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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. Johnny Suede
    A comedy so lazily hip and so laid back that it often seems to be asleep.
  2. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a lively but uncertain mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor.
  3. Popeye
    Miss Duvall is superb - genteely ladylike one minute, a woman of volcanic passions the next.
  4. A Christmas Story
    Though Mr. Billingsley, Mr. Gavin, Miss Dillon and the actress who plays Ralphie's school teacher are all very able, they are less funny than actors in a television situation comedy that one has chosen to watch with the sound turned off.
  5. Annie
    It's big, colorful, slightly vulgar, occasionally boring and full of talent not always used to its limits.
  6. Virtuosity
    If all of Virtuosity were as tightly controlled as that, it would exert a greater fascination than it finally does.
  7. After Hours
    After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling.
  8. Inception
    Though there is a lot to see in Inception, there is nothing that counts as genuine vision. Mr. Nolan’s idea of the mind is too literal, too logical, too rule-bound to allow the full measure of madness -- the risk of real confusion, of delirium, of ineffable ambiguity -- that this subject requires.
  9. Micmacs
    There is no question that the heart of Micmacs is in the right place, but the movie is also a little thin.
  10. Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
    By and large Mr. Hoch's portrayals are as harsh and authentic as a police photograph, but an occasional touch of sentimentality creeps in.
  11. B-52
    It is intermittently engrossing, though a little overextended for the deadpan approach that Mr. Bitomsky uses.
  12. Leela
    Veers between the light naturalism of American television and the pulsing melodrama of Bollywood entertainment.
  13. Twilight: Los Angeles
    The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.
  14. Soft Fruit
    The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation.
  15. Astoria
    In retelling this timeworn story of conflict between young men in the New World and their stubborn Old World fathers, Mr. Efteriades may not have generated many sparks, but with his affection for Astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow.
  16. Attitude
    Typical Nilsson mix of the audacious and the cringe-inducing.
  17. Some Fish Can Fly
    Given genuine life by the dimpled enchantress Nancy St. Alban, Nora makes palpable the bittersweet love at the honest heart of Some Fish Can Fly.
  18. Justifiable Homicide
    The filmmakers build an argument that is both intellectual and emotional, concentrating as much on the forensic evidence as on Ms. Rosario's passionate commitment to finding justice for her son.
  19. Cuba: Island of Music
    The material isn't organized in any formal way but works as a mosaic that has the feel of a jam session.
  20. The Blonds
    It is not so much a documentary as a fictional film about the making of a documentary, or perhaps a documentary about the making of a fictional film about the making of a documentary. If this sounds a bit maddening, it is, though the confusion that The Blonds induces is clearly part of its intention.
  21. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A good piece of work more often than not, and this is one of the few times an actor turned director has chosen to subvert the feel-good genre for his maiden voyage.
  22. Rhinoceros Eyes
    For all its visual zaniness and its aura of psychic imbalance, the movie, which won the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, stays on the surface and never locates its own heart of darkness.
  23. Karmen Gei
    Enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
  24. I'll Sing for You
    Informal, pleasant film that ably captures Mr. Traoré's spirit.
  25. Firedancer
    It is a sincere, thoughtful work, though not a very accomplished one.
  26. Better Housekeeping
    As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, Frank Novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.
  27. Flavors
    Bright, good-spirited and blissfully short.
  28. Clockstoppers
    A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.
  29. It's Easier for a Camel...
    The kind of exercise in semi-autobiographical reflection that is almost impossible to carry off without its seeming self-absorbed.
  30. Los Angeles Plays Itself
    Los Angeles Plays Itself, in spite of its length, is rarely tedious, an achievement it owes mainly to the movies it prodigiously excerpts.
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