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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. The Cutting Edge
    Yes, you've seen this movie a hundred times before, and "The Cutting Edge" is even more annoying than most predictable sports movies because it was so obviously shot on the cheap: the overall production values are as low as any film released by a major studio this year. [27 March 1992]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  2. The Man Who Cried
    It's a strange and strangely unaffecting little drama -- but played very flat, with no particular emotional impact sought or achieved.
  3. Serendipity
    It all feels false and calculated, an overearnest attempt to find old-fashioned romantic innocence in the modern world by someone too jaded to believe.
  4. Time of the Wolf
    It's a much more interesting and engrossing film than its somewhat nefarious reputation may indicate -- though, granted, elements of it are very hard to take, and it finally leaves you feeling pretty down and out.
  5. Transporter 2
    When the spectacle turns ridiculous, the movie just becomes another big-screen video game.
  6. Cats & Dogs
    "Shrek" had some refreshing, genre-twisting innovation but Cats & Dogs plays it safe and nice instead and, by not taking risks, doesn't quite make it out of the doghouse.
  7. Prelude to a Kiss
    That play has made it to the big screen, but it has come so late in the moribund body-switching comedy cycle that it seems like a tired cliche, and a big-budget production and star cast just can't seem to breathe any life into it. [10 Jul 1992]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  8. Mean Machine
    There's just no juice to this thing, merely a bunch of fitfully funny gags and a climactic football match that, under Skolnick's direction, fails to show us why the Europeans find this so exciting.
  9. This Divided State
    Greenstreet captures all the hubbub on film but, while he makes the point that we are indeed a house divided, he can't quite persuade us that this particular situation is a metaphoric example of our national malaise.
  10. Twelve and Holding
    Low-production values, including glaring inconsistencies in the makeup department, add to the bargain-basement atmosphere of this kidsploitation quickie.
  11. Code Name: The Cleaner
    Gets entertaining when Liu kicks in.
  12. The Triumph of Love
    Farce is a genre best served with building momentum and crack timing. This lazily paced piece seems more concerned with winking at the audience and putting quotations around the performances than anything so crass as playing this farce for laughs.
  13. Evan Almighty
    You'd hope God would think bigger for His divine intervention in American politics.
  14. The Producers
    Can't find its rhythm and stride. It plays it far too safe and slick.
  15. Swordfish
    A slick, cynical, nasty piece of heist-film plotting that hides its more obvious logical gaps in techno-babble and distracting spectacles of wanton violence and big explosions.
  16. Waking Up in Reno
    This half-baked production sat on Miramax's shelf for a couple of years. It's no more done now than then, merely more stale.
  17. Jumper
    The best thing -- maybe the only good thing -- about the expensive sci-fi movie, Jumper, is its high-concept premise, which gives its hero the power of teleporting himself anywhere on the globe in the blink of an eye: from the Coliseum of Rome to the North Pole.
  18. Formula 51
    Outrageously confident and wearing a kilt through the mayhem, Jackson proves once again that he has few equals in bringing off a broad, over-the-top lead.
  19. Stealth
    Makes a serviceable summer shoot-'em-up, but it's surprisingly trashy and rather stupid, and its efforts toward being a gripping military drama in the Tom Clancy tradition are fairly pathetic.
  20. Adam & Steve
    It wobbles between a conventionally quirky lighthearted goof and an oddball farce in which character is sacrificed for sight gags.
  21. American Psycho
    A fairly loathsome and shallow movie about loathsome and shallow people, but it's almost worth catching to see star Christian Bale chew up the scenery.
  22. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.
  23. Jakob the Liar
    Williams' self-conscious and rather bland performance never comes close to bringing his character to life.
  24. Firewall
    It disrespects Seattle. Not only is this yet another filmed-in-Vancouver movie that's supposed to be set here, it takes place in a blinding rainstorm of the kind only a Hollywood rain machine can make. As we all know, it never rains like that in Seattle.
  25. It Takes Two
    The premise clicks, the stars couldn't be more likable, and It Takes Two is as cute and imaginatively directed a family movie as we've had all year. [17 Nov 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  26. Bring It On
    Predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message.
  27. The History Boys
    With the original stage cast, the film is doggedly faithful to the play but has failed to translate it into much of a film.
  28. Firehouse Dog
    This larger-than-life cartoon of a trained dog has more character than the two-legged co-stars.
  29. The Big Tease
    An innocuous, hit-and-miss affair.
  30. Metro
    This emoting doesn't mix well with the comedy and action, of course, and the best that can be said of the film is that it's marginally entertaining, and (for Murphy) reasonably inoffensive. But he's competent enough to make us suspect he might be surprisingly good if he ever did get a real Denzel Washington part. [17 Jan 1997]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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