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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. A Slipping-Down Life
    A Slipping-Down Life has a worn, scruffy feeling. It gazes lovingly at vintage clothes and battered old cars as if they were the visible signs of authenticity, wishing that its morose, disconnected inhabitants could somehow be touched with the same elusive quality.
  2. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    A sequel whose sugar-rush absurdity almost defeats the forces of logic, taste and conventional narrative. It is a defect that might undermine a lesser movie but that in this case proves to be as cheerfully, enjoyably humid as the first blast of summer light and heat.
  3. Rick
    The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin.
  4. Bangkok Dangerous
    Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating.
  5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    This may be the greatest picture ever made for 14-year-old boys. Mr. Smith may have hit his target, but he aimed very low.
  6. Waterworld
    It lacks the coherent fantasy of truly enveloping science fiction, preferring to concentrate on flashy, isolated stunts that say more about expense than expertise. [28 July 1995]
  7. Proof of Life
    What ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan.
  8. Changing Lanes
    It is so dishonest that the title Changing Lanes can just as well refer to the cheaply contrived turns in the film.
  9. Blow
    Depp's witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy -- a depth of feeling, if you'll allow the pun -- that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn.
  10. Mulan
    A film that not only breaks the cross-dressing barrier but also ratchets up the violence level for children's animation.
  11. Chelsea Walls
    Yet the movie sustains a mood. It passionately believes in itself and in the value of the messy artistic lives it glosses, and some of that belief rubs off on you.
  12. Levity
    The actors, too, bring more realism -- more gravity, if you will -- to the film than its wobbly premise deserves.
  13. Dancer in the Dark
    Both stupefyingly bad and utterly overpowering; it can elicit, sometimes within a single scene, a gasp of rapture and a spasm of revulsion.
  14. Bandits
    Guilty of behaving like a petty thievery corporation; it steals from so many other sources that we're forced to realize that it has little of its own to offer. As such, it can't help but fail to meet expectations, given the talents involved.
  15. Brother to Brother
    Filled with ideas and some nice acting, particularly from Mr. Mackie and Mr. Robinson, both of whom hold the screen easily, Mr. Evans has crammed a great deal of thought and a lot of obvious feeling into his first dramatic feature.
  16. Drive Me Crazy
    When it comes to an ending, Drive Me Crazy offers no surprises, but it arrives there in amiable, sensible style.
  17. Total Recall
    Mr. Verhoeven is much better at drumming up this sort of artificial excitement than he is at knowing when to stop.
  18. When Will I Be Loved
    The structure of When Will I Be Loved seems deliberately flimsy, and many of its details don't add up. But as a contemporary fable about getting and spending in the new gilded age, When Will I Be Loved strikes a chord that echoes.
  19. Waking the Dead
    Forever stumbling over itself and breaking its own spell.
  20. Jeepers Creepers II
    You don't have to be a horror-movie scholar to know that nothing significant is going to happen in any movie with "2" in the title; the creature has to stay around long enough at least to complete a trilogy and fill out a nice boxed set of DVD's.
  21. A Home at the End of the World
    In parceling his story into discrete scenes, Mr. Cunningham has turned a delicate novel into a bland and clumsy film. A Home at the End of the World, is so thoroughly decent in its intentions and so tactful in its methods that people are likely to persuade themselves that it's better than it is, which is not very good.
  22. The Manson Family
    Finally, though, Mr. Van Bebber seems more interested in recreating the grainy look of scratched 1970's film stock than in reflecting on the horrors he depicts, making this a difficult sell for all but the strongest stomachs among connoisseurs of vintage gore.
  23. Snatch.
    Mr. Ritchie seems to be stepping backward when he should be moving ahead.
  24. Sleepover
    A wispy pubescent comedy.
  25. The Kid
    Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.
  26. Seed of Chucky
    Most of the humor falls flat. One of the film's little joys is John Waters in a small part as a sleazy photographer who ends up having his face melted off with sulfuric acid.
  27. Under the Tuscan Sun
    The story of self-discovery through which the writer and director Audrey Wells leads Frances is eminently superficial, although Ms. Wells keeps the movie going with a steady, commanding hand and casts it with an actress who can deftly downshift from serene to sodden.
  28. Paper Clips
    Inspiring, but also, as a film, a little tedious, without enough narrative or exploration to justify its feature length.
  29. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    This new version is mindless hot-rodding fun, especially for those with a weakness for vintage cars hurtling down city streets, a group whose members include -- sigh -- me.
  30. Malevolence
    Malevolence will lead Halloween-inspired viewers into this dark place for some palpitations, but the thrills will come from sheer density of gruesome images, not from frightfully new ideas.
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