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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. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Despite its scant 48-minute running time (which many viewers will find frustrating), the film sets up a provocative equation between vampirism and American involvement in Asia.
  2. Aberdeen
    It's a raw, haunting experience.
  3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    The able cast brings these emotionally complex characters to life, while making Shawn Slovo's occasionally lyrical dialogue sound perfectly natural.
  4. American Outlaws
    While movies like "The Long Riders" (1980) and "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid" (1972) aim to be serious considerations of the outlaws' lives and legends, this picture just wants to have fun.
  5. 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Hamlet
    The cast is similarly impressive; they're American through and through, and thankfully refrain from affecting anything remotely resembling a British stage accent.
  7. The Turandot Project
    One conclusion is inescapable. You have really seen something you don't see every day.
  8. The New Wizard of Oz
    Though the electric organ score is unnecessarily ominous in clearly comical scenes, this is a fascinating early interpretation of what has become a classic tale.
  9. All Over the Guy
    This modest picture is distinguished by some marvelously bitchy dialogue.
  10. American Pie 2
    This lively and nicely timed comedy has plenty enough, farce, slapstick and even drawing-room humor.
  11. Osmosis Jones
    While there's no denying that the film's animation is technically impressive and is sometimes quite clever, its inventiveness is frequently at the service of gags so distasteful that gag is the operative word.
  12. An American Rhapsody
    The glammed-up Kinski looks the same age throughout and only has three expressions: angry, wistful, and someone's-killed-my-dog.
  13. Session 9
    The climactic revelation is a real disappointment, humdrum rather than chilling.
  14. The Others
    The big surprise is so obvious that it makes the deliberate pacing seem painfully slow, and Kidman's prissy accent and tight-lipped performance are more than a little grating.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Deep End
    Swinton lends Margaret an air of grace under pressure, and fleshing out feelings of domestic dissatisfaction -- a key element that otherwise remains buried in the subtext.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Audition
    Somewhere beyond the extremes of "Fatal Attraction" and "In The Company of Men" festers this elegantly composed, outrageously violent psycho thriller.
  17. Thomas in Love
    The story is slight and would probably be better suited to a short subject, but first-time feature filmmaker Pierre-Paul Renders gives it a striking formal twist: It's told entirely in the first person.
  18. The Blackout
    Abel Ferrara's gift for getting actors to dredge up the ugliest muck in their souls and bare it onscreen is used to strong effect in this psychological thriller.
  19. Original Sin
    Ridiculous, yes, but in an eminently watchable way. Most of the plot twists work surprisingly well, and the frequently naked leads work up some genuine chemistry.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Under solen
    A touching coming-of-age story from Sweden, made interesting by the fact that the protagonist is a lonely, middle-aged farmer rather than an adolescent.
  21. Rush Hour 2
    Should please undiscriminating fans. But it in no way improves on the clichéd formula.
  22. The Princess Diaries
    Fluffy, candy-colored and aimed directly at tweens -- girls between the ages of 10 and 12.
  23. Apocalypse Now Redux
    It's a mixed blessing, in some ways even richer and more atmospheric than the original version, in others attenuated and logy.
  24. Planet of the Apes
    This film is pure, empty (if gorgeous) spectacle, and the decision to loose the tongues of the ape planet's humans (they were mute in the original) undermines the contrast that lies at the heart of the story's power.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Monkey's Mask
    The plot itself isn't really strong enough to stand alone. And that leaves the film an essentially conventional whodunit, if one with a rather unconventional sleuth at its center.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    He liu
    Despite the inaction, the film culminates in a scene some viewers will no doubt find shocking.
  27. Bread and Tulips
    Characters' eccentricities feel contrived and the wackiness seems forced, though the film's amiable ambling does keep the viewer intrigued, if not charmed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Cure
    The result is somewhat confounding, but utterly spellbinding.
  29. Tokyo Eyes
    Resembles the giggly teen romances that saturate the Japanese market with a coolly alienated French twist.
  30. Jackpot
    This dogged journey of self-delusion is interrupted periodically by snippets of footage...that promise a dark revelation that would give an edge to the otherwise tedious goings-on but, sadly, never materializes.
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