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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Black Rock
    The story and its violence are deeply silly, but there's something nervy and upsetting that distinguishes the film's incidental excitement.
  2. The Tenants
    Stilted and gloomy as it sounds (and sometimes is), The Tenants gets by on its nimble approximation of Malamud's robust prose, subtle turns of deadpan humor and gut-tingling menace, and remarkable performances. McDermott does credible work here, but Snoop's casting is a stroke of genius.
  3. Alien Abduction
    Credit this spirited, uncommonly effective found-footage thriller for breaking the templates promised by its genre and title.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forces of Nature
    Well-constructed, if chilly, road romance, with some great throwaway lines.
  5. Around the Bend
    Veers deep into male-weepie territory.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Autumn
    Enamored of all things French and noir, American director Ra'up McGee has written a love letter to both.
  7. Wonder Wheel
    The camerawork in Allen’s customary long takes is fluid, even arresting, but Winslet’s performance would benefit from the kind of editing these long takes don’t allow. Rather than loose, the ensemble often seems underrehearsed, and too many of Winslet’s lines have little impact.
  8. Typhoon
    A cheap-looking action movie that sabotages itself at almost every turn.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Maybe Baby
    Proves infertile in more ways than one.
  10. Miss Julie
    Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Choose Connor
    For all the potential of this coming-of-age/political-awakening tale, Choose Connor undoes itself with an egregiously sordid turn.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Off Jackson Avenue
    Despite this tri-part farcical thriller's plot construction, some hackneyed dialogue and actorial mugging--the finest exception being Aya Cash's airily acerbic Slavic hooker--you can't help but eagerly anticipate the finale, when Montias brings his intersecting storylines together. Apparently, amusingly improbable coincidences can satisfy.
  13. The Little Death
    Lawson's wishy-washiness about tone doesn't prevent the actors from nailing the comic exchanges.
  14. The Last Movie Star
    Reynolds never appears in full command of his body, and at times the performance is painful to watch, not simply because the one-time golden boy has aged but because the role demands that he act as if aging is a betrayal, as if he has nothing to offer the world without his youthful vigor.
  15. Burke and Hare
    By swinging between broad laughs and cheap pathos - Pegg's specialties as an actor, apparently - while avoiding the more fertile ground between, Landis renders his Burke and Hare sociopolitically toothless and bizarrely insensitive.
  16. Desert Wind
    Nicely rendered moments of casual intimacy between the men attest to the trip's therapeutic value, but very little of it transfers to the audience. The dull large-group scenes consist mostly of old standbys like writing problems on slips of paper and burning them.
  17. London Town
    All the ingredients for a gritty — if familiar — coming-of-age story are here. But London Town, though spirited, is consistently tension-free.
  18. The Comedians of Comedy
    Only works when the subjects are onstage. Watching the quartet doing laundry, playing arcade games, or getting haircuts evokes the banality of road life far too accurately, and at 105 minutes, the film hardly leaves us wanting more.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mercy
    At the risk that giving Scott Caan a bad review will cause him to fall in love with me, I must note the irony in a film that seeks to critique superficiality, only to fall back on the old "dead fiancées deepen dipshits" trick.
  20. The Broken Tower
    The Broken Tower is sincere, amateurish, and misguided.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
    Viewers who haven’t studied their Neon Genesis DVD box sets in advance will find the plot incomprehensible—Old Testament gibberish mixed with political intrigue at the global defense agency headed by Shinji’s aloof father. But the sentiments are clear: “I guess I want Dad to praise me,” says our wavering hero. And his courtship of Asuka is downright charming.
  22. Agnes and His Brothers
    The title's pointedly incorrect pronoun is typical of the film's obtuse childishness.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Flowers of War
    With The Flowers of War, Zhang mostly just proves that there's no tragedy too terrible that it can't be turned into an operatic pageant - human suffering reduced to visual showmanship.
  24. Flirt
    Hal Hartley fans, Flirt may be too slight and schematic. [13 Aug 1996]
    • Village Voice
  25. Clay Pigeons
    It's never clear, by the way, why any of this is supposed to be even remotely funny...This is the kind of movie asinine enough to believe that the mere juxtaposition of sadistic violence and a jaunty tune on the soundtrack is, in itself, clever.
  26. Deliver Us from Eva
    As wrathful health inspector, possessed choir director, and general castrating angel, Union wrecks store with a slew of ass-chapping teardowns that would make Cam'ron curdle.
  27. Foreign Sister
    Offers an incisive glimpse into one woman's inner transformation -- her secret sense of loss in the midst of plenty and her sudden perception of a world of suffering lying just beyond her home.
  28. The Nanny Diaries
    Like the book, the Nanny Diaries movie never finds a dramatic center.
  29. Reservation Road
    Reservation Road itself may twist and turn into the New England night, but emotionally and dramatically, the movie that bears its name is a dead end.
  30. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    Par for the course in blowout CGI adaptations, a great deal of detail and bustle is gained at the expense of charm - for all the miracles these armies of animators can achieve, they have yet to successfully reproduce a humble artist's line.
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