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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 Bachelor
    Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.
  2. Some Fish Can Fly
    In the end, Some Fish Can Fly doesn't.
  3. Portraits chinois
    The predicaments of this whiny, unprepossessing crew inspire about as much sympathy as a celebrity divorce.
  4. Rosetta
    A portrait of dispossession so acute that it's caused a few critics to cry, Let her eat cake!
  5. The Bone Collector
    By the last third, one is sick to death of seeing people tortured, no real catharsis is offered, and stupid is how one feels.
  6. Train of Life
    Gaily seduces you into its fantasy life, then whacks you over the head with a finale that, intentionally or not, functions as a rebuke to the mad optimism of Benigni's pandering film
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last Night
    Strangely uplifting, a kind of ode to how on Earth we think we're passing the time.
  8. The Insider
    Has the glorious look and immaculate technique we expect from Mann, along with a wealth of superb secondary performances.
  9. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    (Herzog's) tribute to Kinski doubles as a life-affirming monument to creation in all its variety.
  10. American Movie
    This unassuming, insistently entertaining documentary has the virtue of a great subject.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Man of the Century
    Though the story is often silly to the point of ridiculous, its goofy tone and charming characters, especially Frazier's Johnny, create a lovely idealization of a long-gone era.
  12. The Legend of 1900
    The sense of loss aroused by the film is oceanic.
  13. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    A film whose story movingly outfoxes any number of shopworn expectations on its way to a singular, heart-rending outcome.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Beefcake
    Dull, tacky docudrama
  15. The Suburbans
    Tiresome vanity project.
  16. Music of the Heart
    Oh, Mr. Craven, give us a "Scream."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Speaking in Strings
    The less you know about the world of classical music and, specifically, about one of its more flamboyant denizens, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the less the offense of Speaking in Strings.
  18. House on Haunted Hill
    Low-budget, high-camp.
  19. Princess Mononoke
    A Zeitgeist potpourri, strung with late-20th-century fear and anxiety.
  20. Being John Malkovich
    It's a cheerfully deranged stunt, executed in a spirit of infectious lunacy that powers the resulting film to its strongest laughs, and weirdest depths.
  21. Three to Tango
    Placing gay characters front and center in big Hollywood movies is supposed to inspire cheers, not the case of the creeps that comes with Three To Tango.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Body Shots
    A creepy clinical voyeurism and condescending empathy that can't help but alienate its intended audience.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Crazy in Alabama
    The two disparate yet thematically linked storylines are far too faithfully transposed for a feature-length treatment -- crammed together, they're denied the space to flesh out as a cohesive whole.
  24. Men Cry Bullets
    Writer-director Hernandez is comfortable with violent, perverse emotions, and can find humor in them -- a refreshing quality that keeps one watching long after her movie has jumped its own tracks and zoomed to a private world of obscurely motivated quarrels and uninvolving reconciliations.
  25. The Best Man
    The best parts of the film...are often distractingly slick enough to cover the film's overriding lack of soul.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Ciudad (The City)
    Lovely.
  27. Bringing Out the Dead
    (Cage's) performance feels embalmed in the accumulated shtick of an actor trapped in excess.
  28. Bats
    Overlong, hard look at the perils of tampering with Creation.
  29. The Story of Us
    The wet blanket of undigested autobiography lies all over Rob Reiner's excruciating new opus about a marriage winding down into terminal atrophy.
  30. L'ennui
    As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.
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