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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. Lost & Found
    A rancid little nothing of a movie that baldly recycles plot elements of "There's Something About Mary."
  2. Gaudi Afternoon
    What should be a soufflé of gender-bending mischief is more like a bowl of oatmeal.
  3. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    May lead to a new axiom: success has many fathers, but failure has "Project Greenlight."
  4. Daddy Day Care
    You can't get more high-concept, or less plotted, than this, and Daddy Day Care is proof.
  5. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (re-release)
    The film falls far short of its goals, but it is a classic of sorts. It belongs in that Blockbuster on Mount Olympus, where pristine new copies of "I Changed My Sex," "Dracula's Dog," "Blackenstein" and "Battlefield Earth" play constantly.
  6. Final Destination
    Even by the crude standards of teenage horror, Final Destination is dramatically flat.
  7. Death to Smoochy
    There are a few laughs, but I'm not sure that a comedy is supposed to make you recoil, which is what "Smoochy" does.
  8. Don't Say a Word
    Confuses an empty and derivative stylistic bravura with formal cleverness, and a sterile, mechanistic sensationalism with emotional intensity.
  9. Impostor
    The ending is meant to be clouded with ambiguity, but really it is unequivocally happy because it means the movie is over.
  10. Detroit Rock City
    The cast never has much chance to shine. And the main attraction is kept all too understandably under wraps.
  11. Rat Race
    It lumbers from one scene to the next with the stop-and-start mistiming generally seen in the outtakes shown at the end of the "Cannonball Run" movies, which this picture resembles in spirit.
  12. Sweet November
    The film's last half-hour -- or do I mean its final two weeks? -- is meant to keep the audience sniffling and sobbing uncontrollably, but the only thing likely to elicit tears is the sight of Mr. Reeves dressed in a white dinner jacket crooning "Time After Time."
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    3 Strikes
    Feels like a very long late-night comedy sketch that occasionally veers beyond tastelessness toward something worse.
  14. Chooch
    Nice, but that doesn't mean the film is worth anyone's time besides those of their families, friends, neighbors and the nice man from Connecticut who let them use his restaurant.
  15. Dead Alive
    Because all of this looks blatantly unreal, and because the timing of the shock effects is so haphazard, Dead Alive isn't especially scary or repulsive. Nor is it very funny. Long before it's over, the half-hour-plus bloodbath that is the climax of the film has become an interminable bore. [12 Feb 1993, p.C16]
    • The New York Times
  16. View from the Top
    Ms. Paltrow is not the only star in the film who tries gamely to churn this cinematic glass of diluted skim milk into something resembling butter.
  17. Swordfish
    Turns into a meticulously choreographed bang-by-the-numbers action fantasy that I would accuse of peddling evil if the film weren't so dumb and incoherent.
  18. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    An empty, farcical blood bath that's virtually shock-free except for one preposterous plot twist.
  19. Never Again
    The movie, like its lovers, is really two films smushed together in the faint hope that sheer incongruity can grind out laughter.
  20. Stateside
    An unsalvageable mess.
  21. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Completed before the release of "American Beauty," this contrived, puffed up little picture nonetheless seems like a ripoff, perhaps because it mines the same tired assumptions and unexamined stereotypes about suburban family life.
  22. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Return of the Jedi doesn't really end the trilogy as much as it brings it to a dead stop. The film...is by far the dimmest adventure of the lot.
  23. Hulk
    The movie is bulky and inarticulate, leaving behind a trail of wreckage and incoherence.
  24. First Daughter
    Plays more like a nightmare than a dream, and an exceedingly unnerving one at that. Sam isn't just a prisoner of her parents' ambitions; like nearly everyone else in this film, she's a zombie, sleepwalking through life while Rome burns.
  25. P.S.
    What's disheartening is that an actress as fine as Ms. Linney has to endure the indignity of such excremental nonsense.
  26. The Center of the World
    In a culture apparently defined by lap dancing, ersatz architectural sublimity and the virtual contact of cyberspace, how do we know what is real? The Center of the World, for example, is as phony as can be.
  27. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.
  28. Double Take
    A shell game passing as entertainment.
  29. Suspect Zero
    Finally, a serial-killer movie so preposterous, so garnished with accidental laugh lines and absent essential narrative logic it may actually put a permanent kibosh on this tediously overworked crime subgenre. Here's hoping, at any rate.
  30. The Hillside Strangler
    Relentlessly unpleasant film.
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