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For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Brigham City
Lowest review score: 0 Dude, Where's My Car?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 339 out of 720
  2. Mixed: 241 out of 720
  3. Negative: 140 out of 720
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  1. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    Mild as satire and completely unconvincing as tragicomedy.
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  2. The Monkey's Mask
    Makes for compulsive viewing.
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  3. K-PAX
    Spacey and Bridges -- generally provide exactly the level of investment required for their characters to be convincing. Neither one showboats, and both make good use of the dry humor in Leavitt's script.
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  4. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Wincer keeps the insubstantial story moving and the comedy light.
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  5. Get Shorty
    A smirky black comedy that, like its John Lurie score, is jazzy, dry, and light on its feet.
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  6. Est - Ouest
    Packed with melodrama, and often it works in the passionate, easy-to-watch manner of an old-fashioned "woman's film."
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  7. L.I.E.
    The real reason to see it is Brian Cox, best known for being filmdom's other Hannibal Lecter (he played the role in Michael Mann's "Manhunter").
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  8. The Fast and the Furious
    Strictly where the boys are: posing, posturing, and talking engine envy.
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Brothers McMullen
    This is, recognizably, an indie film, in the best sense of the term.
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  10. An Affair of Love
    Ultimately too slight and opaque to inspire much ardor.
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  11. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    What does it say that we have a closer relationship with the car than with the characters? It says Bruckheimer.
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  12. The Anniversary Party
    The overlapping dialogue and the comedy of famous people playing self-variations is pure Altman (Leigh, not surprisingly, has worked in three Altman films).
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  13. Jurassic Park III
    The ending is so absurd, in fact, that it feels like it was improvised by a committee of 6-year-olds. If the raptors truly were intelligent, they'd have eaten the final reel.
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  14. Bones
    The rapper-ever-increasingly-turned actor -- is having the time of his life, big pimp styling in a flashy wardrobe as he guts and struts.
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  15. The Weekend
    It's a coffee-table movie, but what saves it are a couple of performances.Rowlands puts a spin on every line reading, Harris quietly mines regret, and Shields, assured and sexy, has never been this good.
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  16. Bread and Tulips
    For some viewers, this will seem a trial of predictability and unrelenting sweetness; for others, it's more than enough.
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  17. Wet Hot American Summer
    A mess, bouncing nonsensically from one style of farce to another, leaving large vacuums and dead spots — which may themselves, of course, be deliberate.
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  18. Time and Tide
    Makes for compulsive viewing even though its noirish plot doesn't make a lick of sense.
  19. One
    Too much of a study in formalism to register deeply on an emotional level.
  20. Jackpot
    The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.
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  21. The Princess Diaries
    Families already know exactly what they're in for, and they're likely to leave the multiplex high on the hum of a charming cast, sunny San Francisco locations, and a suitably happy ending.
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  22. Songcatcher
    For the most part, it's when the women do the singing -- that Songcatcher really comes alive.
  23. Brother
    Sags, lollygags, and blusters too much to sustain the what-the-hell momentum that Kitano achieves in his best movies.
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  24. The Musketeer
    Quite handsomely produced, and there's a definite swashbuckling verve to it. Most of the characters have been contemporized, but the actors are engaging.
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  25. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Too often, the movie is more forced and frantic than actually funny.
  26. Joy Ride
    Pure, irrational, claustrophobic, gritty, unpretentious.
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  27. Holy Smoke
    It's not a movie you could call dispassionate, however aimless and unfocused. It's a Molotov cocktail tossed in several directions at once.
  28. An American Rhapsody
    Its emotional sweep is ultimately undercut by murky characterizations and generic plotting.
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  29. Life Is Beautiful
    Has one of the most stupendously tasteless premises in cinema history, and much of the time when this movie tries to beckon a smile, the effect is closer to astonished nausea.
  30. From Hell
    The movie's most glaring flaw is that the brothers and their screenwriters, Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias, don't manage to preserve the secret of the Ripper's identity for nearly as long as they intend to.
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