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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 Shipping News
    Awash in hackneyed old-time secrets and hydrophobic metaphor, never consumes us as it should.
  2. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    A slight, disingenuous script that robs the characters of their histories.
  3. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Allegations of governmental double-talk and cover-ups are, unfortunately, boooring.
  4. The Last Shot
    There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
  5. Luther
    It's just unfortunate that a movie about such a daring man ultimately takes few risks.
  6. Shall We Dance
    Occasionally charming but ultimately forgettable bit of fox-trot fluff.
  7. Hiding Out
    Cryer, a talented comedic actor, struggles mightily but can't wring laughs from the lowbrow humor. The screenplay, written by Jeff Rothberg and Joe Menosky, is statically directed by Bob Giraldi, a maker of Michael Jackson videos and Pepsi-Cola ads, in his faint feature debut.
  8. Halloween (2007)
    A film that contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for "Jerry Springer" wrote it (Zombie did).
  9. Midway
    In ways both large and small, Midway may be the most realistic war movie you’ve ever seen, as those involved in the production of this World War II action film, including Naval historians, have touted it to be. That’s not to say it’s as real as “Saving Private Ryan.”
  10. Young Guns II
    A roundup of tired cliches and tired acting -- except for Sutherland and Petersen -- Young Guns II is dull as beans and lazy as tumbleweed.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Reno 911!: Miami
    Moviedom is littered with the wreckage of ill-conceived small-to-big-screen adaptations, but Reno 911!: Miami is not the disaster it could have been. Fans of the TV show need not shudder. You will not see sacrilege.
  12. The Lost City
    Some of the tropes of The Lost City are ineffective. What does work is the sense of loss. The late Cuban novelist and screenwriter G. Cabrera Infante finds a brilliant device in the love affair between Fico and Aurora (Ines Sastre), his sister-in-law, in that Aurora in some way becomes Cuba.
  13. I Saw the Light
    I Saw the Light isn’t just incohesive, but ultimately — and far more frustratingly — incoherent.
  14. The Hitman's Bodyguard
    Despite all the mayhem, The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a surprisingly bland dish.
  15. The Wild
    Adult humor in kiddie films -- of which there is plenty in The Wild -- is not only welcome but, for many adult viewers, essential.
  16. Poltergeist
    To call Poltergeist laughable is not the same thing as saying it’s bad (although it is that, too.) It’s just that it seems less interested in scaring you than in making you chuckle. At least on that score it succeeds.
  17. Primal Fear
    The special twist-which Paramount Pictures has implored critics not to divulge-redefines the story completely. It also ruins everything.
  18. The Day After Tomorrow
    Utterly shatters the illusion with a trite plot, banal dialogue, clunky sentimentality and, worst of all, a sort of narrative arbitrariness.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Hercules
    This outing does not suffer the epic badness one associates with films that aren’t screened early for critics, and in fact it offers moments of actual entertainment. It simply fails to exploit its assets: an amusing, revisionist take on the mythological strongman, and the charisma of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Trip
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but good intentions can't overcome dialogue that alternates between melodramatic and cliched.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    At best, Rambo: First Blood Part II is a crudely effective right-wing rabble-rouser, the artistic equivalent of carpet bombing -- you don't know whether to cheer or run for cover. At worst, it's a tribute to Sylvester Stallone, by Sylvester Stallone, starring Sylvester Stallone. [22 May 1985, p.F1]
    • Washington Post
  22. Nine Months
    Pitiful.
  23. High Spirits
    Writer-director Neil Jordan shows no knack for comedy, nor is he as kinky as he was on Mona Lisa, and kinky is what is called for.
  24. Oscar
    Stallone is to humor what John Goodman is to ballet.
  25. The Legend of Zorro
    What a waste of talent, time and money. And guess what else? Not only is The Legend of Zorro stupid and boring but -- ta-da! -- it's also really long!
  26. Max
    Despite the overplaying, Max gets its job done, which is to celebrate the sacrifices of military dogs, while warming the cockles of your heart.
  27. Irresistible
    A political farce that ultimately feels like a letdown, coming from one of the sharpest yet most compassionate satirical minds of today.
  28. 27 Dresses
    Katherine Heigl makes an official bid for America's Sweetheart in her sophomore effort, 27 Dresses, a romantic comedy that -- despite her undeniable, apple-cheeked appeal -- sags like a day-old bouquet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Boy Kills World
    Boy Kills World, a cheeky and extremely bloody action extravaganza, keeps an audience so off-balance for so long that you may throw in the towel well before the final bad guy falls.
  30. Predator
    Frankly, scarier critters have checked into Roach Motels.
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