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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. Basic Instinct
    What we have here is a movie with not just one, but a family pack of psychos.
  2. From Hell
    Feels razor thin. None of the characters is particularly noteworthy. And the revelations of deep-seated conspiracy in the usual privileged, closed circles are hackneyed and tired.
  3. American Pie 2
    This film isn't so much a sequel to the original "American Pie" as a reduction of it.
  4. Evolution
    Evolution is bad. How bad? Who cares? Do you ask how hot the fire is before running out of a burning building? No, you just run for safety.
  5. At First Sight
    It's sheer piffle, a disingenuous romance with Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino that's all sap and no sizzle.
  6. Mission to Mars
    I'm not sure if it was that or the cloying script, but after a couple of hours of spinning around listening to this drivel I felt like I was going to barf.
  7. High Crimes
    All in all, High Crimes isn't worth the crayons it took to write the script.
  8. Ghosts of Mars
    Schlocky, sluggish shoot-'em-up.
  9. Gerry
    The most screamingly obvious reaction to Gerry is: what a load of pseudo-arty you-know-what.
  10. Summer School
    Here are some of Summer School's favorite things: idiocy, illiteracy, irresponsibility, drunkenness, dumbness and debauchery. Piqued? [24 July 1987]
  11. The Bread, My Sweet
    The film would be insufferable if it weren't for the total sincerity and commitment of its players.
  12. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    Piddling spoof.
  13. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Relentlessly offensive.
  14. Orange County
    The movie is less than nothing special. The movie veers between pretentiousness (oh, the plight of the instant, start-up Artist) and vacuousness.
  15. American Outlaws
    Some stories are eternal. They will not go away. They are told and retold for generations. Take the story of Jesse James --it is not one of them.
  16. Kate & Leopold
    Is Meg Ryan going to play the goofy romantic gal forever?
  17. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    A bungled screen version of Louis de Bernieres' cult novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin was doomed from the moment Nicolas Cage was cast as the "life-devouring," Puccini-loving hero.
  18. Mambo italiano
    Lacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience.
  19. Love Object
    The sort of clumsy undertaking that trips up everyone and everything in it.
  20. Starship Troopers
    It's exactly like "Star Wars" -- if you subtract a good story, sympathetic characters, intelligence, wit and moral purpose.
  21. Practical Magic
    Director Griffin Dunne lacks a clear vision, torn between blithe spirits and brimstone, between madcap and macabre. But then what does it matter when there's so little magic on screen anyhow? That is unless you count making audiences disappear.
  22. Miss Congeniality
    The jokes are lame, the set-up is stupid and Bullock, occasionally a winsome comedienne and here a co-producer, is annoying as heck.
  23. My First Mister
    The movie is fussy and organized rather than moving. It follows a pattern so precisely, it's as if Lahti thought points would be taken off if she colored outside the lines.
  24. The Ninth Gate
    Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality.
  25. Tycoon: A New Russian
    The movie covers too much ground with too little detail. It manages to be convoluted, complicated, incomprehensible and maddeningly thin all at the same time.
  26. 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.
  27. The Perfect Score
    Luckily, life (just like the SAT) has its multiple-choice options. You don't actually have to watch this.
  28. Get Carter
    If there's one piece of wisdom to be culled from this botched project, it's this: No one gets Carter.
  29. Jurassic Park III
    A serious been-there-done-that number.
  30. Final Destination
    Your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back.
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