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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. Practical Magic
    A witch comedy so slapdash, plodding, and muddled it seems to have had a hex put on it.
  2. The Other Sister
    Still, there's no mistaking the central message: Slow people have much to teach us. Or is it: Slow people -- aren't they funny? Either way, it's pretty vile stuff.
  3. Snow Dogs
    As distressed as a comedy can be without qualifying as a snow emergency.
  4. 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!
  5. Daddy Day Care
    A parent-and-kid-oriented comedy about the adventures of men doing the hard work of mommies, which couldn't be more timely -- or less delightful.
  6. A Dog of Flanders
    If you've been longing to see the worst family entertainment of 1966, A Dog of Flanders may be the movie for you.
  7. The Perfect Score
    The movie, which strains to be hip in a faux-1985 beat-the-system way, takes such a light view of cheating that it has the ironic effect of rendering the heist that follows utterly innocuous.
  8. Pretty Woman
    Starts out as a neo-Pygmalion comedy, but the film is slow, earnest, and rhythmless.
  9. Impostor
    The entire movie has the meaninglessly burnished, sunglasses-at-midnight glow of an early-'90s car commercial -- a visual scheme guaranteed to leave the audience squinting between yawns.
  10. Detroit Rock City
    It's an utterly fake nostalgia piece -- stupid and pandering, a bad-boy teen flick that plays less like a loving look at the late '70s than a terrible movie from the late '70s.
  11. Close Your Eyes
    A cheaply made piece of ''psychological'' occult schlock, subjects you to that depressing stop-and-go rhythm that defines inept fantasy thrillers.
  12. The Acid House
    Three stories by the guy who wrote Trainspotting, banged and smashed into a film by Paul McGuigan with none of Trainspotting's charm and all its grotesquerie.
  13. It Runs in the Family
    A sodden drama of filial conflict that dares the audience to confuse the characters with the players. P.T. Barnum couldn't have come up with a better hook, but he would have rewarded his suckers with more ''On Golden Pond'' entertainment bang for their buck.
  14. Sweet November
    A very low grade romantic drama indeed, a love story with all the life and death intensity of a heat rash.
  15. The Whole Nine Yards
    A convoluted ''dweeb meets the Mob'' farce in which everyone is trying to kill everyone else, but it's the movie that's the real corpse -- albeit a busy, twitching one.
  16. Snake Eyes
    Has Brian De Palma finally lost his mind? Ever since "Carrie" (1976), his one true masterpiece, this director has evolved into a cinematic serial killer of common sense.
  17. Pecker
    Watching Pecker, his rickety new comedy about a teenage Baltimore shutterbug, it becomes clear that Waters has grown color-blind to his own sleazo-shock aesthetic.
  18. Stateside
    If you were looking for an actress to play a tempestuous, schizophrenic movie-slash-rock star, you might go for Courtney Love or Angelina Jolie, or maybe even Jennifer Connelly. But Rachael Leigh Cook?
  19. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    You realize you're watching a snuff film, where the victim isn't just teen innocence but teen romance.
  20. The Cookout
    Sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style: These Andersons in their out-of-date white, snooty gated community apparently confuse themselves with their forebears on The Jeffersons.
  21. Superstar
    It barely boasts enough funny material to fill four minutes.
  22. Mona Lisa Smile
    It's a gussied-up sorority-of-rising-stars project produced, I fantasize, by baby-boomer studio guys whose younger spouses articulately defend a woman's right to stay home and raise the kids.
  23. Get Over It
    The only performer I enjoyed watching was Martin Short, who plays a bitch dandy music teacher with a smile so fake that the comedian seems to be acting with his gums.
  24. The Postman
    What willful streak of perversity inspired Kevin Costner to take on this wacky tale of a letter carrier-turned-postapocalyptic hero?
  25. Twisted
    A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
  26. Town & Country
    Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
  27. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Just when you're sure that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo can't get any less funny, the movie douses the trailer's best gag, as that prosthetic leg turns out to be attached to Deuce's true love.
  28. Pay It Forward
    Pushes and pushes and pushes the emotional throttle without respite.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thirteenth Floor
    So what is real? Only the boredom of the audience as the film collapses from one meaningless false-bottom environment to the next.
  30. Double Take
    Another racial cartoon buddy movie that eagerly flogs its best laugh -- indeed, its only laugh -- in the trailer.
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