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For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget may be a live-action movie, but at its heart it's more cartoonish than most cartoons.
  2. The Judge
    Director David Dobkin, best known for comedies such as "Shanghai Nights" and "Wedding Crashers," demonstrates his serious intent mostly by paint-by-numbers psychology and a ponderous pace.
  3. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad lacks, alas, the sparkle and inventiveness of the stories that inspired it.
  4. Charlie Bartlett
    Actually, occasionally, does feel good. Now if only it had something to say.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Visitors
    As it glides along from one pretty picture to the next, Visitors starts to feel less like a singular artistic gesture than a compendium of quasi-experimental film clichés.
  6. Bandslam
    Lack of sparkling teen chatter prevent this movie from being a slam dunk.
  7. Be Cool
    To reduce Leonard to shtick makes about as much sense as using a scalpel for a butter knife — even when the job gets done, it's just such a dull waste of a sharp implement.
  8. Café Society
    Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who takes much delight in exposing the blinding sunlight and dusky interiors of old Hollywood, the film is lightly entertaining but largely pointless.
  9. Maid in Manhattan
    J-Lo, Ralph-Lower, Movie-Subterranean.
  10. The Kingdom
    The Kingdom is a barely coherent compendium of Middle East fantasies, fears and doubts.
  11. Before the Rains
    Yes, the Empire may be crumbling, and the natives getting restless, but it's all happening with such lyrical loveliness - even the corpses look good. Consequently, when the rains in Before the Rains finally arrive, there's nothing to cleanse, no real dirt to wash away - not with history already so neatly packaged and polished to a dull shine.
  12. Everybody's Fine
    If nothing else (and there ain't much else), Everybody's Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro can't make bland interesting.
  13. One Last Kiss
    Though credibly performed and photographed, it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful, self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful, self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress.
  14. Happiest Season
    Finally, a big and shiny studio-backed holiday movie targeted to queer audiences that is just as sappy, cheesy and predictable as the many groan-inducing films that have been chucked toward straight moviegoers all these years.
  15. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    The music, at least, is welcome.
  16. The Legend of Zorro
    A big bloated bore-o. Think of a combination of "Wild Wild West" and "Spy Kids."
  17. The Wild
    As far as story is concerned, the whole thing feels like a rerun of a raucous Saturday-morning television show aimed at hell-raising five-year-olds.
  18. The Song of Names
    Mainly, this movie chatters when it should sing.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Running Scared
    Not a moment lasts longer than itself - even the jokes have no resonance, and certainly nothing other than the jokes has consequence. Running Scared is a mediocrity from any angle, but it serves quite well as a prototype of the new Hollywood product. [27 June 1986, p.D5]
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  20. 17 Again
    This mix of titillation and sentimentality can pass as family entertainment because 17 Again is so weightless, a succession of one-liners, sincere monologues and logical absurdities.
  21. Scoob!
    Despite its half-decade worth of aspirations to be something, Scoob! is a middle-ground of nothingness. Toss it a bone, if you wish – just know that your stay-at-home kids will be fighting over other, more interesting scraps soon enough.
  22. The Monster Squad
    Ghostbusters for the pre-teen set, a cartoon of a cartoon. Is there some residual charm? Not much. Are the special effects special? Not too. [19 Aug 1987]
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  23. The Forgotten
    There is nothing worse than a thriller that doesn't play fair... The Forgotten is just a big, fat, obvious cheater.
  24. San Andreas
    Between its steroidic CGI and emotionally vacant plot line, the movie is all flex, no muscle.
  25. Dressed to Kill
    The technical packaging of his picture is terrific - with its high-tech Manhattan and its split screens and slow motion, Dressed to Kill is - but the goods it opens to reveal are shoddily second-hand. [26 July 1980]
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  26. Independence Day
    Emmerich succeeds only in making his previous venture, the marginal Stargate, look positively inspired by comparison.
  27. The Way, Way Back
    Like "Little Miss Sunshine," the movie stars Toni Collette and Steve Carell in a story about a dysfunctional family trip, though like "Adventureland," it’s really about a teenager finding acceptance at a local theme park.
  28. Hoodwinked!
    What big ambitions you have, Grandma. And what a disappointingly modest follow-through.
  29. Manhattan Murder Mystery
    Mini-gems of comic editing grace the narrow, claustrophobic world created in Manhattan Murder Mystery. It's a safely escapist film that's vintage - albeit mid-level - Woody Allen. [20 Aug 1993]
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  30. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence is not bad, as in the sense of inept; it's artful enough to show how truly trite it is.
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