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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 8.6 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. Taboo
    Above all, Oshima has fashioned a tale of men among men that feels familiar at first, then moves boldly into more enigmatic terrain.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Crude animation, shrill voicework.
  3. Bamboozled
    Spike Lee lost his nerve -- there are moments here, too, when it also seems like he lost his sense.
  4. Meet the Parents
    While Stiller and De Niro can play hilariously off one another, the film -- despite its happy ending -- feels unresolved.
  5. Requiem for a Dream
    Far too complex and provoking.
  6. Bootmen
    One expects razzle-dazzle dance sequences to lift this movie above its clichés, but they are few and far between, which is not only disappointing, it's downright baffling.
  7. Mercy Streets
    Writer-director Jon Gunn and co-writer John W. Mann can't fashion a meaningful parable from their knot of dangling plotlines and absurd scenarios.
  8. Girlfight
    Kusama leads with feminist empowerment, but her sucker punch is a sappy romance.
  9. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    He (Berlanti) shoots for bland entertainment and scores.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    Surprisingly few insights from the quintet, and after 90 minutes we're more familiar with the furniture of their rooms.
  11. Remember the Titans
    Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race.
  12. Beautiful
    Made with the slick, shorthand complacency of a TV movie, Beautiful is so overstuffed with contrivance, you can hardly breathe.
  13. Best in Show
    Guest begins -- but doesn't end -- with caricatures, then peels away at our preconceptions until we see the heart and soul beneath.
  14. The Tavern
    Although on the surface this is a modest comedy about the Catch-22 frustrations of the restaurant game (arcane insurance laws, backstabbing chefs), it is also a movie of some psychological depth, thanks to the understated precision of Dye's deep-welled performance.
  15. The Specials
    An easygoing work of unforced humor built on gags that should be stupid, but are ultimately too ridiculous to resist.
  16. The Fantasticks
    This is the first Broadway-sourced movie musical in umpteen years, and you should see it, because the score is gorgeous.
  17. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
  18. Woman on Top
    Relentlessly positive and optimistic, the film is also likable, in the most chaste way imaginable.
  19. Dancer in the Dark
    I was astonished to find myself weeping copiously over von Trier's latest, which is another parable of monomaniacal sainthood.
  20. Left Luggage
    Manipulative filmmaking at its most gently persuasive.
  21. Under Suspicion
    Overproduced, psychologically muddled, and burdened with an enchantingly overheated screenplay.
  22. Tigerland
    Schumacher has gone into the cinematic heart of darkness and emerged with his own peculiar kink on the war movie: Vietnam beefcake.
  23. A Piece of Eden
    Its tone is as disjointed as if this were a first effort.
  24. Human Resources
    What makes this straightforward film so incredibly moving is that it keeps its scathing political commentary firmly rooted in everyday struggle.
  25. Goya in Bordeaux
    Storaro's gorgeous cinematography imbues every frame with an enthralling subjectivity.
  26. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    A haunting tale of the physical survival and emotional confusion of children who were simultaneously required to build a new life and hold fast to the memory of an old one, in the hope of resuming it after the war.
    • L.A. Weekly
  27. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    A cut above the usual teenage-wasteland movie.
  28. Bait
    Though the film overall is as disposable as a hot dog, it is just as enjoyable.
  29. Urbania
    The story of what happens when everything dies but love. It's a simple story, artfully told.
  30. Duets
    Why the devotion to such dull material?
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