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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 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. Random Hearts
    Might best be described as bereavement porn.
  2. The Bachelor
    The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.
  3. Half Past Dead
    When Seagal's undercover FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch waddles into the big house wearing a do-rag and a billowing blue jumpsuit, it's the funniest jailhouse-flick scene since Gene Wilder's white-boy strut in ''Stir Crazy.''
  4. Simply Irresistible
    A tuneless variation on the working girl-captivates-Mr. Big formula that has propelled fairy tales as old as Cinderella.
  5. Big Fat Liar
    How appealing is Muniz, taking a break from ''Malcolm in the Middle,'' a day job he should by no means let go of?
  6. Juwanna Mann
    As anyone who has peered in on the actual WNBA for five minutes knows, professional women basketball players are as tough as men. That the film treats this as a joke isn't funny -- it's the height of lame condescension.
  7. The Million Dollar Hotel
    If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.
  8. Hackers
    It's a dismal mess...What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the guileless way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired.
  9. Clay Pigeons
    It's young-Hollywood-driven business as usual in this derivative, nasty, and ultimately empty drama.
  10. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    A cheap cut-glass tiara of a booby prize goes to Drop Dead Gorgeous for messing up so utterly.
  11. Uptown Girls
    Unlike in ''Freaky Friday,'' no magic spells are involved. Nor is there any of ''Freaky'''s marvelous charm in this ungainly Manhattan fairy tale, directed by indulgent sentimentalist Boaz Yakin.
  12. An American Werewolf in Paris
    The cruddy, shot-in-a-warehouse settings are especially depressing, since the computer-generated special effects seem to be taking place in another movie entirely (a far livelier one). [9 Jan 1998, p. 47]
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  13. Suspended Animation
    Describing what's bad about this movie is like describing what's orange about an orange, but suffice it to say that the best performance is given by a crucified raccoon.
  14. Lucky Numbers
    The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
  15. Chill Factor
    God-awful?Gooding screams out lines like ''I'm about to get in yo' ass like last year's underwear!''
  16. Diamonds
    This condescending story wastes him (Douglas).
  17. Hard Ball
    The movie is so littered with clichés of genre, as well as clichés of artifice in Reeves' pained performance, that any semblance of social reality goes foul.
  18. Valentine
    Doesn't contain a single scary or imaginative moment.
  19. Where the Heart Is
    Simply put, it may be the lamest movie ever made about poor white... Southern characters.
  20. 15 Minutes
    Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
  21. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The only metatwist missing in the twittering self-regard of this indulgent home movie is the participation of a documentary video crew -- ideally helmed by some TV exec's USC-grad son -- shooting the filmmakers shooting the play within the play.
  22. Lake Placid
    Instead of rooting for Pullman and Fonda, we end up praying that the crocodile is hungry enough to put them out of their misery.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Big Hit
    It's tempting to brand the film anti-Semitic, but it's so utterly pointless it lacks even that distinction.
  24. Bride of the Wind
    A sodden ''feminist'' vulgarization.
  25. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Allen is no more convincing than the writer-director, Chris Ver Wiel, who strings together faux-QT, faux-Elmore Leonard clichés like so many necklace beads and pretends that's the same thing as making a movie.
  26. Life or Something Like It
    Mostly about slapping together a bunch of clichés -- outdated clichés at that -- regarding the loneliness of ambitious women.
  27. xXx
    Even in the summertime, the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities. Movies like XXX -- a big 000 -- don't deserve our $$$.
  28. A Rumor of Angels
    Director Peter O'Fallon fires his biggest gun: a blast of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, truly heavenly music wasted on a handful of dust.
  29. A Guy Thing
    Jason Lee seems to have been bitten by a vampire who sucked out all his prickly charisma. You see the promise of stardom dribbling through his fingers.
  30. Poolhall Junkies
    Plays out like a variation on an old design dictum: If you can't make it good, make it big.
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