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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. East Is East
    Mixes broad humor with a surprisingly subtle portrait of a family pulled in a bewildering variety of directions.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pretty Woman
    The silly script lurches from one jarring, implausible moment to another, and Marshall directs like he was wearing earplugs and boxing gloves on the set.
  3. Stuart Little 2
    Stuart and Margolo are genuine marvels of computer generated special effects, each feather, whisker and strand of fur beautifully rendered. But they're bland and rather boring characters, dumbed down for kids.
  4. Looking for Kitty
    Never adds up to much of anything.
  5. The Return
    London-born director Asif Kapadia's second feature, following 2001's critically acclaimed "The Warrior," is a slow, low-key supernatural thriller whose story is too slender to justify its feature-length running time.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Land That Time Forgot
    The special effects are unrealistic, as are the dialog and performances. However, despite everything, the picture still makes for great fun.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fury
    The film bogs down, however, because of De Palma's penchant for technically slick but overblown action scenes that call attention to themselves as virtuoso set pieces instead of advancing the narrative.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    George Washington
    Stylized to the point of poetry.
  9. The Shaggy Dog
    Crafting this crude, noisy remake of Disney's first live-action comedy required the labor of no fewer than five screenwriters.
  10. Memory
    Stylish and twisty, but not clever enough to support its more outrageous plot machinations.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Unicorn
    This animated children's film focuses on a unicorn and her mission to free the rest of her breed from the tyranny of an evil king.
  12. S.W.A.T.
    Actor-turned-director Clark Johnson uses the flashy, up-to-the-minute editing and camera stunts action fans expect, but keeps the mayhem on a recognizably human scale — it's big, but not insanely overblown.
  13. Mighty Joe Young
    Joe himself is an amazing creation, less personable, to be sure, than the original lovelorn King Kong, but a far more fully realized character than any of the flesh and blood humans by whom he's surrounded.
  14. Something's Gotta Give
    A whiz at crafting conventional Hollywood screenplays, Meyers's direction is overreliant on close-ups and medium shots; there's no life to any of the images. Still, the film coasts along smoothly on the charisma of its stars.
  15. The Patriot
    Undeniably handsome..., but no cliché is left unturned, right down to the spray of toy soldiers falling from the hand of a dead child. Everything old isn't new again.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Outta Time
    Routine thriller.
  17. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    As provocative as Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," but nowhere near as engaging.
  18. The Longest Yard
    Sandler's performance is aimed squarely at the fans who love his smarty-pants man-boy shtick and Rock gets off some funny lines, but overall this is one dreary, formulaic slog through sports-movie cliches.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mighty Joe Young
    Though produced by the same people responsible for the classic King Kong, Mighty Joe Young is a pale imitation.
  20. Kill Me Later
    The film's liabilities include Lustig's excessive reliance on flashy editing, tacky special effects and a blaring alterna-rock soundtrack that's used to make the characters' thoughts and motivations painfully obvious. Among its assets are the clever premise and generally appealing performances.
  21. Gods and Generals
    By the film's finale the descent into unintentional parody is all but complete, with a big death scene for Jackson complete with an angelic choir on the soundtrack -- the surprise is that they aren't singing "Dixie."
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Man of the House
    And if you can't figure out who [the bad guy] is the minute he first appears, you've either seen too few movies with mind-numbingly predictable plots or you've seen far too many.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    As the barbaric Montgomery, who helps bring out the beast in the beast-men, Val Kilmer raids the closet of sinister mannerisms and tries them all on for size. Poor David Thewlis is in another movie entirely.
  24. The Kid
    Manipulative but fitfully entertaining "Twilight Zone"-ish comedy of redemption.
  25. Clouds
    It has the air of a particularly accomplished student film, by a student whose philosophical concerns outweigh his interest in narrative filmmaking.
  26. Joe Somebody
    The picture is nearly stolen, however, by co-star Greg Germann (of TV's Ally McBeal) in the role of Joe's company's resident corporate weasel. Germann's squinty-eyed insincerity is truly a marvel to behold, and it's an astringent corrective to the film's rather too frequent feel-good passages.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mulholland Falls
    Everything looks fabulous, but the fight scenes are stagy, the dialogue stilted, the characters underdeveloped and the tone superficially cynical.
  28. Against the Ropes
    Even by the standards of pop-moral parables passing for entertainment, this is bland stuff.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Envy
    Levinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he serves up sloppy schtick, dead spots filled with lame ad-libbing and Walken crooning "The Happy Wanderer."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beaches
    This interminable melodrama purports to be a warm, humorous, and moving look at the relationship of two women over the course of 30 years. In reality BEACHES is a trite, maudlin, and terribly superficial effort of the sub-made-for-TV quality, an insult to anyone who has ever befriended another human being.
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