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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. A Bird of the Air
    The cast detracts, too: Fiona, a flighty loner in the book, is a grating twit in Nichols's hands, and Hurst, while likeable, is flat and too hunky. The bird's got more charisma, which in a better movie would've been the point.
  2. Breaking the Girls
    A decently acted, often drolly funny, tautly directed thriller that proves to be a Russian doll of motivations, coincidences, and plot-twists; it would have been more satisfying if it weren't so unnecessarily convoluted.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Holy Man
    Holy Man's traipse through the wilds of consumerism and higher purpose must have seemed like a chance for the proverbial stretch, but not even Eddie can save this ill-conceived mess of a movie.
  4. Burnt
    The movie gets duller and less focused as it wears on.
  5. Three Worlds
    An overdrawn soap opera about everyone's simultaneous fear of and longing for consequences.
  6. Let It Snow
    An inert and inept romantic comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Two Weeks Notice
    So busy rehashing rom-com clichés that it shirks the genitive, prelude to other flaws.
  8. Psycho Beach Party
    The viewer is left to ponder the number of levels on which this counts as a pointless exercise -- a parody of parodic movies, a deconstruction of transparent genres, a self-negatingly knowing example of camp.
  9. Jurassic Park III
    Drama is minimal and character nonexistent.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The 13th Warrior
    A well-marbled, albeit derivative, slab of action-movie man meat.
  11. Bad Samaritan
    There’s frightfully little atmosphere to this film — anything from creepy sound design to evocative cinematography — rendering the flaws in the story all too visible.
  12. Wedding Palace
    Yoo's broadly drawn characters are less ha-ha funny than endearingly over-the-top, their exaggerated mannerisms rooted in fondness as much as mockery.
  13. Celebrity
    The Allen persona has always blurred the distinction between his art and his life. Still, one would scarcely expect Allen's attempt to satirize daily life in the National Entertainment State to be this tired, sour, and depressed.
  14. Daddy's Home
    The performers are all skilled enough to make something of this tired material.
  15. Mighty Fine
    The mood is generally melodramatic and ends as mushy, aided by the soft-focus cinematography that drenches it all in melancholic nostalgia.
  16. The English Teacher
    A respectable cast and much noisy boisterousness isn't enough to generate a single laugh.
  17. Bicentennial Man
    Amid the complacent self-congratulation...is a bizarre reactionary bent.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Event
    Shot on crummy DV and told via flashbacks, the film largely plays out like a Reagan-era "Citizen Kane." Common sense wrecks even the film's funniest bit, and the director's nausea-inducing camera observes the hysteria in perpetual pan-and-scan.
  19. The Rage: Carrie 2
    A smart, realist drama -- I wouldn't be surprised if this one winds up on my 10-best list for '99.
  20. The Affair of the Necklace
    L'affaire du collier was a convoluted palace intrigue that Shyer and screenwriter John Sweet don't bother to unpack, crafting instead an endless illustrated Harlequin paperback of mawkish backstory and corset-popping purple prose.
  21. Vampires
    A gorefest of epic proportions.
  22. The Stepford Wives
    Almost desperate to show it gets its own point. What's funny is that the joke--"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" reconfigured as anti-feminist backlash--was scarcely fresh when Bryan Forbes shot the first movie version nearly 30 years ago.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anna
    Taissa Farmiga (sister of Vera) is a marvel in the title role.
  24. Viva la Libertà
    From Dave to The Dictator, politicians-replaced-by-doppelgängers has long been a favorite comedy movie device — yet never has it been employed for more torturous faux-funny business than in Viva la Libertà.
  25. American Hero
    The filmmakers blend tones like a child mixing fountain drinks into one unidentifiable flavor.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Magic Christian
    For Southern to be funny at all, jokes must be carried too far and decorum exploded at every turn. Even if McGrath were inclined to handle the material this way, mush of it has dated, and the screenplay by Southern, McGrath, and Peter Sellers does not so much update it as displace it. [26 Feb 1970, p.60]
    • Village Voice
  27. Austenland
    The ending is a bit of an audience-pleasing cop-out, a retreat into formula after 80 minutes or so of upending it. But those upendings are memorable, the cast dishy fun, and Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale's breeze of a script (based on Hale's novel) is smart about the allure of fictional romances.
  28. Under the Electric Sky
    Under the Electric Sky manages to be amusing even while it’s annoying you.
  29. The Great Wall
    As pure spectacle, The Great Wall is absolutely dazzling. It may be a studio release, but the constant sense of invention, the go-for-broke intricacy of its battle scenes, feels very much of a piece with Chinese action fantasy flicks.
  30. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    If The Marked Ones is mildly brilliant in the first half, it stumbles witlessly into its own dumb pentagram in the second.
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