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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Performance
    The film progresses by what I imagine a series of electro‐shocks to be like, but a shock treatment administered not by a therapist but by a misprogrammed computer.
  2. Under Hellgate Bridge
    Sergio's urban melodrama Under Hellgate Bridge suggests the contemporary equivalent of any number of 1930's B movies.
  3. The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
    Mr. Gianvito's approach cannot really be called critical, since criticism would require some cogent analysis of causes and events.
  4. What to Do in Case of Fire
    Its bone-deep willingness to do anything to entertain is exhausting.
  5. 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.
  6. Prince of Central Park
    Remains a sadly earthbound thing, mired in a dismal realism that lies far from its natural environment.
  7. Boys and Girls
    The best thing that can be said about Boys and Girls is that it is studiously inoffensive.
  8. Sonny
    Emotionally incoherent.
  9. The Skulls
    Less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience.
  10. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    The documentary doesn't get near the prowess of its subject; it passes through your life like a minor daydream.
  11. Showtime
    Plays every convention twice, once as parody and once by the book, but the movie, trying to be two things at once, fails at both.
  12. Chuen jik sat sau
    Perhaps the directors are under the delusion that the dodging and leaping can make up for an ending that leaves the cast members of "Killer" adrift and nearly scratching their heads in puzzlement.
  13. The Four Feathers
    Such few assets aren't enough to alleviate the film's shallowness.
  14. Virus
    As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
  15. $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.
  16. 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.
  17. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    It's sad and misguided and boring.
  18. Men Cry Bullets
    A muddled film with John Waters aspirations.
  19. Just One Time
    Works hard at being charming, but comedy is best when it looks effortless.
  20. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Seems a little too desperate to be liked.
  21. The Simian Line
    Might be described as a muddy, cliché-ridden sudsfest that lurches uncertainly between comedy and soap opera without finding its emotional or visual footing.
  22. The Five Senses
    By interweaving several stories, the movie suffers from a peculiar multiplier effect: it deepens its shallowness.
  23. Lucky Break
    Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.
  24. Terror Firmer
    Couldn't be more artless.
  25. My Boss's Daughter
    This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that has sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date.
  26. Gossip
    If you're looking for a 90-minute post-teen soap opera with pretty people, ludicrous hairpin turns and a whopper of an ending, the movie will keep you mindlessly off balance.
  27. An Affair of Love
    Clearly, this is an affair to forget.
  28. Boys Life 3
    Pallid compared with the flaming id of television's "Will and Grace," the happy swizzle stick Jack, who's all appetites. When series television is more entertaining than a series of short independent films, that's something to worry about.
  29. The Era of Vampires
    Murky, third-rate martial-arts film.
  30. The Musketeer
    Dramatically as well as visually, The Musketeer conflicts with itself by trying to blend grand old- school costume drama and MTV- style rhythm and attitude into the same movie. The juxtapositions are often preposterous.
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