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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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    • 80 Critic Score
    Corky Romano
    Truly makes you laugh. At its best it recalls the animated antics of a Jerry Lewis escapade, the pratfall follies of a Buster Keaton flick and Rowan Atkinson's outsized physicality.
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  2. Bandits
    An amusing tale of larceny triumphant, Bandits is an entertainment with a rogue's imagination.
  3. Mulholland Dr.
    Likely as not, these things mean nothing in a conventional plot sense, but as powerful images, as pictures from a dreamlike world, they are unforgettable. And that, David Lynch would probably say, is exactly the point.
  4. Fat Girl
    The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.
  5. The Learning Curve
    May not offer anything new, but it has terrific vitality.
  6. Grateful Dawg
    It's to be expected that the music is going to be wonderful, and it is. But there is more to this film, a surprising amount more.
  7. Joy Ride
    Terrific escapist fare, stylish, outrageous and compelling.
  8. The Debut
    Illuminating as it is entertaining.
  9. Serendipity
    A blithe and unapologetic fairy tale about affairs of the heart, it's a spun-sugar confection that's so light and airy it threatens to simply float away.
  10. The Hidden Half
    Courageous but uneven The Hidden Half landed the director in jail.
  11. Training Day
    Though Training Day doesn't resolve itself as well as it deserves and ends strictly cops-and-robbers style, it's given us some great acting and something to ponder. Not every cop show can lay claim to that.
  12. Max Keeble's Big Move
    The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.
  13. Chop Suey
    Of the many remarks Weber makes in the course of his beautifully fashioned film, none may be more significant than his observation, "We photograph things we can never be."
  14. La Ciénaga
    Martel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci.
  15. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    This masterful celebration starts off slowly, even uncertainly, giving no hint of the rich and elegant exploration of love, jealousy and animal attraction it will in all good time become.
  16. Dinner Rush
    Effortlessly graceful and burnished to a glow, Dinner Rush is surely as satisfying as any of the delicious-looking food served at Louis' restaurant -- and is as full of surprises as any dish Udo ever concocted.
  17. Born Romantic
    Although Born Romantic is sweetly intentioned and staunchly on the side of love, it meanders long to enough to alienate whatever affection it otherwise earns.
  18. Hearts in Atlantis
    Assisted by a well-crafted script by the veteran William Goldman and a masterful performance by Anthony Hopkins, Hicks has turned two King short stories into a somber meditation on the dreams and frustrations of childhood and the ways the adult world makes its darker qualities known.
  19. Zoolander
    Exuberant and insidiously funny satire.
  20. Don't Say a Word
    Smart, stylish and, most important, satisfying.
  21. Diamond Men
    A very small film but a sweet one, an easygoing venture of the feel-good variety. What sets it apart is something even larger pictures often lack: an excellent performance by its star.
  22. Sobreviviré
    Sobrevivire has a satisfying scope and substance with an appealing blend of warmth, humor and pathos with a dash of tartness.
  23. Liam
    There is something about Stephen Frears' complex, heartbreaking, beautifully made Liam that seems to speak eloquently, painfully to the dilemmas we are facing today, to the terrible price dark times can extort from us all.
  24. Vampire Hunter D
    A baroque, bloody fantasy-adventure that stubbornly remains less than the sum of its parts.
  25. The Endurance
    Butler used several elements to make this story come alive, starting with that vintage Frank Hurley footage, whose rescue from icy waters is in itself something of a miracle.
  26. Go Tigers!
    Energetic and absorbing documentary.
  27. Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    What's wrong with Megiddo is not its good-versus-evil theme but the clunky, unpersuasive manner in which it has been expressed.
  28. Glitter
    Glitter is the week's only major Hollywood release, and it offers considerable escapist entertainment while hitting an affirmative note.
  29. Haiku Tunnel
    A sly and captivating comedy of imaginative leaps and gently orchestrated pandemonium.
  30. The Glass House
    So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.
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