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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Unknown Pleasures
    There are several small, startling moments of insight hidden amid the long, slow stretches of listlessness. But the balance is slightly off. We could have used a little more pleasure to get us through his grim adolescent unknown.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Curse of Frankenstein
    For the new film generation, some minor chills are offered in this well-done production. [08 Aug 1957]
    • New York Daily News
  3. The Blonds
    Because Albertina Carri spends so much time skirting relevant issues, her self-consciously experimental examination into her parents' murder feels like a worthy movie that simply wasn't ready to be made.
  4. First Love
    The movie exaggerates a common dynamic between men and women.
  5. Blockade
    The film makes you squirm as well as empathize, but it does need narration.
  6. S.W.A.T.
    The standout in the cast is James Todd Smith, whose acting talent may soon persuade him to shed his adolescent stage name of LL Cool J and concentrate on mainstream film roles.
  7. Runaway Bride
    It's no Runaway success, but Gere and Roberts still glow.
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  8. Crazy Love
    In Crazy Love, friends of Burt and Linda express as much confusion over their relationship as we feel, and the Pugaches themselves make an unconvincing case for theirs being a love that conquered all. On the contrary, love doesn't seem to have had anything to do with them. She married him out of desperation, and he pursued her out of a sense of entitlement.
  9. The Patriot
    Far from the smart historical epic some might have expected, is just another feisty summer shoot-'em-up.
  10. Praise
    Unrelentingly, admirably committed to its own grimness.
  11. Lilya 4-Ever
    a despairing movie that you can't look away from, though you'll wish you could.
  12. They
    It starts pushing buttons immediately and never lets up. This proves to be both its strongest asset and, unfortunately, its biggest flaw.
  13. Asylum
    Asylum is as dark as Dracula's mood on a moonless night, and people suffering from depression should think twice before opening the coffin. This thing would put off Mary Poppins.
  14. Glory Road
    As movie fiction, I guess it is entertaining enough.
  15. The End of the Affair
    Many of the right elements -- the '40s look, the melodrama, the love that transcends reason.
  16. Drama/Mex
    Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
  17. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    A magnificent looking and occasionally very silly Chinese Western.
  18. Thorns
    The action periodically stops so the characters -= even the roughest grifters -- can break into song and dance.
  19. The Lake House
    The time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched, and virtually absent a sense of interior logic.
  20. Black Book
    Like Stone in "Basic Instinct," van Houten has an audacity to match Verhoeven's. Hers is a role that Bette Davis would have killed Ingrid Bergman for, and she is so good in it that it seems only a matter of time before she'll star in a real Hollywood movie - as opposed to this pretender.
  21. The Recruit
    So much is so good about The Recruit that you'll wish the ending were better. It's like opening the last lid in a Chinese box and having a clown figure pop out on a spring.
  22. Drumline
    Bogged down by a lazy script and underwhelming performances. Fortunately, there's no hiding his jubilant passion for ritual and symmetry, which makes each perfectly choreographed band scene a genuine thrill to watch.
  23. Young Adam
    There are movies that are important, and then there are movies that simply look and act as if they're important. With its arthouse cast, hipster credentials and ominous atmosphere, Young Adam never bothers to reach for real significance.
  24. Proof
    Who knew a drama about numbers could be so thrilling?
  25. Sasayaki
    Surprisingly poignant, thanks to its enduring sense of tenderness.
  26. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Written to skewer the upper class of its time, the script is now just a broad joke-fest, clever lines batted back and forth like badminton shuttlecocks.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Big Eden
    Director Bezucha's eyes are as starry as Montana's sky, but it's pretty hard to resist such a determinedly utopian vision of love.
  28. Hit and Runway
    Does have a sort of endearing, earnest charm. But it would take much more than good intentions to save a film that rehashes cliches and concepts so unabashedly.
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  29. The Sixth Sense
    A metaphysical shaggy-dog story, whose unpredictable punchline is its only redeeming feature.
  30. Breakin' All the Rules
    Plays strictly to formula, the only real surprise is its apparently ironic title.
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