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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. Adorenarin doraibu
    Mr. Yaguchi's film is so brazenly cheerful and charmingly engineered that even the sourballs in the cast are sucked in.
  2. Human Traffic
    Mostly it's exhilarating.
  3. Michael Jordan to the Max
    The format and the purposeful blandness of the script make Jordan seem remote, more icon than human being.
  4. Into My Heart
    Dreary.
  5. The Idiots
    Has nothing on its mind besides the squirming discomfort of its audience, the achievement of which it holds up as a brave political accomplishment.
  6. Frequency
    What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling.
  7. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    What results is a candy-colored broad comedy with noteworthy performances.
  8. Bossa Nova
    There must be a name for a picture so inconsequential, in which the music provides so much of the chemistry that you get the feeling Bossa Nova would be funereal without it.
  9. Where the Heart Is
    No-Good Men, Foolish Choices and Birth on the Floor of a Wal-Mart.
  10. Timecode
    It's amazing to see a film so brazenly experimental, so committed to reflecting on the circumstances and techniques of its making, that is at the same time so intent upon delivering old-fashioned cinematic pleasures like humor and pathos, character and plot.
  11. Committed
    Comedy, like marriage, takes more work than this.
  12. The Big Kahuna
    If the movie looked any cheaper, you might think you were paying more to get into the theater than was spent on making the film.
  13. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Brain-dead.
  14. From the Edge of the City
    It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.
  15. Gossip
    If you're looking for a 90-minute post-teen soap opera with pretty people, ludicrous hairpin turns and a whopper of an ending, the movie will keep you mindlessly off balance.
  16. U-571
    Yet there is so little characterization that when the sub goes down, you may find yourself confused as to which of the supporting cast members lived through the torpedo blast.
  17. Croupier
    Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes.
  18. The Virgin Suicides
    Except perhaps for Lux, who, like The Virgin Suicides itself, is a hothouse flower perishing for want of sunshine and fresh air.
  19. Love & Basketball
    It's in the small touches that this movie comes alive, and it's rare that directors can pull off this kind of thing.
  20. Where the Money Is
    Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie.
  21. The Girl Next Door
    Melancholy.
  22. Third World Cop
    Shot in smeary video, it sports the static, by-the-book camera work of a daytime soap-opera.
  23. American Psycho
    A lean and mean horror comedy classic.
  24. 28 Days
    Begins with such a flurry of promise that it comes as a sharp disappointment when this drug-rehab comedy skids out of control.
  25. Set Me Free
    Propelled by a captivating, wrenching performance by Karine Vanasse as Hanna, a 13-year-old girl adrift in a sea of powerful emotions in Montreal in 1963.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Restaurant
    It takes very good actors to convey this kind of nuance, and the cast of Restaurant does consistently splendid work.
  27. Return to Me
    Weightless and polite when it means to be magical and gentle, Return to Me is a piece of fruit gone soft from being off the vine too long.
  28. Southpaw
    What the film resembles more than anything else is one of the miniature human-interest profiles that the networks have taken to inserting between the events in their Olympic coverage.
  29. Me Myself I
    A sugarcoated romantic comedy that is just clever enough to make you wish it were three times as smart and only a third as sweet.
  30. Rules of Engagement
    There's not much going on here, and there is little suspense.
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