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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. The Forgotten
    A thriller of carefully cultivated murk. It's enigmatic in the worst sense, in that every explanation for what's going on holds less water than the last.
  2. You Got Served
    The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide.
  3. The Day After Tomorrow
    A decent disaster pic comes down to the handful of colorful individuals who will live (or, depending on the prominence of their billing, die), as it has since the days of chewy disaster meatballs like ''The Towering Inferno'' and ''Earthquake.'' And the heaviest lifting in Emmerich's production falls to Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.
  4. Home on the Range
    The conservatively cheery artistic style suggests that the animation team has been reading Sundance merchandise catalogs.
  5. Mousehunt
    The charms of Evans (from 1995's oddball Funny Bones) and Lane (who's at his best playing to the balcony) are lost in all the detailed hubbub.
  6. The Polar Express
    The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.
  7. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    The movie is funny when it's nasty, as when Ron and Veronica trade insults at the anchor desk. Most of the time, though, it's not nasty enough.
  8. Paparazzi
    It doesn't take long for the film to devolve into a ludicrously far-fetched Celebrity Death Wish.
  9. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Glazed over by its worship of Che Guevara.
  10. The Phantom of the Opera
    The result isn't liberated from the stage; it's trapped, with waxworks literalness, onscreen.
  11. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Isn't nearly as cheerily unpleasant as it ought to be.
  12. Blade: Trinity
    Blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long, with too many scenes of Blade and his cohorts standing around in darkened corridors, waiting for their enemies to show up. The action, however, is as throat-grabbing as you want it to be.
  13. Hotel Rwanda
    A strange history lesson that leaves us more overlectured than properly overwhelmed.
  14. The Mask
    The Mask, a rattletrap Jekyll-and-Hyde farce, surrounds Carrey with a nothing plot and a cast of ciphers. Still, his scenes as the Mask are rowdy and enjoyable.
  15. Beautiful Girls
    Directed, with overfondness for the goofy ways of guys, by Ted Demme and written, with overfondness for the sound of guys pontificating about nothing, by Scott Rosenberg.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Relic
    If you can stagger around the plot holes (how'd a Brazilian cargo ship with a dead crew get to Lake Michigan?), the last 30 minutes are pure, dumb monster-movie fun.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Bonnie and Clyde
    Penn's film oozes an intellectual's fashionable contempt for the characters.
  18. Clear and Present Danger
    As a thriller, this 21 2-hour production takes a slow route between short bursts of excitement.
  19. Booty Call
    There are moments of lewd hilarity, like a game of footsie that turns genderifically confused. But Booty Call loses its dirty-minded, how-low-will-they-go-to-get-laid edge when the boys venture out into the New York night to buy condoms.
  20. Dante's Peak
    It hardly helps, of course, to have no characters to root for. What is it about Pierce Brosnan? He's got dimples, grace, charm; he's not a movie star, exactly -- he looks as if he should be hosting something.
  21. Paradise Road
    Beresford, who'd like to teach the world to sing, makes the moment as moving as a Coca-Cola jingle. It's not the real thing, but it's effective.
  22. Prefontaine
    But in this standard athlete-dies-young presentation, we never do catch the magic that made Steve Prefontaine a towering figure. Instead, this Pre is a shaggy-haired, sentimental favorite -- a teen angel rather than an Olympian.
  23. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    In Die Hard With a Vengeance, McTiernan stages individual sequences with great finesse (there's a terrific bit with Willis and five thugs in an elevator), yet they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole.
  24. GoldenEye
    Still, just about everything in Goldeneye, from its rote nuclear-weapon-in-space plot to the recitation of lines that sound like they're being read off stone tablets (''Shaken, not stirred!''), has been served up with a thirdhand generic competence that's more wearying than it is exhilarating.
  25. Jumanji
    Jumanji is cardboard Spielberg, a B-movie scrap heap of spare parts lifted from "Jurassic Park" and "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future".
  26. The First Wives Club
    The First Wives Club has all the conviction a comedy of female vengeance needs. But as soon as the dumb plot takes over, the wit leaks out of the movie like helium from a balloon.
  27. Mortal Kombat
    And although director Paul Anderson treats the story with appropriate deadpan respect, there are enough sparks of humor (particularly generated by Linden Ashby as a shallow martial-arts actor who worries that he's a fake, with good reason) to amuse the adults accompanying the 10-year-old boys in the audience.
  28. Romeo + Juliet
    Romeo & Juliet is a series of spectacular production designs posing as a motion picture.
  29. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    For a while, the atmosphere seems just right. As Mrs. Parker goes on, it becomes apparent that the one-liners, droll as some of them are, aren't really going to coalesce into characters, scenes, dramatic encounters.
  30. Unstrung Heroes
    Trying for a dark-toned comedy of familial mishap, Keaton dips into the sentimental fraudulence.
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