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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Zhantai
    An intellectually engaging movie. But Mr. Jia's careful objectivity and regard for material detail are not matched by narrative rigor.
  2. Zheng hun qi shi
    It's an anti- romantic comedy that resolves on a minor chord of grief.
  3. The Red Stuff
    Sublime in its involvement with the yearning of mankind to explore the heavens.
  4. Monkeybone
    The movie is booby-trapped with so many loud gags that some of its sneakier humor is nearly lost in the din.
  5. Last Resort
    Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
  6. La Ciudad (The City)
    Indelible, deeply disquieting film.
  7. Non-Stop
    A breathless dash to nowhere in particular, doesn't feel bad.
  8. The Yards
    For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.
  9. Our Song
    So unlike most Hollywood coming-of-age stories as to seem downright revolutionary.
  10. Fastpitch
    Intelligent, insightful, touching.
  11. Tokyo Eyes
    The portrayals by the fetching Ms. Yoshikawa and Mr. Takeda are consistently absorbing, and Mr. Limosin's plotting, though essentially gimmicky and manipulative, packs mystery and tension.
  12. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Because of its relentlessness, its crawling pace (the 77 minutes pass like 2 1/2 hours) and its sometimes confusing story, A Time for Drunken Horses may not be for every taste, but it's still an affecting, and in its way beautiful, movie.
  13. The Visit
    Shows so much intelligence and compassion that its tendency sometimes to overreach or underdramatize can surely be forgiven.
  14. Coming Soon
    Its frank good humor stands in sharp contrast with the strange combination of timidity and exploitiveness of more widely distributed recent teenage comedies.
  15. Mystery, Alaska
    An upbeat meat-and-potatoes movie.
  16. Much Ado About Something
    An inviting piece of film. Mr. Rubbo's cast of characters have the charisma of true devotees and stoked egos that match their intentions.
  17. Bounce
    Bounce may be far from a great film, but its pleasures are consistent enough to remind you of how few movies nowadays come anywhere close to matching it in intelligence and emotional balance.
  18. The Color of Paradise
    Leans a bit too much toward the lachrymose and has a wrong-note final image.
  19. The Back of the World
    Each of these stories is terribly sad and terribly moving in its own right. Yet the film that Mr. Corcuera has spun around them only increases the viewer's sense of helplessness and passivity. No solutions are suggested, no actions are proposed, no reflection is invited. The misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle, to be consumed and forgotten.
  20. The Next Big Thing
    This well-cast film does with a lighter hand for art what "The Producers" does for show business.
  21. Ivansxtc
    Contrived as this may sound, Mr. Rose's updating works surprisingly well. -- the story's sympathetic, tragic sense of the fragility of individual dignity is, if anything, made even more haunting in this version.
  22. Place Vendôme
    In spite of its many flaws, the film never loses its focus on its fascinating central figure.
  23. The Tao of Steve
    Can't redeem the moves toward its predictable happy ending. But the movie has a protagonist who has a great time getting there.
  24. The Tavern
    Astringent and unsentimental, it is a case study of losing, its clear eye focused unwaveringly on the realities of commerce and kinship.
  25. The Importance of Being Earnest
    For all its distractions and additions, The Importance of Being Earnest is still a reasonably entertaining costume comedy. Wilde's satirical voice may be muffled, but at least it is audible.
  26. Pistol Opera
    Insanely likable but suffers from anemia.
  27. Mumford
    At heart a Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s.
  28. The Sea
    The film's flamboyant portrayals of characters you love to hate have a malicious comic edge. If ever there were a movie to gladden the hearts of misanthropes, this is it.
  29. Mango Yellow
    For all the grimness and desperation on view in Mango Yellow, the characters emerge as robust, full-dimensional people in touch with their explosive feelings.
  30. Chunhyangdyun
    The extravagance of the sets and costumes increases the theatricality; Chunhyang is an almost childlike delight for the eyes.
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