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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Splendor
    Characteristically stylish and willfully outre, and uncharacteristically watchable.
  2. She's One of Us
    Alnoy's narrative is better suited to a trashy thriller than a vehicle for weighty political themes.
  3. Dead Man's Shoes
    Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nickelodeon
    An attempt by director Bogdanovich to capture his great love of early movies in a full-length motion picture.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gus
    Predictable but pleasant fluff.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The International
    Despite all the points it gains for furrowed brows and kick-ass gunfights, the film loses quite a few for being dry as burnt toast.
  7. The Producers
    The film falls short even as a record of Broderick and Lane's crowd-pleasing rapport: Both have done the show so many times that every scrap of life is gone.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Critters
    One of the most enjoyable films of the summer, Critters harks back to the low-budget science fiction films of the 1950s and balances the thrills with heavy doses of humor.
  9. Nacho Libre
    It's a one-gag film that rises or falls on how funny you find the sight of fat, grease-slicked Jack Black crammed into spandex pants and capering like an epileptic lamb.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rich and Famous
    This could have been--and is--a very funny film; unfortunately, most of the laughs are unintentional.
  11. The Second Chance
    As a film, it is earnest, cliched, often awkward and unlikely to inspire anyone who isn't already thoroughly sold on its message of salvation through community activism.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Object of My Affection
    You come away with a remarkable sense of the filmmakers and actors working together harmoniously as they delve into the heart of relationships between friends and lovers.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shirley Valentine
    While some may object to the storytelling techniques employed by playwright and screenwriter Willy Russell to depict his title character, others will find themselves enchanted by Shirley Valentine.
  14. Romeo Must Die
    Then there's the utter lack of sexual chemistry between Li and Aaliyah, sucking all the urgency out of the relationship between the star-crossed lovers.
  15. Blow
    Seductive, funny, whip-smart and ultimately tragic.
  16. Rat Race
    For every inspired bit -- Templeton playing chauffeur to 40 I Love Lucy-era Lucille Ball impersonators -- there's one that falls spectacularly flat.
  17. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Rather than converting messy, real-life experience into slick, formulaic entertainment, Well's script transforms it into a shapeless, internally inconsistent mess of artificial contrivances.
  18. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    This sweet trifle is infinitely more enjoyable than the gross-out romantic comedies that proliferated in the wake of "There's Something About Mary."
  19. Snake Eyes
    The identity of the bad guy is ludicrously obvious; and his public unmasking relies on the dopiest contrivance in recent memory.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    À cause d'un garçon
    Screenwriter Vincent Molina takes into account changing attitudes towards homosexuality and the resulting film never feels like the kind of thing we've seen time and again in the '80s and '90s.
  21. Rick
    A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal.
  22. The Nines
    The payoff fizzles, but the buildup is intriguing until it topples under its own weight.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Frighteners
    A high-wire spook show without a net -- half the fun is watching it teeter between the tastelessly amusing and the unforgivably gross.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hunger
    A slick, largely empty visual exercise with vague thematic overtones about a clash between American and European culture. The Deneuve/Sarandon sex scene, however, is not to be missed by fans of either actress.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Town That Dreaded Sundown
    Despite the intriguing premise, Pierce is a stupifyingly unimaginative director, and the film is incredibly dull.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Haiku Tunnel
    There are a few weak spots -- the ending could have used some fine tuning -- but otherwise its a solid sleeper: unassuming, unexpected and wholly entertaining.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rebels with a Cause
    What Garvy's oral history of the Students for a Democratic Society lacks in clarity and opposing viewpoints it makes up for with fascinating personal reminiscences of a turbulent time.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Seeing Other People
    It's not only sexy, clever and well-acted by a fine cast of mostly TV actors, but it's also a grown-up comedyabout honest-to-God grown ups.
  29. 800 Bullets
    An acid-dipped valentine to the sometimes seedy magic of movies.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Gymkata
    Judged against other martial arts pictures, GYMKATA is technically superior and more intelligently written and directed, but that still doesn't make it worthwhile viewing. The film has only a minimum of credibility or intelligence, but since these qualities have little or no place in the genre, that becomes irrelevant, leaving pure action--kicking, punching, and the snapping sounds of breaking bones--as the main draw.
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