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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. Sex with Strangers
    It's the element of condescension, as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch, that finally makes Sex With Strangers so distasteful.
  2. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    The film is painfully boring and funny in the wrong places.
  3. The Mod Squad
    Torturously boring.
  4. Down to You
    Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.
  5. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Not only is it excruciatingly boring -- but its central premises are so banal and dubious as to border on offensiveness.
  6. Boat Trip
    If Boat Trip were screened on a cruise ship, most of the passengers would be dog-paddling back to shore.
  7. Someone Like You...
    Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited.
  8. Extreme Ops
    Ops is too brain-dead to play the incognito war criminal segment for comedy, although when Will is seen thumbing through the pages of a newspaper called USA Daily, the picture has inadvertently tumbled down a Mad magazine wormhole.
  9. Screwed
    A confusedly misconceived hybrid of interracial buddy comedy and imitation Marx Brothers farce.
  10. The Core
    The cast of The Core deserve Oscar nominations just for being able to speak most of the lines without succumbing to the chortles.
  11. Valentine
    It feels like both a joke and a turkey.
  12. Dungeons & Dragons
    Take this as a warning: it's not much fun.
  13. Phantoms
    The movie's computer animation is so cut-rate and its direction (by Joe Chappelle) so slack that the attacks are virtually terror-free.
  14. Bully
    It's instructive to compare Bully with Jean-Pierre Ameris's "Bad Company," which tackles similar themes and manages to be explicit without stooping to cheap salaciousness. It's a genuinely disturbing film. Bully, in contrast, is merely disgusting.
  15. The Scorpion King
    As this chaotic barrage of muscle flexing, swordplay, fireballs, crude digital effects and comic-book quips hurls itself off the screen, it's like having several garbage cans clogged with stale pizza, lukewarm cola, soggy French fries and greasy, ketchup-stained napkins emptied over your head.
  16. Shadow Hours
    Tedious descent into cinema hell.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Whatever It Takes
    A thinly veiled "Cyrano," with the prom in mind.
  18. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Strands one of the most gifted casts assembled in some time. Sadly, though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear, they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction.
  19. The Sculptress
    So poorly written, badly acted and ineptly directed that it denies you even the modest pleasure of making fun of it.
  20. Snow Dogs
    Snow Dogs is, even by the standards of a tradition that includes "Son of Flubber" and "The Shaggy D.A.," remarkably inept.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Ready to Rumble
    Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it.
  22. Get Carter
    So minimally plotted that not only does it lack subtext or context, but it also may be the world's first movie without even a text.
  23. Half Baked
    Not very funny, intellignet or grippingly plotted, it is likely to appeal only to those who think that anything to do with marijuana - smoking, sharing, stealing or selling - constitutes the Everest of rip-roaring hilarity. [17 Jan 1998]
    • The New York Times
    • 15 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Wirey Spindell
    To say that this movie is true to life is only to say that it's banal, boring and confusing.
  25. The Other Side of Heaven
    What sets this syrupy swatch of kitsch apart from other films peddling a dogmatic religious agenda is the serious money that obviously went into it.
  26. Slackers
    So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun.
  27. Drowning Mona
    A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery.
  28. Coyote Ugly
    Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial.
  29. Phantom
    Both grueling and dull. Imagine (if possible) a Pasolini film without passion or politics, or an Almodóvar movie without beauty or humor, and you have some idea of the glum, numb experience of watching O Fantasma.
  30. The Postman
    Every truly awful movie epic has a point of no return, a moment when the accumulated bad lines and bogus sentimentality become so cloying that the best defense against a mounting queasiness is an awed amusement. The Postman, offers a new opportunity for levity every few minutes after its first hour.
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