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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Natural Born Killers
    Stone calls this bile satire. But satire takes careful aim; Killers is crushingly scattershot. By putting virtuoso technique at the service of lazy thinking, Stone turns his film into the demon he wants to mock: cruelty as entertainment.
  2. The Italian Job
    A triumph for the machines, more proof that we do indeed live in the Matrix.
  3. Dead Again
    A two-hour search for a pulse... A miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you don't give it space to breathe.
  4. Barbershop
    Good-natured fun when it isn't stale, which is most of the time, this talky comedy set in a Chicago barber shop is a sitcom pilot disguised as a movie.
  5. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    The film wants to make a case for Parker as the first modern woman. It gets the look and the attitude right, but it can't find her heart.
  6. The Prince of Tides
    Even the stalwart Nolte drowns in the laughable idiocy of the Wingo-Lowenstein love affair, which lifts Tides to the fiasco class.
  7. Timecode
    Even with sex, drugs, hip-hop and a murder, these four stories are dull, dull, dull, dull.
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  8. It Could Happen to You
    Regrettably, Bergman can't do much with a one-note script by Jane Anderson that reduces Perez to a grating cliché, Cage and Fonda to a parody of Ken and Barbie and our interest in what could happen to them to dry ash.
  9. One True Thing
    Even director Carl Franklin, an artful purveyor of sterner stuff in "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress," can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
  10. A Haunting in Venice
    Even before the murderer is revealed, you’ll recognize the method in which the movie dispatches its victims: They, like us, were probably bored to death.
  11. Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving is less a movie than a messy attempt to coast off an oldie-but-goodie one-off without adding anything to the party. It can 100 percent go stuff itself.
  12. New Order
    It is not only bludgeoningly nasty but also, viewed from a May 2021 standpoint, quite staggeringly un-prescient.
  13. Plane
    Plane is, in essence, the Frontier Airlines of action films: It’s cut-rate to a fault, makes you endure a lot of unpleasantness on the way to its final destination, and still leaves you with the distinct feeling that you didn’t even get what you paid for.
  14. Mumford
    A fine case ... but none weighty enough to keep this fluff from evaporating as you watch it.
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  15. Crazy/Beautiful
    From the lowercase lettering of the title to the deadly familiarity of the plot, there is much to grate on your nerves in this TV Afterschool Special trying to pass as a real movie.
  16. The Polar Express
    The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.
  17. Reign Over Me
    Veering between sentimentality and exploitation with a few misguided stops at raunchy sex farce, Reign Over Me never finds a tone to suit its purpose.
  18. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    We're getting more of the same, but less of the impact, like weed from a bad dealer.
  19. Laurel Canyon
    A clumsy package of clichés.
  20. The Adjustment Bureau
    What Dick rendered potent, Nolfi renders preposterous.
  21. Godzilla vs. Kong
    The plot of Godzilla vs. Kong matters far less than the basic fact that it’d be a much better movie if it stuck, firmly, to its title.
  22. No Hard Feelings
    Not even J-Law off the nice-young-lady leash can save something this lazy and desperate to offend, however. The movie simply isn’t on her level. Or really much of any level at all.
  23. The Fast and the Furious
    Rob Cohen, who last directed "The Skulls" --ouch! -- can consider this one another career-killing skid mark.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Accountant 2
    Affleck doesn’t sell it this time. He’s too busy going for the easy laugh. And so the supposed fun of the movie just doesn’t add up, like a long equation with a missing number.
  25. The Firm
    Director Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in "Three Days of the Condor". But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack's elephantine Havana.
  26. The Midnight Sky
    The Midnight Sky is a good example of a movie that sells itself short by trying to be one thing — serious, heavy, emotional — when, by all available indicators, it should be more of a thriller, or more ridiculous, or at the very least more fun.
  27. Snakes on a Plane
    It's not so bad that it's good. It's so bland that it's boring. Not even worth a hissss.
  28. Shanghai Knights
    Grating.
  29. Licence to Kill
    Drab in the extreme. Timothy Dalton's second and wheezing, final turn as 007 was barely recognizable as a Bond film.
  30. Benny & Joon
    Whatever qualms you might have about romanticizing mental illness, the misguided Benny and Joon thinks it's just darling.
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