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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Mercury Rising
    The film is based on Ryne Douglas Peardon's novel Simple Simon, which I haven't read. I can only hope it's less exploitive of people with autism than Mercury Rising is. For all the filmmakers' apparent efforts to treat the issue with sensitivity (there are teachers and nurses who patiently explain to Willis the various symptoms, the behavioral patterns of autistic children), the issue has no place in a standard-issue Hollywood thriller. It feels like a gimmick, and a shameless one at that. [3 Apr 1998, p.03]
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  2. Analyze That
    This is a movie that both parodies "The Sopranos" and aspires to its mordant humor. I don't think anyone -- not Tony Soprano, not Paul Vitti -- can have it both ways.
  3. Jessabelle
    An ineffective, derivative, and awkwardly executed mash-up of ghost flicks and voodoo movies.
  4. Honey
    By no means is this a good movie, but it's warmed by the solar energy of its star, who surely deserves better than this formula empowerment flick.
  5. Battle: Los Angeles
    That this is a cautionary tale about any people who would wage war in order to win the spoils of oil and water? Your guess is as good as mine.
  6. Suspect Zero
    Fails to provide one essential ingredient: suspense.
  7. The Story of Us
    A squirmy mix of therapy-session slogans, pop psychobabble, and lots of crying, yelling and pouting on the part of its two stars, who appear in various alarming hairpieces.
  8. Crush
    Despite some jaunty performances and its pretty Cotswolds locale, the film, in the end, is hardly a pleasure at all.
  9. You Got Served
    Rarely do you encounter a movie without a shred of originality. You Got Served is such a cinematic vacuum.
  10. Speed Racer
    Speed Racer offers a crazy, turbo-charged mix of cartoon kitsch, gamer action, and a wild new way to think of - and look at - movies.
  11. W.E.
    Madonna the director deserves a script better than the one Madonna the screenwriter handed off to her. The movie is full of incidents that don't quite cohere into a story - kind of like a Power Point presentation without a throughline.
  12. Seven Pounds
    Seven Pounds is one part jigsaw puzzle, one part "The Giving Tree" and both parts marinated in melancholy.
  13. Three to Tango
    Perry and Campbell are charming despite this straitjacket plot.
  14. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The whole affair has a painfully self-conscious, self-referential air. Jokes land with a thud, and so, alas, does Rocky, who seems to have forgotten how to fly.
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  15. Little Black Book
    Looking for plausibility in a farce is like looking for a million dollars in a box of breakfast cereal, but elements of real life can make a comedy resonate instead of thud. Little Black Book does the latter.
  16. Color of Night
    An entertaining mess. [19 Aug 1994, p.03]
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  17. Tooth Fairy
    Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.
  18. Arthur
    When remaking a popular film, you must remember this: First, do no harm to the original. Arthur accomplishes this, with Russell Brand slurring his way neatly through the title role.
  19. Against the Ropes
    A riotously awful biopic rife with stereotypes and boxing movie cliches, Against the Ropes represents -- among other things -- a woeful turn in its star's career.
  20. Jeepers Creepers II
    This low-budget, high-gore sequel can be effectively frightening at times, and just plain boring, too. The suspense builds, the blood gushes, the momentum dissipates. It's an unsatisfying mix.
  21. Biker Boyz
    This startlingly lame tale about a young upstart challenging a veteran leader of the pack doesn't update the genre, it simply recasts it.
  22. A Man Apart
    Yes, there's a hastily added new ending - an ending that doesn't make sense when you think about it. Not that it's worth the effort
  23. Employee of the Month
    So achingly empty, it's nearly existential.
  24. Big Fat Liar
    A harmless and mildly amusing family comedy.
  25. Thunderbirds
    It's clean and cheerful entertainment, blithely piggybacking on a beloved classic. No wonder Anderson washed his hands of this project - the filmmakers tampered with and trampled on his magic formula.
  26. Victor Frankenstein
    A kind of mad coming-of-age yarn embellished with lightning bolts and monsters made of cadaverous flesh.
  27. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Those who want something more substantial from a movie than a vid-game script with centerfold appeal will not find it in this noisy, bone-crushing survivalist flick inspired by the Game Cube diversion.
  28. Criminal
    Criminal, with its criminally lazy title, is mostly Costner's to growl and scowl his way through.
  29. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
  30. The Son of No One
    This heavy-handed muddle of a cop thriller is just impossibly bad.
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