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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    The film is painfully boring and funny in the wrong places.
  2. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama -- the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not.
  3. Trekkies
    It is probably hopeless in the presence of Trekkies to do anything but sit back -- amused, bemused and astonished -- and watch the devotions of fans of the various incarnations of "Star Trek."
  4. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Uninspired Update, Unintentional Laughs.
  5. Baby Geniuses
    One way to get through Baby Geniuses is to think about whether it really is the worst movie you've ever seen. Probably not, but pretty darn close.
  6. The Corruptor
    The movie may be a conventional story of police corruption, temptation and conflicting loyalties, but it never loses its smarts.
  7. With Friends Like These...
    Originally released seven years ago on home video, is only now surfacing as a theatrical release. Although it's no classic, it's a cut or two smarter than the average Hollywood comedy. At its best, it plays like a less acerbic, less Jewish triple episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (review of re-release)
  8. Analyze This
    As he demonstrated in "Groundhog Day," Ramis knows how to handle a high-concept story with unusual cleverness, and he does it again here. It helps to no end that De Niro and Crystal, despite their obvious differences, are perfectly in tune.
  9. Cruel Intentions
    You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.
  10. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The punchy little flourishes that load this English gangster film with attitude are perfectly welcome, because there's no honest, substantial part of the movie they can hurt.
  11. The School of Flesh
    Watching this handsomely filmed, deftly edited but rather dry movie, you keep imagining the juice that a director like Pedro Almodovar could have squeezed out of the same story.
  12. 20 Dates
    It must be said that Berkowitz's shamelessness and persistence aren't inevitably irresistible.
  13. 200 Cigarettes
    Gathers a partyful of young players and barely gives them enough of a story line to puff on, but it gets by on personality anyhow.
  14. The Other Sister
    What redeems the film…are its three outstanding performances.
  15. 8MM
    Schumacher almost invariably breathes more life into his material than he has here. It's a lot easier to tick off the forced, farfetched touches in Eight Millimeter than to count the ones that ring true.
  16. Office Space
    It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum. Its conspiratorial eager beavers are so undeveloped that they could hardly even be called types. You don't care for a second what happens to them.
  17. October Sky
    Despite its "based on a true story" opening credit, this earnest, nostalgic film has a way of seeming too good to be true.
  18. Jawbreaker
    The film's bright look and visual energy are much more liberating than the machinations of its teen queens.
  19. Blast from the Past
    Fortunately, the Webber shelter is a jaunty monument to kitsch, and the Webbers themselves are an appealingly batty crew.
  20. Message in a Bottle
    Garret is played by Kevin Costner, who should avoid all future roles that call for overalls and goggles and who this time crosses the line from teasingly laconic to stodgy.
  21. My Favorite Martian
    Travel from Mars to Earth is an amazing feat, but not much more remarkable than reviving a sitcom that had been dead for a third of a century.
  22. 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.
  23. Payback
    What one word might best describe Payback? How about "loathsome"?
  24. She's All That
    She's All That is essentially a formulaic comedy, but it has enough glimmerings of originality and wit to make you wish it were much bolder and funnier than it turns out to be.
  25. Gloria
    A smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing version of the 1980 John Cassavetes film of the same title.
  26. Children of Heaven
    In Children of Heaven, life is sweet despite countless hardships, and no reality beyond the economic intrudes upon a fairy tale atmosphere. Only through heavy-handed emphasis does the quest for new sneakers take on any greater meaning.
  27. Playing by Heart
    For all its artificiality, Playing by Heart percolates with an earnest charm.
  28. Virus
    As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
  29. Varsity Blues
    A paint-by-numbers story that offers no surprises and a hero and villain etched in white and black with few shades of gray.
  30. At First Sight
    The pace is so plodding and the dialogue so unwaveringly banal … that the film can't rise to the extraordinary sensations it means to capture.
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