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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. 15 Minutes
    It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.
  2. Get Over It
    Mild, harmless and occasionally affecting, possessing the fizz of diet soda and the sweet snap of slightly stale bubble gum.
  3. Blow Dry
    Seems both overplotted and underimagined, though there is at least some creativity and a dose of realism, evident in the hairstyles themselves.
  4. The Gleaners & I
    She (Varda) plucks images and stories from the world around her, finding beauty and nourishment in lives and activities the world prefers to ignore.
  5. Me You Them
    An unexpected delight, a film that weds the humor and magic of a folk tale with a very modern feel for the psychological dynamics between men and women and for the subtle politics of male rivalry in a macho culture. It has been made and acted with intelligence and evident love, which deserves to be requited.
  6. 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.
  7. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    The documentary doesn't get near the prowess of its subject; it passes through your life like a minor daydream.
  8. The Caveman's Valentine
    Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways. And the ending is as resolute as you might have hoped for. It lets Romulus and the movie retain their integrity.
  9. See Spot Run
    The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
  10. The Mexican
    The movie's biggest strength is a story that refuses to quit and almost makes sense within its own screwball logic.
  11. Series 7: The Contenders
    Seems stranded in that nowhereland between irony and sarcasm.
  12. Monkeybone
    The movie is booby-trapped with so many loud gags that some of its sneakier humor is nearly lost in the din.
  13. Last Resort
    Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
  14. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    This bloated spectacle has all the get-up-and-go of one of the legendary late-era Elvis Presley concerts. The picture feels longer than Presley's career and as irrelevant as he was by the end.
  15. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Mr. Leconte seems at last to have anchored his cinematic gifts to a story worth caring about.
  16. Southern Comfort
    Southern Comfort sent shock waves through this year's Sundance Film Festival, even though it is as much about generosity and courage and tolerance as it is about a potentially discomforting subject.
  17. Company Man
    Little more than a loose- jointed succession of goofy "Saturday Night Live"-style sketches and sight gags inspired by an actual event that is nearly half a century behind us.
  18. Down to Earth
    Mr. Rock's attempts to disentangle himself from his persona while offering audiences a sliver of insight into his world is a lofty ambition, but Down to Earth falls short.
  19. Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music
    Documents of a flourishing below-the-radar culture, often involving older musicians who won't be around much longer, they are archival records as well as entertainments.
  20. Yom Yom
    An interesting, elusive hodgepodge of comedy, melodrama and implicit allegory, lighted by occasional sparks of formal bravado.
  21. Sweet November
    The film's last half-hour -- or do I mean its final two weeks? -- is meant to keep the audience sniffling and sobbing uncontrollably, but the only thing likely to elicit tears is the sight of Mr. Reeves dressed in a white dinner jacket crooning "Time After Time."
  22. Recess: School's Out
    The unfortunate thing is that children will probably waste their summers indoors watching "Recess" over and over again.
  23. The Price of Milk
    The guiding philosophy of The Price of Milk seems to be that if you throw something on the screen and call it a fairy tale, it has to mean something. But it doesn't.
  24. Bad Company
    Frank, sympathetic approach to the awkward age.
  25. Love, Honor and Obey
    Terminally scatterbrained gangster farce.
  26. 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.
  27. Journey to the Sun
    An incisive drama about a waking nightmare.
  28. Signs & Wonders
    Filled with voyeuristic shots as the camera peers through picket fences and windows and around corners; the film looks as if it were shot with a surveillance camera from a 7-Eleven
  29. Saving Silverman
    Does occasionally rise out of the sewer of its self-imposed idiocy, ascending in brief moments from utter witlessness to half-witlessness, mostly thanks to the loose comic byplay between Mr. Black and Mr. Zahn.
  30. The Taste of Others
    A witty, sociologically astute reflection on the attraction between opposites.
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