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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. Aimee & Jaguar
    There is surprisingly little emotional amplitude in the film.
  2. An Affair of Love
    Clearly, this is an affair to forget.
  3. Autumn in New York
    Flagrantly old-fashioned, triple-hankie tear-jerker.
  4. Bless the Child
    A supernatural soap opera.
  5. Cecil B. DeMented
    Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.
  6. The Replacements
    A desperate, broad comedy.
  7. Better Living
    Feels like an early rehearsal for a play where all the movement is being coordinated but the underlying emotional notes have yet to be set.
  8. The Tao of Steve
    Can't redeem the moves toward its predictable happy ending. But the movie has a protagonist who has a great time getting there.
  9. The Tic Code
    Like most movies that examine specific ailments, this gawky, occasionally touching film has the feel of a dramatized case history whose purpose is to educate as much as it is to tell a story.
  10. Saving Grace
    That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
  11. Psycho Beach Party
    It is surprisingly timely.
  12. Coyote Ugly
    Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial.
  13. Hollow Man
    Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad.
  14. Space Cowboys
    One of the best entertainments this season has yet offered.
  15. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Isn't quite as much fun as it could be.
  16. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Half a movie at best. The broad humor at times derails Mr. Murphy's performances, but the movie provides a vehicle for him to display his reach.
  17. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte's visual instincts are so impressive that they outstrip his story, leaving us flushed and dazzled, but also, as after a long night of champagne and baccarat (to say nothing of other irresponsible pleasures), hungry, tired, and homesick.
  18. Wonderland
    As well done as it is, Wonderland feels predictable. There is no sad turn in these characters' lives that you cannot see coming about an hour before.
  19. The Wind Will Carry Us
    Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.
  20. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Mr. Baldwin's attack -- there's no better way to put it -- is unforgettable. He's the first shrunken narrator with a serial killer's swagger.
  21. New Waterford Girl
    A freshness and intensity that recall the television series "My So-Called Life."
  22. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  23. Two Women
    Impressive, unsettling, deeply felt film.
  24. Benjamin Smoke
    The film has a richer, more various visual texture than most documentaries, combining still photographs, black-and-white video and Super-8 film, sometimes with wild sound or none at all.
  25. Les amants criminels
    Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
  26. $pent
    By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.
  27. Alice et Martin
    Your attention is rewarded by a film of surprising depth and a few deep surprises.
  28. Loser
    In the end, Loser disappoints.
  29. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be.
  30. What Lies Beneath
    Glazes over faster than a Krispy Kreme doughnut, and neither is very flavorful after sitting around for a while.
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