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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 7.6 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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    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    America So Beautiful
    As much as the film would like to blow the lid off immigrant misery, it deals only in caricatures.
  2. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    Lee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.
  3. Whiteboyz
    Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously.
  4. Isn't She Great
    Aspires to be both stylish and coarse, camp and vulgar -- which is pretty much how Bette Midler plays it.
  5. Earth
    Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."
  6. All the Rage
    More commendable as social protest than as filmmaking.
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    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Under Hellgate Bridge
    "Sopranos" vet Dominic Chianese is squandered as a banal father confessor.
  8. Innocence
    Something lured Paul Cox down memory lane, but he should have stayed at home.
  9. From the Edge of the City
    The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
  10. Keeping the Faith
    Its exploration of faith and love is skin deep.
  11. Me Myself I
    A feel-good, fatalist placebo.
  12. My Wife Is an Actress
    Gainsbourg is virtually incidental to her mate's screeching navel-serenade, which maintains a stranglehold on the declarative first-person mode of its title.
  13. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    Jones's documentary, named for the opening song on Foxtrot, is most effective as a poison-pen missive to Corporate Rock.
  14. The Bank
    Polished and visualized with a sharp sense of place, writer-director Robert Connolly's drama is propped up by bogus science (the relationship between stock undulations and the Mandelbrot set is never made plausible), and the characters are paint-by-numbers.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Rising Place
    Broadway dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday's musical interludes occasionally relieve this mélange of recycled social morality lessons.
  16. Harrison's Flowers
    A discombobulating mix of blood-and-grit docu-realism and moony multiplex contrivance.
  17. The Business of Fancydancing
    Seymour returns to the Spokane Indian Reservation after a 16-year absence for a friend's funeral. The predictable conflicts ensue, often in histrionic dialogue declaimed through clenched teeth.
  18. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Schneebaum is a great subject; the film doesn't quite make the most of him.
  19. Pandaemonium
    The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
  20. Otomo
    The film allots far too much time to the cultural exchange program between the fugitive and his aide, in which Otomo can recap his sorrowful biography to a sympathetic audience surrogate.
  21. The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
    The feature itself remains a grotesquely enjoyable turn through the pulp-cinema wringer; hell, it could prove to be Mansfield's most enduring work.
  22. Mystery, Alaska
    Slack, saccharine script.
  23. Elling
    Elling is nothing if not carefully controlled hokum -- both actors, the director, and screenwriter all worked it through first as a stage adaptation of a novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen.
  24. Undisputed
    The movie is typical Hill-pulp: modestly scaled and efficiently cheesy.
  25. Mad Love
    Adroit but finally a trifle flat, Mad Love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way, say, Jane Campion might have done, but at least it possesses some.
  26. The Tao of Steve
    Can any American filmmaker other than the Farrellys make a rom-com in which the principals engage in activities apart from the tiresomely tireless dissection of rom?
  27. Boys Life 3
    French director David Fourier's six-minute mock-instructional free association, "Majorettes in Space," is alone almost worth the price of admission.
  28. Scotland, Pa.
    The irrepressible Walken smiles benignly down on his colleagues, secure in the knowledge that his antics have capsized sturdier vessels than this. Playing a supposed health-food nut, he enters the movie chewing and doesn't stop until he's devoured every scene down to the props.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beauty and the Beast (re-release)
    Viewers must get in touch with their inner child to fall for Belle's eventual love for Beast. The film seems somewhat aware of this, casting an ambiguous hue on its happily-ever-after conclusion.
  30. The Mothman Prophecies
    A diverting pulp time-waster.
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