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For 489 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lowest review score: 0 Hulk
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 285 out of 489
  2. Mixed: 159 out of 489
  3. Negative: 45 out of 489
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  1. Michael Collins
    For me, the execution of the picture is so weak, so imitative, so facile that it makes all the thematic discussion seem idle. [25 Nov 1996, Pg.30]
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  2. The Crossing Guard
    Penn's film is very slow, sententious, ill-judged about the tensions he wants in long scenes. [18 Dec 1995, Pg.28]
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  3. The Piano
    An overwrought, hollowly symbolic glob of glutinous nonsense... I haven't seen a sillier film about a woman and a piano since John Huston's "The Unforgiven" (1960), a Western in which Lillian Gish had her piano carried out into the front yard so she could play Mozart to pacify attacking Indians. [13 Dec 1993]
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  4. Anatomy of Hell
    The dialogue that is wrapped around the sexual activities only helps to make the film disgustingly ridiculous.
  5. House of Fools
    His (writer/director Konchalovsky's) plunge into the world of mental distortion is so garish, so exploitative, that the picture needs only a few clicks of the dial to move from the horrible to the ludicrous
  6. Elephant
    A braggart piece of empty exhibitionism.
  7. Barton Fink
    Billed as a comedy, but it could also be billed as a drama, a satire, an allegory, or a film (partially) noir. It wouldn't matter, or help... Not since Robert Altman has any American filmmaker been as overrated as this pair. [30 Sept 1991]
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  8. Miller's Crossing
    A lifeless, tedious picture... A complete dud. [29 Oct 1990, p.26]
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  9. Hulk
    In future Lee can best serve his versatility by never doing anything like this again.
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