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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. Green Dragon
    Loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.
  2. The Forsaken
    Had it exhibited a modicum of restraint, The Forsaken could have been twice as scary.
  3. Mauvais Sang
    While the screen flashes and flickers, little else is happening.
  4. One Night at McCool's
    Packs a lot into one night, but it's wearying. It's like a kid determined to show you every toy in his room, and there's nowhere to escape.
  5. Driven
    Even fans of open-wheel racing, the high-speed, high-stress pastime that is the subject of Renny Harlin's hectic new film, may walk away from it more logy than exhilarated.
  6. The Golden Bowl
    If this handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation of the novel doesn't leave you devastated, its ominous sense of a rarefied moral and aesthetic world bending before the accelerating streetcar of history will leave you with a mournful sense of loss.
  7. Town & Country
    What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
  8. The End of the Road
    So disorganized that it seems to be pulling its conclusions out of its pockets, along with scraps of paper, matches, lint and half-forgotten junk.
  9. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Fascinating but somewhat repellent.
  10. The Luzhin Defence
    Moves with fluidity and ease through brisk opening conventions to a perfectly poised and balanced endgame.
  11. The Charcoal People
    Bluntly downbeat.
  12. The Low Down
    What distinguishes The Low Down from movies like "The Brothers McMullen" and "My Life's in Turnaround" is its ragged edge of authenticity, its refusal to plot its characters' lives on the graph of romantic comedy convention.
  13. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Emerges as an uncommonly sober, well-researched film of its type.
  14. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Nostalgia and comedy are run through a food processor until they become a flavorless paste.
  15. Harry Is Here to Help
    A strange and funny film, smart, complex and difficult to shake.
  16. Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie's comic heart consists of a series of indescribably loopy, elaborately conceived happenings that are at once rigorous and chaotic, idiotic and brilliant.
  17. The Center of the World
    In a culture apparently defined by lap dancing, ersatz architectural sublimity and the virtual contact of cyberspace, how do we know what is real? The Center of the World, for example, is as phony as can be.
  18. States of Control
    In the end, Lisa's revolt seems as predictably programmatic, and as widely abstracted from observable human behavior, as the movie that contains her.
  19. Brigham City
    Brigham City, like "God's Army," may proselytize for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but Brigham City is also an example of concise, skillful filmmaking.
  20. Lakeboat
    Mr. Mantegna, who as an actor is one of the leading interpreters of Mr. Mamet's work, gives generous room to the movie's first-rate ensemble.
  21. The Body
    If the film were a fight, they'd have stopped it.
  22. The Circle
    The political implications of the film are manifest, as is the quiet courage of making it.
  23. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real.
  24. Josie and the Pussycats
    Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery.
  25. Kingdom Come
    You are left with the feeling that its excesses notwithstanding, it knows its chosen terrain.
  26. Chopper
    Mr. Bana's Chopper is so scarily convincing that he makes you feel the eruptive force of each mood swing and the way his character's paranoia, egomania and conscience- stricken apologies are part of a volatile emotional cycle.
  27. Joe Dirt
    Relentlessly softheaded and softhearted.
  28. The Girl
    Has the dreary one-track banality of a feature-length version of an episode of "Red Shoe Diaries," Showtime's series for people who like soft core but are too lazy to leave the house.
  29. Just Visiting
    Over all, the humor has been sanitized a bit compared with the darker, more grotesque comedy of the French original.
  30. Beautiful Creatures
    Beneath its studiedly ugly surface, this bargain-basement answer to "Thelma and Louise" is as loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn.
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