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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. Green Dragon
    The characters are put through worn-out cinematic paces, making both them and their tales tedious. Green Dragon plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights.
  2. The Forsaken
    The film works, cleanly, without any tiresome reliance on computer graphics.
  3. One Night at McCool's
    The drawback is Tyler, who lacks the vigor and energy her part requires in order to transcend charges of misogyny.
  4. Town & Country
    This should have been Beatty's "Wonder Boys," but the filmmakers don't seem to realize they've sent their hero on a sexual adventure that neither his heart nor his dick needs to take.
  5. The Golden Bowl
    Seen in the bowl's metaphoric reflection, Nolte's Adam, with his patronizing wish to build a great art museum to "give something back" to the poor laborers who built his fortune, is a complex American monster.
  6. Driven
    Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
  7. Harry Is Here to Help
    Moll ratchets his suspense with impressive mastery, wringing a maximum of excruciating terror out of the humblest everyday materials.
  8. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Despite the lack of zing in Hogan's frequently self-deprecating zingers, director Simon Wincer repeatedly lets scenes dribble on until an awkward silence engulfs everyone onscreen.
  9. The Luzhin Defence
    A smart, romantic, heartbreaking pleasure.
  10. The Low Down
    Thraves escapes formula by shaping the film around low-key incidents instead of speeches or overt lessons. There are plenty of side streets here.
  11. Freddy Got Fingered
    Lurches from one set-piece stomach-lurcher to the next with nary a nod to narrative coherence.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Center of the World
    We should be thankful for the courage of Wang and his cast in standing against a culture that nervously treats sex as either a prurient joke or a puritan crime.
  13. Lakeboat
    Mamet's fixation on language is, nonetheless, more effective onstage than onscreen, where the technical and visual requirements distract from the sounds of the words -- the heart of Mamet's work.
  14. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Bessed with a gleamingly polished, very funny script.
  15. The Body
    Mutates halfway through into a ham-fisted action movie that squanders the good will, and insults the intelligence, of its audience.
  16. The Circle
    A triumph of invisible craftsmanship that embraces so much specific detail that none of the women ever comes across as an emblem or an abstraction.
  17. Joe Dirt
    Rich with comic potential that goes unfulfilled, time after stupefying time.
  18. Josie and the Pussycats
    A surprisingly smart satire around the bubble-gum band that first found life in the pages of the Archie comic book series.
  19. Kingdom Come
    So many stars means so little room for character and plot.
  20. Chopper
    Grotesquely violent, horribly funny.
  21. Blow
    If as much thought had been expended on character and consequences as was lavished on bell-bottom diameters, collar widths and soundtrack selection, Blow might have been a richer, more intelligent experience, and much more Demme's movie than a carbon copy of other people's.
  22. Along Came a Spider
    By the time it hits you, you're worn out by all the dead ends and false trails the movie has put you through.
  23. Mau Mau Sex Sex
    There is too much rambling contemporary footage here and not enough juicy historical material.
  24. Beautiful Creatures
    Could it get any worse?
  25. The Day I Became a Woman
    Promising, if uneven, first feature.
  26. The Girl
    Like the film's characters, the city of Paris has been made faceless, as if it too were merely the pawn in a representational hell where light and color and shading are forbidden.
  27. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    At times the picture feels like an affectionate parody of recent Iranian films.
  28. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Less about music than about the possibilities of the IMAX system itself.
  29. Just Visiting
    A happy vulgarity still reigns.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Equally as brainless, shrill and calculated as its two predecessors.
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