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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. Remember the Titans
    A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    There's nothing inspiring about Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, unless you count the way it compels kids to continue to support the "Yu-Gi-Oh" franchise.
  3. Little Black Book
    If you think it's worth it to sit there for 97 minutes for three or possibly four laughs, then you are beyond help.
  4. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    So bad that I predict there will be drinking games set around viewing it someday.
  5. Wicker Park
    A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama.
  6. Touch of Pink
    It goes so far -- way too far -- as having a known actor play Grant.
  7. Without a Paddle
    At least it cares enough to steal from the very best. Unfortunately, that's about all it cares about.
  8. Ocean's Twelve
    About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.
  9. Short Cuts
    A cynical, sexist and shallow work from cinema's premier misanthrope, Robert Altman, who here shows neither compassion for -- nor insight into -- the human condition.
  10. Swept Away
    At no point should anyone mistake this for an actual movie. This is an extended beach video that will leave no one swept away.
  11. 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.
  12. Kingpin
    Without a doubt, mainstream moviegoers will be revolted by the nastiness of it all.
  13. The Devil's Own
    Ford's earthy Everyman and Pitt's vengeful youth are probably more interesting than they have any right to be inside these tired macho roles. Of course, Rory and Tom could be bursting with blarney and the movie still wouldn't gather any momentum.
  14. A Time to Kill
    In his screen version, Schumacher does a flamboyant job of staging the book without showing the slightest interest in what it's about. Granted, Grisham's original is no masterpiece; it's beach reading, but it deserves credit for addressing its subject with some conviction and integrity.
  15. Pocahontas
    The scenario (written by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant and Philip Lazebnik) is disappointingly wan and obsequious.
  16. 101 Dalmatians
    In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation for 101 Dalmatians, Walt Disney's disappointing live-action remake of its own 1961 classic.
  17. Michael
    After the disastrous "Mixed Nuts," her last holiday season folly, Ephron appears to have hunkered down for a career of pandering mediocrity.
  18. Indecent Proposal
    In Adrian Lyne's latest monstrosity, love takes on money -- and loses. Not necessarily in the story, of course. This is a Hollywood movie. I'm talking between the lines.
  19. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
    In short, Carrey's got nothing to bounce all that energy off of, not even a solid story line.
  20. Walking and Talking
    Writer-director Nicole Holofcener's earnest first feature is a low-budget comedy drawn from the pages of her own dear diary. Most women have sense enough to burn theirs.
  21. Emma
    Director McGrath retains the novel's highlights, but he slices everything to ribbons.
  22. Carpool
    Arthur Hiller, who last directed the sour "The Babe" -- not the one about that sweet pig -- finds even less to work with in TV veteran Don Rhymer's stupid screenplay.
  23. The Long Kiss Goodnight
    The problem with this movie is the problem with most Renny Harlin movies: There's an excessive amount of excess -- a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk.
  24. Valmont
    With its callow cast and playful tone, there is nothing dangerous about Forman's variation on the novelist's schemes.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jefferson in Paris
    Jefferson in Paris is nevertheless a disaster, intellectually infuriating and thoughtlessly racist.
  26. Wyatt Earp
    Wyatt Earp, a bio-pic that lasts more than three hours and moves with the urgency of a grazing buffalo, lacks everything from a coherent dramatic structure to a clearly articulated point of view.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Girl 6
    Girl 6 is such a mundane, flat comedy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Father of the Bride Part II
    Martin's comic charisma, which kept the first movie alive, is buried under a banal avalanche of trite comic situations. The flesh is willing but the script is weak.
  29. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Murphy has said that he wanted the picture to work both as a comedy and a horror movie, but he has succeeded at neither. Director Craven manages to wedge in some of his signature bits, but can't keep the comic elements in balance with the horror, and as a result there's no tension or dramatic pull.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Far and Away
    Far and Away, the new feel-good epic from director Ron Howard, isn't a movie, it's a cartoon.
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