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For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,963 out of 4670
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4670
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  1. Sleepwalkers
    Besides displaying a tin ear for dialogue, King stoops to such conventions as having the sleepwalkers vulnerable to just one thing - cat scratches. [13 Apr 1992, p.6D]
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  2. Balls of Fury
    Balls of Fury makes "Dodgeball" look like high art. It'll be tough to crack a smile, let alone laugh, during this uninspired and sophomoric satire of sports movies.
  3. Just Visiting
    No disinfectant could clean up this misbegotten, Americanized remake of "Les Visiteurs."
  4. Radio
    Though probably well-intentioned, Radio comes off as manipulative of its audience and exploitative of the mentally challenged.
  5. Never Die Alone
    Pulpy, fairly speedy but just the same old urban thing by its wrap-up.
  6. Ouija
    A deadly dull and overly familiar movie about summoning ghosts that draws upon nearly every horror movie cliché.
  7. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory.
  8. The November Man
    A predictable espionage thriller undercut further by loose ends left dangling, November Man is worth seeing only for Pierce Brosnan's dynamic lead performance.
  9. The Rite
    A flimsy, occasionally spooky demon tale.
  10. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    When have we seen the same performer playing both parts in a sexual situation? It happens here, not once but twice.
  11. Laws of Attraction
    With tangy Fisher equaling the leads in a sometimes scene-stealing role as Moore's mom, the actors emerge unscathed. Brosnan's part, in fact, is among the actor's most convincing non-Bond characters.
  12. Raising Helen
    Almost nothing about Raising Helen rings very true, other than the camera's crush on Kate Hudson.
  13. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    Starts out with promise but staggers under the weight of trying to take on too much. The tone is murky: The story attempts to blend adolescent angst with fantasy adventure, and the result is rather clunky.
  14. Sliver
    Stone is competent, if not commanding; as neighbor lovers, she and Baldwin have less chemistry than the Taster's Choice coffee couple. [21 May 1993, p.1D]
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  15. BASEketball
    Sports-satire misfire. [31 July 1998, p. 2E]
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  16. Think Like a Man Too
    Silly, unfunny and formulaic.
  17. August Rush
    Will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry.
  18. Free Birds
    Free Birds is pleasant enough holiday fare. And kudos to the animators for transforming a rather unattractive — or at least unappreciated — species into a cast of endearing characters.
  19. Girl Most Likely
    A failure from start to finish.
  20. The Astronaut's Wife
    Allen Daviau's cinematography is so striking that the movie would probably play better with the sound off.
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  21. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    At least 2 Fast is self-aware enough to know that it's trash, which is worth half a bonus point. Lack of pretension helps the viewer get over the fact that this is just another retread.
  22. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Has nothing remotely new or comical in its arsenal. In fact, this vacuous farce has nothing original to say about marriage, working parenthood, child-rearing or corporate America.
  23. Flubber
    Writer/producer John "Home Alone" Hughes, the Marquis de Sade of kidcom, and director Les Mayfield manage to squeeze the very bounce out of what should have been a can't-miss update. [26Nov1997 Pg09.D]
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  24. And So It Goes
    And So It Goes plays a little like the graying lounge act it honors: It's impressive for its age, though not altogether impressive.
  25. Navy Seals
    Navy SEALS no doubt fancies itself as being taken from today's headlines, but ''taken from the pages of a Chuck Norris script'' is more like it. [23 July 1990, p.2D]
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  26. Fools Rush In
    Hurried, harried. [14 February 1997, pg.D4]
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Scrooged
    Scrooged is so monumental a mess that even rabid Bill Murray fans - the ones who'll stand in line to see it despite critics' inevitable bashings - will wonder how it went so wrong. [23 Nov 1988, p. 9D]
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  28. A Dog of Flanders
    A mongrel of a movie.
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  29. The Medallion
    Longer on action than comedy. But with Chan's affable charm and stunning leaps, kicks and jumps, it's a good-natured and amusing spectacle.
  30. Don't Say a Word
    Don't say you weren't warned. There are instant clues that this ill-timed Michael Douglas vehicle is a dually unfortunate viewing experience.
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