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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. Est - Ouest
    Wargnier's sumptuous, moving new film, captures both the hope of the returning Russians and their brutal betrayal.
  2. The Filth and the Fury
    Electrifying.
  3. Joe Gould's Secret
    Settles for being an atmospheric scenes-in-the-life biography of someone's most unforgettable character. It could have been so much more.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Ready to Rumble
    Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it.
  5. Black and White
    It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates.
  6. Price of Glory
    In films, as in the ring, heart and will without exceptional talent don't produce winners.
  7. The Road to El Dorado
    Little more than a sanitized blend of nonsense and adventure and just a teeny bit of romance, interspersed with the occasional pop song.
  8. The Skulls
    Less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience.
  9. High Fidelity
    Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel
  10. Beau Travail
    A film that has the sweep and esthetic power of a full-length ballet.
  11. X
    Has the sleepy feel of an urban fairy tale, but getting there is a long trip.
  12. The Color of Paradise
    Leans a bit too much toward the lachrymose and has a wrong-note final image.
  13. Here on Earth
    Still never having to say you're sorry.
  14. Buddy Boy
    Even the walls seem to be sweating something viscous and unpleasant.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Whatever It Takes
    A thinly veiled "Cyrano," with the prom in mind.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All I Wanna Do
    Surprisingly pleasant, thanks to smart, unstereotyped performances.
  17. Such a Long Journey
    The main problem with Such a Long Journey is its storytelling. There is simply too much happening.
  18. Waking the Dead
    Forever stumbling over itself and breaking its own spell.
  19. Winter Sleepers
    Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.
  20. Romeo Must Die
    Sadly, if this movie was a fight, they'd have stopped it.
  21. Les convoyeurs attendent
    A sharp critique of empty values and pointless striving.
  22. Erin Brockovich
    The feel-good movie of the year.
  23. Final Destination
    Even by the crude standards of teenage horror, Final Destination is dramatically flat.
  24. Beyond the Mat
    Wants to blend thrills and pathos, getting at the many sides of what is, as Mr. Blaustein describes it, a carny act.
  25. The Disappearance of Finbar
    Acted by an appealing cast, enlivened with well-chosen and varied music and filmed with bleak beauty by the cinematographer Eduardo Serra.
  26. Soft Fruit
    The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation.
  27. Babymother
    Would much rather wallow in music than develop the strands of a story.
  28. Deterrence
    Probably serves some useful purpose, despite its ham-fisted preachiness and mediocre acting.
  29. Mission to Mars
    There doesn't seem to be an original moment in the entire movie, and the score is so repetitive that it could have been downloaded directly from EnnioMorricone.com.
  30. The Ninth Gate
    About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny.
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