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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. Back Roads
    Indeed, you come out of Back Roads feeling more familiar with the configuration of Sally Field's spinal column and chestbone than the character she's struggling to embody.
  2. 17 Again
    Engaging but pedestrian comedy.
  3. Adam & Steve
    Strikes an unsatisfying balance between serious romantic texture and outright farce.
  4. F/X2
    The story line is little more than a shiny hat for holding the high-tech rabbits. Still, it's an enjoyable bit of smoke and mirrors, thanks to the decency and resourcefulness of its hero.
  5. Critters 2
    Critters 2 is flat, lacking the kinetic energy, tight pacing and generally better acting of its predecessor.
  6. Rock Dog
    Intermittently diverting as it may be, the movie bears all the earmarks of a cobbled-together, made-by-committee product, poorly aimed at its tween-and-younger target audience in look, tone, music and story.
  7. First Kid
    Sinbad, one of show business's sunniest souls, brings much-needed buoyancy to this somewhat soggy tale of kindred spirits. [30 Aug 1996, p.F06]
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  8. Frances
    Biographical stinker that insists on remaining unreasonably disjointed for 2 1/2 hours. [28 Jan 1983, p.D1]
    • Washington Post
  9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    The movie is a mess from start to finish. But then again, this jerky, haphazard approach is part of the movie's goofy charm.
  10. The Proposal
    It's as predictable and comforting as a Happy Meal, but it must be said that The Proposal manages to elicit some genuinely amusing moments.
  11. The Strangers: Prey at Night
    Despite such flashes of originality, the whole thing has the air of a cynical, low-quality knockoff of something that wasn’t very good to begin with.
  12. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    Cage is back in crackling good form in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
  13. Blue Like Jazz
    Without being parodistic, it manages to poke fun at the air of privilege and strenuous political correctness common to lefty, liberal arts schools, while retaining a certain affection for their heartfelt quirks.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    The movie does not roar, but rather emits only a serviceable yelp.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hard Ball
    It is only when Reeves meets up with his incredibly cute baseball team that this movie comes to life.
  16. The Mummy Returns
    Many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy -- especially an attempt to fuse the Rock's head onto a scorpion's body.
  17. xXx
    Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
  18. Kiss Me, Guido
    An unfunny comedy by Tony Vitale that is enacted not by fleshed-out characters but by hackneyed, two-dimensional stereotypes. There’re so many sexual and ethnic caricatures, it’s hard to know which is most offensive.
  19. Shark Tale
    This movie just doesn't match its predecessors.
  20. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Traffics in nearly every trite cliche of the "colorful" South one can think of, from its pseudo-Gothic aesthetic to its overripe dialogue.
  21. Morgan
    In order for the trick of the film to work, however, one must hold Morgan to a standard that the movie is unlikely to live up to.
  22. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    The singer-actress has screen presence to spare and a nice, rich voice. By the time her young fans outgrow her -- or she them -- she should have an excellent chance at a second career. Making, you know, real movies and real music.
  23. The Strangers
    I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish.
  24. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    The movie suffers by taking itself a little too seriously. It's not just that it's a lot less funny than the book. It's also a lot less fun.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Haunted Mansion
    What should have been a light summer romp is rarely funny, never scary and a boring mess.
  26. Willow
    Producer-for-Life George Lucas puts his awesome creative machinery to work in Willow, a would-be adventure of little people, big people, good guys and bad. But the fantasy wheels grind to a halt, bogged down in Lucas' flat, derivative story, and not helped in the least by director Ron Howard's clumsy steering.
  27. Being Charlie
    There’s something admirable about the fact that Being Charlie exists at all. It’s a testament to Nick Reiner’s survival. That doesn’t mean it’s a great movie.
  28. One Crazy Summer
    What madcaps! [12 Aug 1986, p.C8]
    • Washington Post
  29. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine.
  30. Bella
    A Mexican movie in which the outcome is never in doubt, the scenes are endless -- sorry, we meant poetic-- and the false beard on the central character's face looks as though it could use a little extra gum.
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