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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 5.4 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 Mod Squad
    The story moves so slowly and obviously, you don't even need to be in the theater very much (or your living room when the video comes out) to follow it.
  2. Red Planet
    Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills.
  3. 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."
  4. Vertical Limit
    The characters are as thin as the air at 26,000 feet, and the story as silly as anyone willing to assault K2 in a punishing blizzard.
  5. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    We're only a little spooked, only a little amused and, by extension, only a little entertained.
  6. Tape
    A typical student film with its arty angles, bad lighting and pretentious observations.
  7. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    An exercise in vanity, indulgence and a startling degree of shallowness.
  8. The Third Miracle
    I'd give this movie about half a miracle.
  9. Vampire's Kiss
    Stone-dead bad, incoherently bad... Cage acts as if he has been taking hits off of Dennis Hopper's gas mask. There's no way to overstate it: This is scorched-earth acting -- the most flagrant scenery chewing I've ever seen.
  10. On_Line
    There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters...it's hard to get particularly thrilled.
  11. The Opposite of Sex
    Very much like sex. On second thought, make that bad sex. Actually, sexual assault is more like it. It will leave you feeling used, bruised, violated, mistrustful and unclean.
  12. I Am Sam
    The movie that Disney uses to explore this premise drips with so much corporate good-neighbor syrup, you might want to wear something waterproof. And Penn's performance is, at best, ripe for discussion.
  13. Uptown Girls
    It's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words -- not to mention too, too dark.
  14. Pootie Tang
    A wretch-a-sketch, a two-minute character-based skit (an occasional feature on HBO's "The Chris Rock Show") stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes.
  15. Possession
    How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
  16. Hanging Up
    Essentially an extended cutesy session.
  17. Someone Like You...
    Heaven forbid a Hollywood romantic movie have any narrative surprises.
  18. Snipes
    Both a snore and utter tripe.
  19. All About the Benjamins
    It's painful watching a talented thespian diminish himself so. It's clear he did it for the Benjamins.
  20. The Emperor's Club
    It's a simpering, ineffective ersatz-drama, so simple-minded and unrealistic and so full of fussy stupidity, it exiles you.
  21. Lana's Rain
    Clumsily under-written and feverishly overacted, it's as embarrassing to watch as it is perplexing.
  22. Bossa Nova
    Unromantic, nonsexual and hellaciously dull.
  23. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Allegations of governmental double-talk and cover-ups are, unfortunately, boooring.
  24. Wild Wild West
    A rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir –- that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst.
  25. Here on Earth
    A moldy teenage tear-jerker.
  26. 15 Minutes
    They (De Niro, Burns) look good together. But what a staggering pity they chose such a nasty, hackneyed movie to demonstrate their chemistry.
  27. Lost in Space
    A galactic slump of a movie that stuffs its travel bag with special effects but forgets to pack the charm.
  28. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    Neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well drawn.
  29. How to Deal
    A bad, unimaginative story posing pretentiously as the very opposite.
  30. Godzilla
    The makers of Godzilla obviously devoted so much manpower and time and energy and money to the admittedly fabulous special effects that they apparently had no budget left over for actors.
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