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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. A Perfect Murder
    The trouble is, we don't really much care about this philandering billionaire glamour puss, who seems perfectly capable of taking care of herself. We don't care about her husband or lover either.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Medallion
    Chan's normally homegrown stuntwork is replaced by a lot of wire fighting and special effects, and this makes one think that the days of "Drunken Master" are far behind him.
  3. Legally Blonde
    Really nothing more than "Clueless" redux but without the edgy, knowing wit.
  4. The Sum of All Fears
    Should carry all the urgency of a film that captures, magnifies and elaborates on the anxieties of its time. Luckily, that movie has already been made: It's called "Dr. Strangelove," and it's available at a video store near you.
  5. Baby Boy
    The movie makes an over-long deal about Jody's immaturity and never seems to get beyond it.
  6. The Hot Spot
    Madsen may not be the most egregiously untalented of the new movie beauties, but she's close to it. As Dolly, she presents a Southern accent as ludicrous as any in captivity; she keeps trying for Blanche DuBois and coming out with Gomer Pyle.
  7. La Femme Nikita
    Parillaud is expressive but rather mundane. She's best at playing sullen, but there are so many French actresses who specialize in this particular talent -- the French have mastered the apathetic pout -- that she seems generic.
  8. Apt Pupil
    Ultimately the movie disintegrates due to its own clumsiness. It's far too coincidence-driven to be believable.
  9. Primal Fear
    The special twist-which Paramount Pictures has implored critics not to divulge-redefines the story completely. It also ruins everything.
  10. Rounders
    And while it's intermittently engaging, the drama's flatter than a sucker's wallet.
  11. Mystic Pizza
    The conflicts are, at best, formulaic. (Tim is married, but unhappy; Charlie is from a different class.) And the filmmakers provide nothing to rescue us from the clichés. You get the general sense that the are better than their material [22 Oct 1988]
  12. The Singing Detective
    Unfortunately, apart from Downey's convincing contribution, the movie feels too contrived, stagy and inorganic to draw any pleasure.
  13. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Wastes no time getting very loud and very silly and never really lets up.
  14. The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    A dramatization of the life of Christ that takes as its script a word-for-word translation of the Gospel according to John, the adaptation is not so much tedious as pointless.
  15. Donnie Brasco
    Unfortunately, the story isn't inventive and Newell's methodical approach to it verges on monotony.
  16. Hamlet
    A darkly interesting distraction but not much more.
  17. Woman on Top
    Never the magic charmer it sets out to be.
  18. Wonder Boys
    The sad truth is that Wonder Boys is little more than a sentimentalized encomium to the disheveled, childish life it ascribes to writers.
  19. Head Over Heels
    Here's my favorite part: It's only 87 minutes long. But for the most part, this movie is just another bland, fair-to-middling vehicle for two emerging, fledgling stars.
  20. Phantoms
    The effects are murky and the giant worm looks more like a smear on the lens than anything else. Most of the intensity is generated by sudden sound effects like ringing phones, alarm clocks or oven timers.
  21. The Man in the Iron Mask
    The Three Musketeers, a rusty trio of middle-aged retirees, have all but changed their motto from "All for one and one for all" to "I have fallen and I can't get up" in this less-than-rollicking adaptation.
  22. 15 Minutes
    Too busy trying to make remarks to be much fun in the end. But it really only has one remark, which it reiterates about a thousand times, and it's not all that remarkable: Fame is overrated.
  23. Timecode
    A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
  24. Lost in Space
    Hardware doesn't make a movie; characters, be they Blawp or human, do. And as so often happens with such outsize undertakings, they are overwhelmed by the gizmos. Technology, one. Astros, naught.
  25. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    A respectable effort that doesn't care to do more than course smoothly and effortlessly through familiar waters.
  26. Living Out Loud
    What little grace there is in Living Out Loud (and there isn't much) is all in LaGravenese's script, not on the screen.
  27. Music of the Heart
    Another sentimental mushfest disguised as a movie.
  28. What's Cooking?
    Like too many Thanksgiving dinners, too much squabbling really wreaks havoc on the digestion. Football, anyone?
  29. Mars Attacks!
    With the exception of Burton's jolting sight gags (I may never recover from the vision of Parker's head grafted on to the body of a chihuahua), the comedy is half-developed, pedestrian material. And the climactic battle between Earthlings and Martians is dull and overextended.
  30. The Abyss
    How many times can we be awestruck by Day-Glo Gumbies? And why do these creatures always travel with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
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