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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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  1. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    The series' breakout star remains Scrat (Chris Wedge), a scrawny, speechless rat-squirrel thing trapped in a Sisyphean quest for acorns, and while kids' movies generally could do with fewer scatological gags (the target audience for poo and pee humor needs no encouragement), writers Peter Gaulke and Jim Hecht managed to come up with a (relatively) sophisticated one.
  2. Lakeboat
    Film feels like a parody of Mamet mannerisms, and the trouble lies with the play, which Mamet first penned some 25 years for an Actors Equity showcase.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Nico and Dani
    Breezy, surprisingly poignant Spanish film.
  4. Signs
    The film's underlying themes dovetail efficiently with the action but don't generate the emotional gut punch the movie needs; overall it feels padded and logy.
  5. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Would be too long even if it were twice as funny. And that about sums up the movie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Langrishe Go Down
    A rare treat — catch it while you can.
  7. Intact
    Fresnadillo's film is little more than a gloomy and attenuated Twilight Zone episode, reminiscent of Alex Cox's portentous "The Winner" (1997) without the truly breathtaking conclusion.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (re-release)
    A refreshingly straightforward, conventional approach to the documentary form. (Review of Original Release)
  9. Simon
    Sharply acted and cheerfully coarse.
  10. A Very British Gangster
    Features some strikingly intimate footage of Noonan's extended family, but lets Noonan himself drives the show and his colorful tales of villainy that cry out for more context than MacIntyre provides.
  11. Legally Blonde
    Witherspoon turns in yet another stellar, nuanced comic performance.
  12. Moonlight Mile
    An occasionally surreal meditation on coping with loss, and a love story with a dark side the size of Montana.
  13. Roll Bounce
    Frothy, sentimental and thoroughly good-natured, Malcolm D. Lee's tale of coming-of-age at the roller disco doesn't have an original bone in its body, but it's as energetic, eager to please and endearing as a sloppy, wriggling puppy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Molière
    While none of this is meant to be taken seriously, the premise demeans Moliere's great achievement.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Star Is Born
    The fourth remake of this story, this is a fairly good, though overlong, film.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mission: Impossible
    The result is a gracefully plotted spy film in the classic mode, with just enough self-consciousness to keep things interesting.
  17. Independence Day
    The aliens, meanwhile, are a fabulously nasty lot of slimy, tentacled, malevolent telepaths, but all their superior technology is no match for our red, white and blue ingenuity. Take that, space bullies!
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Manages to create a great deal of ambiance and a few thrills on a shoestring.
  19. Confidence
    The cast — a felicitous blend of character actors and up-and-comers — work together like a street-smart machine, and Hoffman's scummy turn as porn-peddler and all-around creep King is a reminder of just how sleazily funny he can be.
  20. American Pimp
    It's funny stuff, though most of the pimps seem like such buffoons it's hard to imagine how they actually make a living.
  21. Sliding Doors
    Dithery, nattering and a bit long for such a conspicuously airy trifle.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    There's nothing unique about Zarhin's plot -- it's a standard coming-of-age tale with traces of "Good Will Hunting" -- but she portrays the intra-family dynamics with unusual honesty and accuracy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Grateful fans so enamored of traditional Irish folk music that they don't care how they come by it may enjoy John Irvin's folk-filled feature, but while there's lots of great Ceili music on tap, it's wrapped in a story so traditional that it's not especially interesting.
  24. Dawn of the Dead
    A buzzed-up gloss on the original, it's entertaining -- if fundamentally shallow.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Mendy
    Film does show why so many young people raised in such communities find it so difficult to ever leave.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Noriko's Dinner Table
    Neither a prequel nor a sequel. Nor is it really much of a horror movie: It's a bizarre, bloody family drama that puts its predecessor into a larger social context.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Apple Dumpling Gang
    A rather pleasant period comedy that made quite a sum of money for the studio in its economically weak post-Walt period. A delightful cast of character actors helps the childish story, with Conway and Knotts beginning what would become a somewhat famous, but very simple-minded, film comedy duo.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Hand
    Don't expect many answers from the movie, for Stone hedges his bets toward the end and vacillates, leaving the whole thing infuriatingly ambiguous.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cherry 2000
    Once Griffith and Andrews enter the lawless zone attempts at quirky humor fall flat and the film settles into a fairly conventional action yarn
    • 59 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Black Mama White Mama
    Vile exploitation picture shot cheaply in the Philippines.
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