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On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Snatch.
    Guy Ritchie's second feature, is a faux tough caper modeled lock, stock, kit, and caboodle on his earlier film ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.''
  2. Gozu
    Not until the last 20 minutes does Gozu come fully alive. A man has sex with a seductive beauty, who then gives birth to...well, let's just say it's a sight that may take time to fight its way out of your head.
  3. My Flesh and Blood
    You'd have to be a stone not to be affected by My Flesh and Blood, but the director, Jonathan Karsh, merges compassion with voyeurism until you can't tell the difference.
  4. Jump Tomorrow
    There's a certain breed of annoying indie movie in which a character's shyness is portrayed in a manner so coy that it becomes a reverse form of exhibitionism. Jump Tomorrow is that kind of movie.
  5. Gothika
    Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class.
  6. Pieces of April
    The quaint racial blinders are really on the eyes of the filmmaker, Peter Hedges, who shoves his characters into the narrowest of sitcom slots and seals them there.
  7. In Praise of Love
    Godard, as always, sounds full of insight, yet he uses the past to damn the present in a way that may be reflexively self-serving. In Praise of Love leaves a taste as bitter as poison ash.
  8. Honey
    Despite some sizzle with love interest Mekhi Phifer, the alluring Alba ends up a desexualized mouthpiece.
  9. Human Traffic
    The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
  10. Conspiracy of Silence
    Want Jesuitical fineness of argument? Look elsewhere. This one merely answers the prayers of those looking for an argument.
  11. Formula 51
    The film should have been called ''Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels.''
  12. Eyes Wide Shut
    The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.
  13. Lethal Weapon 4
    At the Lethal Weapon plant, what you see, after 11 years, are the rusting remnants of a once innovative model.
  14. Fierce Creatures
    Mostly a mess: toothless when it should be nasty, not so much madcap as merely frantic.
  15. Kiss the Girls
    Kiss the Girls is a fake psychological thriller that turns into a garishly schlocky and implausible bogeyman hunt.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    There may be nothing more fun for actors than experimental exaggeration, especially when filming on a Caribbean island. But there’s nothing that makes an audience feel less welcome than not being in on the joke.
  17. Scream 3
    About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
  18. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    At once hypnotic and baffling, filled with surreal motifs and symbols, Fire Walk With Me could be the most rarefied teen horror film ever made: It's like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
  19. Danny Deckchair
    It's a soothing stoner tableau, a fine dropout fantasy.
  20. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Designed to be "inspirational," yet it shortchanges the complex reality of the lives it makes such a show of saving.
  21. The Big Red One
    Lee Marvin, it must be said, is terrific as the platoon commander, and Fuller deserves props for the film's one sustained sequence: the D-Day attack, in which the platoon gets pinned on the beach for a hellish eternity.
  22. Mr. Deeds
    An idiot variation on Frank Capra's ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,'' might have been thrown together in even less time than it takes Sandler to get dressed in the morning; it feels sort of like the dumbest corporate comedy of 1987.
  23. Underworld
    By the end, I was starting to ponder questions like, If a vampire mates with a lycan-vamp hybrid, which parent will have to convert?
  24. Wonderland
    When we finally do see what happened, it's a genuine shock, a nightmare vision of a hedonist who forged his own hell.
  25. City of Angels
    This is the sort of movie in which everyone on screen is swathed in gauzy benevolence. You practically have time to say a prayer in the dead spaces between lines.
  26. Absolute Power
    Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39]
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  27. Kundun
    At once spectacular and inert -- a mosaic impersonating a movie; an empty-shell epic.
  28. Beyond Borders
    Jolie, in this movie at least, has exactly two expressions: blank wistfulness and blank dismay. She reduces the tides of history to one more raided tomb.
  29. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    When Bebop's anime characters stand still, chirping their strangely stilted, dubbed talk and not moving their strangely blank faces, I feel lost on Mars myself.
  30. John Q
    The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.
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