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For 3,654 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Caesar Must Die
Lowest review score: 0 Summer Catch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,408 out of 3654
  2. Mixed: 966 out of 3654
  3. Negative: 280 out of 3654
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  1. The Quiet
    You still marvel at the visuals -- cinematographer M. David Mullen has done miracles with what must have been a microscopic budget -- but you're less invested in the tale. Which is a pity, because it might have been a perfect little potboiler. As it stands, it's merely pretty darned good of its type.
  2. Scary Movie 2
    Stinky, boring, aggressively unfunny picture.
  3. The Time Being
    Langella is solid as always, but his haunted, bitter character is pretty two-dimensional, and having to share all his scenes with Bentley doesn’t allow for much interplay.
  4. Red Riding Hood
    Ugly, dull, bloodless, dumb, and phony to its core.
  5. Rock the Kasbah
    Murray blusters and hams his way through the first two acts before turning all mushy in the third.
  6. I Am Sam
    This isn't an ordinary film built on a remarkable performance; it's a poor one with a gem at its core. Penn can elevate it to mediocrity, but he cannot make it fly.
  7. Stigmata
    Less and less a skillfully creepy B-movie and more and more a plea for ecumenical reform.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A Good Day to Die Hard
    At this point, "Die Hard" no longer describes the franchise. It describes the fans who are still willing to turn out for the noise and nonsense.
  9. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    The novel's exuberance, happy sensuality, goes AWOL in Van Sant's sadder, darker vision. [20 May 1994]
    • Portland Oregonian
  10. Passion of Mind
    So tedious that the experience results in nearly two hours of squirming and cringing.
  11. Gentlemen Broncos
    As the struggle toward something new and different overwhelms the film, it becomes less and less human, less and less funny and less and less worth the effort to meet it on its own terms.
  12. Pixels
    There are legitimate excuses for going to see Pixels. Losing a bet, perhaps. Having a loved one held for ransom. Maybe a serious blow to the head. But none of those (except maybe the last) would allow you watch and actually enjoy the latest cinematic leavings of Adam Sandler.
  13. Head Over Heels
    Freddie Prinze Jr. gives cute a bad name.
    • Portland Oregonian
  14. The Perfect Man
    In Duff's movies, the question is whether the movie will find enough interesting stuff to compensate for the blandness at the center. The Perfect Man does.
  15. Sweet November
    It's classic movie manipulation gone amok.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Cute and funny, with plenty of slapstick and cuddly creatures for the kids and enough adult wit to keep parents reasonably amused.
    • Portland Oregonian
  17. Garfield
    In short, it's an almost flawlessly innocuous entertainment for kids.
  18. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    The movie's a fish-out-of-water romantic-comedy thriller that forgets to be romantic, comedic or thrilling.
  19. A Guy Thing
    Chris Koch exhibits little flair for comedic direction and, though this isn't saying much, you'd be better served watching his previous film, "Snow Day." Ouch.
  20. Catwoman
    Berry has no character to play, but Sharon Stone's an over-the-top hoot.
  21. The Women
    Is there anything more depressing than when middlebrow filmmakers decide to remake bona fide classics that did not, under any circumstances, need to be remade?
  22. Cool World
    As a technical accomplishment it is extrely impressive. But as a work of entertainment, almost any 10 minutes of it are enough. [14 Jul 1992]
    • Portland Oregonian
  23. The Musketeer
    Appallingly flat.
  24. Norbit
    Norbit might have worked if it had fully committed to being over the top or made Rasputia the lead character and found the human inside the cartoon. Instead, the movie doesn't give us anyone to care about.
  25. View from the Top
    If the new I-wanna-be-a-stewardess picture View From the Top were an airplane, it would blow up on takeoff. If it were an airline meal, it would infect you with E. coli. If it were a parachute, it would be riddled with holes.
  26. Little Fockers
    The comic moments are fewer, flatter and far, far less welcome.
  27. Problem Child
    Problem Child has moments, or perhaps instants, of misanthropic satire. There also are stroboscopically brief flashes of psychological irony or cleverness. [30 July 1990, p.D8]
    • Portland Oregonian
  28. Fantastic Four
    This is the Fantastic Four. Maybe someday they'll get to act like it.
  29. Twisted
    A snore.
  30. Trixie
    A movie built on one joke -- an old one -- and an incoherent, even idiotic plot.
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