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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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  1. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Game boys and girls will be disappointed by this fast-paced but shockingly dull adaptation.
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  2. The Center of the World
    Offers nothing but tired "Red Shoe" Diaries-style sexploitation for the art-house crowd.
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  3. Tortilla Soup
    Opting for this refried mash over Lee's rentable beauty is like choosing canned beans over an Asian feast.
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  4. The Animal
    The worst thing about The Animal -- is how frequently it becomes boring.
  5. Focus
    Relevant message aside, there's no good reason to sit through photographer Neal Slavin's directorial debut.
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  6. Grateful Dawg
    Ultimately, Grateful Dawg will only be of real interest to musicology students and diehard Deadheads.
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  7. One Night at McCool's
    As its plot is entirely negligible, whether or not you enjoy One Night at McCool's probably depends on how funny you think the performances are.
  8. Fat Girl
    It's all well-acted and eerily compelling, but the shocker ending is patently implausible.
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  9. Legally Blonde
    That's just not enough to recommend it, though it does have one moment of real justice: The person sentenced to jail has truly bad hair.
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  10. Kill Me Later
    About Lustig's direction. Badly employing all kinds of tricks like alternating film speed, jump cuts, and various color tints, she ultimately overpowers her actors and does in her own film.
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  11. Lucky Numbers
    Whatever the amount on Roth's paycheck was, it's the only truly charmed sum Lucky Numbers has to offer.
  12. Coyote Ugly
    Plays out like a raunchy episode of "Felicity."
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  13. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    An orgy of bad decisions and cheap ideas.
  14. I Dreamed of Africa
    Why waste the price of a movie ticket when you can see wildebeests cavorting for free from the comfort of your own recliner?
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  15. Red Planet
    The characters aren't convincingly written, rarely if ever behave like believable humans, and consequently don't matter to us in the least.
  16. Bicentennial Man
    This saga of one robot's determined quest to become human is so coldly calculated it could give you frostbite.
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  17. Here on Earth
    Offers little in the way of splendor in the grass.
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Rules of Engagement
    Pearce is shot in such distorting closeups that he looks like an overdeveloped athlete who's been getting steroid injections in his cheeks.
  19. The Ladies Man
    80 minutes of comic mistiming and missed opportunities.
  20. Next Friday
    A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.
  21. The Crew
    Fuhgeddaboutit.
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  22. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Pushes the standard tropes of gay romance movies a few more steps toward full-blown cliché-dom.
  23. 102 Dalmatians
    A film without mirth or magic.
  24. Saving Silverman
    Black, who is creatively marooned in the thankless Chris Farley fat-boy role, deserve better, and so do we.
  25. Human Traffic
    So desperate to be rebellious and cool, that it's impossible to see it as anything more than one big case of "been there, done that" -- even if your drugs have already kicked in.
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  26. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    None of the movie's abundant humor is better than faintly amusing.
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  27. The Wedding Planner
    The film's greatest flaw is its miscast leads, who conjure up zero dewy-eyed, wish-fulfillment magic.
  28. Up at the Villa
    The total lack of sexual chemistry between them doesn't help. Frankly, I'd rather see Scott Thomas play a nun than sit through another one of these turgid romancers.
  29. The Tavern
    The narrative disjointedness is not at all relieved by confusing editing, an uncertain tone, and a dragging pace that makes the film a progressively dreary experience.
  30. Outside Providence
    Plays like mediocre outtakes from better bell-bottomed fare (Richard Linklater's authentic, seriocomic "Dazed and Confused"; Fox's "That '70s Show") without making any kind of impression of its own.
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