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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. Seven
    Not even bags of body parts, a bitten-off tongue or a man forced to cut off a pound of his own flesh keep it from being dull.
  2. Taxi
    A bland, half-finished film that seems to have been conceived as off-peak cable fodder.
  3. Adored
    He's (Marco Filiberti) his own best audience, and Adored is best left to his own enjoyment.
  4. Max Keeble's Big Move
    This clunky juvenile comedy lurches among multiple story lines without fully realizing the comic potential of any.
  5. Dawn of the Dead
    The eventual video game is bound to be a lot more fun -- and less slowed down by bad dialogue -- than this "Dead."
  6. Man on Fire
    This is a time-tested movie con, but rarely has it been deployed so contemptibly.
  7. The Price of Milk
    The guiding philosophy of The Price of Milk seems to be that if you throw something on the screen and call it a fairy tale, it has to mean something. But it doesn't.
  8. Out Cold
    A ski party movie in which the clothes are a little more revealing than they were 35 years ago, the practical jokes are a little more tasteless, and the uncertainty over sex is pretty much nonexistent.
  9. The Aryan Couple
    The problem, as it is so often in well-intentioned movies of this kind, is that rather than illuminate the enormity of Nazism, The Aryan Couple trades upon our knowledge of it for emotional impact.
  10. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    The only thing missing is a coherent story -- or even, for that matter, an interesting idea for one.
  11. They Live
    Mr. Carpenter has directed the film with B-movie bluntness, but with none of the requisite snap. And his screenplay (written under the pseudonym Frank Armitage) makes the principals sound even more tongue-tied than they have to. [4 Nov 1988, p.C8]
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  12. Scary Movie 2
    This crude comedy delivers on the "No Shame, No Mercy" threats from the original. Unfortunately, it all adds up to "No Good."
  13. A Walk to Remember
    Proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie.
  14. The Forgotten
    In the preposterous thriller The Forgotten, a pseudospiritual, mumbo-jumbo, science-fiction inflected mess, the director Joseph Ruben does not just fail to tap into Ms. Moore's talent; he barely gets her attention.
  15. A Cinderella Story
    Even for a fairy tale, A Cinderella Story, directed by Mark Rosman from a screenplay by Leigh Dunlap, fails to make sense.
  16. Alexander
    This is the costliest, most logistically complex feature of the filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts, from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him.
  17. The 24th Day
    Mr. Piccirillo's direction reflects a basic knowledge of stagecraft but no discernable sense of filmmaking. The dull television-style close-ups march relentlessly across the screen, leaving only the ghostly trails of badly transferred video images behind.
  18. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    It's one of the rare films for which a blooper reel would be redundant.
  19. The Life of David Gale
    Tries to show it has its heart in the right place, but it's such a crude undertaking that it doesn't actually seem to have a heart at all.
  20. The One
    So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
  21. The Polar Express
    A grave and disappointing failure, as much of imagination as of technology.
  22. Surviving Christmas
    As you watch the comedy lurch along, the woozy, sinking sensation it produces suggests a movie slapped together after the consumption of far too many gallons of that spiked eggnog.
  23. The United States of Leland
    The real question raised by The United States of Leland is not why, but how. How, that is, did so many talented actors find their way to this dreary and derivative study in suburban dysfunction?
  24. Without a Paddle
    Pushes its ugly humor further than most.
  25. Cheaper by the Dozen
    A bubbling crockpot of farcical mush to warm the tummies of anyone who really and truly misses "The Brady Bunch," and I mean really and truly.
  26. Miller's Crossing
    Weightless. It is also, unfortunately, without much point at all... A movie of random effects and little accumulative impact.
  27. The Phantom of the Opera
    Lord Lloyd Webber's thorough acquaintance with the canon of 18th- and 19th-century classical music is not in doubt, but his attempt to force a marriage between that tradition and modern musical theater represents a victory of pseudo-populist grandiosity over taste - an act of cultural butchery akin to turning an aviary of graceful swans and brilliant peacocks into an order of Chicken McNuggets.
  28. Kazaam
    Memo to Shaquille O'Neal: Don't give up your night job.
  29. Kingpin
    The team that gave the world "Dumb and Dumber" returns with something feeble and feebler.
  30. Sleepers
    As directed by Barry Levinson and acted by an incredible collection of male stars, Sleepers settles the authenticity question by allowing not a whiff of real life into its universe.
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