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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. 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.
  2. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  3. Secretary
    In a movie as unrewarding as this, there's really only one burning question: When does the spanking begin?
  4. Anger Management
    It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty.
  5. Veronica Guerin
    In a movie whose texture is supposed to be hard-edged realism, the characterization seems a little too pat and jaunty.
  6. The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is sanctimonious, sanitized fare primarily preoccupied with patting its own back and plucking our heartstrings.
  7. Predator
    Frankly, scarier critters have checked into Roach Motels.
  8. Jeepers Creepers
    After introducing a provocative opening, the movie settles in for some pretty cheap scare effects, as well as by-the-numbers computer graphic imagery for the actual marauder.
  9. My First Mister
    Although the movie has its moments, it's a tearjerker that jerks too hard.
  10. Nicotina
    Nicotina skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.
  11. Anaconda
    Mr. Whipple squeezing his Charmin is scarier than this phony baloney computer effects-driven anaconda.
  12. Rosenstrasse
    An extraordinary collective act of moral and physical courage is relegated to a backdrop for a mushy, synthetic family melodrama.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Soul Plane
    An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Freddy vs. Jason
    A kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both sides.
  15. Chasing Liberty
    An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling, Chasing Liberty features Mandy Moore trying so strenuously to be the next America's Sweetheart that she almost pops a vein.
  16. Death to Smoochy
    It's so over the top, the top isn't even visible in the rear-view mirror.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Laws of Attraction
    The plot, the dialogue and the main characters' love connection are basically mind-numbing.
  18. Don't Say a Word
    Thankfully, after its terrific start, Don't Say a Word transmogrifies so totally into Hollywood hooey that it's actually a relief. I'd hate to see a disturbance in the karmic perfection of Douglas's pitch-pure mediocrity.
  19. Impostor
    Isn't really a movie, it's only impersonating one.
  20. Detroit Rock City
    Well, it could have been good. But this goofy homage to Kiss fans gets dry mouth pretty fast.
  21. Inventing the Abbotts
    Too long winded and dull.
  22. Irreversible
    Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds, which make the violence at the end feel even worse.
  23. Close Your Eyes
    The plot, loosely derived from Madison Smartt Bell's "Doctor Sleep," is utterly stale. On their way to confront ancient evil, Strother and Losey keep tripping over timeworn cliches.
  24. Cabin Fever
    It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction.
  25. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Weakens, dilutes, disinfects and otherwise undermines the legacy of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original.
  26. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    It's an uninspired blend, integrating the boys from "Porky's" and the girls from "Foxes" into a vehicle resembling the worst of "American Graffiti" and the best of "Rock and Roll High School." [13 Aug 1982]
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  27. It Runs in the Family
    Schmaltzy.
  28. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
  29. Reign of Fire
    It's just silly, loud and goofy. The dragon needed a bigger part and the two stars smaller ones.
  30. Catch That Kid
    Offers little in the way of originality, real excitement or even genuinely transgressive behavior.
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