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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. Janice Beard
    As Janice, Eileen Walsh, an engaging, wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth, infuses the movie with much of its slender, glinting charm.
  2. Washington Heights
    For all its untidiness, Washington Heights teems with life, and its star, Mr. Perez, has charisma to burn. The movie vividly depicts the interdependence and solidarity of people in working-class urban neighborhoods where residents really need one another.
  3. King of the Jungle
    Mr. Rosenfeld is a writer whose talent shines through in the way he harvests minute pearls.
  4. Where's the Party Yaar?
    Clearly understands its target audience of first-generation Indian-Americans and has its pleasures to provide.
  5. Holy Smoke
    As Holy Smoke moves from its early mix of rapture and humor into this more serious, confrontational stage, it runs into trouble.
  6. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    A suds-filled political melodrama that bashes the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico with a contempt that verges on hysteria, could be accused of many things, but timidity is not one of them.
  7. Time and Tide
    A woozy, disconnected piece of filmmaking about drugs, rock 'n' roll and the aftermath of sex.
  8. Pushing Tin
    Newell's ensemble timing and breezily sardonic style make it work better than might be expected.
  9. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    Except for the access the director, David Teboul, had to Mr. Saint Laurent's inner circle, "Times" wouldn't be out of place on A&E.
  10. AKA
    His (Roy's) informed contempt is highly entertaining, but he neglects some of the more problematical and perhaps more illuminating aspects of his story.
  11. The Red Violin
    Wants to make a grand statement about the mystical power (both celestial and demonic) of great music. But give or take some scattered musical moments, the frame in which that message is couched is too kitschy to let that vision catch fire.
  12. The World Is Not Enough
    In his third and most comfortable effort to model the Bond mantle, Pierce Brosnan bears noticeably more resemblance to a real human being.
  13. U-571
    Yet there is so little characterization that when the sub goes down, you may find yourself confused as to which of the supporting cast members lived through the torpedo blast.
  14. Erin Brockovich
    The feel-good movie of the year.
  15. The Medallion
    As soon as the medallion appears, so do the digital maneuverings -- speeded-up movement, composite images, objects and people morphing into supernatural thingamajigs -- that undercut the genuine thrills of the genuine action.
  16. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Though the director's jet-set fantasy world of rugged jewel thieves and sailboat races, triste cabaret singers and sybaritic pleasures may feel dated and more than a little decadent, it is a nice enough place to visit.
  17. Blast from the Past
    Fortunately, the Webber shelter is a jaunty monument to kitsch, and the Webbers themselves are an appealingly batty crew.
  18. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Though Ms. Jovovich's performance dominates the film, she remains pedestrian and underwhelming.
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  19. Jet Lag
    A peppy romantic trifle from France that rises above the mundane on the strength of its beautifully detailed lead performances.
  20. The Hot Spot
    The Hot Spot, his film noir set in a small, sex-starved Texas backwater, is the closest Mr. Hopper has yet come to working within the bounds of a familiar genre. Nevertheless, The Hot Spot bears the film maker's idiosyncratic stamp all the way.
  21. La Femme Nikita
    The film, like Nikita herself, becomes more conventionally sleek and less interestingly bizarre as it moves along.
  22. An Amazing Couple
    Some of the scenes are like mislaid puzzle pieces, and they snap into place only when all three movies have been seen and absorbed. This makes watching any one of the episodes both more interesting and more frustrating than it might otherwise be, since a portion of dramatic satisfaction is always withheld.
  23. After the Life
    Mr. Belvaux's sensitive, generous way with actors suggests that, with more discipline and less gimmickry, he might have made a single masterwork, and After the Life provides the best support for this assessment.
  24. Just an American Boy
    A crude but stirring video documentary filmed over last year and this by Amos Poe, while Mr. Earle and his band were on tour.
  25. Boxing Helena
    Ultimately, Ms Lynch has nowhere to take her erotic parable except to a dead end, but she makes the unfolding of the story a spooky, engrossing process.
  26. 200 Cigarettes
    Gathers a partyful of young players and barely gives them enough of a story line to puff on, but it gets by on personality anyhow.
  27. Dark Blue
    Unfortunately, the rest of the movie does not live up to Mr. Russell's performance.
  28. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama -- the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not.
  29. E-Dreams
    The movie is a little claustrophobic -- a marathon of conference calls, frenzied pointing and clicking, and office pep talks.
  30. Thirteen Days
    Kevin Costner is suitably flinty in 13 Days, a competent, by-the-numbers recreation of the events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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