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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 Mummy Returns
    It works its gilded butt off to give you your money's worth.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Deuces Wild
    Director Scott Kalvert returns to wring every last cliché out 1950s juvenile delinquent movies, without adding anything particularly fresh to the formula.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Green Dragon
    The downside is that many of these characters are hastily sketched and their stories unsatisfactorily developed.
  4. The Forsaken
    This flashy fright flick doesn't break any new ground, but puts an attractive gloss on genre conventions.
  5. One Night at McCool's
    Maybe such cloddish sight gags as dipsomaniac priest chug-a-lugging from the communion chalice or an apparently straight-laced yuppie in full S&M drag just aren't very funny.
  6. Town & Country
    So bewildering it's almost entertaining, this comedy of fiftysomethings and their extramarital affairs is one of those films you can actually see flailing for life.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Golden Bowl
    What is grating is the filmmakers' perennial tendency to underestimate their audiences; their lack of faith leads them to drive home each nuance with a hammer.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in China (re-release)
    The action is lightning-fast and balletically staged, living up to the choreographic potential often claimed--but seldom truly realized--for martial arts pictures by their highbrow admirers.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The End of the Road
    Meeske does offer insight into a way of life that may be finally gone for good.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mauvais Sang
    Though the storyline moves in unconvincing fits and starts, Carax gets good performances from his hip young stars.
  11. Driven
    This noisy, time-wasting spectacle is crammed with what purports to be characters, except that not one of them has any more depth than will fit into a one-line description.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    This sleek and cleverly assembled film is a brutally honest portrait of an obsessive personality, a woman whose mania for control over her weight and the world around her fed her demons and fueled her art.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Harry Is Here to Help
    Fans of the genre are in for a wickedly entertaining treat.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Charcoal People
    The film is a dispiriting experience.
  15. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Hogan returns with what feels like a feature-length vanity project.
  16. The Luzhin Defence
    The film's dark heart is Valentinov's mephistophelean scheming: He sets about sabotaging his former protégé's game for no apparent reason except sheer malice.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Low Down
    With its artfully artless hand-held cinematography, haphazard focus, non-diegetic dialogue and what sounds like a largely improvised script, Thraves's film is all about style, but contains a surprising amount of substance.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    It's a conspiracy theory worthy of "The X-Files."
  19. Freddy Got Fingered
    To be fair, this is hardly the worst gross-out comedy ever made; it's nowhere as misogynistic as, say, "Tomcats," and in the end, it probably won't leave you in a state of utter nihilistic despair.
  20. The Center of the World
    Wang's film doesn't really have anything more to say about power, manipulation and the wild unpredictability of sexual energy than "Last Tango" did 30 years ago.
  21. 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Brigham City
    A mystery that's filled with genuine sorrow and capped off with a denouement that may take even seasoned mystery buffs by surprise.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    The plot soon dwindles down to little more than a flimsy, Austen-esque comedy of circumstance.
  24. The Body
    Gets off to a pretty intriguing start before degenerating into a series of routine action sequences.
  25. States of Control
    While handsomely mounted and generally well acted, the film is undermined by long stretches of awkward, obvious dialogue and by the vagueness of Lisa's revolt against the status quo.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Circle
    This tightly structured, often exciting film is among the boldest in a series of increasingly explicit movies.
  27. Joe Dirt
    This sentimental comedy is generally sweet natured.
  28. Josie and the Pussycats
    That rare film aimed at teenage girls that's still enjoyable for grownup viewers.
  29. Kingdom Come
    Chanteuse Toni Braxton, making her feature film debut as Juanita, a snobbish Slocumb relative, delivers a scene-stealing turn.
  30. Chopper
    Bana's performance is nothing short of electrifying.
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