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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 In Crowd
    The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake.
  2. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Mr. Law doesn't disgrace himself here, though he doesn't have much to do, and the director, Po Chih Leong, is deft at creating atmosphere, but it's an atmosphere we've all seen before.
  3. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A brilliant satire of emotional politics.
  4. The Five Senses
    By interweaving several stories, the movie suffers from a peculiar multiplier effect: it deepens its shallowness.
  5. Chuck & Buck
    Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.
  6. Shadow Hours
    Tedious descent into cinema hell.
  7. X-Men
    Clumsy when it should be light on its feet, the movie takes itself even more seriously than the comic book and its fans do, which is a superheroic achievement.
  8. The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
  9. Fear of Fiction
    A washout.
  10. All the Rage
    Like a ham-fisted high-concept public service announcement, directed with stagy deliberateness and written with tin-eared vernacular speechiness.
  11. I'm the One That I Want
    Several times while watching the movie I laughed until the tears were running down my face.
  12. But I'm a Cheerleader
    So campy it reflexively sends an elbow to its own ribs.
  13. The Kid
    Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.
  14. Scary Movie
    If you're amused by jokes involving male genitals, female pubic hair, flatulence and dismemberment, it should be a big hit.
  15. Shower
    Uplifting, witty.
  16. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Best and most touching when it shows how willing punk is to eat its young.
  17. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
  18. The Perfect Storm
    The Perfect Storm is no "Titanic."
  19. Trixie
    Despite its occasional flashes of brilliance (every Rudolph film has them), this unsavory stew never comes to a boil.
  20. The Patriot
    Shamelessly stirring, brandishing Mr. Gibson's anguished masculinity like a musket. It may be effective, but you leave the theater feeling used.
  21. Me, Myself & Irene
    The humor in Me, Myself and Irene is often outrageous but rarely cruel.
  22. Praise
    Praise will stick with you. It's more than worthy of its title.
  23. Chicken Run
    Doesn't try to cram messages of uplift down its audience's gullet. It's a great eggscape from banality.
  24. Boricua's Bond
    Suffers from a fatal lack of modulation. It paints a picture of inner-city life as an endless sequence of beatings and shouting matches, and in its glum cartoonishness insults the people whose strivings it means to honor.
  25. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Struggles under the burden of adapting such rarefied material.
  26. Titan A.E.
    Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
  27. Shaft
    This may be the first movie that runs under two hours and yet has no attention span. Characters are abandoned and picked up; narrative threads dissolve before your very eyes.
  28. Boys and Girls
    The best thing that can be said about Boys and Girls is that it is studiously inoffensive.
  29. Butterfly Tongues
    Delicate, quietly devastating.
  30. Humanité
    You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.
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