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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. The Five Senses
    Comes so freighted with tragedy and sensitivity that I left dreaming of converting the abject misery of one and all to everyday unhappiness with free drinks and a raucous sing-along down at the pub.
  2. Shadow Hours
    The pits.
  3. X-Men
    The film's strength and its entertainment lie in John Myhre's production design, its generally appealing cast...and, perhaps most importantly, a canny degree of self-parody.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Big Blue
    Let's call this "rethinking" The Abysmal.
  5. Chuck & Buck
    Had this idea been pursued to its conclusion instead of the pat, wishfully ready-for-TV ending we're fed, the movie would be a standout.
  6. The Kid
    There isn't a moment in the film that isn't overhyped.
  7. All the Rage
    This is a dream cast who practically sing screenwriter Keith Reddin's funny, literate dialogue.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I'm the One That I Want
    An uplifting -- not to mention pee-your-pants funny -- true story of self-acceptance that should be required viewing for all TV executives and teenage girls.
  9. Shower
    Pretty good going for a ton of moisture.
  10. But I'm a Cheerleader
    The opening moments of -- are some of the funniest --the rest of the movie beats you over the head with jokes, and though funny in parts, it's never this smart again.
  11. Scary Movie
    Some of the funny stuff is actually funny, some of it is funny and yucky, but most of it is just stupid.
  12. The Perfect Storm
    The whole thing is kitsch of the most pricey sort, and it's a good guess that it will be a smash.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    These are pitch-perfect impersonations rather than performances.
  14. Trixie
    Director Alan Rudolph kills this promising film off with a combination of bad writing and wrong-headed direction.
  15. The Patriot
    Patriot reflects on nothing, except perhaps that the American Revolution was a golden opportunity for Mel Gibson to go postal.
  16. Praise
    A surprisingly affecting mood piece.
  17. Me, Myself & Irene
    For all their foul jokes and embarrassments, the brothers have a talent for creating characters whose goodness, and lack of ironic self-consciousness, shield them against life's insults.
  18. Chicken Run
    A delirious fable about every creature's need for espace.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Titan A.E.
    An overproduced cartoon without a freeze-dried ounce of wit.
  20. Shaft
    What Jackson's Shaft can't do is talk the talk, or much of anything else, in director John Singleton's feature-length insult to one of the more cherished modern screen icons.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Jesus' Son
    Wildly funny bum's rush through the existentially absurd, self-engendered peaks and valleys of the junkie's lament.
  22. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Comes as close as perhaps any film has gotten to approximating the inner life of an artist.
  23. The Woman Chaser
    The movie is glorious pulp pastiche without the smirks, which is fitting given the author's ironic humanism.
  24. Humanité
    If only the whole thing didn't collapse in on itself, and quickly become a parody of artistic reach and terminal folly.
  25. Butterfly Tongues
    The family flags palpable agony... provides the movie's only earned emotional tension.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Boys and Girls
    Nice try, guys . . . now give me back my 97 minutes.
  27. Groove
    What gives the movie its coltish charm is Harrison's scene-setting feel for the indomitable brio of kids.
  28. Pop & Me
    The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
  29. Sunshine
    What makes Sunshine unique, what rewards a first viewing and lives in the mind long thereafter, is that Szabo has attempted to place Judaism and Christianity on a continuum that is both historically truthful and highly personal.
  30. Love's Labour's Lost
    Branagh has cut, pasted and aggressively abridged Love's Labour's Lost, and piled it high with fancy visuals to make sure we get the drift.
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