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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. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
    Ought to be the subject of an obituary, not a review. A creepy film noir modeled on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," it was a stinking stiff on arrival.
  2. The Relic
    As written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, The Relic deserved to be taken off the shelf; as adapted by a quartet of screenwriters and directed by Peter Hyams, it should have been left on one.
  3. Excess Baggage
    This one's for Silverstone fans only.
  4. A Life Less Ordinary
    The new film by the phenomenally talented Scots-English trio of director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald and screenwriter John Hodge -- they did both "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting" -- is a failure so absolute and witless it deserves some kind of mention in the Hall of Lame.
  5. Love! Valour! Compassion!
    Love! Valour! Compassion!, an adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play, which has piano music and exclamation points to spare, is excruciatingly predictable, creatively inane and almost offensive in its depiction of gay characters.
  6. Mad City
    Mad City is for those who haven't seen enough movies about hostage situations. It's also for those who haven't seen enough ponderous movies about media exploitation, or Dustin Hoffman's ongoing reliance on muttery method acting.
  7. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    The 1994 "Speed," which starred Bullock and Keanu Reeves, was hardly "King Lear" on a bus, but it was an entertaining ride. But this movie is nothing but pain to sit through.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Flintstones
    The "stone"-shtick gets mighty old after about 15 minutes. More than 30 screenwriters worked on the Flintstones script, and the result just proves the ancient saying about too many cooks.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Marvin's Room
    Keaton and DiCaprio manage to bring several levels of emotion to their characters, but everyone else is a cardboard cut-out.
  10. Spy Hard
    Nielsen earns a few giggles with his big entrance and later on his even bigger belly, but he can't overcome the lousy material.
  11. Return to Paradise
    Unfortunately, the dramatic potential of such a moral quandary is left largely unmined in director Joseph Ruben's monotonous parlor game of will-he-won't-he. [14 Aug 1998, Pg. N.39]
    • Washington Post
    • 66 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Philadelphia
    Directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, this AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Basketball Diaries
    There's little momentum, no real story line, just Carroll's tediously inevitable descent from low to lowest.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Saddled with leaden lead performances, hobbled by an arch, incoherent script and pokey pacing, the new, improved Cowgirls is a miscarriage - misconceived, miscast, miserably boring.
  15. Fair Game
    The movie is fast, slick and dumb as a post.
  16. Father of the Bride Part II
    Father of the Bride, Part II is a virtual avalanche of cheap emotion. Short on comedy but long on maudlin sentiment, this sequel stumps so hard for the traditional values of home, hearth and family that any possible entertainment value is canceled out.
  17. Mixed Nuts
    Usually, Ephron is one of the most reliable comic voices in the movies, but here her gifts seem to have deserted her. Though she shows her customary talent for smart one-liners, the spirit of the film is forced and desperate, as if she lacked faith in her gags and were trying to shove them down our throats.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Distinguished Gentleman
    This Hollywood Pictures production (basically, a Walt Disney adult venture) culls every Capitol-corruption cliche in the book for the dullest 90 minutes Murphy has ever appeared in.
  19. Far and Away
    Far and Away is such a doddering, bloated bit of corn, and its characters and situations so obviously hackneyed, that we can't give in to the story and allow ourselves to be swept away.
  20. Rocky V
    The only good thing you can say about "Rocky V" is that at least Stallone has the sense to throw in the towel.
  21. The Two Jakes
    What The Two Jakes makes us long for most is the earlier film.
  22. Harlem Nights
    Eddie Murphy's directorial work is amateurish at best. And as a performer he looks as if he is in agony, as if his mother made him stand in front of the camera for punishment.
  23. Swing Kids
    It's a moralistic muddle with only one message: If Disney wants to make movies about Germans, it should restrict its efforts to German shepherds.
  24. The Governess
    The slogging melodrama that emerged still more closely resembles the daily musings of an infatuated teenager than a well-crafted, thoughtful story. [14 Aug 1998]
    • Washington Post
  25. Red Heat
    Red Heat is poorly, or even indifferently, made. It's a joyless exercise, and too much angry resignation seeps in for it to be very funny or very entertaining.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
    Wayans' choosing to play romantic lead seems more narcissistic than smartly comic (watch him unleash those built biceps once too often); he lacks an unidentifiable shtick. And he seems too easily satisfied with predictable and sophomoric punchlines. Lapses like that give Sucka the Shaft.
  27. Legends of the Fall
    Legends of the Fall is a magnificent bore: a western saga lolling in its own immensity - its big music, its big scenery and, yes, its big hair
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Some Body
    The most surprising thing about Some Body is that any film so lewd could be so thoroughly uninteresting.
  29. The Ex
    A stunningly insipid romance, marks an all-time low for actor Zach Braff -- his "Gigli," if you will.
  30. Life After Beth
    The promise of its premise is squandered all too soon in what becomes yet another tiresome exercise in the way-overworked zombie genre.
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