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For 4,219 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Radio Days
Lowest review score: 0 Teen Wolf Too
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,423 out of 4219
  2. Mixed: 1,074 out of 4219
  3. Negative: 722 out of 4219
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  1. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Features the lamest story of any CG-animated feature to date.
  2. Nico and Dani
    The movie ultimately turns out to be less about sex than it is about the point in a friendship where two people decide they will both be better off if they part ways.
    • Miami Herald
  3. Signs
    If "The Sixth Sense" was Shyamalan's take on ghost stories and "Unbreakable" his ode to comic books, then Signs is the evil cousin to Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  4. Intact
    Depending on your personal tastes, Intacto will either be an ambitious concoction of cerebral science-fiction or a towering pile of nonsense. The truth lies somewhere in between.
  5. Legally Blonde
    Unashamedly sticks with its light comedy roots.
    • Miami Herald
  6. Moonlight Mile
    A movie about grief for people who don't want to be upset too badly. It's a half-a-hankie tearjerker, a meek, polite weepie.
  7. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Absolutely Fabulous works best consumed bite-sized; there’s not enough here to warrant a full-length movie. Too much feels like padding.
  8. Savages
    Aggressively, defiantly stupid.
  9. Molière
    By suggesting that the man's life was as riotously funny as his plays, writer-director Laurent Tirard leaves us wishing he'd opted to do a straightforward adaptation instead.
  10. Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible is full of red herrings and MacGuffins, but even if you can't keep track of who's doing what to whom, it's hugely enjoyable for its sheer kinetic power. It's a soulless trinket, and it never really grabs you the way good action films do. But it moves like a demon, and it's consistently dazzling. [22 May 1996, p.1D]
    • Miami Herald
  11. Confidence
    A stale pastiche of crime-caper dramas that goes through all the usual reversals, betrayals and triple-crosses with a sense of weary obligation.
  12. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    Nothing in it -- plot, dialogue or character development -- reaches today's standards of filmmaking.
  13. Dawn of the Dead
    Faster, leaner and more compact than the original. Dumber, too, but that's almost always the case with remakes.
  14. Limitless
    For all its peripatetic energy, Limitless still winds up with the same-old blazing guns and wanton destruction of property. No matter how smart you may be, Hollywood will figure out a way to dumb you down.
  15. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World gives you exactly what Howard’s character promises at the beginning — More! Bigger! Faster! — but you know there’s something deeply wrong with a film that expects you to shed tears over digitally created prehistoric creatures and rubber brontosaurus heads instead of rooting for, you know, people.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Last Dragon
    The Last Dragon doesn't aim to be more than it is -- a good funny Afro-Japanese-American-hi tech-martial arts- archetypal-fairy tale. But that's something. [30 Mar 1985, p.D7]
    • Miami Herald
  17. Day Watch
    Like Russia's answer to "The Matrix" and "Lord of the Ring"s trilogies, Day Watch offers the second chapter in an epic battle between the forces of Light and Dark, the result of which is a gaping gray area where nothing much makes sense.
  18. Junior
    The movie never approaches the level of screwball fun its cast seems capable of. But the curiosity of seeing Arnie grunt and groan with labor pains is hard to resist. [23 Nov 1994, p.E2]
    • Miami Herald
  19. The Children of the Century
    In between all the emotional seesawing, it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures, and even the times in which they lived. But they fascinate in their recklessness.
  20. The Shape of Things
    In The Shape of Things, love doesn't just hurt: It bites, and bites deep.
  21. Madame Satã
    The result leaves the movie feeling like a one-note take on a complex subject.
  22. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    There's nothing offensive about Barbershop 2, and maybe there should be. But even if the film plays it safe, it remains a cut above other mainstream comedies.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    I, Robot
    A slick, shiny video game of a movie bursting with computer-generated chase scenes and cool gadgets.
  24. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    The movie, elegantly shot by Rodrigo Prieto, is sleek and brisk, using split-screens and graphics to help uninformed viewers grasp the basics of the corporate shenanigans the characters pull on each other.
  25. The Whistleblower
    The film is just a procession of increasingly grim and ugly scenarios and discoveries, capped off by a wildly frustrating ending.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Memphis Belle
    It has been a while since we had a good, human movie about a war we could all agree on. In that, Memphis Belle is right on target. [12 Oct 1990, p.G5]
    • Miami Herald
  27. The Lover
    While The Lover is tastefully filmed, and narrated by respected actress Jeanne Moreau, any dignity it might have had is squashed by its cliched finale. The last shot is of a middle- aged woman alone in a modern apartment; when the phone rings, we know with agonizing familiarity who the caller is. [16 Jan 1993, p.E2]
    • Miami Herald
  28. Definitely, Maybe
    Maybe it's a measure of the numbing awfulness of romantic comedies in general lately, but Definitely, Maybe isn't nearly so bad as you might fear; it's actually fairly pleasant, a bit too off-color to be a family film but enjoyable just the same.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    For those in the 3 to 5 bracket, Elmo doesn't often aim wrong.
    • Miami Herald
  30. Night of the Comet
    B-movies are the great anchor of American film. They're what we do best. And Night of the Comet, like Blood Beach and The Howling before it, honors the form even as it fails to transcend it. Things go bump in the night, characters exchange improbable dialogue and a good time is had by all even as the world comes to an end. [28 Nov 1994, p.B6]
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