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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 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. Show Me Love
    Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like "American Pie" and the self-absorbed philosophers on "Dawson's Creek."
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  2. Bats
    A sleek rip-off of "The Birds" that is fast, furious, and watchable, but lacking in the two elements most essential to a silly screamfest like this: scares and laughs.
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  3. The Story of Us
    This is a second-rate Woody Allen midlife crisis comedy without the laughs.
  4. Joe the King
    Rarely falters but neither does it ever take flight.
  5. That's the Way I Like It
    Affectionately skewers the age of polyester pants.
  6. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Writer-director Harmony Korine seems more interested in churning your stomach than in warming your heart.
  7. The Straight Story
    Lynch's faith in the kindness of human nature has been renewed, yet thankfully he's never maudlin. Instead, he wins over our emotions with the film's understated beauty.
  8. Fight Club
    Despite terrific comic acting...and an atomic first hour, Fight Club makes a few wrong turns and ends up lost itself.
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  9. The Omega Code
    This wretched jumbo helping of Christian Fundamentalist agitprop takes itself entirely too seriously to be anything but ploddingly dull.
  10. The Grandfather
    It's filled with far too much talk and it never justifies its length, but if you succumb to its old-fashioned Renoir style of storytelling, The Grandfather has its pleasures.
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  11. Random Hearts
    There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.
  12. Molly
    It's a sugar rush that'll leave you feeling like a rotten cavity.
  13. The Limey
    It's such an accomplished, beguiling film in its details that you almost don't notice that the story is scattershot, arbitrary, and thin -- almost.
  14. Superstar
    Considerably less fun than a marathon of Star Search episodes.
  15. New Rose Hotel
    Virtually unwatchable.
  16. Bandits
    Dim and eye-rollingly foolish -- Call it Dumb, Dumber, Dumber Still, and Dumbest.
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  17. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Hardly a ripping, inspired children's film.
  18. Happy, Texas
    Zahn's dazed and confused, droopy-mustached dude steals every scene he's in...a movie that will make you smile and put a lump in your throat.
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  19. Mystery, Alaska
    Has its share of small pleasures.
  20. Plunkett & Macleane
    A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath.
  21. Drive Me Crazy
    The appealing cast makes the most of the derivative story.
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  22. Three Kings
    Russell has combined pathos, terror, and black comedy with a dollop of Hollywood feel-good patriotism to make one of the best studio efforts this year.
  23. Double Jeopardy
    It has no subtlety, no shadings, and no suspense, and might as well not have a screenplay.
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  24. Mumford
    Despite impeccable performances, this is bloodless, ho-hum stuff.
  25. Jakob the Liar
    A trial of cliche, strained optimism, and dire quasi-comedy.
  26. Guinevere
    As talented as Polley proved herself in "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Go," this is her best work yet.
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  27. Dog Park
    Populated with whiny, unappealing characters that are impossible to care about and flatly staged sitcomish set-pieces...this lame Canadian import's a real woofer.
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    For Love of the Game
    None of their efforts can turn this ho-hum, mildly entertaining line-drive single into a solid, explosive home run.
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  29. Sugar Town
    There's lots of sweet music to savor in this snide industry satire.
  30. Romance
    Showing the sex seems to be the film's raison d'etre, which gets you only so far.
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