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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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Boy Culture
    These self-involved studs manage to make ready, anonymous sex look rather dull.
  2. Once in the Life
    If Laurence Fishburne could only have harnessed his fierce performance to drive his directoral debut, Once in the Life might have made something memorable of the done-to-death tale of small-time crooks on the run after a heist gone wrong.
  3. Tsotsi
    A confused and improbable redemption song.
  4. The Tale of Despereaux
    Unfortunately, the life has been sucked out of DiCamillo's story about a brave, unusual little mouse.
  5. Overnight
    More than simply a raw-nerve success-gone-sour story. It's a revenge tale, and the directors come out on top.
  6. I Spy
    Too much of the humor falls flat. Thomas' numerous chase sequences through the streets, over the rooftops and through the airways of Budapest seem numbingly repetitive, and the script's reliance on castration gags betrays its overall lack of imagination.
  7. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Shakespeare's comical, all-too-human tale of lust, foreplay and wordplay is buried beneath bad taste.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Momma's House
    The formulaic screenplay has enough funny moments to keep the audience from concentrating on the predictability of it all.
  9. Lower City
    In trying for realism, Machado only achieves dramatic inertness.
  10. Save Me
    For its intention to promulgate the compatibility of Christianity with homosexuality, Save Me deserves a footnote in the political battle between these traditionally adversarial groups. As a movie, it doesn't amount to much more than an after school-special with sex and profanity.
  11. Wolf Creek
    John Jarratt is perfectly creepy as the outback loner gone psychotic survivalist who gets his kicks from the systematic degradation and torture of hapless victims. And make no mistake, the ordeal is excruciating.
  12. CJ7
    Bright, bouncy, kooky and comically tone deaf, CJ7 is the most bizarre kids movie I've ever seen.
  13. Soul Plane
    Has moments of inspiration, but the scattershot spoofing never achieves enough momentum to get this flight airborne.
  14. Ghost Ship
    Beck wants to dazzle the audience. I'd settle for a story.
  15. Bamboozled
    It's an unpleasant experience, and a long one, that gets more morose and melodramatic as it goes along.
  16. What Just Happened
    The film strains to achieve the comedic gait of "Wag the Dog" or the improvised, overlapping style that so defined Robert Altman's Hollywood movie, "The Player."
  17. The Next Best Thing
    Has good intentions and the element of surprise -- it's never quite clear where it's going at any given point.
  18. Not Easily Broken
    Director Bill Duke may believe the message but he never invests himself in the characters or their story, which becomes an illustrated lesson with reflective interludes and comic relief.
  19. Chill Factor
    Neither (Gooding nor Ulrich) has the distincitve spark of an action hero, and their Butch and Sundance repartee falls so consistently flat that you end up feeling a little embarrassed for them.
  20. The Scent of Green Papaya
    Some of the scenes are gorgeous, but "Papaya" is so passionless and empty it has no real impact. [04 Feb 1994]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  21. Love & Sex
    Breiman brings nothing new or insightful or even all that clever, for that matter, to the familiar questions of love and sex.
  22. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Try as it might, this glossy action adventure isn't nearly as clever as the "Spy Kids" franchise.
  23. The Mudge Boy
    Its sex is brutal, its depiction of human nature is crude and pessimistic, and its climax -- which involves animal mutilation -- is enough to ruin your whole week.
  24. Instinct
    It's well-acted by a likable cast and is well-intended, but it misses: It doesn't come off as the powerful socio-environmental statement it wants to be.
  25. School for Scoundrels
    Ben Stiller provides a jolt of personality as a past victim who rouses himself from exile, but otherwise Todd Phillips' fitfully funny script never delivers the crude creativity or the raw energy that feeds this genre of proudly crass male-centric comedies.
  26. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Cut down to a frantic 88 minutes, you wonder if all the human moments were trimmed away to get to this abstract, humorless exercise in empty flourish.
  27. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Herman's intentions are admirable, but his results are unsettling in the worst ways.
  28. 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.
  29. The Ten
    As sketch comedy, The Ten often is imaginative and sometimes hilarious...Still, like precursors from "The Groove Tube" to "Jackass," it doesn't make for much of a movie.
  30. Gladiator
    First there was "Lionheart," with Jean-Claude Van Damme as a young innocent who gets caught up in the nefarious business; then "The Big Man," an Irish film with Liam Neeson in the same predicament, and now "Gladiator." This latest clone is probably the best of the trio in terms of acting and production values, but if you've seen one you've seen them all. And they're all essentially one long sequence of people pounding each other to hamburger, interspersed with cliches. [6 March 1992]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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