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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. Van Wilder
    An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.
  2. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    There hasn`t been a movie quite like Police Academy 4 since, well . . . "Police Academy 3." Make that exactly like, because here are the same characters, the same situations and the same jokes (most of them focused on damage suffered in the genital region) that have served the series since its inauspicious debut in 1984.
  3. Mac and Me
    This is what happens when someone doesn't make a sequel to a hit movie fast enough. Someone else, with a lot of brass, makes a ripoff that is even less satisfying. [19 Aug 1988, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Basic Instinct 2
    Once the credits are done rolling it's a dour, enervated mystery, selling the old cat-and-mouse games.
  5. Split Second
    While entertaining and often genuinely frightening, thanks to a remorsefully blue cast to the cinematography, this thick stew can be tough to swallow under Tony Maylam's bumpy direction. [3 May 1992, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Tideland
    It's crazy, dangerous and sometimes gorgeous: a feast of nuttiness that takes you, for a while, over the edge.
  7. Supercross
    The movie itself has no edge. It barely has a movie.
  8. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    The result just might be the most hypocritical feature in the history of film as well as the history of hypocrisy, and along with serving beer, I hope they show I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell in hell.
  9. Phantoms
    Phantoms may have sold like hotcakes as a book. But this movie version is a grotesque fiasco, a confoundingly senseless story told with unexciting visuals, cliched dialogue and ear-bashing sounds... Watching it is a truly hellish experience. [23 Jan 1998]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Gloria
    The shadow of Gena Rowlands looms over this picture like a cinematic eclipse. [25 January 1999, Tempo, p.5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Filth and Wisdom
    It's rather sweet to think of Filth and Wisdom as Madonna's reconnection to her own boho Manhattan striver self a generation ago, and I did enjoy the last five minutes or so, when the movie essentially stopped and Hutz's band, Gogol Bordello, took over.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shadow Hours
    About as interesting as watching paint dry.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Silver Bullet
    A limp retelling of the werewolf legend that is about as frightening as a rubbery Richard Nixon mask.
  14. The Salon
    The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting. Been there, snipped it. Though dating from venerable material, The Salon turns out to be one haircut too many.
  15. Skyline
    Their (The Brothers Strause) effects are pretty good, on a fairly limited budget. And that's about all you can say for Skyline.
  16. Rambo: Last Blood
    Rambo lumbers to the finish line in the flaccid fifth installment, which is a Frankenstein’s monster of badly photocopied references to the previous movies, limply strung together with the laziest of screenplays.
  17. Teen Wolf
    Teen Wolf is a clever and inventive film, a soft and contemporary retelling of the familiar werewolf tale.
  18. Here on Earth
    An almost terminally sappy youth romance.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. The One
    Hits the ground running and never lets up.
  20. Georgia Rule
    Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us.
  21. Hell Ride
    A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in.
  22. License to Wed
    Williams' grimace is starting to look desperate. Then again, no one comes off well in director Ken Kwapis' handling of this greasy screenplay.
  23. Drowning Mona
    A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. American Outlaws
    Not only does American Outlaws distort history, but the filmmakers have created a dull, one-dimensional pop icon out of James' complex character and legend.
  25. Cobra
    Whereas Clint Eastwood simply would have squinted at Robinson, Stallone takes a more violent approach. Maybe that's the difference between actors--Eastwood can be droll; Stallone more often crosses the border to primeval.
  26. The Identical
    Playing the title role as well as the Dream role, real-life Elvis tribute artist Blake Rayne is more convincing when he's singing than when he isn't. But he has little to explore beyond bashful smiles.
  27. Sorority Boys
    The situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels.
  28. Drop Dead Fred
    Mayall`s hyper portrayal of Fred, while psychologically sound, is dramatically torture.
  29. The Next Best Thing
    All too obvious, all too easy, the sort of tongue-in-chic L.A. comedy that mistakes glibness for high style, heartfelt pop choruses for wisdom.
  30. A Cinderella Story
    Of all the teen performers out there, Duff has to be the blandest (especially since the Olsens hit the skids).
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