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For 16,550 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Outta Time
    Unafraid of improbability and coincidence, writers Ned Kerwin & Scott Duncan pile on nonstop action that keeps up a furious pace without giving the viewer time to ponder its credibility.
  2. Quo Vadis?
    Kawalerowicz directs with briskness and vigor but cannot keep the first half of his film from slipping into tedium.
  3. Human Nature
    A goofball movie, in the way "Malkovich" was, but it tries too hard.
  4. Frailty
    Well-crafted, disturbing Texas gothic thriller, a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and, some plot blips aside, stays there for the duration.
  5. The Other Side of Heaven
    The whole trippy experience is like being held at gunpoint by a Jehovah's Witness at the front door while George Gobel holds forth in the living room on Nickelodeon.
  6. Changing Lanes
    Frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is.
  7. New Best Friend
    Struggles awkwardly to bring a twist or two to its hoary class-conscious story line, aiming for a subtlety in character development that's smothered by excessive kitsch and kink.
  8. The Sweetest Thing
    The trick is getting from a conclusion made five minutes into a movie to an ending 90 minutes away. It can be a scary prospect. In The Sweetest Thing it is mostly a hoot.
  9. Lucky Break
    Lightly reflective and consistently entertaining, Lucky Break is an easy-to-take diversion.
  10. Les Destinées
    Assayas has made a great film from Jacques Chardonne's classic novel. Although far different in tone, time, place and temperament, it brings to mind "Gone With the Wind" in its depth and scope and in its love story, which unfolds over a turbulent era.
  11. High Crimes
    The problem with High Crimes, acceptable though it is, is that it's not close to anyone's best work.
  12. American Chai
    Perceptive, good-natured movie.
  13. Big Trouble
    A pleasant diversion, a lightly amusing criminal comedy with a plot so complicated even the people in it can't quite believe what's happening.
  14. The Komediant
    It is impossible to watch this warm, wonderful film without becoming aware of the enormous impact the Yiddish theater has had on every aspect of American show business.
  15. Van Wilder
    Those 24-and-unders who are looking for their own "Caddyshack" to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep looking.
  16. Crush
    Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse.
  17. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Does for industrialists, politicians, pro-football owners and lawyers what Christopher Guest's "Best in Show' did for dog owners -- but without the skewer.
  18. The Rookie
    The pleasure of a film like this is not in wondering where it's going to go, but in knowing its exact trajectory. Getting us to pull for a foregone conclusion as if the outcome was in serious doubt is no small sleight of hand.
  19. The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher will surely be too strong for some audiences and is best left to those who like films that take big risks and get away with them.
  20. Time Out
    Not just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well.
  21. Death to Smoochy
    Starts out as such a deliciously savage satire of TV kiddie shows that it's a shame it swerves out of control and over the top, sliding into tedium before pulling together for a clever, if protracted, finish.
  22. Panic Room
    What's surprising about this traditional thriller, moderately successful but not completely satisfying, is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be.
  23. No Such Thing
    Not everyone, for sure, is going to be able or willing to go the distance in this ambitious but exceedingly offbeat epic, which is great-looking and has a sweeping romantic score by Hartley himself.
  24. Clockstoppers
    Exceptionally user-friendly for the technologically challenged among us and rides over its less inspired patches on a wave of cheeky humor.
  25. Margarita Happy Hour
    Chaiken manages to make the film conversational without seeming talky, the curse of many New York filmmakers, and she has as sure an instinct for the succinct image and brisk pacing as she does for dialogue.
  26. Sorority Boys
    The result is crass but reasonably harmless, although to hear one of the guys hold forth on how much he's learned about family and loyalty in just one week living with the DOGs is enough to make a person gag.
  27. Very Annie Mary
    Familiar but winningly funny and good-hearted.
  28. Son of the Bride
    A warm and affectionate Argentine film of wide appeal that is an Academy Award nominee in the foreign-language category.
  29. Blade II
    Like the original, Blade II has superior production values and visual and special effects. Snipes and Kristofferson build on the resonance of their original portrayals.
  30. Pauline and Paulette
    This beguiling Belgian fable, very much its own droll and delicate little film, has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why.
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