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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 Way of the Gun
    May feel redundant, but it is stylish and intelligent.
  2. The Bulls' Night Out
    The movie doesn't turn out to be as benignly right-wing as it initially suggests, though the plot turns can be spotted a mile away.
  3. Clouds
    Clouds is about the dumbest intelligent movie I've ever seen.
  4. Turn It Up
    Deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.
  5. Wildflowers
    A dreamy, impressionistic inquiry into the legacy of the 1960's, but it's less concerned with history than with mood.
  6. Madadayo
    It's not one of Kurosawa's great films.... But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
  7. Highlander: Endgame
    The action is the best thing in the picture.
  8. Whipped
    Bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy.
  9. Titanic Town
    In its harshly realistic scenes... it stirs your blood.
  10. Dark Days
    Dark Days illustrates even the worst nightmare can have descending levels of horror.
  11. The Art of War
    Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing.
  12. God's Army
    Eventually becomes preaching that is likely to tax the credibility of the unconverted.
  13. Orfeu
    Finds a sprawling, vivid middle ground somewhere between documentary and myth.
  14. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Never quite comes to dramatic or comic life.
  15. Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    A mildly amusing Japanese appropriation of 1950's American detective movies.
  16. Fastpitch
    Intelligent, insightful, touching.
  17. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Seems a little too desperate to be liked.
  18. The Crew
    Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
  19. Bittersweet Motel
    Bland, unrevealing.
  20. Solomon & Gaenor
    Does an almost dismayingly good job of conveying its characters' grim, bare-bones existence and the stultifying sexual and religious taboos that the lovers flout.
  21. Love & Sex
    Slight but bright and charming.
  22. Bring It On
    It is Ms. Dunst who carries the movie and unifies its disparate elements. She's a terrific comic actress.
  23. Chalk
    Finally fails to escape the conventions of the Hollywood cinema it so proudly deplores.
  24. Place Vendôme
    In spite of its many flaws, the film never loses its focus on its fascinating central figure.
  25. The Cell
    Mr. Singh may have an artist's temperament, and he shows signs of being a director
  26. Steal This Movie
    Likable but muddled screen biography.
  27. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
  28. Sunset Strip
    A youth comedy so relentlessly sordid and depressing that it's likely to send its audience straight into the arms of the nearest psycho-pharmacologist.
  29. The Opportunists
    This is one of the best-photographed pictures of the year, but not ostentatiously so; the look is organic to the less-than-glamorous badlands of Sunnyside, Queens.
  30. Intern
    Ultimately as sycophantic as it is needling.
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