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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Brings bite as well as bark to the funnier sequel.
  2. The Apostle
    Reminded me somewhat of Archibald MacLeish's famous line that a poem "should not mean but be." That's the reality of The Apostle: It does not mean, it simply is.
  3. Buffalo Soldiers
    The highest accomplishment of Buffalo Soldiers is its wise invocation of that weirdest of all precincts, the post, and the odd culture it spawns.
  4. Joe Somebody
    It's not great; it's also not idiotic.
  5. Maestro
    Maestro is for people already aware of this history. For everyone else, this is pretty much invitation-only.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stone Reader
    Like the novel, the film is occasionally overwrought and overwritten.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hard Ball
    It is only when Reeves meets up with his incredibly cute baseball team that this movie comes to life.
  8. Field of Dreams
    Everything from time travel to melodrama figures in this whimsically daft story, a romanticization that tries your patience even as your tear ducts well.
  9. Like Mike
    Sappy but sweet B-ball Cinderella story that succeeds thanks largely to the outsize charm of its 4-foot-8-inch, corn-rowed protagonist.
  10. The Missing
    Ron Howard somehow makes a great movie and an awful movie, all at the same time.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nowhere in Africa
    What rescues the film is Gernot Roll's spare, almost aesthetic cinematography, and the quality of the acting.
  12. Kingdom Come
    You're hard-pressed to dislike the film.
  13. Up at the Villa
    Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella.
  14. Timecode
    But for all the meta-movie excitement, the content danced somewhere between mildly interesting and moderately enjoyable.
  15. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Wuornos was unambiguous about one thing: She wanted to die. In the end, that's the only assurance the movie provides. It's an odd kind of closure for her and for us.
  16. The Princess Blade
    It suffers from a dreary middle section. Great movie, mediocre script.
  17. Frida
    Ultimately, the movie's biggest crime is its inability to convey the delicate, damaged texture of Kahlo's life, but also the triumph of her will over intimidating defeat.
  18. Train of Life
    Less-than-scintillating spin on "Life Is Beautiful."
  19. Men in Black II
    The only active ingredient is the dynamic between Smith and Jones. There's just enough of that to get us through.
  20. Serving Sara
    Folks, I think I'm speaking for all of us when I say this is pretty darn fine American entertainment
  21. The Grey Zone
    Jagged, unrelenting, claustrophobically intimate.
  22. Basic Instinct
    What isn't so fascinating is this movie's absurdity of motivation. No one does anything that makes sense. No one seems real. When the actual perpetrator is uncovered, there is no enlightenment as to why the killing occurred.
  23. Men in Black
    The movie, which is based on the Lowell Cunningham comic book series, throws out some wonderful implications, but they’re frustratingly few and far between.
  24. K-PAX
    Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.
  25. My Sister Maria
    A heartfelt but eccentric, pseudo-documentary tribute to his sister Maria.
  26. The Sea Is Watching
    It has the big themes that obsessed Kurosawa at his greatest, and that alone makes it worthwhile.
  27. Groundhog Day
    With its zany daily episodes, "Groundhog" gets stuck in a non-progressive repetition.
  28. Croupier
    Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.
  29. Pi
    In the end, it's primarily a brain teaser, obtuse and ultimately limited in its emotional impact.
  30. Ronin
    Unlike the ronin, the heroes of a Japanese legend, these guys are still searching for a story.
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