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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Reindeer Games
    Displays no ambition to be anything more than a synthetic sense-jolt conveyor of the week.
  2. The World Is Not Enough
    The hero himself has been denatured for a young, late 1990s audience with little appreciation for real suavity or sex play.
  3. Eight Legged Freaks
    Like many of the worst pop-referential parodies of the post-''Scream'' era, this one stalls on laughs once the big joke has been established.
  4. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    The director has said that the plot was influenced by a real English thief named Valentin who showed up at his door one day to repay money stolen a decade earlier.
  5. Collateral Damage
    The result is an ''action film'' mired in stasis. The ending piles on the potboiler mayhem, but it's telling that Schwarzenegger's climactic catchphrase is down to one measly word. This time, he's the luggage.
  6. Charlotte Gray
    A frustratingly inert story, a bookend to last year's wooden ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin.''
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vampire's Kiss
    Playing a sleazeball who has stumbled upon an excellent excuse for his bent, Cage holds the movie together as best he can. More important, he nails down his unique approach to acting, managing to be simultaneously stylized and naturalistic. [7 June 1996, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hot Spot
    It's also supposed to be atmospheric, noirish, and touched with nihilism. But the director, Hollywood bad boy Dennis Hopper, lays it all on so thick that the film verges on self-parody.
  9. ABC Africa
    It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Idle Hands
    Let us now praise Seth ''Scott Evil'' Green, whose beautiful delivery of otherwise generic wisecracks is all that stands between this painfully derivative horror comedy and a premature date with the eject button.
  11. Shanghai Noon
    Lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story -- an American tale of pageantry and history.
  12. Welcome to Collinwood
    Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's Eleven.''
  13. Dark Blue World
    The aerial-dogfight scenes, which are beautiful and shot through with jittery panic, are notable for not being staged for videogame kicks.
  14. Pootie Tang
    Amiably silly.
  15. Possession
    The movie is intelligent yet lifeless; it's all wisps and abstractions.
  16. The Man from Elysian Fields
    A pompous and garbled parable about how terribly, terribly difficult it is to make it as a creative artist, and how important it is to maintain high standards of haberdashery.
  17. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Has the look of a great fairy tale -- all that's missing is the tale.
  18. Joe Somebody
    It turns out that Joe ends up liking the old Joe better too. Who just so happens to be the kind of average-Joe character that continues to make Allen such a tidy, non-Joe bundle.
  19. Center Stage
    As a Balanchine-like martinet, Peter Gallagher is a hoot, whispering to his minions about good and bad feet.
  20. The Hunted
    The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us.
  21. Soul Survivors
    The only possible reason to see this otherwise average afternoon waster is Sagemiller.
  22. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A derisively vicious show-off satire, a plastic exercise in authority bashing.
  23. The Core
    It's a schlockier ''Armageddon'' crossed with ''Fantastic Voyage,'' minus the fun.
  24. Italian for Beginners
    To see this much austere vérité atmosphere propping up this much schlock romanticism is like biting into a blue-cheese canapé that turns out to be a fluffernutter.
  25. Dungeons & Dragons
    Malty brew of heroics and minutiae.
  26. Antitrust
    While Robbins has a good time playing the boyish devil, the rest of the principals transmit on an awfully low baud rate.
  27. Le divorce
    I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing.
  28. Enough
    There's only one place that a movie like this one can possibly be heading, and that's to a demagogic blowout of violent, femme-power payback. Enough gets there by way of far too many tedious detours.
  29. Bringing Down the House
    Stock farce characters and stale scenes of mayhem fill the downtime between the Martin-Latifah skirmishes.
  30. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    This voyage is strictly one for the disposable present, however quaintly old-fashioned the hand-drawn work that the animators have blended with 3D effects. (Tots will twitch during the grown-up relationship parts, and teens will groan at the kiddie sops.)
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