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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Company Man
    At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well-executed gag.
  2. Gigli
    There is no histrionic excess or crackpot camp, only hoary sentiment, the puppy-dog cuteness of the mentally handicapped, and the proposition that the "cure" for lesbianism is one good man brave enough to get in touch with his inner cow.
  3. Swept Away
    Madonna herself is not so much terrible as merely uninvolving. She's quite credible as the harpy of the first act, but she can't pull off the transition and the spark that makes a movie star instantly sympathetic.
  4. Serving Sara
    For all the hot air expended, this film ends up all smoke and no heat.
  5. Boat Trip
    Doesn't even fall in the lowbrow-but-entertaining comedy category. It's unabashedly dumb and pathetically offensive.
  6. Turn It Up
    Glib, sense-numbing action fantasy.
  7. 88 Minutes
    Preposterous, empty-headed and tedious.
  8. Bless the Child
    The movie works -- at least marginally.
  9. Lost Souls
    A screaming, silly cliche -- and somehow not a bit scary.
  10. Weekend at Bernie's II
    Weekend at Bernie's II stands as just about the best argument I've seen in a long time that the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system is a complete farce. [10 July 1993]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  11. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.
  12. Deuces Wild
    In its best moments, resembles a bad high school production of "Grease," without benefit of song.
  13. Kangaroo Jack
    The kangaroo is devoid of charm, as are the actors, who have the chemistry of fingernails on a blackboard.
  14. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    It doesn't have the imagination or daring to make a full turn to self-parody.
  15. What Love Is
    It's a shrill cacophony of puerile clichés about men and women and sex, delivered in adrenaline-driven harangues and arrogant lectures. When the stage clears, all that's left is the unpleasant odor of all that hot air.
  16. Rollerball
    Coupled with the flavorless dialogue of the inane script and a leading man who registers all the glow of a black hole, there's nothing to anchor this mindless mess of a film.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Camp
    This belabored summertime sequel is moderately less vulgar, certainly less expensive and, if possible, even less funny than its forerunning bomb, "Daddy Day Care."
    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Fair Game
    Surely, they couldn't be true. Surely, supermodel Cindy Crawford's Fair Game - her debut as a feature film star - couldn't be as bad as the gossip suggested. [03 Nov 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  19. New Best Friend
    Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
  20. Slackers
    The roll call of perversions and adolescent sex gags are more creepy than kooky and the sudden shift to triumphant romantic sincerity at the climax rings as false as this film's sappy (sorry, happy) ending.
  21. The Master of Disguise
    Feels like nothing less than Dana Carvey's desperate bid for his own "Austin Powers"-like franchise, but with a harmless humor far less crude. Carvey favors whoopee cushion punch lines to toilet gags and references to big butts over sexual double-entendres.
  22. Whipped
    Perhaps there is a more excruciatingly painful and self-abusive way to spend 82 minutes. But I honestly can't think of what it would be.
  23. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    It should have warned us that logic was also hitting hard times.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Apart from Jon Voight, slumming and turning in a rather droll, if lonely, performance as the German-accented villain, the movie amounts to cynical, cutesy claptrap.
  25. Alone in the Dark
    Director Uwe Boll ("House of the Dead") has made a cottage industry out of this kind of junk. Maybe it's time for him to close up shop.
  26. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    Less offensive than embarrassing, at least for the chagrined performers.
  27. Strictly Sinatra
    Loaded down with gritty Glasgow atmosphere and authenticity, and works so well as an ensemble piece
  28. The Long Run
    Director Jean Stewart isn't merely clumsy with character; she hasn't the chops to show us the joy and exhilaration Christine feels in the freedom of solo runs.
  29. Illusion
    The star-crossed love story that takes up most of the movie-within-the-movie is strangely compelling, and Douglas gives a believable, often powerful performance as a man in the process of discovering the karmic ripple effect of a closed-off life.
  30. Goodbye Bafana
    The life of a prison guard is dull, no matter who is in the cell. Director Bille August makes what he can of this material, always holding our interest but never fulfilling the promise of a close encounter with one of the 20th century's most controversial leaders.
  31. Shrooms
    The film's one original moment comes when Bluto has a conversation with a cow. The rest of it, from the distorting lens used randomly to suggest unreality, to the twist ending lifted verbatim from the superior "High Tension," is about as imaginative as a portobello steak with onions.
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