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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 4.9 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. The Château
    Director Jesse Peretz, onetime bassist for The Lemonheads, cut his teeth on music videos and appears to have embraced the austere aesthetics of Dogme 95 filmmakers without comprehending that an interesting story and well-developed characters are supposed to be part of the package.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The City of Lost Souls
    The film is filled with Miike's brand of imaginatively staged violence and hints of fetish sexuality, but his sadism, which reaches its apotheosis in 2001's sickening "Ichii The Killer", is tempered by a sincere romanticism and a number of lovely touches.
  3. Scarlet Diva
    Actress-turned-writer/director Asia Argento's angry, outspoken, semi-autobiographical rant of a film is strident and occasionally juvenile, but it packs an undeniable wallop.
  4. xXx
    The irony is that for all its "not your father's spy movie" posing, it's exactly like the later James Bond pictures: predictable, lightweight and 100 percent disposable
  5. Blood Work
    It's merely glum when it should be bracingly grim.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Secret Ballot
    The drawn-out effect is deliberate -- director Babak Payami wants his audience to concentrate on the characters' inner development and their isolation -- but his strategy slows the film down to a crawl.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Good Girl
    Even during the most intense moments, it's hard to shake the impression that the conspicuously buff-and-polished Justine is only visiting this drab world, her miserable life an interesting career move.
  8. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    There's way too much CGI gadgetry, some inventive, much simply flashy in the worst kind of video-game way. The kids are nearly lost in the glitz.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Caravaggio
    Marrying a painterly aesthetic with a defiantly homosexual sensibility, this ironic biopic is probably the most accessible film of avant-garde British director Derek Jarman.
  10. Full Frontal
    Though some individual scenes crackle, overall the film feels unfocussed and flabby, like a series of acting improv exercises strung together.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    However stale the material, Lawrence's delivery remains perfect; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out, pandering palaver is actually funny.
  12. One Last Kiss
    Even the film's ironic ending is deftly handled, its cynicism is tempered by a certain rueful wisdom.
  13. 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.
  14. The Master of Disguise
    Painfully unfunny and misguided to boot.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Gaza Strip
    Longley has constructed a remarkably coherent, horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    The film is ridiculously overplotted, and very little of the plot serves any purpose other than to motivate what you can pretty well guess is going to happen from the outset.
  17. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    The result is a snazzy kick -- it's never less than hugely entertaining -- that should in no way be mistaken for an unbiased account. But then, Evans is the quintessential Hollywood character.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    Shot in grainy black and white, the film features tons of entertaining footage of the band in the studio as well as an enlightening commentary from music critics Greg Kot and David Frick.
  19. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Screenwriter Chris ver Weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull, but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability. It's the kind of film that plays better on video than in theaters.
  20. The Country Bears
    An unintentionally surreal kid's picture.
  21. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    Casting Caine as Austin's father is a stroke of pure genius.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Happy Times
    An extremely funny, ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary China.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Lan Yu
    What will really shock Western viewers are the luxurious trappings of Handong's world: The tailored suits, Mercedes Benz and expensive Japanese sushi bars have little to do with age-old perceptions of the PRC.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    What to Do in Case of Fire
    The group's credo, "Live free, stay high," only confirms your worst suspicions about their real motives. And that makes it hard to feel any nostalgia for the good old days or condemn the members who came to their senses and moved on.
  25. Stuart Little 2
    Stuart and Margolo are genuine marvels of computer generated special effects, each feather, whisker and strand of fur beautifully rendered. But they're bland and rather boring characters, dumbed down for kids.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    K-19: The Widowmaker
    The truly heartbreaking sacrifice of a few extraordinarily heroic men is lost under the ponderous score and a series of even heavier speeches.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Tadpole
    This breezy romantic trifle isn't nearly as clever as it imagines itself to be, but it's smart enough not to take itself too seriously.
  28. Ayurveda: Art of Being
    Writer-director Pan Nalin's film is at its best when he focuses on the meticulous, hands-on preparation of herb- and mineral-based drugs; it's also genuinely provocative to hear Ayurvedists argue that healing should be a vocation rather than a career.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eight Legged Freaks
    Silly, good-natured and thoroughly unpretentious, this giant-spider movie has nothing more on its mind than providing the kind of brainless thrills once delivered by movies like Tarantula (1955), Earth vs. the Spider (1958) and The Giant Spider Invasion (1975).
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Langrishe Go Down
    A rare treat — catch it while you can.
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