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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. Desperado
    Desperado also has some entertaining twists, some sexy goings-on, but on the whole, watching the film is about as much fun as sitting on a cactus.
  2. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (re-release)
    Is it scintillating, nutty, madly inspired or ecstatically preposterous? Ginsberg himself is all these things, but this movie is not. (Review of Original Release)
  3. The Breakfast Club
    It's the kind of undigested vision that might have come from the kids themselves. [15 Feb 1985, p.B1]
    • Washington Post
  4. Steal This Movie
    It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string.
  5. Bad Boys II
    Just like "Bad Boys," only louder, longer and the stars get paid more.
  6. Jurassic Park III
    The story's tired, as are the main characters.
  7. Anaconda
    Feels like "Alien" as directed by Jim Henson. And the suspense is restricted to mundane slasher-movie tactics, including the frequent use of a mobile camera (call it the ’condacam) that’s supposed to represent the snake’s point of view.
  8. Twister
    Twister not only blows, it sucks, too.
  9. Solaris
    It could hardly be called rip-roaring. I should report that it drives about a quarter of the audience out of the theater before it is half over. That's because it's slower than molasses in Siberia.
  10. The 13th Warrior
    Too lightweight and streamlined to be memorable.
  11. The Tigger Movie
    Feels more like an overblown TV special than a grand theatrical release.
  12. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    There's nothing to stir us, no scene to savor for life -- such as the father-son battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back." Back then, we were watching a classic, still the best film in the series. This time, we're watching just another "Star Wars" flick.
  13. Swiri
    Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.
  14. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Heckerling lacks the intuition to let things flow. The actors seem rushed and the scenes incomplete. For instance, Stacy and her brother Brad (Reinhold) almost build a poignant scene outside the abortion clinic. Just when they're about to show us their stuff, poof, it's off for a car crash or a football game. [13 Aug 1982]
    • Washington Post
  15. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Despite an appealing, even ingenious premise, "Scorpion" is another quippy but uninspired comedy.
  16. Brothers in Arms
    Will this film do Kerry any good, or the Swifties any harm? My bet is: Not a bit, one way or the other.
  17. Jawbreaker
    [McGowan's] serene psychopathology is the movie's most consistent pleasure, and to see her is to both love and fear her.
  18. Snake Eyes
    As filmmaking, it's a bravura performance, but as a film, it falls flat.
  19. The Shawshank Redemption
    Speaking of jail, "Shawshank"-the-movie seems to last about half a life sentence. The story, chiefly about the 20-year friendship between Freeman and Robbins, becomes incarcerated in its own labyrinthine sentimentality.
  20. Head in the Clouds
    The plot contrivances are telegraphed too loudly; the emotional manipulation too obvious.
  21. Run Lola Run
    Kind of like watching a John Waters film on fast forward with all the good parts cut out. It's empty of charm and meaning, but it certainly kills time, for those who wish it dead.
  22. Incantato
    It's a warm bath experience, soap-sudsed with sentimentality, improbability and other storytelling misdemeanors.
  23. Lone Star
    Why ... does it feel so lifeless?
    • Washington Post
  24. Mr 3000
    Mac manages to find some moments of comedy within a movie that often feels like it's going into extra innings
  25. Conspiracy Theory
    It is one of those soap bubbles of a film, fleeting, ephemeral, seemingly there when it is not. As you leave the theater, it diminishes with each step, collapsing into shards of imagery and sensations of movement. It's the film that never was.
  26. Hope Floats
    Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress.
  27. The Exorcist
    11 minutes longer than the original, and 11 minutes worse. [2000 re-release]
  28. Piñero
    A well-intentioned, reverential but unenlightening portrait. It pays tribute to the artist. Yet it doesn't scrutinize him.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Animal
    Let's face it, some people find butt and bathroom comedy funny. And some don't.
  30. The Golden Bowl
    Its splendor cannot be denied, but then again neither can the emptiness of this Henry James adaptation.
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