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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. The Animal
    The Animal is tailor-made for last-resort Friday-night rentals.
  2. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Comes off as a desperate attempt to breathe life into dull proceedings.
  3. Rape Me
    A small revolution tucked inside clichés and willful artistic ineptitude.
  4. Big Eden
    A rosy, hearthside fantasy of acceptance that's so assured in its writing and direction, it's nearly impossible not to believe.
  5. A Love Divided
    In the end, Macartney and screenwriter Stuart Hepburn decide that love conquers all, which may have been the way it happened but doesn't leave the film with much going on.
  6. No One Sleeps
    Intriguing yet muddled thriller.
  7. Himalaya
    Captured extraordinary performances from a cast of non-actors, as well as magnificent images of a vast landscape.
  8. The Road Home
    By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
  9. Pearl Harbor
    A Michael Bay movie: bang bang, paper-thin characters, wooden screenplay.
  10. The Man Who Cried
    A star ensemble is preposterously miscast.
  11. Our Song
    So gently told, so deceptively simple a story, that its considerable emotional power sneaks up on you.
  12. Fast Food Fast Women
    The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.
  13. Angel Eyes
    A sappy love story wherein nary a gun or action sequence is seen after the first 10 minutes.
  14. Shrek
    Shrek's first 20 minutes are so devilishly funny that letting go of pure belief doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
  15. Moulin Rouge!
    Drowns in baroque mise en scène camp, frenetic musical numbers and a precious dialogue conceit that wears out its welcome very fast.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Startup.com
    Startup.com goes from being a mildly interesting true story to a ripping good train wreck in the making.
  17. The Trumpet of the Swan
    At times, both swans and humans appear oddly out of sync with their flat backgrounds, while the film's few musical flights of fancy never achieve visual liftoff.
  18. Bread and Roses
    There are scenes here that fill one with rage or bring tears to the eyes.
  19. Sordid Lives
    Some of the performances are remarkably natural amid so much farce.
  20. The King Is Alive
    The tedium of the situation is felt by the audience, but too often in the wrong way: We don't empathize so much as suffer through the movie.
  21. A Knight's Tale
    The skits are dreadful, the jokes suck.
  22. About Adam
    While the film strives to prove its cool, it's also built on the insufferably antique idea that some flattery and a good fuck are all any woman needs.
  23. Ed Gein
    Railsback and Snodgrass struggle against caricature in their own fine performances.
  24. Pavilion of Women
    So many romantic cliches it's laughable.
  25. Eureka
    Eerily compelling.
  26. Time and Tide
    Extraordinarily witty (nothing new for this director) while coming off as a taunt to anyone who'd dare to follow in his wake.
  27. Under the Sand
    Powerfully enigmatic study of the fundamental opacity of human relations.
  28. The Mummy Returns
    You can't see the movie for the footage, so thick is it with digital tricks and furious action.
  29. Nora
    We may not fully grasp what Nora saw in Joyce, but what he saw in her is made unmistakable, and worth seeing.
  30. Deuces Wild
    Astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent, incoherent or just plain crap. Indeed, none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is Deuces Wild.
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