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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 Cable Guy
    A grating and sinister comedy on the dangers of television. This mean-spirited marriage of cautionary tale and thriller-satire follows the increasingly vicious antics of a deranged cable installer who stalks a preferred customer.
  2. The Rock
    If, at odd moments, The Rock is better than tolerable, it is usually because of its stars.
  3. The Arrival
    For better or for worse the movie belongs to Sheen, who does manage to generate enough intensity to hold writer-director David Twohy's unwieldy story together. [31 May 1996, p.D6]
    • Washington Post
  4. DragonHeart
    Another product from Industrial Light & Magic, this fire-breathing, soaring creature is a technical wonder to behold. But they've skimped on everything else. The script douses the movie's fiery potential and director Rob Cohen soaks all remaining embers with his cheap, made-for-TV direction.
  5. 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.
  6. Mission: Impossible
    Humorless, charmless and flat.
  7. Flipper
    An unimaginative boy-and-his-mammal saga with only tenuous connection to the old television series of the same name.
  8. Twister
    Twister not only blows, it sucks, too.
  9. Dead Man
    Bad movies have a way of writing their own epitaphs.
  10. Cold Comfort Farm
    Thanks to Schlesinger's exacting direction and Malcolm Bradbury's witty, restrained script, these characters are kept more amusing than horribly pitiable.
  11. Barb Wire
    Lee elevates herself from the lower echelon of mere international super-babedom to the loftier realm of pulp myth. She is "It" with an exclamation mark.
  12. The Craft
    Despite all their toil and trouble, the tale leaves us more bothered than bewitched.
  13. I Shot Andy Warhol
    Obstreperous, male-bashing pain in the patoot.
  14. Kingpin
    Without a doubt, mainstream moviegoers will be revolted by the nastiness of it all.
  15. The Truth About Cats & Dogs
    Written by former deejay Audrey Wells, the observant and funny script includes some wonderful scenes for the leading ladies.
  16. Mulholland Falls
    A sort of empty hat. Patterned after such noir classics as "The Big Sleep" and "Chinatown," the film is written in an arch, self-consciously hard-boiled style by novelist Pete Dexter that comes close to parody.
  17. Mrs. Winterbourne
    Ricki Lake makes an appealing, though unlikely, fairy tale heroine in the derivative romance Mrs. Winterbourne: If only this stale trifle didn't call for the bewitching or pixilating, for the abracadabra of a Bullock or a Pfeiffer. For a Cinderella story, it's sorely without magic.
  18. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
    A flat-out hilarious celebration of B-moviemaking mastery. [19 Apr 1996, p.G06]
    • Washington Post
  19. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
    Shrill and slovenly opus.
  20. Celtic Pride
    Not only is the picture woefully short on laughs, it's also coarse, overbearing and, in places, downright insulting.
  21. The Substitute
    The Substitute is a sour experience—bloody, ugly and exploitative.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kazaam
    Alas, the movie's producers could use a genie of their own. Surely, if granted three wishes, they could have produced a better film.
  23. Courage Under Fire
    I sat through "Courage" with interest, but I wasn't particularly moved or riveted with suspense.
  24. Fear
    Fear is pretty much a cheap-thrills fix; the ideas, such as they are, function as window dressing. Still, cheap though these thrills may be, they are genuinely thrilling.
  25. James and the Giant Peach
    Imaginative, slightly creepy, but tremendously appealing to all ages. It's ripe to bursting with visual effects a heady combination of stop-motion and computer-generated imagery. And it has a delightful cast of personable bugs and larvae, all bound for New York City via floating fruit.
  26. Primal Fear
    The special twist-which Paramount Pictures has implored critics not to divulge-redefines the story completely. It also ruins everything.
  27. A Family Thing
    The potential for hokum is there, but Duvall and co-star James Earl Jones capably avoid the sticky pitfalls of Tom Epperson and Billy Bob Thornton's sugar-cured script.
  28. Ghost in the Shell
    Technically, Ghost in the Shell is astonishing, not only for its smooth meld of cell animation and state-of-the-art computer animation, but also for its imaginative storytelling and mood-setting (thanks to an eerie, non-thumping score by Kenji Kawai).
  29. Sgt. Bilko
    A definite improvement. However, whatever gains this adaptation makes are due entirely to the inspired goofiness of its star, Steve Martin, and not to anything that director Jonathan Lynn or screenwriter Andy Breckman may have contributed.
  30. Flirting with Disaster
    Writer-director David O. Russell's exhilarating follow-up to "Spanking the Monkey," is even wilder, giddier and more unpredictable than that irreverent debut.
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