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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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  1. Friends and Family
    Quickly collapses into an overloaded, slow-moving series of predictable jokes and forced situations.
  2. House of Fools
    Only adds to the sense that Mr. Konchalovsky has lost his artistic moorings. He has certainly lost his common sense.
  3. Samehada otoko to momojiri onna
    The emotional impact of Shark Skin Man is negligible.
  4. Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
    This poorly acted, ramshackle tour of the lower echelons of the Los Angeles rock scene has the feel of a largely improvised home movie filmed without retakes, and its sense of humor could only be fully appreciated by struggling musicians.
  5. All Over the Guy
    Some kind of equality has been achieved when it is impossible to distinguish heterosexual clichés from homosexual ones.
  6. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity.
  7. American Adobo
    As the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak.
  8. Autumn in New York
    Flagrantly old-fashioned, triple-hankie tear-jerker.
  9. Pinocchio
    It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new Pinocchio. Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden.
  10. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    This picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer.
  11. Red Planet
    A leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized.
  12. Vertical Limit
    A shallow yet empty action extravaganza.
  13. I Dreamed of Africa
    Advance word of mouth has suggested that Ms. Basinger...turns in a performance comparable to Meryl Streep's in "Out of Africa." Would that it were so. Ms. Basinger certainly works hard at her role.
  14. Hart's War
    Wants to be everything and adds up to nothing. "War" is a film that tries to excel on several levels and falls flat on all of them.
  15. Two Weeks Notice
    Breezing along on gusts of stale air and perky inanities, Two Weeks Notice is a romantic comedy so vague and sadly undernourished that it makes one of Nora Ephron's low-cal strawberry sodas seem as tempting as a Philip Barry feast.
  16. Charlotte Gray
    The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire.
  17. 102 Dalmatians
    May have had the unintended effect of obscuring the original it meant to honor.
  18. Bollywood/Hollywood
    Disappointingly shallow and not terribly funny romantic comedy.
  19. Bittersweet Motel
    Bland, unrevealing.
  20. An American Werewolf in Paris
    A slapdash, poorly acted, paint-by-numbers teen horror comedy, the sequel is too frenetically edited to build any suspense, and its special effects are strictly bargain basement.
  21. Hanging Up
    A chilly machine-tooled comedy.
  22. Under solen
    It has the melancholy mildew of both "Marty" and the 1940's weepie "The Enchanted Cottage."
  23. Snipes
    Mr. Jones, who recently starred in "Zig-Zag," a similarly striving, overwrought picture, is a disciplined and likable performer, and he bravely perseveres in the face of narrative absurdity and rampant overacting.
  24. All About the Benjamins
    This movie, a chaotic caper film at heart, wrecks its comic tone with some moments of gruesome violence.
  25. Green Dragon
    Loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.
  26. Inspector Gadget
    In the end the elaborate gimmickry of Inspector Gadget cannot conceal its very ordinary storytelling.
  27. Under Suspicion
    Appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline."
  28. Kill by Inches
    Should soon join Mr. Greenaway's last few efforts in obscurity.
  29. Kill Me Later
    The screenplay never begins to finds a workable balance between wit and adventure. And the performances in several smaller roles are so mechanical that they lend Kill Me Later the tone of a vanity production.
  30. Head of State
    The very confusion that has made him (Rock) so unpredictable and funny onstage makes this on-screen exploration of contemporary racial mythologies curiously tentative and unfocused.
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