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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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    It is in the "serious" moments that the film's sentiments don't ring true.
  2. Taxman
    Writer-director Avi Nesher and co-screenwriter Roger Berger -- upon whose real-life investigations the film is based -- deliver on the hard-boiled promise of this low-key thriller with plenty of gritty twists and turns.
  3. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    Nearly three and a half hours in length, but owing to its freedom of movement, the film feels weightless.
  4. Sugar Town
    Lovely, lovely, lovely.
  5. Romance
    There's never been a movie director like Catherine Breillat, a fearless visionary and one hell of a woman.
  6. For Love of the Game
    The film's larger, surprisingly mature emotional rhythms are strong enough to pull it through.
  7. Blue Streak
    (Lawrence)'s not just unfunny, he's coarsely anti-funny. The film just lurches from one dull skit to the next without bite or much of a point.
  8. Lucie Aubrac
    Aside from isolated flares of unchecked emotion ...Bouquet's Lucie is too far removed from our ken of romance and overriding purpose, or from Berri's for that matter, to be embraced entirely.
  9. Breakfast of Champions
    It's great unruly fun.
  10. Splendor
    It's dirty and delightful, if a tad on the slight side.
  11. American Beauty
    Surprises you with a kind of hardheaded romanticism.
  12. The Minus Man
    A film without attitude or mystery...an exquisitely executed, and exquisitely banal, treatise on the banality of evil.
  13. B. Monkey
    Unfortunately, none of the characters -- despite the film's strong cast -- ever seems worthy of the attention.
  14. Love Stinks
    There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal.
  15. Earth
    Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Best Laid Plans
    Manages to be a fun twist-within-a-twist movie.
  17. Black Cat, White Cat
    Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.
  18. Stigmata
    A better title for this flick might have been Astigmatism: Nothing ever comes into focus long enough ... to deliver even the faintest sense of fright.
  19. All the Little Animals
    Three leads do their best with simplistic characters.
  20. Outside Providence
    Baldwin's perfectly impacted performance as a tough-love provider (the actor gets some of the best lines in the movie).
  21. Chill Factor
    These bantering would-be heroes mostly live at the tops of their voices.
  22. The 13th Warrior
    For the most part it delivers the goods.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    Brodie assembles a grab bag of themes formulaic to films about poverty.
  24. The Astronaut's Wife
    This hypersleek film is surprisingly lax for its first half... The ending is dumb.
  25. The Muse
    If only the whole thing were as funny as an Albert Brooks movie.
  26. The Very Thought of You
    This bright farce is spun from interlocking coincidences that only seem far-fetched.
  27. Dudley Do-Right
    This whole movie is fun, and smart too, a fitting tribute to Jay Ward's original cartoons.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In Too Deep
    Enough gunfights, vicious beatings, and pissing matches for five films.
  29. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A dark, biting comedy-- funny, smart and full of unpredictable twist and turns.
  30. Mickey Blue Eyes
    An abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
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