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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. The Wedding Planner
    It's like watching two superbly conditioned rowers try to race a boat made of folded newspaper. Hard as they work, they just can't make it go any faster.
  2. Dead or Alive: Final
    The home-movie crudeness of Dead or Alive: Final indicates it was made on the cheap with minimal preparation.
  3. Wrong Turn
    Lazy would-be horror film.
  4. The Guru
    A grindingly conventional comedy that insists on tying up its subplots in pretty ribbons and bows.
  5. Jason X
    Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.
  6. The Score
    I don't know how much The Score cost, but it's pretty close to worthless.
  7. Veronica Guerin
    The end titles and the ones that introduce Veronica Guerin...are the most informative parts of the film, and also the most powerful. What comes between them is a flat-footed, overwrought crusader-against-evil melodrama, in which Ms. Blanchett's formidable gifts as an actress are reduced to a haircut and an accent.
  8. Predator
    Alternately grisly and dull, with few surprises.
  9. The Ladies Man
    Has some funny, dirty-minded jokes, a few amusing cameos (including Julianne Moore in clown makeup) and a soundtrack loaded with juicy cuts of mid-70's vintage soul and funk.
  10. Anatomy
    The movie, which is crudely dubbed into English, lacks the raucous, anything-for-a-shock carnival humor of its American prototypes. After it's over, the only question worth asking is whether dear, cozy old Heidelberg can survive the slander.
  11. Driven
    Even fans of open-wheel racing, the high-speed, high-stress pastime that is the subject of Renny Harlin's hectic new film, may walk away from it more logy than exhilarated.
  12. Rosenstrasse
    There's something unsettling when fiction exploits this history to such puny, self-interested ends.
  13. Freddy vs. Jason
    This dumb, only intermittently (though sometimes even intentionally) funny sequel presumes that since almost everything else from the 1980's has come back, why not the cynosures of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" movies?
  14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Rather than exhilaration, this bilious film offers only entrapment and despair. It's about as much fun as sitting in on an autopsy.
  15. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.
  16. Jawbreaker
    The film's bright look and visual energy are much more liberating than the machinations of its teen queens.
  17. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    The picture is a bland procession of loosely framed close-ups, which serve only to underline the amateurish performances.
  18. A Fish Called Wanda
    The dialogue reports funny things instead of showing them. The movie remains in a limbo halfway between the informed anarchy of Monty Python comedy stripped of all social and political satire, and the comparatively genteel comedy of "The Lavender Hill Mob." [15 July 1988, p.C8]
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  19. Secret Window
    This movie is a suspense thriller whose only suspense comes from an audience wondering if the picture will hit its promised 97-minute running time.
  20. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    The lip movements of the animated figures are slightly slow, so you feel as if you're watching a badly dubbed Japanese creature feature from the 1960's. The dialogue is almost as stilted, and after a while you drift into that half-dream state that inert movies can create.
  21. Merci Docteur Rey
    Strains to be the ne plus ultra of arch, hyper-sophisticated fun, but the laughs are few.
  22. Signs & Wonders
    Filled with voyeuristic shots as the camera peers through picket fences and windows and around corners; the film looks as if it were shot with a surveillance camera from a 7-Eleven
  23. Better Than Sex
    Imagine "Last Tango in Paris" remade as a wan, low-budget romantic comedy.
  24. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Sitting through the lavish and dumb action spectacular Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is about as much fun as watching someone else play a video game.
  25. The Hot Chick
    Rob Schneider runs an obstacle course of taste and emerges remarkably unsullied, considering the choices he faces.
  26. Catwoman
    A howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style.
  27. Timeline
    Doesn't have a genuinely human moment.
  28. Molly
    (Shue's) sweetly likable performance is the only coherent element in a film that has the impersonal feel of a television drama slapped together in a rush.
  29. Tears of the Sun
    Unfortunately, the movie's real setting is a sentimental fantasy world, and its story is a spectacularly incoherent exercise in geopolitical wish fulfillment.
  30. I Spy
    Even the handful of moments that are amusing feel recycled from old sketches of Mr. Murphy's.
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