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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 8.7 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. Hart's War
    A decent thriller trying to overcome a rather preposterous premise.
  2. Crossroads
    So dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Man
    The result is a Brooks Brothers comedy -- part Albert, part Mel.
  4. Scratch
    Simultaneously hilarious and deeply informative thanks to the vibrant personalities at its center.
  5. Super Troopers
    Begins so well that it's painful to watch it degenerate into tried-and-true frat-boy humor.
  6. John Q
    A coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power.
  7. Wendigo
    The film's best and scariest moments come when Miles is confronted with scenes that he translates into proof of the Wendigo's power.
  8. Return to Never Land
    Cleverly structured, fast-paced, funny, even moving.
  9. Collateral Damage
    A pretty decent action picture.
  10. Swiri
    Though the two-hour film can go slack with excess explication, Shiri compensates with an overheated drive that forces the myopia of current events toward a broader field of vision.
  11. Scotland, Pa.
    It's a setup so easy it borders on facile, but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast.
  12. Rollerball
    Rollerball pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence; pounding at the senses, it's mashed story, character, time and space into a chunky hash.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Big Fat Liar
    Old people are made to look ridiculous; clowns are brutalized; characters talk in rapid-fire vaudeville shtick.
  14. A Rumor of Angels
    A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo.
  15. Birthday Girl
    Kidman, who speaks Russian for much of the movie, turns in a technically impeccable performance, but the movie gets far more out of her than she out of it.
  16. Slackers
    Barely proficient on a craft level, this jumble of putatively comic misunderstanding and overly familiar crude burlesque achieves its nadir with a cameo from Mamie Van Doren, a degrading, shameful turn that lays bare, all too literally, the filmmakers' contempt for women.
  17. Storytelling
    Storytelling is no more likely than "Happiness" or "Welcome to the Dollhouse" to resolve the question of whether director Todd Solondz is a serious artist or a nasty little man with a perversely glum view of the universe.
  18. Maelstrom
    Dark, wickedly funny tale.
  19. The Son's Room
    The film portrays a family undone by grief over the death of a loved one; that, in any event, is its plot synopsis. More accurately, the film is a wallow of authorial narcissism, and a tedious, unrelenting, uninteresting wallow at that.
  20. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Reynolds, working in close harmony with cinematographer Andrew Dunn (Gosford Park), brings an infectious brio and an occasional sweeping grace to the classic trappings of Dumas.
  21. Beijing Bicycle
    Had Xiaoshuai trusted audience sympathies to stay with a slightly more forceful character, he'd likely have crafted the heart tugger that the film aims to be.
  22. The Mothman Prophecies
    Pellington's sharp, fastball compositions and nerve-splintering cutting style are of a piece with such intelligence, devilishly mixing shock with optimism.
  23. Metropolis
    This muscular anime melodrama is so visually splendid that on that level alone it qualifies as a breakthrough.
  24. Escaflowne: The Movie
    A smoothly structured, earth-toned and well-drawn Japanese anime.
  25. A Walk to Remember
    West delivers the emotional goods when tragedy strikes in the final reel. If 17-year-old pop star Moore isn't a skilled actress, she's at least unassuming.
  26. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    If, for whatever reason, you do find yourself watching it, you may begin to ponder one of life's larger dilemmas: the fact that something can be done does not necessarily mean it should be done.
  27. American Adobo
    The film's failings are only highlighted by the fact that while, occasionally, we're granted real glimpses of interior lives, largely emanating from de Leon, Davao and Picache, those lives are never given the chance to take shape.
  28. Snow Dogs
    Relies almost exclusively on the gushing exuberance of Gooding Jr., and the aw-shucks factor of his digitally expressive, face-licking canine co-stars, leaving such potentially game actors as James Coburn and M. Emmet Walsh out in the cold.
  29. Ha-Hesder
    A capable, soulful thriller with a love story as steamy as is possible when its lead characters are Orthodox Jews.
  30. Italian for Beginners
    With its ludicrous parallels and brisk, funny script (pardon my provincialism, but it sounds all the funnier in Danish), Italian for Beginners is full of larky charm while drawing its emotional vitality from urban loneliness.
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