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For 927 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Big Night
Lowest review score: 0 Luminarias
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 524 out of 927
  2. Mixed: 227 out of 927
  3. Negative: 176 out of 927
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  1. Dead Snow
    This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula. The young people to be killed off are just as obnoxious as their counterparts in American gorefests.
  2. Flyboys
    Besides some fine dogfight sequences, it often feels threadbare, just an exercise in recycling.
  3. Bounce
    If I wanted a Nora Ephron cuddle-ganza, I'd rent one.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  4. The 6th Day
    Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  5. Little Nicky
    Little Nicky is but a meek gross-out cousin of "The Waterboy."
  6. Red Planet
    Good-looking and empty.
  7. Men of Honor
    It's hard not to like a movie like Men of Honor, but it's entirely possible.
  8. Loving Jezebel
    There's more gymnastic yammering in Loving Jezebel than in a season of "Dawson's Creek."
  9. Just One Time
    Feels like an interminable pilot for a show to fill that deadly 8:30 slot between "Friends" and "Will and Grace."
  10. Pay It Forward
    There's the world-alteringly scary possibility that (Leder) might be trying to kill us with a star-studded "After School Special."
    • San Francisco Examiner
  11. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    A weakly performed rehash of master-slave role-reversal tales.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  12. The Fantasticks
    It seems like another misstep - the story just doesn't hold up to Ritchie's treatment.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  13. Woman on Top
    Not the sweaty midnight stroll through the garden of carnal delights that its title wants you to believe.
  14. Bait
    Too much of nothing and far from the potentially star-making material that Foxx deserves.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  15. The Way of the Gun
    A misfire.
  16. Titanic Town
    Capably made but simplistic story.
  17. Wildflowers
    Timely in that it joins an already mammoth list of bad movies about post-hippie static, including the recent "Steal This Movie."
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chalk
    An impressive low-whistle, hardscrabble look at the world of pool sharks and the people who crisscross their lives.
  19. The Crew
    Tired comedy.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  20. Steal This Movie
    It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings.
  21. Autumn in New York
    Fails to be the histrionic bubble bath that you want to carry you away.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  22. Saving Grace
    Determined to be inoffensively tidy and cute above all else.
  23. The Tic Code
    Not entirely persuasive, not entirely schmaltzy, "The Tic Code" is one of those well-meant dramatizations... that mysteriously made it all the way to a theater near you.
  24. Coyote Ugly
    Doesn't have what it takes to be truly terrible.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  25. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Determined to try your patience, asking you to fall in love with it.
  26. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    An archaic rail-ride into the heart of boredom.
  27. Loser
    An arthritic failure, genuine only when the two outcast lovers' eyes dart toward each other, then retreat.
  28. The Five Senses
    Particularly anticlimactic - the film itself seems sprung from molting yuppie catalogs.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  29. The Patriot
    The Patriot makes the Revolutionary War look like super-produced studio footage of the L.A. riots.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kikujirô no natsu
    With a few quiet, moving scenes and a lovely ending, the film betrays an artist's touch, no matter how hard Kitano tries to make it look easy.
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