    12 Rounds
    Noisy, cut into a head-snapping blur with little room for Cena to even try showing emotion, 12 Rounds is an occasionally exciting but always empty experience.
  16. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    What the Bleep Do We Know? is both modern science for dummies and a feisty extension of our ongoing religious debate.
  17. Think Like a Man Too
    The sequel is a disappointing step down, and backward.
  18. August Rush
    It’s an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill.
  19. Girl Most Likely
    Girl Most Likely goes a little bit wrong in nearly every scene, its stridently quirky characters never quite making sense together in the same universe, let alone the same movie.
  20. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Looks sleek and moves efficiently, but there's nothing too distinctive under the hood.
  21. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Doesn't know how to do what I think it's trying to do.
  22. And So It Goes
    The slapstick is awful; the pathos isn't much better, though it's far more plentiful.
  23. Navy Seals
    The naval equivalent of "Top Gun," focusing on the elite corps of warriors who in this tale must destroy American missiles that have fallen into the hands of Arab terrorists. The boys play together and then fight together. It's all a party. Some of the sequences play like music videos.
  24. Scrooged
    The film works very well, providing lots of laughs, in its first half, setting up the Bill Murray character and his callousness. For a Christmas Eve special he wants to staple antlers on a mouse. [25 Nov 1988, p.A]
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  25. A Dog of Flanders
    It was the adult in me that wept when the movie ended. Take the kid and have a good time.
  26. Don't Say a Word
    Almost nothing new to offer -- despite its good actors, flashy visuals and well-textured New York gloss and grit. But there are teasing hints of another, better movie buried inside somewhere.
  27. Death to Smoochy
    A dark comedy that blows up like an exploding cigar, leaving nothing much behind but smoke, noise and a bad taste.
  28. Rugrats Go Wild
    Though the Thornberrys provide some much-needed energy, asking them to carry the movie is like expecting a sweeps-week celebrity cameo to make an entire 30-minute sitcom episode funny.
  29. The Medallion
    A magic-meets-macho cop movie that's more gimmick than actual movie.
  30. The Pink Panther
    This Pink Panther really doesn't have to achieve the heights of the original; it just has to be funny on its own terms. But it pales there too. Kline, a master of comic hypocrisy, deserves more screen time, Emily Mortimer is wasted as Clouseau's adoring assistant Nicole and Knowles is over indulged as Xania.
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