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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. Luster
    Relentlessly bright and superficial, even when the subject turns to self-destruction.
  2. The Code
    Probably should have stayed on a shelf back in Paris.
  3. Head Over Heels
    Exists in a realm beyond sense, and induces in the viewer a trancelike state, leaving the mind free to ponder the mysteries of the universe.
  4. Kedma
    But for all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy
  5. Don't Tempt Me
    An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy.
  6. Enough
    In the end you have to wonder why the highly reputed director Michael Apted ("Coal Miner's Daughter") and the gifted screenwriter Nicholas Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune") chose to go slumming in territory like this. They must have been offered wads of money to do the dirty job.
    • The New York Times
  7. Along Came a Spider
    Overplotted, hollow thriller.
  8. Saudate for the Future
    Despite its sociological tidbits and flashes of musical vitality, Saudade do Futuro never goes anywhere.
  9. My Baby's Daddy
    Having established its premise and set in motion an overloaded plot, the picture lurches this way and that, evoking more restlessness than laughter and more boredom than pathos.
  10. Civil Brand
    Before Civil Brand erupts into over-the-top melodrama (which is pretty early), it shows some interest in its characters, and in its less screechy moments the dialogue has the rough, bantering ring of actual speech.
  11. The Professional
    Lacks the sexy elan of "La Femme Nikita" and suffers from infinitely worse culture shock. [18 Nov 1994, p.C18]
  12. So Close
    With the exception of some of the battles, which have the angry desperation of Mr. Yuen's inspired martial-arts choreography, Close is a nominal effort.
  13. See Spot Run
    The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
  14. Mars Attacks!
    Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny an dmost often just flat.
  15. The Majestic
    The most indolent waste of screen time since Andy Warhol's marathon shot of the Empire State Building.
  16. End of Days
    Two ridiculous blood-soaked hours.
  17. Rugrats Go Wild
    There is little here to hold the attention of anyone older than 9. For families in search of entertainment, it may be time to find Nemo again.
  18. The Big Hit
    A high-concept, low-reward hodgepodge that mingles elaborate stunts and shootouts with stereotypical ethnic humor.
  19. Torque
    By Monday, Torque will look like a period piece with its expiration date, January 2004, prominently displayed. The inevitable movie-inspired video game will appear more realistic.
  20. Ghosts of Mars
    Like a zombie picture directed by one of the undead.
  21. Double Parked
    A modest but engaging mixture of comedy and drama that derives most of its energy from the performance of Callie Thorne.
  22. Ash Wednesday
    This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.
  23. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.
  24. Life or Something Like It
    The relentless upbeatness of Life or Something Like It wrecks the possibility of either real laughter or genuine pathos.
  25. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    The question remains: why work so hard to make something deliberately bad, when the world is hardly running a shortage of mediocre movies?
  26. Summer School
    The film's only bright idea is a duo named Chain Saw (Cameron) and Dave (Riley), who love horror films and instigate grisly but imaginative practical jokes, like pretending to be attacked by bunnies when the class makes a field trip to a petting zoo.
  27. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    Less a formal documentary than a rambling screed.
  28. Left Behind
    For all its intimations of fire and brimstone, the film isn't remotely frightening, and the high-school-level acting doesn't help.
  29. A Rumor of Angels
    As A Rumor of Angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum, not even Ms. Redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality.
  30. Angel Eyes
    The product is so synthetic it has only attitude where its heart ought to be.
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