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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. He's All That
    It might be just as well that Padgett is not given a real emotional arc, nor anything resembling an internal life. Even when little is asked of her, Rae's acting is not up to the challenge.
  2. Consenting Adults
    This is the sort of cloddish thriller in which characters keep putting themselves in dangerous situations because…the movie requires them to be in dangerous situations. The one true surprise has nothing at all to do with the plot: It’s Kevin Spacey’s hair. Dyed a glittering blond, it sets off his smirky, come-hither mug with maximum perversity.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Millennium
    It offers neither the tension of a good plane-disaster movie nor the ingenuity of a smart time-travel tale.
  4. Mr. Destiny
    This high-concept update of It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Destiny, is pure formula treacle, but James Belushi, playing a schlub who learns what life would have been like had he become a big executive, is at his most immediate and appealing.
  5. Fire Birds
    A third-rate knockoff of Top Gun and Blue Thunder.
  6. 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Only the Lonely
    Only the Lonely is for only the desperate.
  8. Clockwatchers
    There’s a wisp of a plot (who could the office klepto be?), but most of Clockwatchers is as empty of drive and imagination as its poor-little-victim heroines, who never seem more than sulky, overgrown high school girls.
  9. Diana: The Musical
    If you want royal intrigue and insight, do yourself a favor and revisit Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview because Diana: The Musical is rather like the royal family itself these days, expensive and pointless.
  10. Belly
    The bad acting — make that nonacting — of rappers DMX and Nas merges, all too well, with the shallow dehumanized vision of director Hype Williams.
  11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    A remake could have been fun if it had been made with vision, or at least an appreciation of the original. If that's grade-A beef, call this one a rancid veggie burger.
  12. Last Man Standing
    Writer-director Walter Hill follows up last year’s nuanced, underrated Wild Bill with this numskull, overwrought shoot-’em-up.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Boris and Natasha
    The slapstick might appeal to some kids, although it’s extremely dumb and, even worse, just not funny.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Blues Brothers 2000
    The Blues Brothers may now just qualify as the most overextended one-joke shtick in history.
  15. Darkness Falls
    Darkness Falls is like something salvaged from Stephen King's wastebasket.
  16. Saint John of Las Vegas
    With stars like Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman and big-fish producers such as Spike Lee and Stanley Tucci on board, you'd think this indie would offer some glimmer of wit or originality. Think again.
  17. Dear Frankie
    A Scottish weepie of such bathos and balderdash that it deserves a drinking game in its rotten honor.
  18. Pretty Persuasion
    The movie wants so badly to be mentioned in the same breath as "Heathers" or "Election" that it's not even funny. Really, I mean it, this charred-black comedy is not even funny.
  19. Lord of War
    The result is a dead pile of information in search of a movie.
  20. The Fog
    Selma Blair, the one vibrant actress in a cast of colorless screamers (including Tom Welling from Smallville and Maggie Grace from Lost), takes Adrienne Barbeau's old role.
  21. Firewall
    Firewall is a witless entertainment, and a derivative one, too; it's everything listless about Hollywood in February, everything discardable about the genre in general.
  22. Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet, warns someone, ''Don't overthink it.'' Sage advice for anyone masochistic enough to watch this pile of poorly pixelated vampire poo.
  23. The Zodiac
    The Zodiac has been made with the dunderheaded flatness of bad '70s TV.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
    • 17 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Material Girls
    It's not "Clueless," just clueless.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    The Covenant
    Cobbled-together teenybopper tripe.
  27. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    Shainberg reduces this most disturbing of all photographers to a portraitist of Halloween.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Happily N'Ever After
    Stuffed with stock characters -- the vain prince, the critter sidekicks -- who adamantly stay stock.
  29. The Abandoned
    The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.
  30. Delta Farce
    Here's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny "Three Amigos" knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?
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