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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. What Planet Are You From?
    Shandling comes off as a sleazebag -- all that's missing are the gold chains, tufted chest hair and English Leather.
  2. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Laced with brilliantly knotted ideas on race, masculinity and cults of violence.
  3. Drowning Mona
    The only vaguely funny moments are courtesy William Fichtner, as the dead woman's husband, and Jamie Lee Curtis in full metal drag as his furtive squeeze.
  4. The Next Best Thing
    No one ever turns into a real character, and none of the scenes have either dramatic or comedic resonance.
  5. 3 Strikes
    Three strikes maybe, but no stars and no thumbs up (except the one way, way up its own ass).
  6. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    A heartbreaking reminder of all the wars whose frontlines are currently held by the very young, wars that have robbed them not only of family and friends, but of their childhoods as well.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Brown's Requiem
    Flat-footed.
  8. The Closer You Get
    Oddly anemic and muted -- BBC Saturday-night material.
  9. Mifune's Last Song
    A mood of anarchic spontaneity and freshness that thrills.
  10. Wonder Boys
    It's striking on several counts.
  11. Reindeer Games
    A cleverly plotted, cleanly crafted matinee item -- pure entertainment on a romping continuum with Frankenheimer's "Ronin."
  12. Judy Berlin
    Where "American Beauty" was smug and obvious in its dissection of suburban life, Judy Berlin is hilarious, heartbreaking and -- in its graciousness -- unlike any American film we've seen in a long time.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pitch Black
    This is damaged goods from the opening Poly Gram logo.
  14. Beautiful People
    Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film
  15. Hanging Up
    That we are supposed to find something to admire in this callow crew is insufferable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Places Greenberg in historical context -- as a pioneering Jew and as an all-American sports hero.
  17. The Whole Nine Yards
    Well-tuned wisecracks and clever plot twists.
  18. Not One Less
    Zhang's work is always worth watching, but this is the first of his films in which the sorrows are so heart-rending, its many comic moments so laugh-out-loud human.
  19. Boiler Room
    You come away from Boiler Room eager to see what Younger will do next.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Tigger Movie
    A gas, full of just enough whiz-bang animation, but not too much to ruin what has always made Pooh and friends -- adventures work in the past.
  21. Cotton Mary
    Richer and cleverer than any Merchant Ivory movie in memory.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Fortunately, everything comes together splendidly in the last act, and the kids and grown-ups are all first-rate.
  23. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Now that's exploitation.
  24. The Beach
    An intermittently gripping, good-looking movie.
  25. Gun Shy
    A smooth little comedy deserving of more studio support than it got.
  26. Knockout
    There's little to recommend Knockout.
  27. Scream 3
    It's a pleasure to report that Scream 3 is an absolute riot, jammed with spicy cameos.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Grizzly Falls
    When you don't find yourself wondering about dialogue that's drowned out by rushing rivers and footfalls in the brush, something is very wrong.
  29. The Big Tease
    How nice to see a new comic lead (Ferguson) with the confidence not to hog the screen.
  30. The Cup
    Though The Cup is lovely to look at, it has none of the ceremonial rigor mortis of Scorsese's "Kundun."
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