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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Dick
    An uproariously dizzy satire...Hedaya has created the year's funniest film caricature.
  2. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    Oddly charming.
  3. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    Has the sense of gritty, practical politics of a Japanese samurai epic combined with the high-flying stunt work and magical special effects of a Hong Kong romp. Ultimately this film by Yojiro Takita is satisfying on neither level, but not for lack of trying.
  4. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    An ensemble piece developed from an improvisational workshop, the movie exudes a haunted melancholy that recalls such early Alan Rudolph films as "Choose Me" and "Welcome to L.A," and it includes several flashy performances.
  5. Mother India
    The film is at once a sort of Indian "Stella Dallas," which finds the heroine making sacrifice after sacrifice on behalf of her family, and a "Gone With the Wind"-style epic of social change.
  6. The Trench
    What lifts The Trench above the run of the mill is the intensity of its disgust.
  7. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    Entertaining, lightly mocking documentary.
  8. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Reminds us that when it comes to comedy, it's all in the writing. Mr. Kalesniko's satirically barbed screenplay, whose spirit harks back to the comic heyday of Blake Edwards, stirs up an insistent verbal energy that rarely flags.
  9. In Too Deep
    Treats its characters seriously and doesn't resort to the obvious very often.
  10. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Its subject matter is intrinsically upsetting.
  11. Sidewalks of New York
    The time is right for a breezy, captivating New York romantic comedy. Sidewalks of New York is not an especially good movie, but it will do.
  12. Return to Never Land
    If Return to Never Land -- doesn't have a story to match the original's in breadth and imagination, it does a smooth job of recycling its characters and themes.
  13. Lan Yu
    Lan Yu is like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong's "In the Mood for Love" -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting.
  14. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    Crackles dangerously to life whenever Constance (who narrates the film) is on the screen with her father Hank (Terry Kinney).
  15. Let It Snow
    Let It Snow is cheery, and it gets by on the energy of the actors, who may be as taken by the movie's guilelessness as audiences could be. The film's naïveté makes up for its rampant predictability.
  16. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
  17. Judy Berlin
    Mendelsohn's fusion of science fiction and Chekhovian melancholy finds a fresh perspective on a familiar theme.
  18. Love's Labour's Lost
    Even though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
  19. The Day Silence Died
    An easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative:
  20. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Mr. Law doesn't disgrace himself here, though he doesn't have much to do, and the director, Po Chih Leong, is deft at creating atmosphere, but it's an atmosphere we've all seen before.
  21. An American Rhapsody
    Ms. Gardos is not a particularly flavorful filmmaker, but she is an honest one.
  22. Innocence
    Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
  23. From the Edge of the City
    It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.
  24. Vampire Hunter D
    Handsome, well-executed film that nonetheless feels a bit long at 111 minutes. Those who are already anime fans will certainly find it stimulating; but this may not be the one to convert the uninitiated.
  25. The Strange Case of Señor Computer
    Mr. Sawyer eventually overreaches, striving for tragedy with a grim, cautionary ending that seems meant to evoke "Frankenstein." But the film's offhand, homemade quality sustains a quirky appeal.
  26. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.
  27. Mifune's Last Song
    The brusque realism of Kragh-Jacobsen's style -- his careful suppression of style -- allows a surprising sweetness to emerge.
  28. Agnes Browne
    Has an episodic rhythm and little dramatic tension.
  29. Orfeu
    Finds a sprawling, vivid middle ground somewhere between documentary and myth.
  30. The Way Home
    The story, touching though it is, does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature, and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long. The premise, too, is a little thin.
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