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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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  1. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    The somewhat complicated plot may disappoint or confuse some tiny Elmo fans.
  2. Happy, Texas
    So soft-hearted it wouldn't hurt a fly.
  3. Bandits
    Its winning cast, spirited music and mordant view of establishment figures, from the police to cocaine-sniffing record industry executives, make Bandits a stylish, buoyant entertainment.
  4. Three Kings
    It isn't nearly as successful a showcase for this filmmaker's extraordinary talents.
  5. Drive Me Crazy
    When it comes to an ending, Drive Me Crazy offers no surprises, but it arrives there in amiable, sensible style.
  6. Divorce Iranian Style
    Reminds you that marital discord knows no geographic boundaries.
  7. Double Jeopardy
    Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense.
  8. Out of Season
    Serious, competent and unsurprising debut film.
  9. Mumford
    At heart a Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s.
  10. Fever Pitch
    Just because a first-person analysis of a sociocultural phenomenon is fascinating in print, it should not necessarily be turned into a movie.
  11. Jakob the Liar
    Alternates between bumbling group antics and strained poignancy...anticipates all laughter and emotion in ways that make it its own worst enemy.
  12. Guinevere
    Affectionately told ...beguiling.
  13. The Jaundiced Eye
    A passionate, angry piece of advocacy, but it is equally, and in consequence, a brave and necessary act of truth-telling.
  14. Taxman
    An offbeat little charmer of a mystery.
  15. Splendor
    Almost a textbook example of what can go wrong when an artistic bad boy decides to be good.
  16. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    A fine and loving memorial that preserves his charm, his intellect and his splendid body of work.
  17. Sugar Town
    Warmly funny ...wise little comedy.
  18. Breakfast of Champions
    The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
  19. Lucie Aubrac
    Stirringly romantic...a gripping period thriller that clicks along without resorting to hyped-up shock effects or gimmicky suspense.
  20. Get Bruce
    Endearing, very funny and utterly unpretentious.
  21. Blue Streak
    The buoyancy is only intermittent.
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  22. For Love of the Game
    Sometimes even a talented lineup produces unexceptional results.
  23. Romance
    Hovers between passion and philosophical argument without fully achieving its ambition to fuse the two.
  24. Crane World
    Powerfully gritty.
  25. American Beauty
    If you don't share the film's piercing vision of what really matters, someday you will.
  26. The Minus Man
    Takes such pains to avoid narrative and verbal cliches and anything that could remotely be construed as sentimental or romantic that it feels curiously flat.
  27. Earth
    A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures.
  28. B. Monkey
    The best part of B. Monkey is reveling in the dark side of Rupert Everett.
  29. Love Stinks
    A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
  30. Stigmata
    (Patricia Arquette's) irritated reactions to her dire situation have all the force of a pet owner's whiny complaints when her feline refuses to use the cat box.
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