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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. Word Wars
    The film demands patience with grainy photography, garage-band power chords and eye-straining alphabetic jumbles. It's neither easy viewing nor easy living: the game has worn these men down to a childlike state, which makes them ultimately compelling.
  2. xXx
    Action fans will watch their adrenaline levels redline, and those not at ease with this climax-after-climax style will white knuckle their way through to the end.
  3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Several love beads short of its predecessor. Intermittently hilarious comedy.
  4. Hannibal
    Hannibal, a silly though handsomely staged adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel directed by Ridley Scott, is a movie meant for the whole family -- the Manson family.
  5. Orange County
    The gags and subplots, rather than adding up to sustained hilarity, compete with each other.
  6. Kate & Leopold
    Has only the most tangential relation to reality, and therein lies its slender charm.
  7. Big Trouble
    The cast manages to maintain its dignity while sweat and dirt go flying around.
  8. Beloved
    Beloved works on its own but is much enhanced by familiarity with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In so ambitiously bringing this story to the screen, Ms. Winfrey underscores a favorite, invaluable credo: read the book.
  9. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    It's all very zany. Occasionally it is even madcap. You would almost be tempted to smile at times, albeit weakly, if it weren't for Mr. Miike's habit of pounding home every joke with exaggerated reaction shots.
  10. Ichi the Killer
    The direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence, but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why.
  11. The Independent
    It strings along its joke just long enough to keep from wearing out its welcome.
  12. Showboy
    The lesson of Showboy is how disturbingly easy it is for an audience to trust what it sees when confronted with a film posing as factual documentary.
  13. Bang Rajan
    No classic, but neither is it a joke.
  14. Daughters of the Sun
    With her shaved head and staring eyes, Aman actually looks as if she had been stripped entirely of her sexuality, like a Holocaust victim. What does seem certain is that a bootleg print of "Yentl" is still making its way through Iran's filmmaking underground, leaving a wide trail of influence behind it.
  15. Joe the King
    Dramatically Joe the King feels unglued, as if crucial sequences had been left on the cutting-room floor.
  16. Heat
    Its sensational looks pale beside storytelling weaknesses that expose the more soulless aspects of this cat-and-mouse crime tale.
  17. SLC Punk!
    Likable for its outlandishness, less so when it shows a self-important streak.
  18. The 6th Day
    Plays like something picked up at a vintage store; you can see all the greasy fingerprints from those who have handled it before.
  19. Girl, Interrupted
    A small, intense period piece with a tough-love attitude toward lazy, self-indulgent little girls flirting with madness.
  20. Raising Arizona
    Like "Blood Simple," it's full of technical expertise but has no life of its own... The direction is without decisive style. [11 Mar 1987, p.C24]
    • The New York Times
  21. Anger Management
    Undercooked, although it feels enough like a comedy for you to swallow it if you have to.
  22. Meet Joe Black
    With a too-many-cooks screenplay credited to Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade and Bo Goldman, it's so long that every character regrettably wears out his or her welcome.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All I Wanna Do
    Surprisingly pleasant, thanks to smart, unstereotyped performances.
  24. Bad Boys II
    The best moments come when Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence are permitted to pause from their action-hero duties and run their funny, unpredictable mouths.
  25. The Holy Land
    A barbed reflection on the great divide between secular and ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israeli culture. But its digressive screenplay lacks focus and momentum and is too oblique to connect many of the dots between its characters and their behavior.
  26. Soul Plane
    Not everyone will be thrilled by the movie, which is one long dirty (and occasionally very funny) joke.
  27. Billabong Odyssey
    With its emphasis on global positioning devices, Jet Skis and computer-designed surfboards, Mr. Boston's film is very much concerned with the stuff and very little with the spirit of professional surfing as practiced today.
  28. Solaris
    Retooled into a sleek pop fable that doesn't bother to connect all its dots, the movie aspires to fuse the mystical intellectual gamesmanship of "2001: A Space Odyssey" with the love-beyond-the-grave romantic schmaltz of "Titanic," without losing its cool. It's a tricky balancing act that doesn't quite come off.
  29. X-Men
    Clumsy when it should be light on its feet, the movie takes itself even more seriously than the comic book and its fans do, which is a superheroic achievement.
  30. The 13th Warrior
    Gives you the delirious thrill of ripping off your enemy's head and watching the blood gush by providing a ringside seat.
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