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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. I'm the One That I Want
    Several times while watching the movie I laughed until the tears were running down my face.
  2. But I'm a Cheerleader
    So campy it reflexively sends an elbow to its own ribs.
  3. The Kid
    Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.
  4. Scary Movie
    If you're amused by jokes involving male genitals, female pubic hair, flatulence and dismemberment, it should be a big hit.
  5. Shower
    Uplifting, witty.
  6. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Best and most touching when it shows how willing punk is to eat its young.
  7. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
  8. The Perfect Storm
    The Perfect Storm is no "Titanic."
  9. Trixie
    Despite its occasional flashes of brilliance (every Rudolph film has them), this unsavory stew never comes to a boil.
  10. The Patriot
    Shamelessly stirring, brandishing Mr. Gibson's anguished masculinity like a musket. It may be effective, but you leave the theater feeling used.
  11. Me, Myself & Irene
    The humor in Me, Myself and Irene is often outrageous but rarely cruel.
  12. Praise
    Praise will stick with you. It's more than worthy of its title.
  13. Chicken Run
    Doesn't try to cram messages of uplift down its audience's gullet. It's a great eggscape from banality.
  14. Boricua's Bond
    Suffers from a fatal lack of modulation. It paints a picture of inner-city life as an endless sequence of beatings and shouting matches, and in its glum cartoonishness insults the people whose strivings it means to honor.
  15. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Struggles under the burden of adapting such rarefied material.
  16. Titan A.E.
    Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
  17. Shaft
    This may be the first movie that runs under two hours and yet has no attention span. Characters are abandoned and picked up; narrative threads dissolve before your very eyes.
  18. Boys and Girls
    The best thing that can be said about Boys and Girls is that it is studiously inoffensive.
  19. Butterfly Tongues
    Delicate, quietly devastating.
  20. Humanité
    You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jesus' Son
    One of the pleasures of Jesus' Son is watching a filmmaker take risks and discover new resources of style.
  22. The Woman Chaser
    Strives desperately for a zaniness that is largely absent from the screenplay and from comic performances that are too blank and unfocused to register as parody.
  23. Pop & Me
    For a film devoted to celebrating intimacy and the breaking down of emotional barriers, Pop and Me is oddly withholding of information about the travelers.
  24. BookWars
    The movie is like spending an idle afternoon browsing, and not buying.
  25. Love's Labour's Lost
    Even though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
  26. Groove
    The film's seductive lack of pretension will make a fan of you.
  27. Sunshine
    Leaves you with a sense of quiet, chastened grace.
  28. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    This new version is mindless hot-rodding fun, especially for those with a weakness for vintage cars hurtling down city streets, a group whose members include -- sigh -- me.
  29. American Pimp
    What we are left with is a mildly entertaining "man on the street" gloss, seasoned with fragments from blaxploitation movies and music by Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye and others.
  30. Big Momma's House
    Fitfully amusing.
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