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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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  1. Bittersweet Motel
    Clearly Phish's appeal is fundamentally experiential, and the experience doesn't lend itself to being captured on film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    By Hook or by Crook
    An appealing, if decidedly unconventional, buddy picture that seems to channel "Midnight Cowboy" while going its own quirky way.
  3. Heartbreakers
    While in her earlier movies Jennifer Love Hewitt made an impression by spilling out of her tops, in this one she spills out of her clothes at both ends. This could, if one were feeling charitable, be construed as a broadening of her range.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    An even sweeter and lighter whipped confection than "Legally Blonde," this hugely enjoyable sequel serves up a generous second helping of the ingredient that made the original such an irresistible hit.
  5. Ladder 49
    Swings wildly between heartstring-tugging melodrama, testosterone-fueled action and buddy comedy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Flight of the Phoenix
    The first-act crash is admittedly spectacular and the ending adequately suspenseful, but what comes between is disappointingly routine and completely lacks the kind character complexity that made the original a thrill every step of the way.
  7. The Architect
    LaPaglia and Davis deliver top-notch performances that go a long way toward offsetting the material's didacticism.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Mirror Crack'd
    Not as good as other Christie adaptations such as MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS or DEATH ON THE NILE, but still fun.
  9. Flyboys
    While the aerial dogfights are handsome and apparently historically accurate, right down to the tracer bullets that leave graceful, crisscrossing trails in the clouds, they have a video-game feel.
  10. Pushing Tin
    Contrived, meandering, clichéd and just plain preposterous.
  11. Swing Vote
    Hopelessly muddled film cries out for the firm hand of a dyed-in-the-wool cynic like Billy Wilder, who would have put some teeth in its jabs at amoral politicians and blindly ambitious journalists.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Choke
    Fine performances from Sam Rockwell and Brad William Henke deserve some passing attention.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Novo
    Despite its philosophical pretensions, the film is fairly lightweight, and its good-looking cast and sleek production values are more memorable than any of its heady themes.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Coming to America
    Although the fairy-tale script is as old as the motion picture industry itself, the resourceful cast of Coming to America brings freshness to the annoyingly cliched material. Unfortunately, Landis' inelegant direction nearly derails the film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    1492: Conquest of Paradise
    A lumbering journey that conveys none of the joy or mystery of exploration. Star Gerard Depardieu's unintelligible line readings and director Ridley Scott's murky mise-en-scene make it a hard film to hear and see, let alone like.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Prison
    An intriguing genre hybrid boasting a stronger than usual cast and excellent, atmospheric direction from Finnish newcomer Renny Harlin, Prison is an impressive piece of low-budget genre work.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Return of the Living Dead III
    The third entry in this uneven franchise is a straightforward, gruesome, and relatively successful exercise in disturbing frights.
  18. Where the Truth Lies
    Egoyan drains the life right out of the material, and the result is a chilly, complicated thriller that's neither thrilling nor a "Through the Looking Glass" head spinner.
  19. The Next Big Thing
    Though smartly written and handsomely produced (the film's visual polish is remarkable, given its modest budget and the swanky settings the story dictates), this film would benefit greatly from more bite.
  20. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Some brilliant human moments do emerge, and there's nothing wrong with a reminder to live life in harmony, and not to beat yourself up.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Where's Marlowe?
    This smart spoof of film noir and filmmaking is very clever and riotously funny.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    It's a conspiracy theory worthy of "The X-Files."
  23. The Shipping News
    Everything has a fusty, embalmed quality: Whatever gave the novel its vitality has been smothered.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Luther
    Corny and irritatingly simplistic though this fast-paced biography of 16th-century German religious reformer Martin Luther may be, it's undeniably entertaining.
  25. The Last Shot
    Nathanson processes this pungent stew of greed, ambition and self-delusion into pablum so sweet and bland it wouldn't shock a convent-raised idealist.
  26. Shall We Dance
    Only Lopez, the film's ostensible star, seems to be struggling; she's a lovely dancer, but the only reason Lopez's expressionless performance isn't this sweet picture's downfall is that the script makes so few demands on her.
  27. Who Killed Bambi?
    The truly creepy thing is that there's no bizarre, COMA-like conspiracy behind the malfeasance, just an awful betrayal of trust -- the kind of thing that sends an icy, paranoid chill through the blood just as the anesthetic takes hold.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    I Am David
    While probably not suitable for the wee ones, older kids and most adults will love this exciting and heartfelt adventure of one boy's survival during the darkest days of post-war Europe.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Trouble with Men and Women
    Charming, if slight, Venus-and-Mars romantic comedy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hiding Out
    Cryer does an admirable job of pulling off both ages, and Coogan is even better just playing one. Director Bob Giraldi gives it all a good deal of energy, especially in the first part, shot in a gray and ominous New York that takes on new menace under Giraldi's slick visual style.
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