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For 8,778 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. Mystery, Alaska
    The bottom line with the film is that there's just no damn mystery about it.
  2. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    A top-notch example of uninsulting kid humor at its goofiest.
  3. Happy, Texas
    A humble comic fable, puttering along with a sunny grin, a goofy sentimentality, and not much else.
  4. Bandits
    Unruly girls around the world are liable to find these Bandits stealing their hearts.
  5. Three Kings
    A war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.
  6. Drive Me Crazy
    The goal of Drive Me Crazy is simple: to sell tickets by selling fantasy.
  7. Double Jeopardy
    Predictable piffle, a comically unbelievable story that leaves almost no impression except what a sham our legal system is.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    The documentary has no narration, and uses excellent expository camerawork to say things that no narrator could equal.
  9. Mumford
    Seems as though its reach is always exceeding its grasp...partly because Kasdan spreads himself a bit thin amongst the nine major characters he's working with.
  10. Jakob the Liar
    Feels sterile and chilly; the humor -- Yiddish and otherwise -- falls flat, and sadly so does the film.
  11. Dog Park
    Quirky, but ultimately disappointing, romantic comedy.
  12. Guinevere
    Bogs down during several fuzzily romantic interludes.
  13. Splendor
    There's a genuine, sparky chemistry between the three (and later, a fourth), and Robertson, particularly, is luminous in her role.
  14. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    From the fan's perspective this is sheer bliss, the next best thing to pouring a couple of glasses of grappa and sitting down with a bona fide film immortal (and world-class raconteur) for a long, intimate conversation.
  15. Breakfast of Champions
    Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.
  16. Lucie Aubrac
    It's a love story, though, and all the more poignant for being one that actually survived under such tempestuous circumstances.
  17. Get Bruce
    Joyous ode to laughter as a way of life.
  18. For Love of the Game
    Watching Raimi's visual style and narrative verve flatten out into this pale reiteration of a middle-aged-male weepie is an exercise in modern horror.
  19. Romance
    Sex may, indeed, be all in the mind, but Romance fails to score in the mind's eye.
  20. American Beauty
    A brilliant, exhilarating piece of filmmaking. It may even be the best mainstream film of the year thus far.
  21. The Minus Man
    The most lackadaisical thriller I've ever seen, overly infatuated with not only the inexplicability of random evil, but also its mundanity.
  22. Love Stinks
    Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.
  23. Stigmata
    The only question audiences are likely to be asking their higher power in the wake of viewing the film is, "What the fuck?"
  24. Black Cat, White Cat
    Farcical mayhem. A convoluted plot that's easy to follow but hard to describe.
  25. Outside Providence
    Beguiling performances and a story that veers between social observations, period detail, and genuine humor make this movie an end-of-the-summer stand-out.
  26. The Muse
    One of the more intelligent comedies out there this summer -- it's not Brooks' best.
  27. The Astronaut's Wife
    The finished product is as predictably dull as a newborn's soft spot.
  28. The 13th Warrior
    Reminiscent of the opening moments of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," actually, only without the clever wit.
  29. In Too Deep
    Too sloppy, pinning psychological crime dramatics to good old-fashioned gunplay.
  30. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Williamson's directorial debut is a sad affair, devoid of shocks, surprises, or even his clever trademark diologue.
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