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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. Shallow Hal
    Nothing could save this movie. These guys make a fortune off the comedy of cruelty. How dare they climb on a soapbox?
  2. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    It's too long, it's too dull, it's too lame.
  3. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Only reason to watch this: the grisly reward Irving receives for being in this picture.
  4. Reign of Fire
    A disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants. You know a picture's in trouble when you find yourself rooting for humankind to lose.
  5. Sweet November
    A front-end collision of a romance.
  6. World Traveler
    Anemic, pretentious.
  7. Catch That Kid
    The movie isn't only boring; it's troubling:
  8. The Mexican
    Feels patently inauthentic.
  9. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    As monotonous as Muzak, and when it comes to the plot, both bewildering and trite.
  10. Showgirls
    This film is just a coarser, dumber, smuttier remake of the 1983 Eszterhas-penned "Flashdance," throbbing music, working-class Cinderella and all.
  11. Ravenous
    The film is one of those accursed self-styled "outrageous" comedies that play the horrific for broad laughs, with a comically inflated style of dialogue that's so hip one doubts it could have been conceived before 1997, much less 1847.
  12. Swordfish
    Nobody really cares about the plot, least of all the filmmakers.
  13. The Fast and the Furious
    The Fast and the Furious is "Rebel Without a Cause" without a cause. The young and the restless with gas fumes. The quick and the dead with skid marks.
  14. Never Again
    Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in. Christopher and Grace probably deserve each other, but that doesn't mean that any of us do.
  15. Cecil B. DeMented
    An insufferable, self-important, sloppily made bore.
  16. Never Die Alone
    Possibly the worst thug-life flick to be released in the past 72 hours, this movie sags under the weight of the bling-bling cliches strung around its headless neck.
  17. Fools Rush In
    This isn't real life. It isn't even a movie. It's an extended sitcom. And for the first time in your life, you'll actually beg for commercials.
  18. Coyote Ugly
    I liked Coyote Ugly better when it was called "Flashdance," although I didn't like it very much then.
  19. My Best Friend's Wedding
    Poor Roberts, pretty and perky as the day is long, hasn't a hoot in hell of bringing Julianne off. She's simply not actress enough, she doesn't have that suppleness that would enable her to sell the complexity of emotion, the jealousy, the irrationality, the meanness and the intelligence.
  20. Love Me If You Dare
    In this toxic tale of young psychopaths in love, the stylish, often stunning visuals are ultimately outmatched by the repellent protagonists at the story's center.
  21. Pumpkin
    A brain and a heart, two things that, along with a good story, believable characters and anything resembling style or flair, Pumpkin is fatally missing.
  22. The Big Bounce
    An insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.
  23. The Postman
    Director-star Kevin Costner falls head over heels in love with himself in this nihilistic, post-apocalyptic clunker about a loner who becomes a reluctant sperm donor, role model and inevitably a godsend to what's left of America.
  24. The Center of the World
    Drowning in uncharted waters and way off-center in any world.
  25. Paycheck
    Represents such a professional nadir for each of its principals that you wish better for them in the new year.
  26. Town & Country
    The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films.
  27. Serendipity
    Insipid, by-the-numbers romance.
  28. Bait
    Ought to be called "Hook, Line and Stinker."
  29. Deep Impact
    These folks are so blase, you'd think that scientists had predicted pennies from Heaven instead of world's end within the year.
  30. I Spy
    Nothing is real, but at the same time, nothing is fake. Nothing is, period. You don't believe a second of it for a second, so banal and predictable is it.
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