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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. Friday After Next
    The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.
  2. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles.
  3. Shall We Dance
    The movie never gives its heart freely and honestly to the satiny whirl of post-"Chicago" showbiz spectacle it so clearly wants to be.
  4. Scary Movie 2
    An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
  5. Beyond the Sea
    Weirdly moving.
  6. The Chronicles of Riddick
    This is a movie so devoted to metal that it couldn't care less about the flesh it destroys.
  7. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The number of levels on which these pros trade on their diminished reputations makes the movie an inside joke rather than a funny one. If Spade thinks otherwise, he's nucking futs.
  8. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    There are two sparks of light amid the trifling dialogue and bad faux-'80s love-on-the-beach montages in Havana Nights, and they are the film's costars.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Extreme Days
    One quarter ''True love waits,'' three quarters ''Cowabunga!,'' all pretty clumsy.
  10. I Heart Huckabees
    What in the Buddha's name is going on in I Heart Huckabees? Russell has come up with a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together.
  11. Joe Dirt
    Ends up blowing its own joke. Instead of making Joe blissfully arrogant in his Southern rock dude myopia, it turns him into a shuffling masochistic loser.
  12. The Life of David Gale
    A self-righteous mishmash that can't decide whether to be a tribute to the fanatical leftist passion that thrives in college towns, an indictment of that very same fanaticism, or a ghoulishly didactic snuff-video thriller.
  13. National Treasure
    The character of a scruffy computer nerd, played with might-as-well-enjoy-myself charm by little-known actor Justin Bartha, steals the picture from glossier players.
  14. Remember the Titans
    Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.
  15. The Stepford Wives
    At no time do the men -- that is, the straight ones -- believably hold the upper hand. In the new town of Stepford, there's no bitterness, no struggle, no competition, none of the scars of the sexual revolution. There's just gay apparel.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The film's moral? Turn off the TV, young 'uns, and go outside and play! And avoid Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 matinees while you're at it.
  17. Forrest Gump
    It is also glib, shallow, and monotonous, a movie that spends so much time sanctifying its hero that, despite his "innocence," he ends up seeming about as vulnerable as Superman.
  18. Fat Albert
    The sermonizing on behalf of good clean fun and hard old effort (Cosby co-wrote the script) is as faded as Big Al's sweater after too many days on earth.
  19. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    The film's generic feminism pales beside its bloated sense of privilege, only underlined by a nonstop cabaret of sideshow acts.
  20. Troy
    The result is a pageant long but not deep, noisy but not stirring, expensive but not sumptuous.
  21. Barb Wire
    This rusted-future comic strip comes at you in shards -- exhaustingly derivative images of mayhem and titillation, with Lee, in her bad-girl bondage gear, as its blank vixen. If you didn't call her babe, she wouldn't exist.
  22. Sleepers
    By the end, the main thing that's been abused is the audience's intelligence.
  23. The Chamber
    The Chamber goes so far toward humanizing bigotry it ends up sentimentalizing it.
  24. The Jackal
    A trashy, frenetic remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1973 The Day of the Jackal, The Jackal is mired in blood, cheap shocks, and a random network of improbability.
  25. Cube
    This very Canadian thriller (i.e., no humor, lots of literal-minded future-shock portentousness) certainly does a number on you, though not necessarily a pleasurable one.
  26. A Time to Kill
    A slick, synthetic, self-important drama that thinks it is saying more than it is simply because of its subject matter.
  27. Pocahontas
    As a fairy-tale confection, a kind of West Side Story in Jamestown, Pocahontas is pleasant to look at, and it will probably satisfy very small kiddies, but it's the first of the new-era Disney cartoons that feels less than animated.
  28. 101 Dalmatians
    But when it comes to that great puppy pilgrimage, the movie, which was written and produced by John Hughes, falls astoundingly flat.
  29. Indecent Proposal
    Indecent Proposal starts out kinky and turns into a languid-and shockingly banal- domestic soap opera.
  30. Sleepless in Seattle
    The movie is so prefab, so plastically aware of being ''corny,'' ''romantic,'' and ''old-fashioned,'' that it feels programmed to make you fall in love with it.
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