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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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Crazy in Alabama
    As campy as a flick by Banderas' evident artistic mentor, Pedro Almódovar.
  2. Albino Alligator
    Ultimately, the talented cast -- among them M. Emmet Walsh, Faye Dunaway, Skeet Ulrich, and Viggo Mortensen -- play to their easiest star turns rather than their most interesting strengths.
  3. Someone Like You...
    It was originally called ''Animal Husbandry,'' and while the producers were throwing away that title, they might have done well to chuck the movie along with it.
  4. Woman on Top
    Has all the mood enhancing flavor of a tropical cocktail made with watered down rum and fake fruit juice.
  5. Wild Wild West
    The fusion of cheekiness and deliberately overscaled fantasy never jells.
  6. The Very Thought of You
    Features the dullest, least lifelike collection of pals this side of "Eyes Wide Shut."
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  7. Head Over Heels
    Bland to dismal.
  8. Serving Sara
    The few jaunty, ''Friends''-inflected lines Perry does get off are lost among the cow pies.
  9. Great Expectations
    The film is proof that if you repackage the classics (in this case, Dickens) for the youth market in an era of MTV dislocation, what you get, in essence, is postmodern Cliffs Notes with an alt-rock soundtrack.
  10. Life as a House
    No worse than any disease-of-the-week TV movie, and no more moralistic than any Lifetime drama. But it's no better, either, and it ought to be.
  11. The Transporter
    It's like the worst movie Jean-Claude Van Damme never made.
  12. Addicted to Love
    Commits the cardinal sin of too many modern movies: It never gives the audience a clue why any of these people were ever attracted to one another in the first place. [30 May 1997, p. 54]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  13. Species II
    "Species" at least had the benefit of Henstridge's glazed porn-doll perversity, but this time any glimmers of sexual ominousness are buried in a lame, desultory chase plot and in the woefully underimagined special effects.
  14. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Jean-Claude Van Damme's latest dud.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    American Outlaws
    Bogusly wholesome six-gun dud.
  16. Cabin Boy
    Few comedies have worked this hard to make everyone on screen look this dumb.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Long on smarm and short on charm.
  18. Ready to Rumble
    It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.
  19. The Ninth Gate
    A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.
  20. Death to Smoochy
    Tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke. Over and over again.
  21. Catch That Kid
    ''Kid'' seeks to ''empower'' its target audience of recent Pokémon grads with an adult antihero desperation that feels preemptive and inappropriate.
  22. 3 Strikes
    Empty jokes hang heavy.
  23. Head in the Clouds
    Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Half Baked
    Sitting on your couch watching these morons sit on their couch and get wasted is like being the only straight guest at a pot party. Everyone else is laughing, and you're left wondering why.
  25. Against the Ropes
    For all I know, Ryan's performance could be a dead-on Kallen impression. But what she appears to be doing is an impression of Johnny Depp doing an impression of Keith Richards doing an impression of Liz Taylor.
  26. Slackers
    The movie doesn't so much extend Schwartzman's antic outsider persona from ''Rushmore'' as uglify it, reducing him to the ultimate Uncool Anti-WASP.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Bait
    A tired action thriller determined to play the race card every which way for every which kind of viewer, seems hopelessly behind the curve.
  28. Final Destination 2
    The only pleasure to be derived from the resulting carnage comes from the Rube Goldbergesque chain reactions that precede each fatality.
  29. Gods and Generals
    Bloodless and false.
  30. Beverly Hills Ninja
    But when the writers run out of ideas, they simply have Farley walk into a lamppost, or cop from old SNL skits.
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