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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. Men of Honor
    Storytelling like this weighs heavier than a standard diving suit, and it's really up to you, if you're ready to take the plunge.
  2. Human Nature
    After some promising leaps, bounds and swings through a fascinating jungle of possibility, Charlie Kaufman's movie misses an all-important creeper.
  3. My Life Without Me
    The film should at least be wise and three-dimensional enough to see Ann's motivations as a source of mystery as much as heroic self-empowerment. This one-dimensional ennoblement doesn't sit quite right.
  4. The Singing Detective
    At once daring and hackneyed, absorbing and off-putting, a triumph of one sort and, more lastingly, a failure of another.
  5. Lucky Numbers
    At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
  6. The End of the Affair
    Fails to capture the spiritual hallelujah of the novel.
  7. Bones
    Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like "Hellraiser," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Evil Dead."
  8. The Man from Elysian Fields
    May not be perfect but must be given credit for all that it does right.
  9. Home Fries
    You'd never know it from the innocuous-looking trailers, but Home Fries is really "When Dorian Met Sally" meets "Psycho."
  10. Center Stage
    Awkwardly acted.
  11. The Flower of Evil
    This movie is a mixed repast: good food and wine laced with enough misanthropic poison to turn any stomach.
  12. Field of Dreams
    The movie may steal a base here and there, but there are no homers.
  13. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    The movie, directed by Steve Miner, a "Friday the 13th" vet, never quite gins up the giddy, sick, politically incorrect power of the more high-powered "Screams" of late.
  14. The Clay Bird
    Strikes several beautiful and lingering chords about the human condition, but the notes of the music ultimately never come together to form a coherent song.
  15. 54
    The movie is almost completely uninteresting on the story level but fascinating as a work of imagined reconstruction and anthropology and as a study of the theory and practice of Studio 54.
  16. Bringing Down the House
    The racial angle becomes the tiresome basis of almost every joke.
  17. The Man in the Iron Mask
    There is nothing worth getting steamed over or particularly excited about.
  18. Along Came a Spider
    A corkscrew of a thriller, has more twists than a tarantula with a permanent.
  19. The Object of My Affection
    Wendy Wasserstein brings a dull pen to this literary adaptation, which shows none of the bite or savvy of Stephen McCauley's novel.
  20. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    A movie carefully engineered for an audience of exactly nobody.
  21. Life
    Feels as if it's inspired by the old "Road" comedies of Crosby and Hope. Except that it's "On the Road to Hell."
  22. The Jungle Book 2
    The franchise is cheapened by Disney's crass commercialism in releasing material that, by rights, should have gone straight to video.
  23. Spy Kids
    Energetic and slickly done, but also somewhat soulless.
  24. The Grey Zone
    Nelson certainly passes muster for sincerity but, unfortunately, his movie doesn't have the same clear-cut quality.
  25. L.A. Story
    Taxes the threshold of acceptable cuteness.
  26. Great Expectations
    There's nothing wrong, nor particularly right about the experience. It just sits there, like a Nike ad.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Club Dread
    Of course, the film still may be too bloody and crass for some, and it's by no means hilarious, but all things considered, Club Dread lives up to expectations, which were never really that high to begin with.
  28. Windtalkers
    For all this potential, and the appealing presence of Nicolas Cage and newcomer Adam Beach, Windtalkers remains almost obstinately flat.
  29. What Women Want
    Gibson and the overexposed Hunt don't exactly burn up the screen, not that it much matters. The charm isn't in the relationship, it's in Gibson's puckish appeal.
  30. Ronin
    Although laced with adrenaline and flavored with noirish seasoning, John Frankenheimer's Ronin is a disappointingly conventional thriller.
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