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For 16,523 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. The Watcher
    Neither acutely suspenseful nor particularly thrilling but instead mainly numbing.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Eye of the Beholder
    It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
    • Los Angeles Times
  3. The Wash
    A knucklehead operation, all glands and attitude with no heart or brains.
  4. The Next Best Thing
    A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both.
  5. Love's Labour's Lost
    It ought to be delightful, but it isn't.
  6. Lost Souls
    A dreary tale of supernatural horror.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pokémon 4: The Movie
    There isn't much to Pokémon 4Ever.
  8. The Last Man
    Fat, homely men who feel they have been wrongly underrepresented in underwear ads should flock to The Last Man.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Scotland, Pa.
    It's easy to accuse Morrissette of condescending to a bunch of yokels, but hardly anybody would hold that against him if the result had been hilarious instead of deadly dull.
  10. Friends and Family
    It is an inept, inane Mafia comedy with a gay angle, all the more insufferable because director Kristen Coury and writer Joseph Triebwasser clearly think they're being wonderfully cute and clever.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A flat-footed film.
  12. Half Past Dead
    Absent one original moment and bathed in de rigueur steel blue punctuated by sporadic bursts of flaming orange, the movie is notable only for its creative approach to Seagal's bulky gracelessness: Not since "Apocalypse Now" has a film gone to such lengths to hide what its star looks like.
  13. Simply Irresistible
    The two leads are unappealing, the story is dragged on for days and the rather random magical element renders any human factor irrelevant..
  14. Blindness
    It's a glum, stale soap opera, tediously paced but mercifully running only 75 minutes, its sole virtue.
  15. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    You won't feel anything. Period. Oh, maybe bored or disoriented by the inside jargon and alien references that will be comprehensible only if you happen to have played the computer game on which Wing Commander is based. [12 March 1999, Calendar, p.F-10]
    • Los Angeles Times
  16. Juwanna Mann
    When the outtakes at the end don't make you laugh, what does that tell you about the movie that preceded them?
  17. I Dreamed of Africa
    This is a Laura Ashley on Safari meditation on bored rich people searching for fulfillment and a new life among the photogenic wildlife of Kenya. Just wake me when it's over.
  18. Domestic Disturbance
    So TV-movie-of-the-week that you wonder throughout why you can't use a remote to find a decent ballgame.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    My 5 Wives
    It's hard to tell if My 5 Wives is so completely dumb that it's impossible to be offended by it, or so completely offensive that it's just dumb.
  20. Jakob the Liar
    The latest in what feels like an endless string of movies ... in which the actor's parts have ruinously overdosed on sentimentality and schmaltz at the expense of humor and even sanity.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Omega Code
    A hokey doomsday/millennialist thriller.
  22. High Heels and Low Lifes
    A broad and stale British crime comedy that wastes the considerable talent and presence of Minnie Driver.
  23. Simon Sez
    A lackluster international action adventure.
  24. All the Queen's Men
    Let's hope -- shall we? -- that the "true story" that allegedly "inspired" All the Queen's Men was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together here.
  25. Langrishe Go Down
    Unearthing even the roughest gems serves a programming purpose, but in this case it has also led to a theatrical release of a movie that looks like a muddy second-generation Xerox and contains all the emotional and intellectual appeal of cold tea and soggy toast.
  26. Crossroads
    Spears acquits herself as well as anyone might, in a movie as contrived and lazy as this one.
  27. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Lays thick, goopy layers of uplift on what should be lighter on the heart and stomach.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.
  29. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
    Anyone who goes to Halloween 4 deserves what they get: stale, sordid tricks and no treats. [25 Oct 1988, p.C6]
    • Los Angeles Times
  30. Lana's Rain
    Michael S. Ojeda's film is so relentlessly shallow and excessive that it hardly matters whether Lana is eventually able to turn the tables on Darko. When it rains in Lana's Rain, it pours -- and what comes out is trash.
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