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For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Brigham City
Lowest review score: 0 Dude, Where's My Car?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 339 out of 720
  2. Mixed: 241 out of 720
  3. Negative: 140 out of 720
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    • 44 Critic Score
    Reindeer Games
    The picture, a would-be thriller, is a mechanical exercise from the get-go, one that positively defies suspension of disbelief with each succeeding twist of a plot no one would ever hatch in real life.
  2. The Very Thought of You
    A pale, derivative little Brit ditty that will be forgotten almost as speedily as it was dumped...into theaters.
  3. The Patriot
    Whatever extraordinary ingredients are necessary to fashion a 1776 home run, this movie doesn't have them.
  4. Bootmen
    "Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.
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  5. Condo Painting
    Isn't terribly revealing, and though it is interesting to watch Condo paint, it's only interesting for so long.
  6. X
    It's gibberish, but when X works at all, it works not on the brain, but on the gut.
  7. Joe Dirt
    A full-throated shout-out to the lowest common denominator.
  8. Monkeybone
    A movie interesting enough in its conception to appeal to adults winds up being best suited to preadolescent sensibilities.
  9. Say It Isn't So
    A thoroughgoing mediocrity that musters up just enough low-down chuckles to remind you that you're not watching another Freddie Prinze Jr. yawner.
  10. The Way of the Gun
    An empty, affected exercise, executed with just enough style to make you wish McQuarrie had a motive beyond his own career.
  11. Me You Them
    Provocative but lame-brained polygamy comedy.
  12. Kingdom Come
    The characters and their dilemmas are never convincing.
  13. Left Luggage
    Has only its actors to keep it afloat.
  14. The Watcher
    The satisfaction of watching it essentially boils down to seeing whether or not Reeves can pull it off.
  15. House on Haunted Hill
    Aims low and cheats on an ending, but meanwhile it's a bottom-shelf hoot.
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  16. Get Carter
    McKenna's script is a frayed string and a contextual nightmare, peppered with puzzling references to the first film in a lame attempt at homage.
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  17. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Hardly a ripping, inspired children's film.
  18. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    Exhausting and fruitless: Having seen it, you know nothing more about strippers or the stripper mentality than you did going in. What's the point?
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  19. Blue Moon
    Like its accordion-filled score, it's nothing but a golden moldie.
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  20. Beautiful Creatures
    The only constant is the violence, which assaults rather than amuses.
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  21. Princess Mononoke
    Wacky, vividly conceived but mundanely executed cartoon fantasy.
  22. Pandaemonium
    Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.
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  23. Life as a House
    There's really nothing more to this by-the-numbers, ailment-of-the-week fodder dressed up with a classy cast.
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  24. Greenfingers
    Watching this movie go through its simplistic dramatic motions, you begin to understand why some actors stick to summer stock and live Ibsen revivals.
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  25. Scary Movie 2
    Whenever the movie's not in the midst of a cinematic spoof it loses considerable steam.
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  26. When Brendan Met Trudy
    McDonald makes for an appealingly befuddled bloke, and the sprightly Montgomery would turn any blighter's head. In a better movie, we'd care about what happened to them.
  27. Divided We Fall
    Demonstrates that even if you live in a country intimately familiar with fascist occupation, you might still not have the least clue how to communicate that experience on film.
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  28. Hard Ball
    The actors playing the team members have stereotypical roles, but these kids have got game.
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  29. Isn't She Great
    A watery cocktail of second-rate, Ab Fab-style bitchery and shameless schmaltz.
  30. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Gay jungle sex (gasp!), gone-native intellectuals, tribal rituals (gulp!), cannibalism (none of which the film shows, by the way) -- it sounds like a "Weekly World News" front page, not the thematic fodder of a highbrow non-fiction film.
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