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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Spinning Into Butter
    Less a movie than an essay.
  2. Crank: High Voltage
    Boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic.
  3. Death in Love
    Death in Love hasn't a drop of humor or hope. Its dull, smudged look makes every environment appear joyless and claustrophobic.
  4. Homecoming
    Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.
  5. The Collector
    Offers agony in a vacuum, a villain without a motive and a hero with more personal problems than lines of dialogue.
  6. St. Trinian's
    A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school.
  7. Eating Out: All You Can Eat
    The sex (of which there isn’t much) isn’t sexy, and the humor isn’t funny.
  8. Breaking Point
    After a particularly brutal, attention-grabbing start, Breaking Point quickly devolves into a flavorless stew of murder, corruption, blackmail and baby tossing.
  9. Harlem Aria
    Missing no stops on the road from cloying to annoying, Harlem Aria has waited more than 10 years for domestic release. Maybe its destiny has been written.
  10. Black Knight
    A movie that knows its audience. Its underlying philosophy might be: why try harder when this is all they expect?
  11. Biker Boyz
    The movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere.
  12. Fidel
    This is bad cinema and bad history. Ms. Bravo is unstinting in her praise for the omelet and her admiration of the chef, but she refuses to admit that she's walking on eggshells.
  13. Love, Honor and Obey
    Terminally scatterbrained gangster farce.
  14. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Brain-dead.
  15. The Wolves of Kromer
    Silly, heavy-handed film.
  16. Fast Food Fast Women
    Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
  17. Texas Rangers
    This violent meatball western deserves to be forgotten quickly.
  18. Passion of Mind
    It's hard to take Passion seriously because it brings to mind the kind of shallow psychology that wouldn't be out of place in a history short about Sigmund Freud on "ABC Schoolhouse Rock."
  19. Eye of the Beholder
    Impenetrable mess of a movie.
  20. Bats
    Cause for fright in only one respect: the possibility that it could spawn sequels.
  21. Backstage
    Backstage isn't as good as the rap documentaries "Rhyme and Reason" and "The Show," but it still casts a keen, observant eye...on this world.
  22. Price of Glory
    In films, as in the ring, heart and will without exceptional talent don't produce winners.
  23. Knockout
    One long, 1980s-style inspirational cliche.
  24. Money Buys Happiness
    About 20 minutes in, it is clear that the couple will emerge as nothing more than crabby yuppies whose articulation of their pouts sounds like the same argument over and over again.
  25. Intern
    Ultimately as sycophantic as it is needling.
  26. The Rising Place
    This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
  27. The Story of Us
    Though it sets out to explain why this marriage is worth saving, The Story of Us could prompt even single members of the audience to file for divorce.
  28. Running Free
    Vacillates between cutesy Disney-style anthropomorphism and "Born Free" exoticism.
  29. The Real Cancun
    All its 89 minutes of fast cuts, swooping overhead shots, sun, surf, song, sunburn and sex cannot obscure the extent of its shallowness.
  30. Harrison's Flowers
    A stupefying mix of action, politics and melodrama.
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