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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Around the Bend
    The final revelation which, however anticipated, however contrived, stings just enough to make it feel like life.
  2. Autumn
    Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained.
  3. Typhoon
    The movie is executed by director Kwak Kyung-Taek with flair, technical polish and tumescent firepower that the shriveled cinemas of Hong Kong and Japan can no longer match. But every gesture feels synthetic, from the back story about North-South separation to massage the emotions of the home audience, to the 24-style globe-hopping nuclear-terrorism premise.
  4. Maybe Baby
    A film we hereby proclaim the finest fertility comedy ever made, in the faint hope that another will not be attempted.
  5. Payback
    Helgeland strips the material back to its pulp origins and overlays it with a patina of glib motifs familiar to devotees of Hollywood’s 1970s renaissance.
  6. Miss Julie
    A solidly filmed great play.
  7. Dr. Dolittle
    To his credit, Eddie Murphy knows it well enough to deliver a team-playing performance as the critter-phobic physician who reluctantly becomes the Albert Schweitzer of the animal kingdom.
  8. A Wake in Providence
    The best news here is Adrienne Barbeau, the 1970s TV star and B-movie queen (Swamp Thing), who invests the role of Anthony's aunt with a worldly-wise sensuality that suggests a long-lost cousin of Tony Soprano.
  9. Clay Pigeons
    If you get your jollies from watching women being shot, stabbed and humiliated, you’ll love video director David Dobkin’s pointlessly grisly, tediously derivative feature debut.
  10. Deliver Us from Eva
    Hardwick doesn't have the chops yet to give the movie the caffeinated zip that it needs to really fly. There are too many dull, flat stretches…(however) the soundtrack kicks ass.
  11. Picture Perfect
    Director Glenn Gordon Carron's movie is far more bearable when Kate is spinning lies and sticking her tongue in Kevin Bacon's desiccated bad boy.
  12. Lolita
    Irons' doleful lassitude sucks the energy right out of the story and makes this listlessly directed adaptation droop all the more.
  13. Festival in Cannes
    This isn't a terrible film by any means, but it's also far from being a realized work. Jaglom has said that he “writes” his films in the editing room, but for Festival in Cannes he must have been using a crayon.
  14. Food of Love
    Crushingly airless film -- Food chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    28 Days
    Has all the force of bubbles on air -- fun to look at, but exciting no emotion deeper than fleeting delight.
  16. Breakin' All the Rules
    Yet another unfunny buppie sex comedy in the manner of "The Brothers," "Two Can Play That Game" and "Deliver Us From Eva."
  17. Beyond the Sea
    Put simply, the film is a dazzling and fearless piece of showmanship.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ringer
    The movie strains so hard to have its heart in the right place that it never really exploits the guilty-pleasure fun of the premise.
  19. Ravenous
    Although the hinges connecting the film's elements -- slapstick, political satire, thriller, gross-out shots -- sometimes squeak loudly, they hold the movie together nicely.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Next Day Air
    Benny Boom built his reputation directing music videos and commercials, and his first feature, Next Day Air, falls somewhere between the blunt-force visuals of the former and the focus-grouped formulas of the latter.
  21. Manderlay
    It's true, of course, that Trier still hasn't set foot on U.S. soil, but it may be that he sees us, in all our virtue and victimhood, that much more clearly for it.
  22. The Woman Chaser
    The movie is glorious pulp pastiche without the smirks, which is fitting given the author's ironic humanism.
  23. Mind the Gap
    You can see what's coming five minutes into the movie, but capable acting lends it a certain superficial charm.
  24. The Deal
    Although the dialogue initially flakes with awkward exposition, writer Ruth Epstein and director Harvey Kahn have fashioned a riveting thriller full of good scares and learned, muckraking insight into the global labyrinth of oil and politics.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    She's Out of My League
    Slight comedy, directed by Jim Field Smith, who tries with modest success to blend the sticky-sweet with the plain ol' sticky.
  26. King Arthur
    If King Arthur is as magnificently ridiculous as any Bruckheimer picture, its thuggish charms, which owe as much to Monty Python as to Sam Peckinpah, more than pick up the slack.
  27. Esther Kahn
    Brilliantly edited and gorgeously shot, Esther Kahn is a dream to look at and, courtesy of Howard Shore's minor chords and high-strung strings, definitely something to hear.
  28. One Night at McCool's
    The drawback is Tyler, who lacks the vigor and energy her part requires in order to transcend charges of misogyny.
  29. Secret Window
    The ultimate test of one's tolerance for King's self-aggrandizing postulations about writer's block, obsessive fans and the potentially frightening manifestations of the writer's id...It's just plain lousy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    It is in the "serious" moments that the film's sentiments don't ring true.
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