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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Son of the Bride
    May be as exhaustive a study of one man's midlife crisis as has ever been brought to the screen. But as the movie lopes along, exhaustive becomes exhausting.
  2. Jim Brown: All American
    At its most provocative, the movie explores the masculine mystique and the myth of the black stud.
  3. Blade II
    Because of the movie's wonderful shamelessness, its mordantly funny chills and fights are huge turn-ons. A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness.
  4. Pauline and Paulette
    Rather than assaulting you with self-congratulatory tears, it leaves you with a bittersweet glow of wisdom and an appreciation of the small triumphs and difficult labors of love.
  5. Harrison's Flowers
    A stupefying mix of action, politics and melodrama.
  6. 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.
  7. Sweet Smell of Success (re-release)
    Its pleasures are almost obscenely abundant.
  8. Y Tu Mamá También
    Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.
  9. Promises
    Demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful, subjective filmmaking.
  10. Resident Evil
    The movie has a frantic staccato style that is more game-oriented than cinematic.
  11. Ice Age
    The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.
  12. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
    Does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background.
  13. Asphalt Zahov
    The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
  14. All About the Benjamins
    This movie, a chaotic caper film at heart, wrecks its comic tone with some moments of gruesome violence.
  15. Festival in Cannes
    A good deal of anger washes through this acerbic portrait of the movie business in histrionically high gear. But so does a lot of sentimentality, and as the sentimentality quotient rises, it erodes the film's credibility.
  16. The Time Machine
    This uninviting and pallid version, starring Guy Pearce, is intent on grinding all the sharp edges off the original story, in effect making the movie childproof, so no one can get hurt touching it.
  17. Miss Wonton
    The director has fallen into the common first-timer's trap of biting off more than he can chew, stitching together an unwieldy, disorganized story out of subplots and flashbacks, without paying enough attention to the basic requirements of character and narrative.
  18. Esther Kahn
    It is also possible that the problem lies not with Mr. Desplechin but with Ms. Phoenix. Her Esther is a fascinating mixture of passivity and ferocity, but it's not clear that she has the range to show both sides of the character.
  19. Stolen Summer
    Summer is like an episode of the religious children's series "Davey and Goliath," without the entertainment value of animation and a talking dog.
  20. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    One of the most purely enjoyable films ever made.
  21. Borstal Boy
    A likable rites-of-passage memory piece doused in period nostalgia, including the prominent use of vintage Movietone newsreels to mark the events of World War II.
  22. We Were Soldiers
    Like the best war movies -- and like martial literature going back to the Iliad -- it balances the dreadful, unassuageable cruelty of warfare and the valor and decency of those who fight.
  23. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    Mildly amusing but wholly unnecessary comedy.
  24. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Reminds us that when it comes to comedy, it's all in the writing. Mr. Kalesniko's satirically barbed screenplay, whose spirit harks back to the comic heyday of Blake Edwards, stirs up an insistent verbal energy that rarely flags.
  25. The Cherry Orchard
    What makes this Cherry Orchard different from almost every other interpretation (and makes it essential viewing for lovers of Chekhov) is Ms. Rampling's extraordinarily rich portrait of Ranevskaya.
  26. Big Bad Love
    Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence.
  27. Maryam
    There's not much here; some of the shots feel so static that you wonder if they're being rehearsed before your eyes.
  28. Revolution OS
    Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from David's point of view.
  29. Mean Machine
    The surface is rough and profane enough, and the acting sufficiently restrained, to cover the sentimental story with a varnish of gritty realism. But stylish bravado and bad-boy performances don't make the film any less predictable.
  30. Monsoon Wedding
    The agile handling of the soap-opera elements -- conventional plotting at best -- finally makes "Wedding" a pop, facile take on Capulet versus Montague stuff, likable but square.
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