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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. Boat Trip
    If this garbage sounds like your kind of thing, and the folks who jump up and talk back to the screen are your kind of people, then, sweetheart, you and this movie deserve each other.
  2. Demonlover
    Meant to be a sleek, dark, disturbing David Cronenberg-style thriller, Olivier Assayas's film is just an annoying concoction.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Possession
    What's supposed to be a deep examination of the transcendence of love and art and poetry turns into another shallow film about how repressed the British are.
  4. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  5. You've Got Mail
    Made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.
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  6. Buffalo Soldiers
    Suffers from melodramatic overkill.
  7. Crossroads
    Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney.
  8. The Man from Elysian Fields
    From the get-go, the story remains bogged down in its rather limited morass.
  9. Hard Rain
    The movie's chief crime against the planet, other than the sheer wastage of time, is the trivializing of the great Freeman. This actor has such dignity and depth and humanity, he almost makes the film watchable.
  10. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Hardly out of the driveway before director Penny Marshall loses control.
  11. Center Stage
    All dancing and hugging and no good.
  12. The Hunted
    Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
  13. Chill Factor
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  14. In My Skin
    It's a silly, if simultaneously deadpan and stomach-churning, psychological portrait of one crazy lady.
  15. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
    Very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.
  16. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    The 20th-anniversary sequel to the groundbreaking horror film-and the sixth in an increasingly awful series about the bulletproof murderer Michael Myers-is a styleless and predictable affair.
  17. Like Mike
    The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Gift
    So chock-full of stereotypes as to be a filmic Southern Country Safari.
  19. The Core
    This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon."
  20. Head of State
    Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
  21. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style to get down to telling a story.
  22. Phantoms
    Sometimes in horror movies, bad acting is effective, its very woodenness contributing to the sense of robotic horror. That ain't happening here. These guys are just bad actors.
  23. Le divorce
    Should have been a smart bit of cinematic froth but instead sinks like an overworked souffle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Surprisingly mawkish teen film.
  25. The Santa Clause 2
    Allen, who's a natural charmer, seems to be at half-strength here.
  26. Bad Boys
    Relentless formulaic fodder for the explosion-starved; it's loud, shallow, sexist and a complete waste of time.
  27. Together
    Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."
  28. 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  30. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
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