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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. Untraceable
    An abhorrent cyberthriller starring a compelling Diane Lane.
  2. Black Knight
    Though the humor of Black Knight never quite achieves the giddiness of a Monty Python comedy, Lawrence creates a character more lovable than either Bill or Ted on either of their excellent adventures.
  3. Showtime
    A flat-out cynical attempt to launch a new Lethal Weapon-like franchise.
  4. 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.
  5. Boogeyman
    While stylishly filmed and edited, Boogeyman is filled with every imaginable fright cliche... It's like a meal consisting entirely of airy hors d'oeuvres.
  6. Charlie Countryman
    Wood, for her part, can appear sad, or seductive, or mysterious, or happy, or lovestruck, or deeply troubled. Gabi is also very good with a gun, so look out.
  7. The Lazarus Effect
    Mildly enjoyable despite its basic mediocrity.
  8. The Honeymooners
    This one is so bad that even Ed Norton couldn't get this mess to move through the sewer.
  9. Lucky Numbers
    This invitation to look down upon the stupidity of numskulls is one that should be declined as swiftly as a call to poke fun at Special Olympians.
  10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    A dark, shaky, standard-issue superhero picture.
  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. Your Highness
    Half-baked, both in plot and execution, this spoof's for adolescent boys who find Minotaur private parts amusing and Queen Amidala in a chastity belt sexy.
  13. They
    They has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore.
  14. This Means War
    The film's focus on the contest between the two agents does throw the film off-balance.
  15. Gray Matters
    Mildly diverting but slight, the screwball comedy Gray Matters changes it up, more or less creating its own genre, the curveball farce.
  16. Antitrust
    An unintentional high-tech hoot.
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  17. Getting Even with Dad
    Getting Even With Dad desperately panders to the youth it hopes to attract. [17 Jun 1994, p.03]
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  18. Envy
    Envy makes a pretty entertaining three-minute trailer. If only they'd left it at that.
  19. Monster-in-Law
    Monster-in-Law, where Bridezilla meets Godzilla, is a comedy so anemic, so toxic, that even Dracula wouldn't bite.
  20. Life or Something Like It
    This film about a career gal's date with fate careers out of control.
  21. Red Dawn
    Hobbled by a laughably bad script and a uniformly uncharismatic cast.
  22. First Daughter
    Is there a limit to this incessant princessitude?
  23. Blended
    Blended throws a lot of things on the screen, but in the end, it has to confront its awkward and artificial "romance." And that's just ugly.
  24. The Bachelor
    Feeble and formulaic.
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  25. Trapped in Paradise
    As slapstick, it is painfully slow, so much so that one can see every overstretched rubber band and frayed shoelace keeping the film barely together. [02 Dec 1994, p.03]
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  26. Love the Coopers
    Watching people be miserable with each other for the movie's run-time does not always make for a pleasant experience.
  27. Cop Out
    You want to cut Cop Out some slack because it's just so darn eager to please. So let's grant that it will make a reliably fun companion when it's on cable 10 times a week.
  28. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The movie bogs down in tiresome good guys vs. bad guys action cliches.
  29. The Life of David Gale
    Plot contrivances, including an ominous cowboy-hatted figure who stalks Bitsey and her tagalong intern (Gabriel Mann), undermine the story's serious political themes.
  30. Seventh Son
    If the Brothers Grimm had devoted themselves to farce rather than scary fairy tales, they might have produced something like Seventh Son, a whacko sword-and-sorcery exercise.
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