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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. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography.
  2. The Other Side of the Bed
    It winds up being tuneless, unfunny and, despite its strenuous efforts, not terribly sexy.
  3. Walking Tall
    One mediocre, ploddingly predictable film, loaded down with cheesy Hollywood tactics.
  4. The Whole Ten Yards
    Will go anywhere for a gag, including into the realms of homophobic, gastrointestinal and erectile dysfunction humor.
  5. Shanghai Knights
    It's too bad Chan's imagination and delicacy were wasted in this movie.
  6. The Brown Bunny
    It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior.
  7. Godsend
    As the film's boo! moments get spookier and more frequent, Godsend gets more and more inane.
  8. Blow
    You can't make an epic about a mouse.
  9. The Reckoning
    Although the acting is committed and sometimes stirring, most of the characters are about as one-note as the biblical archetypes Martin wants to get away from in the first place. "The Name of the Rose" this ain't.
  10. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Like so many technological marvels, at the human level it's not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.
  11. Undertow
    It's just sort of trying.
  12. The Corporation
    This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.
  13. Father and Son
    Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand. Count me among the stupid.
  14. Levity
    So solemnly paced and deliberately performed that it seems to solidify before your very eyes.
  15. The Dreamers
    It may give many viewers a licentious flutter, but the highbrow ingredient -- although it desperately wants to be there -- is missing.
  16. The Last Shot
    There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
  17. Spun
    The title (which translates, essentially, as "burned out") is an apt description of the film itself: a hot and smoldering shell.
  18. National Security
    Martin Lawrence is all there is to National Security. And that's about two or three points out of a possible 10
  19. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Now and then sputters to comic life but more usually wheezes along.
  20. Rain Man
    It's Hoffman's failure, though, that sinks the picture. He is working here with his usual meticulousness, but there's no relaxation in his performance, no sense that he has ever merged with his subject, that he has found Raymond's center and is simply acting out of it.
  21. Sphere
    Sphere, an unfathomable chowder of recycled science fiction and undersea thrillers, briefly bubbles with promise only to plummet into the murky depths. Weighed down by inconsistencies and pretensions, the tale founders like a stinky beluga.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Envy
    With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast.
  23. The Godfather: Part III
    It's hard to tell if this thing's serious or parody and, if it is parody, whether or not it's intentional. Is it a winky joke, for instance, to have lightweight performer George Hamilton as Pacino's business attorney, or just ridiculous casting? Hamilton's performance points to the latter.
  24. Pokémon Heroes
    Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.
  25. When Will I Be Loved
    Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.
  26. 21 Grams
    It's so laden with foreboding, you want to get out from under it and gasp for air.
  27. Independence Day
    An overgrown hybrid of disaster epic, can-do combat adventure and '50s sci-fi movie, this craft has visited our world many times before. And while she's a beaut, the sticker on her titanium bumper reads: "Been There, Done That, Beam Me Up, Scotty."
  28. Red Lights
    The film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
  29. The Alamo
    These storied 13 days feel like the Hundred Years War.
  30. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
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