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For 17,832 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,164 out of 17832
  2. Mixed: 7,031 out of 17832
  3. Negative: 1,637 out of 17832
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  1. A Shot at Glory
    Mediocre, dramatically flat picture.
  2. Return to Me
    A simplistic, highly contrived romantic comedy about the mysterious workings of fate.
  3. An American Rhapsody
    Calculated yet undeniably skillful melodrama.
  4. Flawless
    Schumacher takes a step in the right direction with Flawless, a small-scale, intimate serio-comedy.
  5. CyberWorld
    An OK mishmash.
  6. Long Time Since
    Intense but inscrutable tale involving a woman's gradual remembrance of a long-suppressed trauma.
  7. Brown Sugar
    As eye and ear candy, pic has its modest pleasures, beginning with the attractive Diggs and Lathan.
  8. Mansfield Park
    But there's little sense of a longer dramatic arc stretching across the characters: Rozema can't seem to hold a single tone for more than a few minutes, and she has too many other axes to grind besides just getting the story up on the screen.
  9. Bicentennial Man
    Columbus' approach is intended to cloak such topics as mortality and human identity in the warm glow of greeting card sentiment, which renders the prescription palatable for mass consumption but hopelessly diluted.
  10. The Story of Us
    The stylistic devices used, which recall early Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky, get increasingly tedious, disrupting not only the sequence of events but also squelching audience sympathy for the protagonists.
  11. Quitting
    What gives Quitting its freshness is its setting in a country that often denies it has such problems and the decision to anchor the film strongly within the Chinese family fabric.
  12. Breakfast of Champions
    Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.
  13. Carman: The Champion
    Modestly engaging but thoroughly formulaic drama about a boxer turned preacher who returns to the ring to fund a community-outreach center.
  14. Rules of Engagement
    A broad and obvious approach to ambiguous material that's virtually all plot mechanics with little nuance or characterization.
  15. The Low Down
    The lowdown on The Low Down: charm 8, content 2.
  16. The Yards
    Entombs its characters so thoroughly in a prison of palpably predestined tragedy that one knows from the outset that the very worst that can happen most certainly will.
  17. Pandaemonium
    Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
  18. Otomo
    Not a cheerful watch: It's a shocking portrayal of rampant racism.
  19. Duets
    Lack of much substance or dramatic payoff makes the whole significantly less than sum of its parts.
  20. Mystery, Alaska
    Relies on ensemble allure, with mixed results.
  21. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Too tepid to interest anyone old enough to operate a TV remote control.
  22. Bounce
    Simultaneously contrived and genuinely felt.
  23. Secret Ballot
    An enjoyable absurdist comedy.
  24. Gun Shy
    A textbook case in which the parts are greater than the whole.
  25. Home Movie
    A modest charmer.
  26. The Musketeer
    A handsome but ho-hum swashbuckler that springs to life only during a few spirited scenes of acrobatic swordplay.
  27. The Sea
    Though solidly crafted, with a host of well-etched performances, film is unable to establish a consistent, engaging tone.
  28. Mango Yellow
    Like characters out of some Carnival hell, a macho butcher and his born-again wife, a forlorn barmaid, a sinister sadist and the gay manager of a flophouse called the Hotel Texas run in and out of each other's lives in a film as sloppy, sluttish, scruffy and vital as they are.
  29. The Crimson Rivers
    Adequately entertaining but not particularly memorable.
  30. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    This dank, gloomy essay into the supernatural tries hard to create an intriguing mood in which fate guides the lives of its wounded protagonists, but few will be interested in the outcome.
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