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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. The Craft
    If Fleming had played everything as a black comedy with a satirical send-up of high school life - like Heathers - he might have had something. But The Craft has no consistency and certainly no art as it drifts into an unprepossessing display of special-effects magic. [03 May 1996, p.08]
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  2. I Spy
    The execution is so dumbed-down, so dumbfounding, that sophisticated moviegoers might confuse it for outtakes from "Spy Kids 2" and "XXX."
  3. Zookeeper
    The film would be a moth-eaten mess without the wisecracking animals. Not that it's funny with them.
  4. The Quiet
    Trapped between edgy art flick and exploitation psychothriller, The Quiet manages to be neither, and manages to be pretty awful in the bargain.
  5. Untraceable
    An abhorrent cyberthriller starring a compelling Diane Lane.
  6. Rules of Engagement
    A casualty of its own clumsy storytelling.
  7. Cecil B. DeMented
    Maybe Waters set out to prove Karl Marx's observation that all great events happen twice, first as tragedy and the second time as farce.
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  8. Last Vegas
    Just call this movie "The Hangover: AARP Strikes Back."
  9. After the Sunset
    The kind of glossy, Hollywood-forged waste of time that would depress even the most happily lackadaisical retiree.
  10. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    An embarassingly unfunny, stumblebum adaptation of Toby Young's memoir.
  11. Showtime
    A flat-out cynical attempt to launch a new Lethal Weapon-like franchise.
  12. The Informers
    Another tale of Tinseltown drugs, sex and excess - has transferred itself to the screen with mind-boggling, laugh-inciting horribleness.
  13. Jack Reacher
    The violence is plenty, and pointless.
  14. Death of a Dynasty
    There is a funny movie to be made from the outrageous egos and excesses of rap music. Death of a Dynasty is not that movie.
  15. Mona Lisa Smile
    As artistic achievements go, Mona Lisa Smile is strictly a paint-by-numbers affair. No shading. Little in the way of perspective. To call it one-dimensional would be an act of charity.
  16. Shadow Hours
    A pointless modern morality play set in various sleazy locales that offer sex, drugs, assorted perversions, bare-knuckle fights, and even Russian roulette where lives are wagered for money.
  17. The Sculptress
    Awesomely ridiculous thriller.
  18. Supernova
    Really lost in space.
  19. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Completely unappealing people.
  20. Never Die Alone
    What Never Die Alone is is a hackneyed tale of vengeance set in the 'hood, teeming with stock characters, slo-mo gunplay, and rampant misogyny.
  21. Stonewall
    Overall, the effect is closer to a Monty Python skit or a Village People music vid than a serious film about civil rights.
  22. Plastic
    Identity theft and credit-card fraud never looked as exciting or sexy as in Plastic, a frothy little heist movie from Britain that starts off with great promise, only to devolve midway into an empty derivative shell of a film.
  23. Tooth Fairy
    Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.
  24. Chasing Madoff
    Viewers get very little about Madoff himself. While the film is primarily about Markopolos, it makes little sense without much insight into his nemesis.
  25. Jonah Hex
    A mercifully fleet and lamentably uninteresting adaptation of the DC Comic about a war-weary Confederate soldier.
  26. Dinosaur 13
    Mostly, Dinosaur 13 is far too long, slogging along without momentum or suspense. These events would have been better handled in a single installment of Dateline.
  27. The Marc Pease Experience
    Faced with the script's weak humor and feeble stabs at irony, Schwartzman and Stiller turn it way up, setting the dial at "hammy."
  28. The Frighteners
    The Frighteners approaches the mysteries of near-death and out-of-body experiences with a script that is - even by this summer's prevailing standard of dumbness - out of its mind. [19 July 1996, p.03]
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  29. Eye of the Beholder
    So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
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  30. Reign of Fire
    Often incomprehensible (a combination of jumpy editing and lots of thick British Isles accents) and hardly ever entertaining - even unintentionally.
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