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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Condo Painting
    An 87-minute documentary on the life, work and thought of George Condo, a garrulous painter with a mischievous sense of humor and an eccentric, quasi-mystical view of art and the world it inhabits.
  2. The Next Best Thing
    The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality
  3. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    There is a lot of violence, but not much action; a plot involving vengeance, jealousy and double-crossing, but not a great deal of suspense.
  4. Drowning Mona
    A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery.
  5. What Planet Are You From?
    Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    3 Strikes
    Feels like a very long late-night comedy sketch that occasionally veers beyond tastelessness toward something worse.
  7. Judy Berlin
    Mendelsohn's fusion of science fiction and Chekhovian melancholy finds a fresh perspective on a familiar theme.
  8. Mifune's Last Song
    The brusque realism of Kragh-Jacobsen's style -- his careful suppression of style -- allows a surprising sweetness to emerge.
  9. Claire Dolan
    Cartlidge's beautifully still performance, mournful one moment, defiant the next, lets you see into Claire's soul without editorializing or begging for our empathy.
  10. The Waiting Game
    Ordinary lives have become an ordinary film.
  11. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    Sivan has accomplished something extraordinary: he has given political extremism a human face.
  12. Reindeer Games
    The movie is staged like a pit stop -- Reindeer Games goes from being fun to being laughable.
  13. The Closer You Get
    Another high-concept Irish Spring comedy.
  14. Wonder Boys
    With so much going for it, how could the movie be such a dud?
  15. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.
  16. Beautiful People
    Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
  17. Boiler Room
    Reflects the sensibility of the generation it holds up to critical scrutiny, and it's a cunningly ambiguous act of self-portraiture.
  18. Hanging Up
    A chilly machine-tooled comedy.
  19. The Whole Nine Yards
    Underwhelming, amusing only in fits and starts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not One Less
    A splendid, assured piece of storytelling.
  21. Pitch Black
    Shrewdly taps into the lurking primal terrors of anyone who ever had to sleep with a night light.
  22. Cotton Mary
    Forlorn melodrama, which is low on drama and high on mellow.
  23. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Sheds heat but insufficient light.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Fails both as arrested-development farce and as teen-age romantic comedy.
  25. The Tigger Movie
    An adequate piece of children's entertainment, though it seems better suited for home viewing...than for the big screen.
  26. The Beach
    Not a terrible movie, just an insubstantial one. All of DiCaprio's charisma and the director's savvy are used to divert us from the fact that there's not much going on.
  27. Knockout
    One long, 1980s-style inspirational cliche.
  28. Gun Shy
    One of the most subtle and inspired comedies you'll see this year.
  29. Scream 3
    Funny and brisk, with enough good lines to make the comedy more satisfying than the somewhat routine but still unsettling jolts to the spine.
  30. Beloved/Friend
    Like its title, it's a clumsy contraption.
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