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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 Art of War
    Too-loud, poorly directed and seriously overedited.
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  2. Queen of the Damned
    Leaves us puzzled as to why the term "damned" applies at all, when vampirism is depicted as so cool, fashion-savvy and glamorous.
  3. Waiting...
    Could have been a funny movie. There are a few truths about food-service that McKittrick gets right but doesn't fully exploit.
  4. Expend4bles
    The action is messy, the geography indiscernible, and a few shots seem stitched together with but a single pixel and a prayer.
  5. White Noise
    In White Noise, Hollywood and Michael Keaton try to make a decent thriller out of ghosts in the machine but come up with lousy reception and static.
  6. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The movie goes too far on too little motivation - and the middle section, with its maggoty villains, roiling skies and native revolts, seems almost barmy. Yet Exorcist: Beginning does score a small victory. It's not as bad as you'd think.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
    The villainous creatures are less yucky than their counterparts in the original (the meanest dudes look like overfed lobsters with an epidermal problem), the sets are cheesy and the special effects (supervised by Derek Meddings of Batman) are humdrum. [11 Feb 1991, p.7C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Legend
    It stinks from top to bottom. Even Tom Cruise ("Risky Business"), one of the most appealing actors of his generation, can now claim to have made his first truly awful film. And the same goes for director Ridley Scott ("Alien"), who specializes in artful, heartless movies. Legend, however, isn't the least bit artful. [18 Apr 1986, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. John Q
    Waste in the health care system is deplorable, but waste on the movie screen isn't so great either.
  10. Grown Ups
    The only people humiliated, really, are older people and heavy people and nerds and vegans and black people and mothers who breast-feed their 4-year-olds. Everybody else gets a pass.
  11. The Unborn
    This material is offensive. The film may end with a straight-faced reassurance that "no actual Torah scrolls were destroyed or damaged in the making of this motion picture," but it's perfectly willing to exploit the Holocaust for cheap, weak thrills.
  12. Stonewall
    Because Stonewall turns everyone into a sentimental or suffocating "type" instead of a dimensional character, the results are sheer noise.
  13. The Marc Pease Experience
    Not so much character-driven as character-dragged--against its will.
  14. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Custom-designed for 13 year-olds, laden with broad sight gags, gross sound effects and a bowlful of potty jokes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Grind
    This movie is just not cool or hip or in any way extreme. Sitting through Grind is a real grind.
  16. The Butterfly Effect
    Kutcher delivers a credibly serious performance as Evan, and he's surrounded by a skilled supporting cast.
  17. Slender Man
    Birke's script is plainly straightforward, a simple supernatural chase story. It doesn't plumb the depths of what might make Slender Man scary, so Slender Man isn't scary at all.
  18. Never Again
    A good-natured but trivial Manhattan romantic comedy.
  19. Knockaround Guys
    There's nothing original about the father-son conflict that forms the core of the film, nor is there enough suspense and drama.
  20. Endless Love
    A movie just begging to go up in the flames of camp. If only somebody had brought a match.
  21. The Bride
    What a letdown! The remake of the 1935 classic ''The Bride of Frankenstein'' with rock star Sting as the doctor and Jennifer Beals as the reconstructed bride is a complete failure in telling its principal story.
  22. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
    Jason Lives is not a good movie. It is as predictable as a City Council vote in the Daley era; a lamely acted film filled with the most contrived slaughter and utterly lacking in suspense. [4 Aug 1986, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Madhouse
    In Madhouse, writer-director Tom Ropelewski doesn't so much serve up an idea as force-feed it down our gullets. It takes a game bird to sit through the entire movie. [16 Feb 1990, p.K]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Replacements
    This is the laziest kind of filmmaking.
  25. The Tuxedo
    A breakthrough for karate comedy king Chan, but not necessarily the kind we've all been waiting and hoping for. It's an ultra-digitized DreamWorks show crammed with elaborate special effects, the kind that physical-stunt specialist Chan has always avoided.
  26. Where the Heart Is
    Never really feels right.
  27. Dude, Where's My Car?
    At the end of 83 unmerciful minutes, audiences will be exclaiming, "Dude, I can't believe I sat through that movie!?" Stick to the trailer.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. The Gallows
    Lofing and Cluff certainly know the found-footage ropes, and the tropes; we'll see if their next project reveals a little more imagination.
  29. She Hate Me
    A daring, entertaining, but somewhat disappointing affair, something of an overreacher despite Lee's usual pyrotechnics and a brilliant cast.
  30. Crossover
    The reason basketball is such a great spectator sport isn't because of its opportunities for razzle-dazzle editing and direction. It's because the game is kinetic enough without all that swoosh/zap/wham business.
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