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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Ju-on never snaps into focus like a "Go" or a "Pulp Fiction," and what at first registers as sloppy plotting starts to seem positively diabolical.
  2. Every Day
    Levine, previously a writer for "Nip/Tuck," sets the bar low, content to work within the shopworn crises, lazy epiphanies, and eye-rolling moments of redemption that have become standard formula in Amerindie family dramedies of the past 20 years.
  3. Jungle
    While the horror director successfully distills Ghinsberg’s spare prose into a succession of terrifying images, McLean can’t seem to help straying into the tackier elements of horror.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Drowning Pool
    The exception to a listless cast is Murray Hamilton as the oil-develper villain, an eloquently indirect Southerner with enough shifts in mood to make one whis he had a larger part, but not regret the movie's one payoff--his well staged and satisfactory demise. [14 July 1975, p.58]
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  5. The Counselor
    The Counselor is the cumbersome end product of a high-minded writer trying to slum and a slick director aiming for cosmic depth.
  6. Song One
    Hathaway's performance is brave, strong, wistful, and misty, and she's especially affecting when being wooed, gently, by Flynn, playing an indie-folkstar.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hawk Is Dying
    I won't pretend it makes for a happy night at the cinema, and it may require a leap of faith to succumb to Goldberger's spell. But I leapt, and found it enthralling up to the point where this legitimately weird movie capitulates to the most conventional catharsis. I'd rather watch Goldberger fail than a hundred others succeed.
  8. Red Hook Summer
    An alternately evocative and lumbering portrait of a multifaceted community.
  9. Solomon Kane
    It is, for a contemporary CGI-fraught fantasy-slash-living-video-game, not at all bad, dotted with moments of Bosch and steady on its storytelling feet.
  10. Paris Can Wait
    Imagine The Trip meets Lost in Translation (Coppola’s daughter Sophia’s debut), but with stale dialogue and neither much romance nor comedy
  11. The Oh in Ohio
    First-time feature director Billy Kent seems proud that his movie deals with sex in such frank fashion. But if you're going to brag about your explicit sexuality, it doesn't quite work to go out of your way avoiding skin.
  12. Yonkers Joe
    Lahti burns through a thinly written role with a surprising level of warmth and humanity.
  13. Final
    A story that splits at the seams with plot holes and bloat.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Janice Beard
    Playful and sentimental, with comic-book characterization and a half-orphaned, filially righteous head case, Janice Beard resembles a British "Amélie."
  15. Martin & Orloff
    Mostly, its unearned funnier-than-thou smugness plays like a DIY dorm-lounge homage.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sugar & Spice
    Sugar & Spice struggles with the existential challenge of individuating five perky white heterosexual girls wearing identical aquamarine miniskirts and halter tops. And that's before they put on their latex "Betty" masks.
  17. Prey for Rock & Roll
    Unfortunately, despite pretty-on-the-inside performances from the four kickass Clamdaddies, too many extra shake-ups end up crowding out the characters, and distract from the easy camaraderie and slice-of-life intimacy that lures us into their van to begin with.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Card Player
    Ingenious but relatively tame thriller.
  19. Rush Hour 2
    This movie doesn't just kill time but tortures it.
  20. Scary Movie
    A big, stupid bull with bodacious tits, but that's not to say it doesn't dish out some lite hardy-hars.
  21. Lost for Words
    Fortunately, there's far more to his slickly directed film than mere virtual tourism.
  22. Contracted
    There's no payoff to the paranoia.
  23. Backstabbing for Beginners
    The film is less a distillation of the real Soussan’s memoir than a radical simplification of it.
  24. Hannie Caulder
    The humor isn't much here either despite a trio of classic bad goon performances by Jack Elam, Strother Martin, and Ernest Borgnine. [06 Jul 1972, p.49]
    • Village Voice
  25. Planes: Fire & Rescue
    A time-killing kid-flick whose title is an exact summary of its plot.
  26. Emperor
    Given its true-life basis, the story is already devoid of suspense regarding Hirohito’s ultimate fate, and Fellers’s inquiry is made more sluggish by dramatically inert conversations with Japanese officials.
  27. Tomb Raider
    I admire the seriousness with which everyone involved treats these characters, and the smart ways that the script (from Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons) on several occasions dashes expectations to the rocks. I have hopes for a sequel.
  28. Chicken Little
    The usual pop-culture jokes, disco tunes, and sarcastic narrator are on hand to prevent atrophy, but by the time the sky really does start "falling"--courtesy of an alien invasion-- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves.
  29. 21
    A movie that wastes a lot of time and money and really, REALLY shoulda stayed in Vegas.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Civic Duty
    Expected ironies about homeland security, racial profiling, and fears of the Other land like a rain of anvils, and director Renfroe matches Krause's worked-up performance with a jiggly, flashy approximation of off-brand Tony Scott.
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