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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. The Chronicles of Riddick
    The action is so frenetic that the ominous mood isn't allowed to penetrate, and this time the human factor is all but erased.
  2. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Maintaining a winking distance from his comic persona, Mr. Spade radiates a cunning show-business cynicism that lets you know he's aware that he's slumming to make a buck.
  3. Home on the Range
    The best cartoons are built on the contradictory pursuit of meticulously arranged anarchy. But they never seem needy, or desperate for laughs, as Home on the Range does. The film seems hungrier for a pat on the head than a chuckle.
  4. Ice Age
    The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.
  5. Patch Adams
    Low humor might count for more here if it weren't constantly overshadowed by the film's maudlin streak.
  6. The Stepford Wives
    It does manage to fire off a handful of decent jokes and a few sneaky insights before losing its nerve and collapsing into incoherence.
  7. Welcome to Mooseport
    A terminally mild attempt to revive the populist political comedy pioneered by Frank Capra in the 1930's.
  8. Little Black Book
    Offering few laughs and a climactic scene of breathtaking cruelty, this plot-heavy movie, directed by Nick Hurran from a screenplay by Melissa Carter and Elisa Bell, draws you into its malignant force field against your will.
  9. Wicker Park
    The French original was a clever Hitchcock homage with a murder at its center. For reasons unknown, the murder plot has been dropped from the remake (though a few confusing traces of it remain), which leaves Wicker Park without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot.
  10. Paparazzi
    Amazingly arrogant, immoral film.
  11. Touch of Pink
    Except for the piquant garnish of Mr. MacLachlan, the movie, written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid, is barely a cut above an amateur production. The attempts at humor fizzle, and the performances are wooden and overstated.
  12. Fat Albert
    In Fat Albert, that trademark is resurrected to depressingly diminished ends.
  13. Spanglish
    Mr. Sandler has a solid, fumbling likability, without which Spanglish would be not merely annoying but despicable in its slick complacency.
  14. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Mr. Marshall, is not much of a film director. Depending on the budget, his movies look either cheap (like this one) or studio slick ("Pretty Woman"), and tend to have the same flat, presentational visual style that's familiar from most sitcoms.
  15. Blade: Trinity
    A choppy, forgetful, suspense-free romp that substitutes campy humor for chills.
  16. Barb Wire
    Isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments.
  17. High School High
    There's not much sense to the plot. But the film makers' blunderbuss approach to humor, with visual and verbal jokes coming in profusion and scattering high and low, guarantees that just about every funnybone is bound to be hit, some more than once.
  18. The Mask
    An astonishingly lazy and perfunctory effort that does little to realize his (Carrey) comic potential.
  19. Feeling Minnesota
    No film winds up with a name like Feeling Minnesota if it has anything definite in mind.
  20. Billy Madison
    It succeeds as a reasonably smart no-brainer. If you've ever had a yen to relive the third grade, this must be the next best thing.
  21. Murder at 1600
    Directed by Dwight Little of "Free Willy 2," and written by onetime high school classmates, Wayne Beach and David Hodgin (Mr. Hodgin died in 1995), Murder at 1600 eagerly invokes other films and stock images without showing much style of its own.
  22. Bonnie and Clyde
    It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
  23. Excess Baggage
    Ms. Silverstone's pouty all-American brashness counts for little in a film whose flat screenplay doesn't give her a single funny line.
  24. Prefontaine
    But even after the documentary affectation gives way to a more conventional narrative, the film has trouble ringing true.
  25. Phenomenon
    A whopping wrong turn throws this lightweight, benign-looking movie terminally off course.
  26. Star Trek: First Contact
    The series now lacks all of its original stars and much of its earlier determination. It has morphed into something less innocent and more derivative than it used to be, something the noncultist is ever less likely to enjoy.
  27. Dangerous Minds
    False and condescending films in this genre are nothing new, but Dangerous Minds steamrollers its way over some real talent.
  28. Congo
    This glib, overheated film about vicious primates delivers little suspense, nor are there signs of the 65 cited volumes and articles that turned Mr. Crichton's book into such a learning experience.
  29. Guarding Tess
    Having introduced the two principals and had some fun with their antagonism, the film has nowhere to go.
  30. Ever After
    Veering wildly between farce and suds, the movie never makes up its mind whether it's a spoof, a soap opera or a feminist pep talk.
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