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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 3.3 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. Warcraft
    Just because you can come up with names such as Azeroth, Durotan, Orgrim, and Grommash Hellscream doesn't mean you're J.R.R. Tolkien, people.
  2. Gulliver's Travels
    Murderously unfunny.
  3. Repo Men
    As an account of how for-profit big business literally rips a consumer's heart out, Repo Men is too graphic for me.
  4. Happythankyoumoreplease
    A case of when bad scripts happen to good actors. Given its similarities to a bygone sitcom, one might call it "Friends" without benefits.
  5. She's the One
    Burns' writing style is full of tepid Woodyisms about sex and romance, with Allen's Jewish guilt supplanted by the Christian variety. [23 Aug 1996, p.03]
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  6. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  7. Old School
    Old School has all the ingredients of an uproarious campus comedy, but it lacks a boisterous short-order cook who could whip up a food fight or three.
  8. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Slapdash, with dialogue and plot points that were cliches in Dickens' era, the pic sends up, then reaffirms, all the values the media sell us each holiday: compassion, forgiveness, tolerance.
  9. Straw Dogs
    It fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller.
  10. New York Minute
    Plays like "Sixteen Candles" meets "Beetlejuice." Yet for all the film's frantic pace, this plot plods, even for 'tweens at whom this suburban-girls-take-Manhattan fantasy is obviously targeted.
  11. Perfect Stranger
    Perfect Stranger is the Egg MacGuffin of whodunits, a cheesy affair that casts so many baited lures that they tangle each other and don't hook you.
  12. Without a Paddle
    This so-called comedy is a frayed string of anxious jokes about whether male bonding is manly or sissy.
  13. Just a Kiss
    What a mess.
  14. Post Grad
    Ostensibly a comedy, and a feeble and innocuous one at that, Post Grad is one of those what-were-they-thinking?
  15. Unsullied
    Unsullied was made by a director with real promise. It's a shame Rice picked this turkey to shoot as his first
  16. Phone Booth
    A high-concept hostage drama of absolutely no value to anyone -- except maybe Bell Atlantic, whose titular street-corner pay phone is on screen for almost every agonizing frame.
  17. Domino
    Domino is less a movie than a hyperkinetic slide show - presented during a nuclear attack.
  18. The Edge of Love
    A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations.
  19. Antitrust
    An unintentional high-tech hoot.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  20. Knight of Cups
    Sitting in the theater, watching Knight of Cups, you hear an incredible amount of thought-balloon babble, but you don't hear anything approaching the sublime.
  21. From Hell
    Feels stagy, stiff and entirely unnecessary.
  22. Bedazzled
    A temptation that can be easily and safely resisted.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Head Over Heels
    A bubble-brained comedy with as much bearing on the real world as a Pokemon cartoon.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. Play It to the Bone
    This is no "Raging Bull."
  25. Fool's Gold
    No doubt conceived as an underwater version of "National Treasure," Andy Tennant's film plays like a Three Stooges movie with scuba gear.
  26. Punisher: War Zone
    The acting is better than the script deserves and Lexi Alexander's cut-to-the-hearse direction lends the film considerable kick.
  27. Arthur and the Invisibles
    What a mess.
  28. Safelight
    Aloupis is not untalented as writer or helmer. But his first outing is an unsurprising, paint-by-the-numbers picture.
  29. Chloe and Theo
    Chloe & Theo is a mess of a message movie, simplistic, sappy, silly.
  30. 88 Minutes
    88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller.
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