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For 20,323 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: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    The picture is obsessed with strength and the use of physical force, though its attitudes are often slippery.
  2. Two Can Play That Game
    A likable, featherweight romantic comedy that hardly asks to be taken seriously, but its very triviality is, in some ways, quite significant.
  3. A Matter of Taste
    This deliciously nasty French deconstruction of male pecking orders, directed by Bernard Rapp, should send a pleasant shiver down the spine of anyone who has ever obsessed about wanting to please a devious and manipulative boss.
  4. The Musketeer
    Dramatically as well as visually, The Musketeer conflicts with itself by trying to blend grand old- school costume drama and MTV- style rhythm and attitude into the same movie. The juxtapositions are often preposterous.
  5. L.I.E.
    At its best, L.I.E. offers a rich, dark, bitter slice of contemporary life. But the film's arty embellishments undermine its bleak vision, making it, in the end, a little too easy to take.
  6. Soul Survivors
    There is an explanation for everything, but it is a long time coming and not worth the wait.
  7. Our Lady of the Assassins
    Couldn't have succeeded had it been cast with movie stars. Its authenticity derives not only from the streets on which it was filmed but also from its able Colombian cast.
  8. Rock Star
    Represents the usual victory of simplistic screenwriting conventions over the rich, gamy ambiguities of the subject. But while its slide into perfunctory storytelling dilutes the raw, silly spectacle of sex and noise, the movie still has enough wit and insight to make it worth watching.
  9. The Iron Ladies
    As flimsy and manipulative as the shallowest Hollywood fantasy.
  10. Vengo
    Seems held back by vestiges of an old-fashioned format that Mr. Gatlif has long since outgrown.
  11. The American Astronaut
    Soars as much as it crashes.
  12. Djomeh
    An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship.
  13. O
    In trying to make "Othello" more lifelike and bring it down to a younger audience -- in effect, to make it more democratic -- the adaptation has rendered the material artless.
  14. Jeepers Creepers
    Works up a reasonably delicious tingle.
  15. Tortilla Soup
    As predictable as a fast-food restaurant. The actors' exuberance goes a long way, but not far enough.
  16. Maybe Baby
    A juggling act between high soap opera and low comedy, Maybe Baby manages to keep its pins in the air until very near the end.
  17. Summer Catch
    A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore.
  18. Together
    One of the most pleasant foreign films of the year, a funny, graceful and immensely good-natured work.
  19. Ghosts of Mars
    Like a zombie picture directed by one of the undead.
  20. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    A loose- jointed, not especially memorable comic caper with some lovely moments of humorous invention, many patches of clumsy writing and a few game performances.
  21. Happy Accidents
    As impressive as it is in the abstract, all the detail ultimately drags the movie down and lengthens it unnecessarily.
  22. 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.
  23. Bubble Boy
    When it clicks, the picture should shock you into laughter -- enough to make you wish it were better and applaud its efforts anyway.
  24. Cupid's Mistake
    At 70 minutes, Cupid's Mistake is short, but then, so is our time on this planet.
  25. Fighter
    In juxtaposing two extraordinary personal histories, it ponders in a refreshingly original way unanswerable questions about memory, imagination, history and that elusive thing we call truth.
  26. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    This hilarious fake documentary -- deserves a place beside the comedies of Christopher Guest in the hall of fame of semi-deadpan spoofs.
  27. Brooklyn Babylon
    The film dissolves into a series of diminishing anticlimaxes, ending on a note of portentous ambiguity. To the last, Mr. Levin maintains his uneasy balance of reportage and melodrama.
  28. Innocence
    Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
  29. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Much more effective at evoking a paranoid mood than at telling a coherent story, and the jerky action sequences are among the film's weaker visual elements.
  30. American Outlaws
    May be simple, but it's also simple-minded; this is, after all, a movie determined to transform its Rebel soldier heroes into men of the people, making it as neglectful of politics as last summer's "Patriot," which evaded that nasty issue of slavery during the America Revolution.
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