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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Very Annie Mary
    As it lurches between mush and farce, Very Annie Mary churns up a few genuinely funny bits.
  2. Club Dread
    Mr. Chandrasekhar's direction is casual to the point of carelessness, but he does give the movie a friendly, convivial atmosphere that contradicts and sometimes overcomes its frequently cruel humor. In short, this is another film that looks as if it was more fun to make than it is to sit through.
  3. Confidence
    If Confidence was made by people who have seen too many movies, it seems to be aimed at people who have seen too few. It offers up stale lessons in vocabulary and technique, all of them easily gleaned on a trip to the video store, as if they were choice bits of inside knowledge.
  4. The Trip
    With its implausible coincidences, inelegant plot twists and minimally characterized characters, The Trip doesn't have much going for it apart from its basic sincerity and decency, which are evident.
  5. S.W.A.T.
    Mostly standard-issue muddle.
  6. Office Space
    It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum. Its conspiratorial eager beavers are so undeveloped that they could hardly even be called types. You don't care for a second what happens to them.
  7. Swing
    A sweet, sincere labor of love that just isn't very good.
  8. Love the Hard Way
    Loses tension (and ultimately credibility) as it wanders through three possible endings before grinding to a halt.
  9. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Nostalgia and comedy are run through a food processor until they become a flavorless paste.
  10. Ayurveda: Art of Being
    As a believer preaching to an audience of believers, he (Nalin) feels no need to offer proofs or anything even approaching a rational argument.
  11. For Love of the Game
    Sometimes even a talented lineup produces unexceptional results.
  12. Life as a House
    Doesn't trust the audience enough to keep from laying on the schmaltz.
  13. At First Sight
    The pace is so plodding and the dialogue so unwaveringly banal … that the film can't rise to the extraordinary sensations it means to capture.
  14. The Intended
    The performances are so skillful that the actors almost carry it off. But as the shocks come thicker and faster, the credibility of The Intended, wears away.
  15. The Rules of Attraction
    The harder the movie tries to shock, the shriller it rings.
  16. Mission to Mars
    There doesn't seem to be an original moment in the entire movie, and the score is so repetitive that it could have been downloaded directly from EnnioMorricone.com.
  17. The Anarchist Cookbook
    Strains for a jazzy, Oliver Stone-ish look, but at its heart it is a placid and conventional moral tale about the dangers of wandering too far off the pathway.
  18. The Transporter
    American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.
  19. Son of the Bride
    May be as exhaustive a study of one man's midlife crisis as has ever been brought to the screen. But as the movie lopes along, exhaustive becomes exhausting.
  20. Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
    It becomes hard to tell just what Castaneda was advocating, apart from the liberal use of psychedelic drugs.
  21. How I Killed My Father
    A kind of murder mystery, but eventually the only victim is the audience's interest -- the picture is uncompromising and inauspicious.
  22. Let's Get Frank
    Has no interest in exploring Mr. Frank's family background or love life. This frustrating lack of context leaves you wanting a lot more in the way of texture.
  23. Johnson Family Vacation
    Feels more like a grueling road trip in search of a family comedy.
  24. 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.
  25. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Like "The Sixth Sense," He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not reaches for a crowning final twist, but in this case it falls flat.
  26. Wasabi
    Culinary purists have observed that much of what passes for the spicy Japanese condiment wasabi at American restaurants is an ersatz concoction of horseradish and green food coloring. The French-language action comedy Wasabi is just as artificial, pumped with horseradish to give it heat in lieu of actual spice.
  27. Left Luggage
    So intent on pushing its virtuous agenda that its characters often sound like mouthpieces parroting predigested attitudes.
  28. Mambo italiano
    As Angelo, Mr. Kirby has a boyish charm, which is probably the best that can be said for this film as well.
  29. The City of Lost Souls
    (Miike's) work is fun to look at but emotionally unengaging, perhaps because he can't summon enough belief in his pulp-fiction characters to make them come alive.
  30. Poolhall Junkies
    The proliferating subplots require many big emotional confrontations, so the movie seems to reach its climax 20 minutes in, and then every 15 minutes or so thereafter. This is fairly exhausting.
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