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For 3,944 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Les Misérables
Lowest review score: 0 The Limits of Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,102 out of 3944
  2. Mixed: 1,197 out of 3944
  3. Negative: 645 out of 3944
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  1. The Other Woman
    Lest my own reaction be misconstrued, let me explain that I didn't like a single one of these insufferable narcissists, the kid included.
  2. The Love Guru
    The road taken by The Love Guru could hardly be lower, and leads nowhere.
  3. Greed
    The film isn’t funny at all. It’s so didactic and dislikable that it took me a while to realize humor wasn’t its main goal.
  4. Henry Fool
    I found it insufferably fatuous and damned near interminable. [26 Jun 1998]
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Cocktail
    This one could bring back Prohibition.
    • Wall Street Journal
  6. Blacklight
    Blacklight isn’t much of a title. At the very least, though, it provides a useful hint that the movie isn’t much either. One could even argue that it’s not a movie at all, only a rusted-out recycling bin of ill-fitting themes, notions, poses, conventions, affectations, tropes, tropelets and inert snippets of dialogue from other movies.
  7. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    One of the strongest arguments yet for making sequels illegal.
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  8. Speed Racer
    This toxic admixture of computer-generated frenzy and live-action torpor succeeds in being, almost simultaneously, genuinely painful -- the esthetic equivalent of needles in eyeballs -- and weirdly benumbing, like eye candy laced with lidocaine.
  9. Youth
    From early on my strong desire was for this horribly pretentious phantasmagoria to be over.
  10. In Secret
    Whatever possessed the people who made this film to believe its ponderous style would appeal to contemporary audiences? One answer may lie in a variant of the mostly true proposition that no one sets out to make a bad film. No one chooses ponderousness as a goal; it comes unbidden, with deadly earnestness.
  11. View from the Top
    All the same, it's a feat to find the lowest common denominator at 40,000 feet; View From the Top would be perfect as the first in-flight offering of the new Hooters airline.
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  12. My Boss's Daughter
    Moronic. idiotic. Insulting. Pathetic. But enough with the sweet talk.
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  13. Love the Coopers
    Watching this film is like being trapped inside a snow globe — no air, no warmth, no life — while the death of drama unfolds.
  14. Jumper
    Jumper, based on the novel by Steven Gould, re-defines -- downward -- the notion of dreadful. It does so by dispensing with everything a movie needs for a shot at being merely awful. Dramatic development? None. Entertaining dialogue? Ditto. Internal logic? Puhleez. Intriguing characters? No characters, thus no intrigue. Interesting performances? Essentially none, though with an asterisk.
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