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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Taboo
    Illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible.
  2. CyberWorld
    Unabashed, and often quite diverting, technological overkill.
  3. Two Family House
    Experience filmgoing joy.
  4. Bamboozled
    Spike Lee has grabbed a tiger by the tail in his scabrously risky new comedy, Bamboozled. The wonder is how long he succeeds in hanging on.
  5. Get Carter
    So minimally plotted that not only does it lack subtext or context, but it also may be the world's first movie without even a text.
  6. Bootmen
    Too much soap opera colors its love story, and the industrial- strength dancing by booted men that is its centerpiece falls short of exhilaration.
  7. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
  8. Yi Yi
    In exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life.
  9. Meet the Parents
    This is a high-concept comedy, and none of the jokes are forced, which makes Meet the Parents a singular achievement.
  10. Requiem for a Dream
    Be warned: it's a downer, and a knockout.
  11. Beautiful
    Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush.
  12. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Emerges as an engaging if occasionally hokey inspirational melodrama about the importance of community in the face of life's disappointments.
  13. Girlfight
    The movie belongs to Ms. Rodriguez. With her slightly crooked nose and her glum, sensual mouth, she looks a little like Marlon Brando in his smoldering prime, and she has some of his slow, intense physicality. She doesn't so much transcend gender as redefine it.
  14. Remember the Titans
    If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so.
  15. The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
    In a very real way, The Great Dance constitutes an act of preservation and a requiem.
  16. Barenaked in America
    May not be dispassionate filmmaking, but it is certainly entertaining.
  17. Best in Show
    This comic jigsaw puzzle is crammed with deliriously funny little bits.
  18. The Specials
    Terminally whimsical, it generates a steady current of humor, much of it off-color.
  19. Prince of Central Park
    Remains a sadly earthbound thing, mired in a dismal realism that lies far from its natural environment.
  20. Chutney Popcorn
    Because Chutney Popcorn knows its characters deeply enough to let them determine events, it rises above formula. It is also unusually well acted.
  21. The Tavern
    Astringent and unsentimental, it is a case study of losing, its clear eye focused unwaveringly on the realities of commerce and kinship.
  22. The Fantasticks
    The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.
  23. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion, nor the sense of humor necessary to turn the deliberate clichés into effective satire.
  24. Under Suspicion
    Appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline."
  25. Woman on Top
    This would-be spicy film has been made blandly palatable.
  26. Double Parked
    A modest but engaging mixture of comedy and drama that derives most of its energy from the performance of Callie Thorne.
  27. Left Luggage
    So intent on pushing its virtuous agenda that its characters often sound like mouthpieces parroting predigested attitudes.
  28. Tigerland
    Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart.
  29. Dancer in the Dark
    Both stupefyingly bad and utterly overpowering; it can elicit, sometimes within a single scene, a gasp of rapture and a spasm of revulsion.
  30. Twilight: Los Angeles
    The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.
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