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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. Fire Down Below
    The supporting cast is stocked with far better actors than Seagal -- Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton and Stephen Lang among them -- and country music personalities ranging from Mark Collie, Levon Helm, Randy Travis and Travis Tritt to Loretta Lynn's twin daughters Patsy and Peggy, to whom Seagal's character makes some vaguely suggestive remarks.
  2. Deep Impact
    A three-hankie weeper in disaster-movie drag, and its tear-jerking bull's-eyes are separated by long stretches of tedium.
  3. Shark Tale
    One soggy, charmless heap of chum.
  4. Bride of the Wind
    The movie fails to make Alma a vivid presence -- She deserves better, and so do viewers.
  5. Racing Stripes
    Bland family comedy.
  6. The Sixth Sense
    Buried deep inside this ponderous, repetitive psychological thriller is a fantastic half-hour "Twilight Zone" episode.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Village of the Damned
    VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED projects the most basic of human terrors: the fear of group power overtaking individual will is expressed in the children as well as in the government and medical establishment which intervene in the realm of the body by manipulating reproductive decisions.
  8. Full Frontal
    Though some individual scenes crackle, overall the film feels unfocussed and flabby, like a series of acting improv exercises strung together.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
    WELCOME HOME ROXY CARMICHAEL is less a movie than it is an example of what the studios refer to as "product," the kind of toothless comedy that features big stars in frenetic and forgettable farces.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Smoke Signals
    Alexie, who adapted his own novel, bears responsibility for the movie's ham-fisted treatment of racial-identity issues, its tiresome jokes and the dated, throbbing-guitar soundtrack.
  11. Bringing Out the Dead
    Falls far short of its grim potential.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Abandon
    The story's rhythm is so bogged down in unnecessary characterization that the film can hardly breathe.
  13. The Truth About Charlie
    Where "Charade" unfolds in a fantasy Paris full of glamorous white people, Demme's film takes place in a gray tangle of streets teeming with multi-ethnic Parisians. Newton and Robbins mimic Hepburn and Matthau, while Wahlberg is the anti-Grant, lumpen and thuggish rather than beguilingly debonair.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Thinner
    Halloween makes fright fans even more tolerant than usual of second-rate horror pictures, and this one still doesn't cut the mustard.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
    Against the odds, this horror series (initially based on a Stephen King short story) has actually improved over time to the point where this third installment is a creditable if far-fetched chiller.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    3 Ninjas Kick Back
    You don't have to be aligned with the forces of evil to despise this infantile, obnoxious sequel to 1992's surprisingly enjoyable 3 NINJAS.
  17. The Time Machine
    They STILL didn't get it right this TIME.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Swimming with Sharks
    For everyone who's just dying to know (and can't guess) what it's like to work for Joel Silver, Hollywood mega-producer and notorious egomaniac, Silver's former assistant George Huang has fashioned this mean-spirited revenge comedy. Kevin Spacey is awe-inspiring as the Silver-esque Buddy Ackerman; Frank Whaley is his wimpy whipping boy.
  19. Small Voices
    The end is hardly in doubt, since this sweet-natured film treads a path worn smooth and hard by countless other tiny feet. Its message is as unimpeachable as it is familiar, differentiated from countless similar tales only by the Filipino setting.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    More American Graffiti
    Norton's screenplay is predictable and the film suffers from its fragmented narrative. Some interest is provided by an unusual visual approach: the various segments employ separate film processes and aspect ratios in an attempt to supply visual analogues for the characters' situations.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Testosterone
    While butching up their hero, Moreton and cowriter Dennis Hensley left out one key ingredient: charisma -- for all his macho swagger, the guy's unbearable.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    However stale the material, Lawrence's delivery remains perfect; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out, pandering palaver is actually funny.
  23. It Runs in the Family
    To an outsider, it's pretty thin stuff.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Three O'Clock High
    Obviously aware that he was hung out to dry with an awful script, director Phil Joanou tries to make up for this handicap with some startling camerawork. Much of it is overdone, but the result is one in which Joanou's visual style transcends the vapid script.
  25. Left Behind
    This picture's b-movie values probably play better on video than in theaters.
  26. Autumn in New York
    Weepy, overwrought love story.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cujo
    CUJO suffers from universally unsympathetic characters, and the dog is just not scary enough to maintain any interest. Significantly, the picture also lacks the sly humor that made ALLIGATOR so appealing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Other Side of the Street
    This poky and indifferently plotted film isn't much of mystery.
  29. Ice Princess
    The film's utterly predictable dialogue and plot developments will leave most viewers cold. Ice-struck preteens are, of course, the exceptions.
  30. Shower
    This gentle, slow-moving film contains some charming sequences but no new insights into the pleasures and burdens of family.
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