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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. Everybody's Famous!
    With its likable blue-collar characters and its unpretentious exuberance, Everybody's Famous is reminiscent of recent British comedies like "Brassed Off" and "The Full Monty."
  2. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Has occasional moments of heat, but not much warmth. And while it is pretty enough to look at, real beauty eludes it.
  3. Circus
    If an Olympic competition for overplotted movie is ever held, Circus seems a likely contender for the gold.
  4. The Last Man
    Feels more like a thought experiment than a fully developed story.
  5. Big Bad Love
    Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence.
  6. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    What results is a candy-colored broad comedy with noteworthy performances.
  7. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    The somewhat complicated plot may disappoint or confuse some tiny Elmo fans.
  8. ZigZag
    Might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted. The characters would resonate more if there were fewer of them, and if they were not pushed through so many contrived dramatic incidents.
  9. Secret Ballot
    A very minor contribution to the great corpus of Iranian cinema that has emerged in the last 20 years.
  10. Trapped
    Pointless little kidnapping thriller.
  11. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Sheds heat but insufficient light.
  12. Miss Julie
    The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays.
  13. This Thing of Ours
    For all of his personal familiarity with the material, Mr. Provenzano has turned out a movie that largely owes its tone and style to other movies.
  14. Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    The cinematic equivalent of sampling goodies from a spartan tastings menu in which the entrees, desserts and appetizers are confusingly jumbled together.
  15. Sasayaki
    There's a little more sex than you'll see on WB, but mostly there's an atmosphere of brooding psychodrama and erotic cruelty that falls somewhere between "Cries and Whispers" and "Say Anything."
  16. The Mothman Prophecies
    About as threatening as the real-life insect the apparition resembles; its large, mossy wings may scare some people, but the bug can only damage your woolens. The movie flirts with more damage than it can actually cause.
  17. The Astronaut's Wife
    Depp moves through the film suavely and imperturbably, never letting the particulars bog him down.
  18. Random Hearts
    The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
  19. The Event
    A dawdling affair that never finds its own rhythm. Early on, it gets lost in its own earnestness and never finds its way back.
  20. Dust
    A potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking brought down by weighted dialogue and, playing Americans, the British actors Adrian Lester and Joseph Fiennes and the Australian David Wenham.
  21. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    The movie keeps you at a distance; it is visually sweeping, and the history is fascinating, but the drama is rarely stirring.
  22. Vatel
    The movie wants desperately to function as a romantic tragedy, with passions glancing off the thoughtless pursuit of satisfaction. But Vatel can't really define the differences between the two; it settles into a period funk, as shallow as the court popinjays it seeks to expose.
  23. The Cell
    Mr. Singh may have an artist's temperament, and he shows signs of being a director
  24. Fever Pitch
    Just because a first-person analysis of a sociocultural phenomenon is fascinating in print, it should not necessarily be turned into a movie.
  25. Assassination Tango
    If Mr. Duvall's finely textured performance is a testament to the power of good screen acting to lift a film above the mundane, the movie's many irritating tics demonstrate that he is much more at home in front of the camera than behind it.
  26. Big Fat Liar
    If Ms. Bynes keeps going in this direction, she can conceivably develop a gallery of characters as rich and varied as Tracey Ullman's.
  27. B. Monkey
    The best part of B. Monkey is reveling in the dark side of Rupert Everett.
  28. The Country Bears
    Sandwiched between the musical numbers are an eclectic assorment of cameos, including Willie Nelson, Queen Latifa and Elton John. The funniest one comes during the closing credits, when the rapper Xzibit testifies that the Country Bears were a formative influence on hip-hop, certainly something the Eagles could never claim.
  29. Maid in Manhattan
    Blandly charming.
  30. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    It is billed as a "restored version," though the sound is still fuzzy and the image only occasionally rises to the level of murk.
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