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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 Best of Enemies
    The Best of Enemies is perhaps the first account of the United States’s traumatic racial history that could be adapted into a sitcom.
  2. Hart's War
    Follows all these rules, which is why you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum. But not a whit more.
  3. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  4. The Emperor's Club
    It's a simpering, ineffective ersatz-drama, so simple-minded and unrealistic and so full of fussy stupidity, it exiles you.
  5. K-PAX
    Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.
  6. Jeepers Creepers
    After introducing a provocative opening, the movie settles in for some pretty cheap scare effects, as well as by-the-numbers computer graphic imagery for the actual marauder.
  7. The Price of Milk
    Like nothing else that's played in months.
  8. The Mechanic
    Despite a certain emotional chill, what holds this Mechanic together is - no surprise - the core Carlino story.
  9. Taps
    An opportunity for an unusual film about teen-agers was thrown away, in Taps, in favor of what its own screenplay characterizes as a cinematic stereotype. [18 Dec 1981, p.21]
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  10. Gold
    The most ironic thing about Gold is this: For all its efforts, the movie seems to know it’s sitting on a gold mine of a backstory, but it just can’t figure out how to get the stuff out of the ground.
  11. Griff the Invisible
    Here's a better title for Griff the Invisible, a well-meaning but unengaging love story about two 20-something misfits: "Griff the Implausible."
  12. 7 Days in Entebbe
    The dance itself makes a much more powerful, and ultimately poetic, point. On the most superficial level, it serves as a blunt metaphor for the elaborate choreography of the rescue operation, which entailed its own intense rehearsals, undertaken in a scale mock-up of the Entebbe airport that had been re-created back in Israel.
  13. The Tomorrow Man
    The movie’s ending could be called a twist. But it’s really more of a belly flop.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Blind Date
    There are no sparks in Blind Date. And the script, written by Dale Launer (Ruthless People), is so devoid of laughs it's impossible to understand why Willis chose it for his first film outing. [02 Apr 1987, p.B11]
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  15. The Front Room
    Despite what the singer/actress says, there’s not much to scream, let alone clap, about here.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    Maybe there’s an epic novel in his head, but what [Costner's] given us with “Chapter 1” is a table of contents instead.
  17. Rio 2
    The movie feels at once too busy and too derivative. That’s no easy feat, but it’s also one sequel-makers probably shouldn’t aspire to.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Killing Zoe
    There have to be better ways of wasting money and killing time than the fashionable nihilism of Killing Zoe.
  19. Live by Night
    The visual and performative elements are polished enough in Live by Night, but it lacks any sense of urgency.
  20. The Beanie Bubble
    The power of the story, such as it is, is not enhanced by the nonlinear narrative structure. In fact, it makes it needlessly confusing.
  21. Scary Movie 3
    It's outrageous. It's obnoxious. It's offensive. And yes, it's also really, really, really funny. Or, at least, it is for the first 40 minutes or so.
  22. Oldboy
    In general, Lee directs with less visual verve than Park. Anchored by Brolin, who brings an almost simian physicality to his portrayal, this Oldboy feels simultaneously less showy, less nightmarish and less epic than the original.
  23. Class Act
    Unfortunately, director Randall Miller can't put an original spin on the familiar material; he just doesn't have the offbeat comic gifts that the Hudlin brothers brought to the rap duo's first film outing in House Party.
  24. Heartburn
    Heartburn is a masterpiece, a collaboration of mature artists at the peak of their craft, and something of a summing up for Mike Nichols, who, more successfully than any other American director, has staked out the terrain where men and women meet as his own. Here it is -- a movie that is seriously funny.
  25. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    Chase presides amiably over this uneven but affable slapstick comedy.
  26. Inkheart
    For the young people in its demographic wheelhouse, Inkheart packs a welcome amount of entertainment value, creating a genuinely original world of enchantment.
  27. Return to Never Land
    Even if you tap only a little of the magic of "Peter Pan," you'll come away with some pixie dust.
  28. Scotland, Pa.
    It's simple, sizzly and very funny.
  29. Rosenstrasse
    An extraordinary collective act of moral and physical courage is relegated to a backdrop for a mushy, synthetic family melodrama.
  30. Pitch Black
    You are allowed to come up with a monster we haven't seen before.
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