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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Phone Booth
    Bogus on every level, right down to its half-hearted trick ending.
  2. All the Queen's Men
    Rarely has a movie worked so hard to be so inconsequential.
  3. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
    The heads may be dead, but at least they have a comical look.
  4. Lucky Numbers
    A weak-witted comedy.
  5. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Mr. Baldwin's attack -- there's no better way to put it -- is unforgettable. He's the first shrunken narrator with a serial killer's swagger.
  6. The Hunted
    The stripped-down narrative is almost an apology for the ludicrous story -- but it's just not enough of one.
  7. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion, nor the sense of humor necessary to turn the deliberate clichés into effective satire.
  8. Soul Survivors
    There is an explanation for everything, but it is a long time coming and not worth the wait.
  9. The Very Thought of You
    The story is a clever sitcomy contraption, the dialogue is pedestrian.
  10. 54
    Years from now, if Mark Christopher's timid, meandering film 54 is spoken of at all, it will probably be lumped together with Whit Stillman's ''Last Days of Disco'' as one of two movies released in 1998 to bungle the same opportunity.
  11. Eban and Charley
    The picture is so predictable that the bad acting becomes a distraction.
  12. Bringing Down the House
    High-school cafeteria soup has more flavor than this bland, tepid throwback.
  13. Here on Earth
    Still never having to say you're sorry.
  14. 15 Minutes
    It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.
  15. The Jungle Book 2
    Drab and unenticing.
  16. Serving Sara
    With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity.
  17. Stigmata
    (Patricia Arquette's) irritated reactions to her dire situation have all the force of a pet owner's whiny complaints when her feline refuses to use the cat box.
  18. Looking for an Echo
    Corny, suds-drenched movie. The kindest way of looking at this roughly patched-together story is as the cinematic equivalent of the music it memorializes.
  19. Tomcats
    Desperately, depressingly in thrall to the Farrelly formula.
  20. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
  21. Bless the Child
    A supernatural soap opera.
  22. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    This bloated spectacle has all the get-up-and-go of one of the legendary late-era Elvis Presley concerts. The picture feels longer than Presley's career and as irrelevant as he was by the end.
  23. Loser
    In the end, Loser disappoints.
  24. Species II
    In the spring a monster's fancy lethally turns to thoughts of lust. This thought, reduced to a level contemptuous of taste and reasonable intelligence, underlies Species II.
  25. Make a Wish
    If Make a Wish is meant to be a parody, it lacks one essential element: humor. If it's meant to be a horror movie, it lacks the corresponding qualities of shock and suspense. It's almost enough to make "Friday the 13th" look like a masterpiece. Almost.
  26. Third World Cop
    Shot in smeary video, it sports the static, by-the-book camera work of a daytime soap-opera.
  27. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    As the movie methodically plods forward on a screenplay (by Shawn Slovo) consisting entirely of clichés and watered-down exposition, it becomes sadly apparent that its only reliable asset is the gorgeous view.
  28. Dead or Alive
    A soulless compilation of thrills.
  29. A Guy Thing
    Most of the meager charms of the chaotic romantic farce A Guy Thing spring from the deft comic contortions of Hollywood's ultimate nerdy sidekick, Jason Lee.
  30. Cabin Boy
    All this is bizarre without being funny. [7 Jan 1994, p.C12]
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