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For 11,479 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 5.2 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: 6,015 out of 11479
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11479
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11479
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  1. Meet Joe Black
    Meet Joe Black is Hopkins's movie and, despite the film's unnecessary length, his quiet and dignified performance almost carries the ball across the finish line.
  2. The Waterboy
    The Perrier of dumb-and-dumber movies, an effervescent idiot's delight that burbles from the wellspring of silliness inside star Adam Sandler's head.
  3. Holy Man
    Tom Schulman's script is on the sloppy side and offers few surprises; still, it's not entirely bereft of laughs.
  4. Some Kind of Wonderful
    Mary Stuart Masterson, a delicate blond, steals the show as the sensitive gal under the tomboy's leather jacket, her natural magnetism offsetting the story's predictability.
  5. Daddy Day Care
    An easy-on-the-sensibilities family film, Eddie Murphy practically assumes the easygoing manner of Mister Rogers, a character he used to wickedly lampoon on "Saturday Night Live."
  6. Enemy of the State
    The dazzle doesn't make up, however, for the movie's lack of depth.
  7. The Virgin Suicides
    While not exactly a cop-out, Virgin may leave some viewers who crave traditional closure with the same hollow ache described by the narrator as follows: "What lingered after them was not life but the most trivial list of mundane facts."
  8. Deep Blue Sea
    You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. It’s no contest.
  9. Glengarry Glen Ross
    There is no evidence of life outside the immediate world of the movie.
  10. Bowfinger
    Lacks emotional depth and intellectual sincerity.
  11. Irreversible
    What we have here is a genuine outlaw work of art.
  12. The Debut
    It is also, despite the all-too-rare focus on the Filipino American community, a creakily familiar take on an age-old family dynamic.
  13. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
    Has its share of arresting images, especially a lovely pas de deux performed in the nude and a dazzling performance of "Le Spectre de la Rose."
  14. Auto Focus
    It never answers the key question: Why should we care?
  15. Bon voyage
    Despite this tale's surface sheen and propulsive momentum, it never transports one very far.
  16. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow is propelled by relentless action. Chase scenes are interrupted not by witty conversation or sexy conquests but by the rattle of machine gun fire.
  17. Urban Legend
    It's no worse than any number of other cookie-cutter slasher flicks geared for the slightly post-pubescent market.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.
  19. A Civil Action
    A jaundiced view of litigation, however authentic, is not necessarily the stuff of great drama, even of the legal-thriller variety, which by definition is confined to a claustrophobic courtroom.
  20. The Good Thief
    In the end, what started off as playful becomes tedious.
  21. Japanese Story
    It's a grab bag of small delights -- and that includes a workmanlike performance by Toni Collette -- but it never quite amounts to a full load.
  22. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It yields surprisingly unspectacular results.
  23. The Big Kahuna
    Never feels original, even though it's enjoyable to watch Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and newcomer Peter Facinelli going at it with snappy patter.
  24. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    Some viewers will miss the warmth and boisterous family dynamics of its predecessors.
  25. Paid in Full
    The direction has a fluid, no-nonsense authority, and the performances by Harris, Phifer and Cam'ron seal the deal.
  26. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
    Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan, a television veteran making his feature film debut, has fluffed up this undemanding material much as one would a pillow. But pillows have their place and so do girlfriend movies.
  27. The General's Daughter
    A prosaic, sexually perverse thriller masquerading as a critical look at military injustice.
  28. Down with Love
    It's like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch on a $60 million budget.
  29. The Other Side of Heaven
    A tad preachy and more than a little bit sanctimonious.
  30. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    Left-wing filmmaker's attempt to call foul on megamedia owner Murdoch's exclamation-point news network.
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