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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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  1. Random Hearts
    Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.
  2. King of the Jungle
    Rosenfeld's film doesn't have much of a story to tell and tells it rather routinely.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
    The script doesn't give the cast much to play aside from vague eccentricity, and movies like this one rise and fall on the vividness of their weirdos.
  4. Edtv
    It's a lot of plot but none of it is particularly funny or compelling. What keeps the film chugging along and also gives it a depressive aftertaste is a middle-aged male sexual anxiety subtext that intermittently sputters to the surface.
  5. Martin & Orloff
    Mostly, its unearned funnier-than-thou smugness plays like a DIY dorm-lounge homage.
  6. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol's movie is lovely, large, and tedious, subscribing blindly to storybook stereotypes (this warrior is brave, this prince is noble, this consort is evil) and acted, for the most part, in a passionless monotone.
  7. Sister Helen
    Perhaps if Sister Helen had been released when filming was completed in 2000, its tough-loving Irish nun, who gives hell to male drug addicts in a Mott Haven "safe house," might have passed for endearing.
  8. The Contender
    Graceless writing and shameless plot contrivance.
  9. Pushing Tin
    Pushing Tin pivots on our dubious fascination with professional erection duels, which are a sad substitute for dramatic conflict.
  10. Mondays in the Sun
    It's forgivable, and even appropriate, that Mondays itself suffers from a certain lack of definition -- a drifting, repetitive dead-endedness that, at the inconclusive finale, shows no signs of abating.
  11. Millennium Actress
    Flashbacks integrate with scenes from her films, and it becomes difficult to discern between the two -- cinema is equated with memory. Unfortunately, the trippy disorientation ultimately devolves into outright confusion.
  12. The Red Violin
    It sustains its purplish, epic sweep by thrusting broadly etched characters into extravagantly hokey situations, and registers mainly as a flamboyant joke.
  13. Reindeer Games
    Punishing, visceral violence is the key element.
  14. Vertical Limit
    Vertical Limit's real problem is its digitized sheen. Every shot seems to have been CGI-enhanced, so the movie has an overpasteurized, Velveeta-like glow -- processed movie food.
  15. Fantasia 2000
    Arriving just after the best year for animated film in recent memory, Fantasia 2000 doesn't play like a celebration. In its sentimental yearning for a golden age when another one's upon us, it feels a little like a rebuke.
  16. Love in the Time of Money
    Mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded, as if circularity itself indicated profundity.
  17. The Medallion
    This outing, Jackie doesn't bring much humor or personality to his role, which is essentially the same one he played in the Rush Hour movies.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hart's War
    Seriously off balance.
  19. City by the Sea
    There's nothing wrong with a little creative license, but the abundance of self-serving fabrication in City by the Sea not only diminishes LaMarca's experience and cheapens McAlary's work, it all but desecrates the memory of the real murder victim.
  20. A Decade Under the Influence
    Does attest to the once-upon-a-time existence of a Hollywood counterculture, but it's so reverentially heavy-handed in evoking the era that it can't help playing like "Forrest Gump" without Tom Hanks.
  21. Jet Lag
    The writerly restraint that confines them to the airport is admirable, though the fairy-tale ending in Acapulco seems like a throwaway.
  22. Baby Boy
    Pretty much a mess, but it also has a couple of long stretches that are extremely daring in that they reveal black family dynamics we've never seen on screen before.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Porn Theater
    In its own quiet if overly studied way, Porn Theatre mourns a time when, for better or worse, we could all get off together.
  24. 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.
  25. Journeys with George
    Although largely devoid of dramatic interest, Journeys With George does convincingly document the horror of life within the campaign "bubble."
  26. Dog Park
    A series of moments that don't quite add up to a movie...one bland, maundering stroll.
  27. Human Nature
    An overemphatic, would-be wacky, ultimately tedious sex farce.
  28. Possession
    Possession suffers from insufficient nastiness.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bones
    Bones splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.
  30. Rape Me
    Wit is in short supply -- although this journey to the end of the night derives a certain amount of punkish energy from its crude editing, cruddy-looking close-ups, strident soundtrack, and overall volatility.
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