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For 7,797 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Stone Cold
    The routinely scripted but kinetic Stone Cold is a throwback to Roger Corman’s Hell’s Angels flicks, in which beer-swilling denim-and-leather-clad freedom riders straddled their Harleys to terrorize the American heartland.
  2. Total Eclipse
    Total Eclipse is pretty unbearable: The movie is dour and patchy and stilted — it leaves you sitting glumly waiting for the next baroque bout of tormented misbehavior.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Inferno
    Bourne it is not, but the twists come with enough regularity to keep the squishier parts of the plot from mucking up the works.
  4. Captain America: Brave New World
    If this sounds a bit complicated, heavy on exposition, and jumbled, well, that’s because it is. It’s never a great sign when a screenplay has five credited writers, as Brave New World does...Still, Brave New World works significantly better than plenty of other Marvel films.
  5. Superstar
    It barely boasts enough funny material to fill four minutes.
  6. Phenomenon
    Phenomenon (directed by Jon Turteltaub, the guy who sedated us with "While You Were Sleeping") would be pretty unbearable were Travolta not so consistently charming.
  7. Holy Man
    Director Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus) and screenwriter Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) offer no clues, no challenges, nothing to provoke the smallest bubble of curiosity in an audience that waits 40 minutes only to realize Oh, I get it, this isn't going to be Eddie Murphy Funny!
  8. Burnt
    Just when you think you know where Burnt is headed, there’s an underhanded twist about halfway in. And it’s almost enough to set the movie right.
  9. Two Weeks Notice
    Knows what it needs to do for both its stars, does it, and doesn't make a federal case about it. I'd watch these two together again in a New York minute.
  10. Jurassic Park III
    Has no pretentions to be anything more than a goose-bumpy fantasy theme-park ride for kids, but it's such a routine ride.
  11. The 13th Warrior
    The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages.
  12. Jackass: The Movie
    Provokes a suspense halfway between comedy and horror. I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next.
  13. Wild Mountain Thyme
    It almost seems churlish to single out one aspect of the film for unreality, when the whole thing is essentially one Riverdancing leprechaun short of a fairy tale. And when so many dangerous drinking games can be invented to accompany the rise and fall of Christopher Walken’s mystery brogue.
  14. Stargate
    The film has flashes of psychedelic visual energy, but its story is limp.
  15. Parker
    The movie is a morals-free procession of bang bang bang! and blood blood blood!, and men slamming each other with blunt objects and slicing each other with blades.
  16. Celebrity
    Allen's canniest hire of all is Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a bratty, destructive young star, juicing the proceedings with a power surge that subsides as soon as he exits.
  17. Taking Care of Business
    The plot is déjà vu all over again, another variation on the proletarian-joker-goes-yuppie formula used in Trading Places, The Secret of My Success, and Opportunity Knocks. In Taking Care of Business, the formula gets boiled down to its bare bones. The movie is nothing but a series of executive signifiers — it should have been called The Trappings of My Success.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Daddy's Home
    Anders had many opportunities to pit the dads against each other directly, but trades in the cheesy, expected route for devious mind games.
  19. Bicentennial Man
    Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.
  20. The Event
    Aggressively drab and granular, the movie feels like a late-'80s AIDS passion play given an ill-fitting post-Sept. 11 makeover.
  21. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Emily Bergl plays the misfit heroine -- pale Goth grrrl Rachel Lang -- with a nicely sulky empathy, equal parts hurt and hope.
  22. The Affair of the Necklace
    Slipshod rather than sly. There's no fury to the movie, repressed or otherwise, which may be why when the Revolution arrives, it has all the impact of a guillotine with a deadly dull blade.
  23. Vampires
    The goons themselves, though, look rather chic, flying through the air in Galliano-goes-to-hell garments straight out of Vampire Vogue.
  24. 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.
  25. Austenland
    Austenland is kind of a one-joke movie, and the film's rhythm is a bit flaccid, but the joke, at least, has a twinge of wit.
  26. Armageddon
    Bay doesn't stage scenes, exactly -- he stages moments.
  27. The Great Wall
    The Great Wall looks like it could be a really amazing video game. Alas, it’s a movie, and kind of a brick.
  28. For Love or Money
    By now, I’m not sure even Donald Trump could love a movie that asks us to get misty-eyed over real estate.
  29. A Journal for Jordan
    Uninspired though it is, A Journal for Jordan delivers on the heartbreak of its premise. You will weep. So if that's what you're after, you couldn't ask for anything more.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bug
    Many strange events ensue — the bugs learn to spell out words with their bodies, people get barbecued and devoured — but none of these marvels is believable.
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