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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. XX/XY
    A sour portrait of Gen X yuppies who settle for adult lives that appear at once soulless and overprivileged.
  2. The Crew
    Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
  3. Scotland, Pa.
    Too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good, it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing.
  4. The Crimson Rivers
    The full explanation for the movie's graphically depicted horrors is preposterous even by the almost-anything- goes standards of the action-thriller conspiracy genre.
  5. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    So busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.
  6. Down and Out with the Dolls
    The results suggest a slightly more ribald version of "Josie and the Pussycats."
  7. Baunsu ko gaurusu
    Feels fabricated, studio-bound and claustrophobic, which doesn't add to the ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity this genre has always depended on.
  8. Crush
    The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself.
  9. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Plays like a nutty psychological mystery.
  10. The Bachelor
    Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.
  11. P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
    Mr. Guttenberg's direction of "Cat," is competent and unadorned, bringing out whatever qualities the text possesses -- mainly good-naturedness.
  12. Simply Irresistible
    It is a measure of the shortcomings of this genial, well-meaning but ultimately unenchanting film that scene after scene is stolen by the second bananas.
  13. Martin & Orloff
    An occasionally savvy farce that suffers from attention deficit disorder.
  14. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    This competently made picture seems a rehash, and not a terribly interesting one. What's remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is.
  15. Reindeer Games
    The movie is staged like a pit stop -- Reindeer Games goes from being fun to being laughable.
  16. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A clever if muddled collection of riffs on the "Blair Witch" juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions by Joe Berlinger, who directed this film with a chortling zest.
  17. Eight Legged Freaks
    Awkward, obvious and sporadically -- very sporadically -- amusing.
  18. The Closer You Get
    Another high-concept Irish Spring comedy.
  19. Jakob the Liar
    Alternates between bumbling group antics and strained poignancy...anticipates all laughter and emotion in ways that make it its own worst enemy.
  20. Manic
    The camera work is so self-conscious and so intrusive that it consistently overrides our interest in the characters and their individual dramas.
  21. The Sum of All Fears
    It's a striking measure of the nervousness of the country right now that a movie so full of holes should be as gripping as it is, at least for its first two-thirds, after which it collapses into a swamp of sentimental mush.
  22. The Shipping News
    The final product is soft at the center, a rustic cinematic greeting card.
  23. The Accidental Tourist
    The Accidental Tourist often relies on Miss Tyler's methods without tempering them, and gives a tone of crashing obviousness to material that need not have seemed that way. [23 Dec 1988, p.C12]
  24. The Hunt for Red October
    The movie finally is never very convincing. Even the special effects aren't great. Mr. Connery, however, wears the movie as if it were a favorite old hat. He makes it look good.
  25. The Heart of Me
    The end product suggests tepid, bottom-drawer Merchant-Ivory in which the emotions rarely catch fire.
  26. Primal Fear
    Pared down to a farfetched plot and paper-thin motives, the story relies on an overload of tangential subplots to keep it looking busy. [3 Apr 1996, p.C15]
  27. I Am Sam
    Not a bad movie, and its intentions are unimpeachable. But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is very nearly squeezed out of it.
  28. Sugar & Spice
    The movie is full of scattershot gags and indifferent acting, but you get the feeling that it's bad on purpose, which makes it, given the number of teenage movies that are terrible by accident, not bad at all.
  29. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke mockumentary.
  30. Dark Blue World
    This could be called an art house version of "Pearl Harbor," except that sounds vaguely nutritious, like fat- free yogurt or a historical episode of A&E's "Biography." But Dark Blue World is all empty carbs, like malted milk balls.
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