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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Big Blue
    Let's call this "rethinking" The Abysmal.
  2. Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    Ironically, for all the paranoia, York's Defiler and his henchman, an always game Udo Kier, are an oasis of wit in an otherwise parched, self-serious script.
  3. Urban Legend
    When will Hollywood learn that a genre trend can last for years if itís nurtured with decent scripts? No time soon, apparently.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    200 Cigarettes
    This film may never attain a critical mass of satiric understanding about its milieu or time, but at least its individual moments provide plenty of harmless laughter.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    102 Dalmatians
    An unnecessary remake.
  6. The Perfect Score
    Disfigured by flabby dialogue (“You can't put a number on my dreams!”), unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.
  7. Stateside
    If the contrast between Marine life and blue-blood luxury sometimes pulls the film in awkward directions, Anselmo's perceptive fondness for all his characters -- parents, children, grunts, even drill sergeants -- more than compensates.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Conversations with God
    Beyond a lack of enthralling characters or convincing plotting, though, what's most glaringly missing in this self-promotional marketing tool is, of all things, God, who gets only a bit role as Walsch's muse in a few scenes.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    It's a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller.
  10. Hitman
    While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them -- early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail -- he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double-fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car. Game over. The audience loses.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Primeval
    With a little camp, this could have been fun --see "Lake Placid" or "Anaconda."
  12. Loser
    Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
  13. Returning Mickey Stern
    The always-watchable Bologna is the adhesive holding together this slight and gentle romantic comedy, lending it perhaps more conviction and authority than the material warrants.
  14. Friday After Next
    Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny (veteran actors John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford seem at best indifferent to the material), Friday After Next is the graceless sodomizing of a cult classic.
  15. Ghost Rider
    iInstead of a buoyant, imaginative superhero movie on the order of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" films or Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns," we get a lumbering, paint-by-numbers origin story.
  16. Sphere
    While the length and ridiculous finale are a drag, the only thing that stinks about Sphere is its pervasive boys-club snarkiness, especially since Stone is actually good. Levinson has always been a better director of men, but it would be nice if Attanasio could learn how to write a role for a woman that wasn't an embarrassment as well as an insult.
  17. I Spy
    Between spy training and sensitivity training, the two (Murphy/Wilson) prove nicely matched comic foils.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Are the little ones really getting anything more out of this slightly flashier, exceedingly louder 75-minute version of their usual 30-minute dose of anime hijinks?
  19. Hannibal Rising
    This Hannibal is a stick-in-the-mud altogether lacking in the wit, gourmet appetites and romantic flair required of any surrogate for Sir Anthony Hopkins. By the end of two full hours, it's only Harris' head you long to see on a plate.
  20. Mission to Mars
    Otherwise fine actors such as Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise spend nearly two hours of film time stand-ing around like department-store dummies mouthing dialogue so wooden it's petrified.
  21. The Glass House
    Ludicrous but not quite the howler it could and should have been.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Planet
    A fun movie. Not scary-fun. If you're a male over 10 years old, that should be enough.
  23. Wake
    One feels sympathy for the ensemble, which, absent full-bodied characters to inhabit, mug furiously, as if big gestures conjure big themes.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bewitched
    The film's funny for 15 minutes as it skewers Hollywood and prowls block after block of familiar L.A. scenery.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Slow Burn
    Yep, it’s Keyser Soze time.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Messengers
    The end result looks heavily doctored: The Sam Raimi-produced feature is a badly acted, nonsensical patchwork of fake scares, crow attacks and wall-crawling CGI spooks, capped by a DVD extra of an ending that must have the real resolution gagged somewhere in a closet.
  27. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The only thing remotely resembling a character arc is handed to Regina King, the ferocious Margie Hendricks in "Ray."
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Grizzly Falls
    When you don't find yourself wondering about dialogue that's drowned out by rushing rivers and footfalls in the brush, something is very wrong.
  29. On the Line
    Bass isn't a gifted actor, but he retains his dignity, mostly by keeping his head down and avoiding the eyes of the idiots around him.
  30. Finding Home
    Moves slowly and deflates completely when the over-hyped family secret turns out to be a dramatic dud. Still, it's an awfully pretty movie. Let's all summer in Maine.
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