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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. Hard Rain
    A well-cast disaster movie more notable for special effects and stunts than for credible drama.
  2. Home Fries
    This absurdist satire of sex, sibling rivalry, Oedipal ties, homicidal fantasies and fast food in the American heartland at least has the right attitude. It just isn't funny enough in its particulars to make you break up laughing.
  3. Knock Off
    Knock Off runs breathlessly over land and water in familiar comic book fashion, offering more action than sense and next to nothing in the way of suspense, humor or romance.
  4. Dummy
    A mildly engaging addition to that curious sub-genre of American independent filmmaking, the whimsical comedy of Long Island alienation.
  5. Dopamine
    A wan, wistful Generation Y romance.
  6. Diamonds
    The only thing about the movie that isn't a transparent paste imitation is Douglas' hard, gleaming performance.
  7. The Emperor's Club
    Carefully sets itself up as an obvious, transparent morality play, and then just as deliberately refuses the easy payoff. This is both impressive and a little disingenuous: the film is in effect congratulating itself for refusing to offer a neat and tidy view of life without offering much else.
  8. Calendar Girls
    When the biggest compliment you can pay a picture is that it is professional and not smug, there's a little something missing, like invention.
  9. The Tic Code
    Like most movies that examine specific ailments, this gawky, occasionally touching film has the feel of a dramatized case history whose purpose is to educate as much as it is to tell a story.
  10. Woman on Top
    This would-be spicy film has been made blandly palatable.
  11. Like Mike
    The director's breezy steadiness keeps the movie from hitting us over the head -- well, not too hard, anyway, no small feat since the steroid-juiced sentimentality of the ending may force some to flee before the outtakes unspool under the credits.
  12. The Missing
    Nearly 50 years after John Ford's "Searchers" we have arrived at a point in film history when the movie industry can offer a less sophisticated version of the same material.
  13. Wild Wild West
    It cares far more about herding audiences into theaters than about what they hear or see.
  14. Italian for Beginners
    Despite its hip, off-center style and pointed de-glamorization of its singles, the movie adds up to little more than feel-good fluff.
  15. Antitrust
    The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.
  16. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    If these two can figure out a way to love each other, maybe it isn't necessary for us to like them very much.
  17. Le divorce
    A thin and unsatisfying concoction that somehow manages to make one of the richest and most durable sources of culture-clash comedy into an occasion for dullness.
  18. El leyton
    Does a fine job of building up a sense of dread as its adulterous relationship gathers steam. So it's all the more disappointing when the movie ultimately collapses with a ridiculous comic ending that leaves you feeling almost as betrayed as its cuckolded husband.
  19. Prey for Rock & Roll
    If the movie is terrific on ambience and street language (the women call one another Dude), much of its melodramatic story involving a rape and payback feels forced.
  20. For da Love of Money
    A loose but often amusing collection of gags.
  21. Up at the Villa
    It reminds us that Italy is beautiful, that Fascism was a dreadful nuisance and that Sean Penn is a great actor, deserving of better vehicles than this vintage lemon.
  22. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    No more than a sentimental little comedy.
  23. Lost in Space
    The film has energy even when it hasn't much sense, in a manner that will strike most non-cultists as exhausting.
  24. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    To invoke the name of another underwhelming new film, Sinbad is legally bland.
  25. The Mummy Returns
    The noisome action sequences of The Mummy Returns are preferable to the quiet times, when the cast is limited to spouting dialogue that is a banal combination of exposition and homily.
  26. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    Blown up way past television-set size, the animated film's squiggly lines and rushed renditions are pale and blurry. This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar.
  27. With All Deliberate Speed
    Mr. Gilbert wants a movie with both a golden glow and a corrosive center, something he has not quite achieved here.
  28. Flesh for the Beast
    Fans of the genre -- or "gore hounds" as they are known in fandom -- will find plenty to enjoy in Mr. West's enthusiastic approach to his work.
  29. Godzilla
    Godzilla is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end.
  30. Kandahar
    Kandahar feels like a Magritte painting rendered in sand tones, and your eyes are drawn to the screen. There aren't enough of these moments, though, and Mr. Makhmalbaf lessens their power by repeating them.
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