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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. The Man with One Red Shoe
    Leave it to an American production team to remake the same premise into an inarguably worse movie. And this insufferable remake called The Man with One Red Shoe marks the second time in as many years that producer Victor Drai, a former estate developer, has taken a French movie and turned it into garbage. Last year he took the genuinely amusing ''Pardon Mon Affair'' and reworked it with the help of the increasingly annoying Gene Wilder into ''The Lady in Red,'' one of the year`s worst movies.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hollywood Knights
    Hollywood Knights mock of authority, slob heroes and snob villains, and raunchy, gross-out humor invite comparisons to "Animal House" and "Porky's." [11 May 2000, p.6D]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. This Means War
    Pure, witless discombobulation.
  4. That's My Boy
    Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy.
  5. Gray Matters
    Watching Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and a stridently adorable Alan Cumming do their wide-eyed, moony thing in the romantic comedy Gray Matters raises the question: Is it possible for a filmgoer to be twinkled to death?
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gossip
    Suffers from an overwhelming sense of teen movie facility and "Murder She Wrote" neatness.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Antitrust
    A big techno-dud.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Pootie Tang
    Slow and dragging, Pootie Tang is worse than a below-average sketch-to-screen Saturday Night Live film.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Head Office
    It`s a lamebrained movie, without much sense in its construction.
  10. Death Wish
    For a while, director Roth plays this stuff relatively straight, and Willis periodically reminds us he can act (the grieving Kersey cries a fair bit here).
  11. The Presidio
    It's a movie that doesn't have an original thought in its head, and seems to like it that way.
  12. Godzilla 1985
    Heavily laden with antinuclear messages, bad dubbing and worse dialogue, Godzilla 1985 is a pale imitation of the original film, a calculated bit of cinematic nostalgia that leaves one yawning. [20 Sep 1985, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Getting Even with Dad
    Perhaps blackmail isn't an easy subject to warm up to, or robbery the best ground to rebuild a relationship on, but with a little care, some added ingredients and a bit more spice, Getting Even With Dad could have been a satisfying meal and not just an afternoon snack. [17 Jun 1994, p.H]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Hellboy
    With this noisy, fast, chaotic "Hellboy," Marshall is at his most cheeky and most unhinged. It's certainly… a lot.
  15. Hounddog
    The film is responsible, earnest, well-intentioned and, as it was in Sundance, maddeningly inconsistent.
  16. Envy
    Envy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear.
  17. Monster-in-Law
    It would take the dark wit of a Billy Wilder or a Coen brother--or at least a Neil Simon--to put across this kind of material.
  18. Stick
    Stick is quite awful.
  19. North Shore
    Aimed squarely at adolescents in subconscious search of strong father figures, most of the movie is dull and familiar. [18 Aug 1987, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Life or Something Like It
    It's dispiriting to see Jolie wasting herself (and a good supporting cast) on a story that requires little more than an average pretty actress who can wear clothes well and laugh and cry on cue.
  21. The Starling
    McCarthy’s open-faced performance is reason enough to give it your time, even if nearly everything surrounding her feels unworthy.
  22. Red Dawn
    Many of the original film's booby-trap scenarios are repeated here, but without Milius' grandiosity and nihilism. There's less of both in the new Red Dawn. It's not a disaster. It's just drab.
  23. First Daughter
    It's a glossy, well-mounted, slickly done but almost stuporously predictable affair, both formula-bound and utterly illogical.
  24. Deception
    With her arresting, off-kilter look of bruised desire, Michelle Williams ends up being the most interesting aspect of this somber corn.
  25. Inheritance
    The whole thing is a wild concept, hinging on the plausibility of every character's motivations, which are all a bit squishy.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. National Security
    Lawrence and Zahn generate enough comic tension and mayhem to jump-start this mass of action-comedy cliches into a fairly amusing show.
  28. Trapped in Paradise
    Perhaps if writer-director George Gallo ("29th Street") had tried to simplify this potentially sweet story, instead of mucking it up with all sorts of chases and shtick, it might have worked as a modern Christmas fable, complete with charity, kindness, and Three Not-So-Wise Men. But instead, we are presented with a Christmas buffet of overstuffed fruitcake and overspiked punch. Too stale, too sweet, too much. [02 Dec 1994, p.J]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Cop Out
    A buddy cop film in which one of the cops continually quotes dialogue espoused by fictional cops, in everything from "Heat" to "RoboCop," and not once is it funny.
  30. No Holds Barred
    The film is utterly lacking in the campy quality of the World Wrestling Federation telecasts.
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