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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 5.4 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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
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    Compellingly slimy special effects highlight this horror flick about a mad scientist who can turn people into snakes. [12 Apr 1997, p.2G]
    • Miami Herald
  2. Little Lili
    There's something to be said about an old story given a new ending -- and making it work.
  3. Handsome Harry
    Handsome Harry has some shakily staged scenes and erratic acting, but it also has wonderful moments.
  4. What If
    There was, however, another question the screenwriter should have asked: Why does the script focus on the wrong couple?
  5. The Ref
    If its dark heart had won out to the very end, The Ref could have been a minor classic. But it's a hilarious antidote to heartwarming holiday films -- and has some of the cruelest humor of any comedy in quite some time. [11 Mar 1994, p.G5]
    • Miami Herald
  6. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Mom (Elisabeth Shue) suffers from the fatal movie ailment of being so underwritten she's practically see-through.
  7. Music and Lyrics
    Inherently laughable, but in all the wrong ways.
  8. This Is 40
    This is 40 is crude and dull, with a supporting cast that reminds you how utterly uninteresting the main characters are.
  9. Nanny McPhee
    This is, after all, "Mary Poppins" turned on its head.
  10. Wimbledon
    Wimbledon may have its faults, but it's the sort of upbeat fantasy that's tough to resist. Maybe love wins in tennis after all.
  11. The Ant Bully
    Writer/director John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron) is a wizard at transforming the most mundane setting -- the front yard, for crying out loud -- into another world.
  12. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    Not a bad movie - everybody wants dreams to come true - but its platitudes sound awfully hollow sometimes.
  13. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Night Watch represents the best in Russian special effects, a collaboration between 42 different CGI specialty firms all working in the service of a single goal: to create the nation's most visually transgressive film.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Coca-Cola Kid
    The Coca-Cola Kid is for grown-ups, but not all grown-ups. It leaves more than a few bubbles dancing on the tongue. [11 Oct 1985, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
  15. The Fast and the Furious
    Drowns in its own noxious fumes. Who knew being bad could be so dull?
    • Miami Herald
  16. To the Wonder
    The movie is intentionally elusive, like a memory you can’t quite fully recall, but the result has all the depth and weight of a greeting card.
  17. Hitch
    Smith is an endearing, driving comedic force, one who makes the buoyant Hitch more enjoyable than it has any reason to be.
  18. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    With its predictable confrontations and tacky fantasy sequences, you feel writer/director Jane Anderson steering the material toward schmaltzy movie-of-the-week territory at every turn.
  19. August: Osage County
    August: Osage County is easier to watch on screen, and maybe for that we should be grateful.
  20. The Mist
    It's a B-movie with A-list aspirations, and it's at its best when it's not trying to be something it isn't.
  21. X-Men: The Last Stand
    It's a disappointing chapter in what until now has been a highly entertaining, even thought-provoking series.
  22. Jarhead
    After an hour of being stranded among these restless soldiers and their increasingly aggressive locker-room antics, you, too, will be longing for combat -- for anything -- to happen.
  23. Cosmopolis
    Cosmopolis may be a cerebral mood piece, but it is loaded with strong performances that connect on an emotional level.
  24. Footloose
    The result is that rare breed of big-studio pictures: A remake that makes sense.
  25. Love Liza
    The misery is there, all right, in every woozy, spaced-out shot of Hoffman clutching his gas-soaked rag. But in the end, do we really care?
  26. Swimming Upstream
    Gripping family drama keeps Swimming Upstream from going under.
  27. Kansas City
    It's an obviously personal work, and that's both its primary strength and weakness: The movie has a distinct, carefully detailed sense of place and time, but it's also not as involving as Altman seems to think it is. It's thick on atmosphere, but short on plot. [16 Aug 1996, p.6G]
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  28. Pirate Radio
    Pirate Radio does what it sets out to do. It rocks.
  29. The Reader
    The Reader doesn't do enough to explore the guilt and betrayal the adult Michael feels over the acts of his elders.
  30. Year of the Dragon
    The Year of the Dragon is full of florid language, saddled with Cimino's bogus insights and no more true to Chinatown than Heaven's Gate was to the prairie. But The Year of the Dragon is also robust and fast, violent and alive. There's an uneasy sense of the spurious about Cimino's art, but that's what he's making nonetheless. This is either a ya-hoo's delight or the best gangster fantasy since Once Upon a Time in America (long version); maybe it's both. [16 Aug 1985, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
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