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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. Angel Eyes
    The product is so synthetic it has only attitude where its heart ought to be.
  2. Moulin Rouge!
    Simultaneously stirring and dispiriting.
  3. Shrek
    A giggly cocktail, though it's more foam than drink.
    • 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.
  5. Under Hellgate Bridge
    Sergio's urban melodrama Under Hellgate Bridge suggests the contemporary equivalent of any number of 1930's B movies.
  6. Startup.com
    Moves slowly and grimly toward the moment that for the audience is the most engrossing though filled with dread: when things begin to unravel and the participants are no longer aware of the cameras. That is when your shoulders tense and you lean toward the screen.
  7. The King Is Alive
    The cast, working in conditions that appear to have been only slightly less dire than those portrayed in the film, work together in a grim, convincing improvisatory rhythm.
  8. The Trumpet of the Swan
    A bland, well-meaning mishmash that never coheres into a dramatic whole.
  9. Bread and Roses
    He plies his viewers with plenty of bread -- chewy and, to some tastes, dry and starchy scenes -- but he also scatters petals of whimsy and delight to nourish the senses.
  10. A Knight's Tale
    The picture itself is good-humored, but bland and predictable. It's a cross between an All-American vaudevillian version of "Shakespeare in Love" and Mel Brooks's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."
  11. About Adam
    Seems refreshing, even mildly subversive.
  12. The Man Who Bought Mustique
    A compulsively watchable but repugnant portrait of a selfish eccentric born to privilege.
  13. Pavilion of Women
    It might have been a satisfying if not terribly original piece of historical melodrama, but its clumsiness turns it, against its best intentions, into half-baked operatic kitsch.
  14. Ice from the Sun
    It is the kind of film that only a certain breed of cinematic cultist could tolerate. Its grade-school-level acting, for instance, is so rudimentary that it makes the cast of "The Blair Witch Project" (which Ice From the Sun seems to be consciously parodying at times) appear Stanislavskian.
  15. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    Crackles dangerously to life whenever Constance (who narrates the film) is on the screen with her father Hank (Terry Kinney).
  16. Under the Sand
    Mr. Ozon gives the movie to Ms. Rampling, whose performance is like a perfectly executed piano etude, finding precise, impossibly subtle shadings of pleasure, confusion and distress.
  17. Eureka
    Eureka never comes to life. -- In pursuing its aesthetic agenda so single-mindedly, the movie leaves the characters behind in the muck.
  18. Time and Tide
    A woozy, disconnected piece of filmmaking about drugs, rock 'n' roll and the aftermath of sex.
  19. The Mummy Returns
    The noisome action sequences of The Mummy Returns are preferable to the quiet times, when the cast is limited to spouting dialogue that is a banal combination of exposition and homily.
  20. Deuces Wild
    A film that desperately wants to be a music video circa 1983.
  21. Green Dragon
    Loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.
  22. The Forsaken
    Had it exhibited a modicum of restraint, The Forsaken could have been twice as scary.
  23. Mauvais Sang
    While the screen flashes and flickers, little else is happening.
  24. One Night at McCool's
    Packs a lot into one night, but it's wearying. It's like a kid determined to show you every toy in his room, and there's nowhere to escape.
  25. Driven
    Even fans of open-wheel racing, the high-speed, high-stress pastime that is the subject of Renny Harlin's hectic new film, may walk away from it more logy than exhilarated.
  26. The Golden Bowl
    If this handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation of the novel doesn't leave you devastated, its ominous sense of a rarefied moral and aesthetic world bending before the accelerating streetcar of history will leave you with a mournful sense of loss.
  27. Town & Country
    What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
  28. The End of the Road
    So disorganized that it seems to be pulling its conclusions out of its pockets, along with scraps of paper, matches, lint and half-forgotten junk.
  29. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Fascinating but somewhat repellent.
  30. The Luzhin Defence
    Moves with fluidity and ease through brisk opening conventions to a perfectly poised and balanced endgame.
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