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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Youth Without Youth
    Whatever it was in Romanian philosopher Mircea Eliade's novella Youth Without Youth that drew Francis Coppola out of a 10-year retirement to make a movie, the result is the year's most bizarre novelty item.
  2. How to Deal
    Unlike pop rival Britney Spears, Moore does project star quality on the screen, but she gives Halley an edge of nastiness that makes her harder to empathize with than she should be.
  3. Cheaper by the Dozen
    There is not a frame of "Cheaper" that doesn't feel contrived. It fails the most fundamental test of movie logic.
  4. Tideland
    A murky swamp of a movie, Terry Gilliam's defiantly surreal Tideland finds every good idea drowning in an excess of indulgence.
  5. Kettle of Fish
    Writer-director Claudia Myers' clunky debut feature makes the case that first-timers should probably focus on either writing or directing.
  6. Gothika
    French director Mathieu Kassovitz Frenches this flimsy tale to death. No scene goes underplayed, no performance (save one, from Robert Downey Jr.) lacks volume, no horror cliche is forgotten.
  7. Jersey Girl
    It might have been a marketing nightmare, but if Lopez and Tyler had switched roles, it would have been a better movie.
  8. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's just a setup for another bad sight gag that ends up where the script itself belongs, in the trash.
  9. Steal Me
    The teen actors grin twitchily as if tickled by sudden growth spurts, but apparently nothing can hurt their chances with the females in this libidinous zip code.
  10. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  11. P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
    Doesn't play on the screen. P.S. Your Cat is Dead is a stage-locked, two-character play on a static set, and though Guttenberg takes it outside for a couple of scenes, it remains that on film.
  12. National Security
    It's too bad the film never makes good on its early promise, but clearly, the rolling fireballs and flying bullets are the priority.
  13. Extreme Ops
    There is a fair share of turkeys at the multiplex this week, but none are quite as overcooked as Extreme Ops.
  14. Into the Fire
    Phelan makes nice use of the New York locations, but all the trees in Central Park can't make up for a clichéd script and characters who speak entirely in platitudes.
  15. The Return
    Since Adam Sussman's script is as lazy as Asif Kapadia's direction is disjointed, nothing ever makes sense, even after the anticlimatic explanation is revealed.
  16. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    It's described as a black comedy, but you can forget the comedy part. There wasn't so much as a snicker at the screening I attended, though I may have heard a snore or two.
  17. Even Money
    Nothing in the movie rings true, least of all its depiction of gambling, both in casinos and in the bookie world that ultimately drives the story.
  18. Man of the House
    [A] straight-to-video-quality mess.
  19. Audition
    Possibly the sourest revenge movie ever, Audition starts off as a sweet, low-key romance, then abruptly turns into a grisly, sadistic thriller.
  20. Superstar
    What's funny for 5 minutes doesn't make for a full-length movie.
  21. In the Cut
    Campion has made something that's almost unbearably pretentious.
  22. National Treasure
    If the Founding Fathers had known National Treasure would be the result of their efforts to forge a new nation, they might have reached for the Wite-Out.
  23. Double Jeopardy
    So riddled with plot holes and implausible actions, you can't help feeling insulted by it.
  24. Domino
    The movie is quite off its rocker: Jerry Springer, Chrisopher Walken, Tom Waits as a roadside prophet, a miscast, nervous Lucy Liu as an FBI agent -- it's a feverish, violent jumble that's shot as if high on mescaline -- the drug, not the salad.
  25. 200 Cigarettes
    This vapid '80 punk party reeks of 200 Cigarettes.
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  26. Bamboozled
    This is the kind of misfire that can take everyone down with it. It's not just bad, it's mean-bad.
  27. Best Laid Plans
    Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction.
  28. Downtown 81
    Alternates between being amusingly pretentious and studiously dull.
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  29. Ichi the Killer
    This time around, the cult director dispenses with the feminism, the satire, and even the issues, so he can concentrate on his true passion: the dissecting.
  30. Black Sheep
    ALTHOUGH IT DOES HAVE a plot of sorts, Black Sheep isn't really a movie it's more like a series of "Saturday Night Live" sketches highlighting Chris Farley's fumbling fatboy shtick. [2 Feb 1996, p.36]
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