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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. Love Stinks
    An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
  2. The Ladies Man
    Tepid and only sporadically amusing.
  3. Saving Silverman
    The film is a shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon, the usual mix of slapstick, doofus humor and raunchy sex jokes lacking even the bite or attitude to make it adventurous.
  4. Christmas with the Kranks
    Above all, Kranks lacks that basic kernel of credibility that even a goofy farce needs to work.
  5. The Watcher
    It's lively but fails to disguise the fact that his (Charbanic) script is a dud and his career in videos has taught him little about the art of narrative storytelling.
  6. Say It Isn't So
    A one-joke, one-note turkey.
  7. Held Up
    A real dud, with few laughs, no characterization, little story, a cluster of stereotypes and clichés and just plain nothing for Foxx to do.
  8. Summer Catch
    Tries mightily to have the charm of "Bull Durham," but instead fields raunchy sex jokes, predictable story line, dumb dialogue and a lackluster love affair.
  9. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    So violent and junky it seems to have been designed as evidence for the growing congressional movement to censor Hollywood.
  10. Son of the Mask
    A harried, screechy film that goes nowhere at a breakneck pace, full of sound and furious slapstick overkill but devoid of wit.
  11. Corky Romano
    It's bad enough that the lazy script substitutes goofy situations for actual gags, much of which falls flat under Rob Pritts' plodding direction, but Corky Romano finally sours in cynicism and hypocrisy.
  12. The Cat in the Hat
    Where "The Cat" book was anarchistic but ultimately sweet-spirited, this movie is ugly, dumb and colossally mean-spirited.
  13. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    The film is inoffensive, and Baldwin is fun and engaging.
  14. All the Queen's Men
    Afraid to pitch into farce, yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics, All the Queen's Men is finally just one long drag.
  15. Underclassman
    The inconsistencies and continuity errors are staggering.
  16. Good Luck Chuck
    It tries to be a sappy love story, an incredibly vile gross-out comedy and an envelope-pushing soft-core porno movie all at once. It ends up being an unappealing abomination.
  17. Lost & Found
    Funny for 15 minutes and then fades into mean-spirited cruelty and stupidity.
  18. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    It's so sloppy that the flashback montage includes clips from scenes that were cut from the film!
  19. 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.
  20. Surviving Christmas
    This is pseudo-cynical comedy, however, not social satire. All the sharp corners are smoothed over and what's left is little more than a big screen sitcom.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Serving Sara
    For all the hot air expended, this film ends up all smoke and no heat.
  25. Boat Trip
    Doesn't even fall in the lowbrow-but-entertaining comedy category. It's unabashedly dumb and pathetically offensive.
  26. Turn It Up
    Glib, sense-numbing action fantasy.
  27. 88 Minutes
    Preposterous, empty-headed and tedious.
  28. Bless the Child
    The movie works -- at least marginally.
  29. Lost Souls
    A screaming, silly cliche -- and somehow not a bit scary.
  30. 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]
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