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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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    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    DeepStar Six
    About 10 minutes into DEEPSTAR SIX, it becomes clear that the film is yet another uninspired variation on ALIEN. The mechanical screenplay and flat direction fail to build suspense, and the characters are routinely drawn. While the technical work, relying heavily on miniatures, is competent, the rendering of the monster is hardly worth the wait.
  2. Wedding Crashers
    Delivers 90 minutes of riotously funny raunch; unfortunately, its running time is closer to two hours.
  3. High Crimes
    Undermined by contrived suspense sequences, a pointless subplot involving Claire's flaky, trashy sister, and a formulaic thriller ending.
  4. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Exciting and well-shot.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    They Might Be Giants
    A strange movie that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Sentimental, biting, satirical, whimsical, and self-righteous, it begins with a romp at high speed, then goes straight into a hole from which it never emerges.
  6. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    The quality of the CGI-heavy special effects is variable and Nomura's fey performance as Seimei gives his relationship with Hiromasa a distinctly homoerotic cast that may or may not be intentional, but the demon zombies and Doson's cackling familiar are crowd pleasers.
  7. Gone in 60 Seconds
    Amateurish, badly acted and shot on the cheap (many sequences don't even have sync sound), this cult item features a 40-minute car chase (almost half the film's running time) that's nothing short of breathtaking, particularly in light of the obvious budgetary constraints.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shall We Dance?
    It addresses issues of stultifying routine and the small crises of middle-aged life, and deserves credit for not obscuring the simple story with a flurry of smoke and mirrors.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Terminal Man
    An aimless and unexciting science-fiction story about a computer scientist, Segal, who undergoes brain surgery and is transformed into a maniacal murderer.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Black Moon Rising
    Director Cokliss directs in a workmanlike manner, but his action scenes are unimaginatively handled and lack pizzazz. Luckily, his cast is almost strong enough to make up for it.
  11. Spartan
    David Mamet's political thriller about the disappearance of the president's daughter is an unsatisfying slipknot of a film -- it looks tight and elaborate, but give it a tug and it goes flat.
  12. A Knight's Tale
    This brazen mix of old and new is undermined by the predictable story, shallow characterizations and a dopey sense of humor.
  13. Price of Glory
    Despite excellent performances all around, the actors can't overcome the script's limitations.
  14. Blow Dry
    The result is formulaic, shamelessly manipulative and surprisingly watchable.
  15. Double Take
    There's so much going on it's hard to keep track, and after a while you may be tempted to give up.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Johnny Mnemonic
    Keanu Reeves plays a "courier" with a lot of top-secret data stashed in his brain; it's clearly interfering with his minimal acting capabilities, causing several moments of unintentional (but welcome) humor.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fisher King
    The script never resolves the different levels on which it tries to operate, and also throws in too many loose ends which never get cleared up.
  18. Step Into Liquid
    Surfing isn't inherently service to humanity; it's a sport whose grace and athleticism Brown captures thrillingly, and that should be enough.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kicking and Screaming
    First-time director Noah Baumbach seems to have learned everything he knows about the world from MTV, and his style suggests that he's taken a lot of notes at Whit Stillman and Hal Hartley pictures.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Green Dragon
    The downside is that many of these characters are hastily sketched and their stories unsatisfactorily developed.
  21. Ravenous
    An eccentric historical horror tale whose blackly comic tone wavers distracting.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As Good as It Gets
    An overstatement. The movie's too long, and the direction is sometimes slack -- but the script is crammed with withering ripostes, ably delivered by Nicholson and Hunt.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bride of Re-Animator
    The movie almost seems the same as the Bride herself--begun with all the correct parts, but eventually self-destructing. Before it falls apart, however, The Bride of Re-Animator does still have time for a number of clever, outrageous bits.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Casino Royale
    A mess. Casino Royale is two hours and eleven minutes of non sequitur.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Hey, Happy!
    Clearly, it's not for everyone. Extra points for a great electronic soundtrack, striking widescreen cinematography and an unapologetically freaky attitude.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Two Mules for Sister Sara
    This western almost makes the grade as high-quality moviemaking, but just never quite gets there.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Tarzan
    The result is a confused mess of mixed signals that substitutes a brutal climax for any kind of satisfactory resolution. Parents should be warned about the frequent gunfire and a grisly death by hanging.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Considering that Disney couldn't help but trash Victor Hugo's novel in the process of reforming it for tender young sensibilities, this animated adaptation of his Notre Dame de Paris is pricklier and more disturbing than we had any right to expect.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Heaven Can Wait
    There are a few laughs from Grodin and Cannon, but Beatty and Christie are like 400-pound gorillas chasing a milkweed seed. The more Beatty concentrates, the more glazed and distracted he looks.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Oh, God!
    Reiner does one of his best directing jobs and never resorts to some of the silliness he's demonstrated in other films. Denver is very affable and could have had a good movie career given the right material.
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