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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 0.9 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. Brother Bear
    Has an unforced, pleasingly New Age feel to it; an unexpected but satisfying ending (a la "Shrek"); and a script that -- despite its overdone, body-switching premise -- comes together to nicely convey a cogent, environmentally conscious moral lesson.
  2. Spanglish
    Much of it is funny and endearing, and its toned-down star, Adam Sandler, is as winning as he's ever been.
  3. Tears of the Sun
    For a film so intent on the rules of engagement, this is hardly engaging drama.
  4. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    The ploddingly literal screenplay by John Logan doesn't help matters.
  5. 50 First Dates
    Sandler and Barrymore generate some believable, if low-voltage, chemistry: they're both so shallow and conceited and dingy that you think -- yes! -- in real life, these two people probably would go for each other in a second.
  6. Ju-on: The Grudge
    For all of its weakness, Ju-On: The Grudge is creepy and unnerving, qualities in short supply in gore-filled American horror films.
  7. The Oh in Ohio
    Disastrously unfunny sex farce.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Scary Movie
    There are a number of funny and unexpected moments in the film, but they are ultimately swamped by the mean-spirited tone and increasingly over-the-top raunch and drug humor.
  9. Rush Hour 2
    A winning combination. By some bizarre quirk of star chemistry, their persona complement each other, the action scenes have comic flair and the movie is mindless fun.
  10. Prey for Rock & Roll
    If it sounds like Prey for Rock and Roll might be fun despite its shortcomings, it is not. Even those with a predilection for bad movies about rock 'n' roll should avoid this one.
  11. Chicken Little
    It's often funny but it flails around like a chicken with its head cut off, flapping and squawking and making a spectacle, but never really going anywhere.
  12. The Idiots
    Von Trier is far more hypocritical than his straw-figure characters, and he's simply too cynical and insincere to be provocative.
  13. 21
    A thoroughly ordinary drama of temptation, dubious redemption and easy revenge.
  14. Civic Duty
    Ultimately less psychological thriller than polemic about the effects of living in an atmosphere of paranoia fed by daily threat-level assessments and round-the-clock TV news-channel coverage of fear-mongering speeches.
  15. The Santa Clause 2
    While it lacks the original's streamlined core, the father-son relationship, the sequel gets by on assembled moments of sentiment
  16. Maze
    Morrow and Linney are gifted, extremely likable actors, and the movie has some ingratiating moments and a seductive soundtrack. But there's a by-the-numbers inevitability to every scene, and it never clicks into place to be anything special.
  17. The Core
    The surprise is that it's one of the most exciting and enjoyable disaster epics to come out of Hollywood in some time.
  18. Orange County
    It should have been a cut above the usual teen comedy. But it touches the same old bases in the same old dumb ways.
  19. Super Troopers
    The cast, collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist, shows deft comic timing, particularly Chandrasekhar, who wrings laughs just by his reaction to the locals' racist remarks.
  20. Hit and Runway
    Predictable and agonizingly politically correct.
  21. High Crimes
    Even if it lacks the finesse of Franklin's earlier work, High Crimes moves like a bullet.
  22. Shallow Hal
    Shallow Hal begs for the Farrellys to unleash their arsenal of offensiveness, but they want to be liked so much they appear afraid to offend. The result is safe, well-meaning and dull.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Fortress
    Fortress is as harrowing a cat-and-mouse game as the conflict between Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive," and the new arrival also offers the perk of being about ideas bigger than mere pursuit. [3 Sept 1993]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  24. The Longest Yard
    Sandler's frequent director, Peter Segal, also rises to the occasion, giving the proceedings some of the rough-hewn, hard-edged look of the original, and brings it to a funny, satisfying climax that -- happily -- doesn't cop out.
  25. Writer of O
    The movie is a fascinating, if often confusing, mix of dramatized scenes from the novel, re-created and actual interviews with Desclos.
  26. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    It's not "The Wizard of Oz," and its cotton-candy fantasy of a story line is definitely aimed at very young children. But it's well made, and adults likely will find themselves yielding to its gentle, whimsical charm.
  27. Step Up
    Step Up never quite does fly: its dance routines are low-voltage, the star chemistry is weak, the characters are clichés and the movie is practically an instant remake of Dewan's other '06 dance musical, "Take the Lead," which told the story better.
  28. Penelope
    There are some flat moments, to be sure, and Palansky's direction can be a bit unsteady and awkward, but he doesn't wallow in the eccentricities or the modestly self-empowering moral. This fairy tale feels pleasantly down-to-earth.
  29. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    Even though she's (Khouri) determined to give us feel-good entertainment, she's not at all afraid to let the darker moments be very dark indeed.
  30. Martian Child
    Amanda Peet exudes her patented mix of charm, beauty, humor and smarts as the best friend who may become more than a friend.
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