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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. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.
  2. The Minus Man
    Takes such pains to avoid narrative and verbal cliches and anything that could remotely be construed as sentimental or romantic that it feels curiously flat.
  3. The Specials
    Terminally whimsical, it generates a steady current of humor, much of it off-color.
  4. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Isn't quite as much fun as it could be.
  5. Evelyn
    Slight and dogged; its surprises are likable but minor.
  6. Murder by Numbers
    The real surprise, given the secondhand material, is that not everything proceeds by rote in Murder by Numbers.
  7. Restless
    For all its demureness, Restless captures some of the excitement of youthful romance in which the partners aren't just separate individuals but the products of divergent cultures.
  8. Grizzly Falls
    Combines old-fashioned boys' adventure with a heavy-handed modern lecture on parenthood. The film possesses a decent heart but suffers from a simple mind.
  9. Mauvais Sang
    While the screen flashes and flickers, little else is happening.
  10. Southpaw
    What the film resembles more than anything else is one of the miniature human-interest profiles that the networks have taken to inserting between the events in their Olympic coverage.
  11. One Week
    Holds together in spite of its flaws.
  12. Novocaine
    Nothing is particularly believable here, but there are still a few moments of silly, sinister fun.
  13. Flawless
    So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.
  14. CyberWorld
    Unabashed, and often quite diverting, technological overkill.
  15. The Triumph of Love
    Triumph of Love, Marivaux's 270-year-old romantic comedy, is a beguiling trifle, a gauzy, teasing inquiry into the fungibility of emotions.
  16. The Road to El Dorado
    Little more than a sanitized blend of nonsense and adventure and just a teeny bit of romance, interspersed with the occasional pop song.
  17. Me Myself I
    A sugarcoated romantic comedy that is just clever enough to make you wish it were three times as smart and only a third as sweet.
  18. Bicentennial Man
    Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.
  19. Romeo Must Die
    Sadly, if this movie was a fight, they'd have stopped it.
  20. Pipe Dream
    It's clear that this is a farce about ambition that is not ambitious enough, right down to its cutesy, punning title.
  21. Zus & zo
    To attempt a culinary metaphor, Ms. van der Oest manages a yolky, runny sitcom omelet rather than the airy soufflé of farce.
  22. Don't Ask Don't Tell
    Finds a few chuckles.
  23. Cet amour-là
    Ms. Moreau, still an imperious presence at age 75, makes no effort to look or sound like Duras -- this is one sacred monster stepping in for another.
  24. Eureka
    Eureka never comes to life. -- In pursuing its aesthetic agenda so single-mindedly, the movie leaves the characters behind in the muck.
  25. The Invisible Circus
    Unfortunately, The Invisible Circus, which follows Phoebe as she retraces her dead sibling's steps from Paris to Berlin to the coast of Portugal, doesn't so much illuminate Phoebe's confusion as share it.
  26. Deterrence
    Probably serves some useful purpose, despite its ham-fisted preachiness and mediocre acting.
  27. Rules of Engagement
    There's not much going on here, and there is little suspense.
  28. Simpatico
    Far from being a typical Hollywood desecration of a difficult play, it stays true to the work's quirky, renegade spirit.
  29. Out of Season
    Serious, competent and unsurprising debut film.
  30. One Night at McCool's
    Packs a lot into one night, but it's wearying. It's like a kid determined to show you every toy in his room, and there's nowhere to escape.
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