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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. Divan
    If Divan is often fascinating, it is sometimes frustrating.
  2. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    Good-natured, mildly appealing video feature.
  3. Venus Boyz
    She (Baur) has clearly earned the trust and respect of her subjects, the first qualification for any responsible documentarist, and they have repaid her with an intimate glimpse into their singular lives.
  4. Train of Life
    What saves Train of Life from sinking into sudsy Holocaust kitsch is its sustained comic buoyancy.
  5. Men in Black II
    As fizzy as the first, but not quite as refreshing. The pleasurable, eye-popping sense of surprise has diminished, and the teasingly referential attitude shows signs of fatigue.
  6. Beyond the Clouds
    The impact of these stories is not in the words but in the way the mood, texture and the acting build each situation into a visually intense parable about the similarity of spiritual, erotic and aesthetic aspiration.
  7. On the Line
    Once you've accepted the notion that On the Line gives product placement in movies a blatant new prominence, the film turns out to be a soothing cinematic snack of milk and cookies.
  8. By Hook or by Crook
    The essential humanity of the characters shines through, giving face and form to a subculture the movies have largely neglected.
  9. Below
    Has the bad luck to come on the heels of Kathryn Bigelow's beautifully made and politically impassioned "K-19," making this submarine picture -- a relatively modest, low-budget affair -- seem skimpy by comparison.
  10. Great Expectations
    Largely because Mr. Cuaron is such a voluptuous visual stylist, this Great Expectations is capable of wonder even when its wilder ideas misfire.
  11. All My Loved Ones
    The material continues to carry its inherent emotional power and moral importance. As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention.
  12. Senseless
    The gags, like the plotting, have a giddy edge that can be sharp, but just as often they go nowhere.
  13. Metropolis
    A hallucinatory tour de force of color, perspective and scale, virtually encapsulates the history of Japanese animation.
  14. Stir of Echoes
    Another thriller that packs a spooky wallop as it conjures an unseen world within reach.
  15. What a Girl Wants
    Minnelli's comedy had its serious underpinnings: by the end of the film, a girl had become a woman. By the end of Ms. Gordon's film, the girl is still a girl, but a girl with much cooler stuff, including a stately home, a butler and a cute British boyfriend.
  16. The Siege
    Edward Zwick's ultimately sedate thriller starts out with crisply efficient style and the potential for a much more involving story.
  17. Star Trek: Nemesis
    An amiably klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit.
  18. From Hell
    So beautifully realized as a mood piece that it takes a while for a slight disappointment to register.
  19. The Mudge Boy
    Depending on your choice, the film is either an unpleasantly masochistic fantasy or an unpleasantly sadistic one.
  20. American Chai
    American Chai may not tell a new story, but in its understanding, often funny way, it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation.
  21. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    A one- way ticket to infantile heaven.
  22. What Dreams May Come
    What Dreams May Come, based on a novel by Richard Matheson and directed by Vincent Ward, the New Zealand filmmaker noted for his skill at creating lavish cinematic dreamscapes, represents the uncomfortable collision of two ideas about filmmaking, one commercial, the other eccentrically, ambitiously dreamy.
  23. Palmetto
    The film, adapted from a novel by James Hadley Chase, aspires to out-noir every other film noir that has been lumped under that popular term, including "The Big Sleep" (which it resembles), in plot trickery and steaminess.
  24. The Negotiator
    Though the film has its basis in an actual event that took place in St. Louis, it takes on the homogeneous look of many other thrillers in which an emergency escalates into a paramilitary operation.
  25. Angela's Ashes
    Not since the latest fashion layout flirted with arty desolation, has misery looked this fabulously pristine.
  26. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    As goofy and throwaway as the "Brady Bunch" movies, but it has the same winking appreciation of vintage kitsch.
  27. But I'm a Cheerleader
    So campy it reflexively sends an elbow to its own ribs.
  28. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    There is a lot of violence, but not much action; a plot involving vengeance, jealousy and double-crossing, but not a great deal of suspense.
  29. Joe Gould's Secret
    Settles for being an atmospheric scenes-in-the-life biography of someone's most unforgettable character. It could have been so much more.
  30. Dead Man on Campus
    A predictably dumb movie made for very young audiences, playing to youth's love of excess and loaded with masturbation jokes.
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