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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. The Rainmaker
    This movie has all the same elements as other Grisham fare: raw young lawyer trying to make it in the South; helpless client treated badly; sleazy, star-chamber villains. Wake me up when the last-minute surprise witness comes out of her hidey hole to turn the case around.
  2. Tuck Everlasting
    The acting is occasionally creakily theatrical; as is the script. But some important things come through.
  3. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Forget Tad Hamilton -- this is really a 90-minute date with Kate Bosworth.
  4. No Man's Land
    A well-mounted, macabre seriocomedy with passing punchlines. And for about half the movie, it's compelling stuff.
  5. Superstar
    Endearing if slight, Superstar at least knows what it's doing the whole way.
  6. Arlington Road
    Although the film starts out with well-mounted menace, Arlington Road becomes increasingly overwrought and predictable.
  7. Entrapment
    Even the most ardent fans of the natural-born Bond are more apt to be shaken than stirred by the 68-year-old's implausible feats in this inert romantic adventure.
  8. Barbershop
    Doesn't always cut it -- and, somewhat embarrassingly, boom mikes hover on screen so frequently they deserve co-billing -- but it's a likable venture that just misses being a lovable one.
  9. Love & Sex
    An endearing comic roundelay about the can't-commits.
  10. All or Nothing
    Will probably appeal only to the most committed of Leigh fans.
  11. Das Boot
    Unlike Hollywood's hygienic undersea dramas, Das Boot graphically depicts the nasty intimacy of a long mission.
  12. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Ultimately, Jedi even backs off some of the more tantalizing possibilities suggested by the cliffhanging scenario of "Empire." This inhibition appears to grow out of consideration for the feelings of the juvenile audience, which can enjoy an abundance of thrills and close calls while resting assured that nothing catastrophic is going to be fall the heroes.
  13. Sweet Home Alabama
    At the movie's thoroughly expected conclusion, a visual joke has a bedraggled cat licking at the icing on a wedding cake, but it's really Melanie who gets to have it and eat it, too.
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  14. Anna and the King
    Old-fashioned Hollywood filmmaking at its best .
  15. Hulk
    In the end, we don't know what we're watching, an art-house superhero film or a computer-generated "King Kong." By trying to please both sensibilities, the filmmakers have pleased neither.
  16. The Time Machine
    Amazingly stilted before accelerating into its exciting finish.
  17. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    The total effect is fast and attractive and occasionally amusing. Like a good hot dog, that's something of an achievement in a field where unpalatable junk is the rule.
  18. The Hunting of the President
    Make no mistake. This is partisan filmmaking at its most gleefully unapologetic. Unless they're also masochists, Bill Clinton haters and Ken Starr fans will know better than to buy a ticket.
  19. Your Friends & Neighbors
    If these repugnant people were really your friends and neighbors, your time would be more profitably spent reading the real estate listings than the movie reviews. But for 1 1/2 hours in a darkened theater, the derailment of their unhealthy emotions makes for one compulsively watchable train wreck.
  20. Town & Country
    Where Town and Country gets really good and weird – and I do mean good – is only after about an hour into it in deepest, darkest Idaho.
  21. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
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