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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 Filth and the Fury
    The Sex Pistols themselves were bloody magnificent.
  2. Joe Gould's Secret
    The alchemy of good acting under the pressure of sublime film sense makes for a miracle in the hearts of the audience.
  3. Rules of Engagement
    Worth it, though, for the conviction and ramrod-erect bearing that pros Jackson and Jones bring to their roles.
  4. Return to Me
    Where else could this flabby excuse for a women's movie go? Straight to the Oxygen Channel, if it's lucky.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ready to Rumble
    Even though Ready To Rumble isn't funny or good in any way, there's plenty of softcore gay porn (wrestling), loud music and women with large breasts.
  6. Me Myself I
    It's bad enough that Australian writer-director Pip Karmel feels she must attempt the alternate-reality gimmick.
  7. Black and White
    A sui generis excursion into sex and race that is by turns terrible...and close to divine.
  8. Price of Glory
    It's outclassed by the memory of just about every prizefighting flick you've ever seen.
  9. The Road to El Dorado
    A snappy, delightfully balanced bit of historic whimsy.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Skulls
    Screenwriter John Pogue and director Rob Cohen expose only the dullness of their own imaginations.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beau Travail
    Leaving the theater, you feel not only as if you've been in a foreign country, but as if you'd gone there inside someone else's skin.
  12. High Fidelity
    High Fidelity wants to be hip, but it's comically square.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Here on Earth
    Complete and utter horseshit.
  14. Waking the Dead
    Catches the volatile beauty of what it was to be alive and politically aware in the early '70s with a rare accuracy and depth.
  15. The Color of Paradise
    The performances are revelatory.
  16. Such a Long Journey
    True to its source material, this is a movie with the dense, rich texture of a good novel.
  17. Buddy Boy
    A little bit "pi," a little bit "julien donkey-boy," a little bit "Eraserhead," Buddy Boy doesn't equal these, but offers bizarre pleasures of its own.
  18. X
    It's all such a spectacular show.
  19. Whatever It Takes
    If the teen in your life drags you along to this movie, act like you're doing him a favor -- and try not to let on that you sort of liked it.
  20. Winter Sleepers
    Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.
  21. Romeo Must Die
    Doesn't even come close to being a good movie, but it is a lot of fun.
  22. Erin Brockovich
    A sexy, hugely enjoyable romp, hedged with lyrical grace notes and intimate detail.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beyond the Mat
    Blaustein's journey seems not to have shaken his convictions; he still embraces pro wrestling, warts and all.
  24. Final Destination
    Fails because it takes itself both too seriously and not seriously enough.
  25. Soft Fruit
    The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable.
  26. Mission to Mars
    Otherwise fine actors such as Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise spend nearly two hours of film time stand-ing around like department-store dummies mouthing dialogue so wooden it's petrified.
  27. The Ninth Gate
    Euro-kitsch of the highest order, which doesn't mean it's necessarily bad, just unnecessary.
  28. Soft Toilet Seats
    Is it possible for a movie to have a worse title? This might not matter so much if the film that followed were any good, but for the most part it's drudgery.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    Ultimately this is a radio drama made into a movie with a single set.
  30. Condo Painting
    A superb, instructive portrait of an artist at work.
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