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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. The Emperor's New Clothes
    Although there's plenty of opportunity for low comedy in the notion of an emperor and an oaf exchanging roles, The Emperor's New Clothes, much to its detriment, doesn't pursue them.
  2. Light It Up
    Turns out to be a pretentiously righteous drama that drowns any claim to serious attention in a sea of superficial characters.
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  3. Loving Jezebel
    Mr. Bader was lucky to get a good cast.
  4. Smokers Only
    Too predictable to leave much of an impression.
  5. The Wash
    Isn't much of a movie (it'll play much better on the small screen), but the likable chemistry between Dre and Snoop counts for a lot.
  6. Returning Mickey Stern
    A sweet, well-intended picture, but like its title character, it is not quite good enough for the big leagues.
  7. Scarlet Diva
    Permeated by a self-pitying, adolescent naïveté.
  8. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The territory where the circus sideshow meets the avant-garde...visually arresting, dramatically blurry.
  9. Hit and Runway
    Hit and Runway is a case of the emperor's old clothes: drab, sentimental rags that desperately want to be something else.
  10. Return to Me
    Weightless and polite when it means to be magical and gentle, Return to Me is a piece of fruit gone soft from being off the vine too long.
  11. Body Shots
    More focused on surface than true revelation.
  12. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    Something to behold; it's just not much to watch, despite admirable ambition and a few tense, well-thought-out sequences.
  13. Greenfingers
    The film is as synthetic as a rubber rose, but it is all but indistinguishable from the organically grown, bred-in-Britain article.
  14. Segunda piel
    The movie is quiet, modest and sympathetic almost to a fault; its scenes of emotional discord, accompanied by a swooning, sniffling score, seem best suited to cable television. It's like a Lifetime movie about men.
  15. 8 ½ Women
    Its message is quite simple and all too familiar: when it comes to sex, all men are little boys.
  16. Onegin
    Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.
  17. Food of Love
    Tossed by successive waves of floridity and biliousness, Food of Love finally washes up on the shores of camp.
  18. The Three Marias
    Its emotional climate is too extreme to invite identification, and its characters are too single-minded in their revenge to evoke pity, terror or even much interest.
  19. Everybody Says I'm Fine!
    Very little of consequence can be said of the film, other than that it is quieter and more realistic than the Bollywood spectacles that are India's best-known movies.
  20. Wildflowers
    A dreamy, impressionistic inquiry into the legacy of the 1960's, but it's less concerned with history than with mood.
  21. The Banger Sisters
    Certainly begins with its heart in the right place. But the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure.
  22. WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
    With its many unsolved mysteries, WXIII joins a long list of film-noir projects that end up stranded in the maze of their own invention.
  23. Aimee & Jaguar
    There is surprisingly little emotional amplitude in the film.
  24. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Never quite comes to dramatic or comic life.
  25. The Suburbans
    It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge.
  26. Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    A mildly amusing Japanese appropriation of 1950's American detective movies.
  27. The Waiting Game
    Ordinary lives have become an ordinary film.
  28. The Blackout
    Like most of Mr. Ferrara's films, The Blackout takes place in a trance state -- events are fuzzy, line readings even fuzzier. There are mysterious ellipses in the plotline and lots of droning electric guitar work on the soundtrack.
  29. Maze
    This mishmash of emotional tones can't be redeemed by the performers' considerable investment in their work.
  30. Birthday Girl
    This breathless demi-noir has so much bounce that we barely get any time to mull over the gaping holes in its moth-eaten plot. It is competent but extremely slight.
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