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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Source
    A witty exploration of cultural mythology, while simultaneously contributing to that mythology.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Defying Gravity
    An exhaustingly melodramatic yarn...a sorely misguided attempt at tender, heartfelt realism, given a WB-glossy sheen and saddled with a script in which every line is the single most hackneyed thing the character could possibly say.
  3. Joe the King
    Whaley successfully balances his scenes on a knife-edge of tenderness and anger that was Truffaut's trademark.
  4. That's the Way I Like It
    Goei's sharp-eyed satiric sense evokes the diversity and energy of Singapore, and his good-humored nostalgia makes disco rise from the dead.
  5. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Looks like no other recent release...certainly rich enough to warrant more than one viewing.
  6. The Straight Story
    Inspirational...unfolds gently with an evenness and rural patience.
  7. Fight Club
    On a purely visual level, it's the most powerful and viscerally exciting movie to come out of Hollywood this year. Which doesn't mean that it's all good.
  8. The Omega Code
    Bad photography, bad acting and bad dialogue.
  9. The Grandfather
    The picture's deepest strength, however, is the fire Fernán-Gómez conjures from deep within himself, as if "honor" were an extinct volcano he could will into exploding, given enough anger and time.
  10. Random Hearts
    Has spread itself so thin between plot, subplots and great scads of floppy pop-psych, it has nothing else to do but lie down and die of exhaustion.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Molly
    This movie's already been entertaining (or boring) airline passengers for months.
  12. The Limey
    A disappointed meditation on the '60s.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Whiteboyz
    Can never quite decide whether it's after the humor implicit in what seems conceived as satire, or the agitprop frissons of race and class theory.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Superstar
    It isn't so easy to laugh at Mary Katherine Gallagher and her disgusting antics when she actually has feelings.
  15. Boys Don't Cry
    Free of the disclaiming jokey sneer that defaces so much of contemporary neo-noir.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    New Rose Hotel
    The first two-thirds are turgid enough; in the last, Ferrara begins replaying scenes we've already seen earlier in the film.
  17. Bandits
    Equal parts big-house B-feature, hammer-down road movie, post-feminist consciousness-raiser and rock & roll pipe dream.
  18. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    The film is nothing if not benign, but its merits are moot for those above 7 or so.
  19. Happy, Texas
    A very cynical exploitation of the current Hollywood vogue for things queer. Still, the film is a must-see.
  20. Mystery, Alaska
    Thoroughly mediocre.
  21. Plunkett & Macleane
    Lewd, crude and occasionally too brutal to take, it's also gorgeous, heartfelt.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Drive Me Crazy
    Nothing in this craven exercise... will register in the memory for longer than the walk back to the car.
  23. Three Kings
    Better than the usual Hollywood rot, but dialectical it ain't.
  24. Double Jeopardy
    All promise and no payoff.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    Jolts with a quiet intimacy.
  26. Out of Season
    In a major miscalculation, writer-director Jeanette L. Buck has underwritten Micki [the protagonist], making her so mysteriously sullen and distant that audiences may feel violently alienated.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    One Man's Hero
    Basically a TNT Western with Tom Berenger in the lead.
  28. Mumford
    How refreshing it is to see a studio picture where plot development is revealed not so much by grandiose action as by the small, interior shifts that are witnessed through a character's eyes.
  29. Jakob the Liar
    Just avoid this ghastly, insulting farrago at all costs.
  30. Simon Sez
    A pretty miserable time at the movies.
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