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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. The Virgin Suicides
    Except perhaps for Lux, who, like The Virgin Suicides itself, is a hothouse flower perishing for want of sunshine and fresh air.
  2. Millennium Mambo
    Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
  3. Little Nicky
    It's a clever idea bogged down in sophomoric sloppiness. Sitting through it doesn't feel like eternal damnation, but it's not exactly heaven, either. It's a $9.50 tour of adolescent purgatory.
  4. Owning Mahowny
    Whatever minor entertainment there is to be gleaned from Mahowny -- set in the early 1980's, mostly in Toronto -- comes in bits and pieces.
  5. The Perfect Score
    A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.
  6. Stripped
    This is a bumpy ride, but one worth taking.
  7. Spiral
    Perhaps the most gripping thing about the ultimately disappointing Japanese horror film Uzumaki is the patient way the picture develops mood.
  8. Inventing the Abbotts
    Best watched as a showcase for radiant young talent.
  9. The Myth of Fingerprints
    Has some good performances (Ms. Moore's ongoing snit is a terrifically sustained bit of glowering), but it only barely begins to knit its self-pitying characters into a credible family unit. They are oddballs with attitude.
  10. Remember Me, My Love
    An abrasive but innovative fusion of farce, satire and drama that blurs their boundaries in uncomfortable ways. It's a noisy movie whose characters tend to talk at medium-to-high volume.
  11. The Acid House
    With a cackling nihilistic glee, the movie rubs our faces in the stinking, screaming muck of raw human appetite and insists that that's all there is.
  12. Swiri
    Mr. Kang is a gifted choreographer of bloody chaos, but he has enough range and imagination to strew a few interludes of haunting tenderness amid the shell casings and ketchup packs.
  13. Road Trip
    Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing.
  14. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    A loose- jointed, not especially memorable comic caper with some lovely moments of humorous invention, many patches of clumsy writing and a few game performances.
  15. Twentynine Palms
    The sustained force of Mr. Dumont's vision of existence as a swirl of brute instincts may not be easy to absorb, but it marks him as a major filmmaker.
  16. The Mexican
    The movie's biggest strength is a story that refuses to quit and almost makes sense within its own screwball logic.
  17. Unlikely Heroes
    Much of the time, unfortunately, the responsible, institutional filmmaking of Unlikely Heroes, from Moriah Films, an arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, does not do full justice to these stories.
  18. Lucía, Lucía
    Ms. Roth's radiance and understanding of Lucía's emotional life gives this film a touch of necessary psychological accessibility.
  19. Black and White
    It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates.
  20. Snake Eyes
    A great big juicy gob of apocalyptic paranoia.
  21. Revolution OS
    Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from David's point of view.
  22. Love Liza
    The movie is so small and emotionally constricted that it gives Hoffman too little room to explore his range.
  23. Last Night
    Softening that apocalyptic undercurrent is a counter-strain of quiet nobility.
  24. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    An enjoyable, noisy romp.
  25. Moulin Rouge!
    Simultaneously stirring and dispiriting.
  26. The Yes Men
    Diverting if heavily padded, this is the newest addition to an increasingly crowded field of political nonfiction films and certainly the easiest viewing.
  27. Taking Lives
    From a technical standpoint, Taking Lives is competent and sometimes even impressive. It is cleanly edited and nicely shot -- at times as cool and rich as a York Peppermint Pattie. Beyond that, there is not much to say.
  28. Hope Floats
    Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun.
  29. Cecil B. DeMented
    Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.
  30. The General's Daughter
    Travolta again carries a film with enjoyable ease, even if this one remains badly diminished by its perverse streak.
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