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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. Blade: Trinity
    If ever there was a case for quitting while you're behind, this "Blade" is it -- ready to be buried in a vat of garlic.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kids in America
    Short on real teenage angst and emotion, the film is long on caricatures.
  3. I Am
    While I Am has its boogeymen - especially the rich, the racist and the ultra-competitive - Shadyac implicates himself whenever possible.
  4. Out for Justice
    Though it boasts a big budget and is indeed busier and more densely populated than Seagal's previous efforts, Out for Justice feels cheap, not only in its production but in its content. It's "Scarface" without a point of view; it's shallow plot cluttered with extreme violence, both verbal and physical.
  5. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  6. Little Nicky
    How much you enjoy this movie depends on how funny you find Sandler talking out the side of his mouth with a gravelly squawk -- for the entire movie.
  7. Final Destination 2
    Can't wait for the next sequel . . .
  8. Gothika
    An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus.
  9. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    The result is astoundingly boring and, frankly, tedious to sit through.
  10. Adore
    Adore at its core is a bore, nothing more.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    The Addams Family 2
    The most ghastly thing about the whole movie? The mainstreaming of these most outsider-y of outsiders.
  12. The Words
    A well-acted but narratively limp indie that's undermined by a failure to connect emotionally with its audience.
  13. Made of Honor
    At its worst (and this is where Made of Honor comes in), it can leave you with a bad taste, not just in your mouth but in your soul.
  14. Reindeer Games
    Here's a film that so merrily thumbs its nose at propriety in exchange for visceral thrills, and at probability in exchange for the really cool plot twist, that it checks in as the guiltiest pleasure since "The 13th Warrior."
  15. Krush Groove
    Krush Groove is a kind of "Purple Drizzle," partly because of the story, which is scattershot; mostly because of the music, which isn't music at all, but rap, that tired fad of worn-out rock critics. [1 Nov 1985, p.B4]
    • Washington Post
  16. Amelia
    There's so much pluck and gumption on the screen you can smell it. Flesh and blood? Not so much.
  17. Mr. Church
    Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn’t endow Mr. Church with any unexpected depths. But then neither does the script.
  18. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Treat this project as you would a safari: It has its slow parts but the wildlife makes it worthwhile.
  19. Striptease
    A sexless seriocomedy that would be a bust without the support of Burt Reynolds and Ving Rhames. The pair bring a much-needed lift to this tale of a mother at the mercy of the system. Without them, the movie is mostly a showcase for the star's personal trainer.
  20. The Jazz Singer
    Such a half-baked, arbitrary update that the decrepit plot seems to arise from the misty region of a kind of Jewish Brigadoon in contemporary Manhattan, a Ghetto That Time Forgot. [20 Dec 1980, p.D3]
    • Washington Post
  21. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    On paper, this is an extraordinary story. But the careless production values blunt its impact. The score is obtrusive and generic; the sound editing makes a shootout sound reminiscent of an old Western; continuity errors abound.
  22. Winnie Mandela
    Despite the marquee names and their obvious talent, the film feels like a made-for-TV movie. It’s slight and episodic, with a weirdly scrupulous ambivalence about its subject, whom it seems torn between loving and loathing.
  23. Annapolis
    The only impressive thing about it is the monotony and thoroughness with which it replicates cliches from older, better movies and hammers them into pop alloy to an up-with-me beat beat beat of its musical score.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    P2
    If in the end P2 contains few surprises, it's still a nice piece of polished escapism.
  25. Baywatch
    If anything, Baywatch is a litmus test for how low Johnson can sink while still winning us over.
  26. Another Gay Movie
    Whether or not it's crucial for the gay community to have its own "Porky's" is a question for the ages; but please, not Another Gay Movie.
  27. The Delta Force
    Golan and Bruner, in other words, have made the Holocaust into just another tear-jerking tool for the Cannon Productions shlockenspiel. This is called "chutzpah." The unoffended will find that the movie doesn't even deliver on its own sordid level. There isn't any action till 70 minutes into the film.
  28. Anaconda
    Mr. Whipple squeezing his Charmin is scarier than this phony baloney computer effects-driven anaconda.
  29. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    With so many warmed-over jokes, you’d think that the delivery would at least be on point. But everything, including the timing, feels off.
  30. Aardvark
    It becomes clear that the situation is exactly as we imagine it to be, and that the sense of mystery that Shoaf has spent so much energy weaving is a red herring.
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