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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. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    Director Troy Beyer, who adapted the original screenplay, can't seem to decide if this is a morality play or a music-video fantasy.
  2. Rescue Dawn
    It's a well-acted but rote and strictly by the book "war movie."
  3. Bruce Almighty
    The movie is mainly an excuse to display special-effects gags in the form of the various miracles manifested -- some of which are highly imaginative, some of which aren't.
  4. The Invasion
    It's a moderately compelling sci-fi action movie with a handful of scary scenes -- though nothing at all special, and only a shadow of the original or even its 1978 remake.
  5. King Arthur
    While Keira Knightley brightens things up as Guinevere, the casting is otherwise lackluster.
  6. The Talent Given Us
    Autobiographical or not, the frankness and family hysteria of this rolling therapy session gets awkwardly intimate and at times tough to endure, as much for its raw candor as for its confessional contrivance. Too bad the revelations of past mistakes are more interesting than the story played out screen.
  7. Transporter 3
    As action movies seem to get more complicated and convoluted with international conspiracies and technological concepts, the "Transporter" franchise is refreshingly simple.
  8. Art School Confidential
    There's simply nobody beneath the derisive attitude worth caring about.
  9. Baby Boy
    It's more ambitious and passionate than thoughtful. Singleton is better at criticizing than understanding, and he leaves too many characters lacking a legitimate voice.
  10. Hulk
    As this all plays out -- and basically segues into "King Kong" -- the movie wins its biggest gamble: its entirely computer-generated monster works.
  11. Are We Done Yet?
    The unchecked enthusiasm of McGinley as the touchy-feely renovation guru gives slow-burn Cube the perfect foil and mellows the malicious comic tone. The rest is pure slapstick.
  12. The Stepford Wives
    The film's creepier moments are pathetically weak, and its thematic update fails to attain the minimal credibility that even a wild farce needs to sustain itself.
  13. Jefferson in Paris
    It is long, mediocre and rather pointless. [07 Apr 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  14. Black Snake Moan
    It's hard to know what to make of the thing, though it has a sleazy charm, it's never boring and it goes a certain distance on Samuel L. Jackson's conviction.
  15. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    A kind of "Seabiscuit"-lite.
  16. Mr. Deeds
    Mr. Deeds, is -- perhaps predictably -- pretty much of a disaster. It's a bit like someone scrawling a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
  17. The Dying Gaul
    Takes itself awfully seriously. It feels a bit like a grudge piece, laboring to grasp at large themes, but it is as trivialized as the capricious world it explores.
  18. Mission: Impossible III
    While all the "Mission" plots are convoluted and slightly preposterous -- the keyword in the title is "Impossible" -- the latest is just this side of insultingly stupid. The longer you think about it, the less sense it all makes.
  19. Where the Money Is
    It's a lifeless little caper piece that never develops the magic and intellectual fascination it needs to bond with an audience.
  20. Beefcake
    A heady, impressionistic mixture of biography, fantasy and social history in which it isn't always clear which is which.
  21. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Anyone in the market for an overblown and totally mindless adventure-comedy will certainly get his money's worth.
  22. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Wonderfully cast but underwhelming and never especially believable.
  23. Hannibal
    Has almost none of the nail-biting suspense and fascinating character interplay that made the original so authentically terrifying.
  24. I.O.U.S.A.
    Perhaps, like Al Gore's lecture on global warming, the force of its argument will stir some of those who see it to further research the subject.
    • 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
  26. Rape Me
    Seeks to shock and to outrage, and so far it's done both quite nicely.
  27. The Affair of the Necklace
    The affair of the necklace itself is so complex and many-sided that it would take a Sidney Lumet to do justice to it on film.
  28. Barnyard
    It's bright, colorful and udder-ly unmemorable.
  29. Harsh Times
    Well-intentioned but not very well directed, it makes for a better psychological profile than a film.
  30. The Program
    The Program has little bite as satire or as muckraking. It doesn't really want to offend anyone very deeply (perhaps because it was filmed with the cooperation of nine separate college athletic departments). If you read the sports pages, you could devise your own script and it would be twice as devastating.
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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