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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 7.6 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. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Comes down to two sorely limited and rapidly tiresome characters.
  2. Ghosts of Mars
    Written, directed, and edited with the offhand shoddiness of a day worker thinking about his evening beer.
  3. Psycho
    The response for anyone familiar with the original Psycho is likely to be restricted to a narrow range between briefly enjoyable déjà vu and mild disappointment. The movie lacks the chutzpah to even be a travesty.
  4. The Prince of Egypt
    As entertainment goes, however, this desert spectacle is no "Aladdin"-- despite the impressively strong graphics of the vast urban spaces.
  5. Gerry
    Exercise in existential tedium that it is, Gerry isn't without devotees.
  6. Groove
    Groove is less a work of subcultural ethnography than a curiously dorky act of hipster sincerity, less party movie than cheesy valentine
  7. Ash Wednesday
    Russell Fine's kinetic camerawork outperforms the plot.
  8. What Dreams May Come
    A bottomless trough of mystic swill, is too confused to even fulfill the paradigm's most basic requirements.
  9. How I Killed My Father
    A disappointment after the droll, breezy suggestiveness of Fontaine's equally Freudian "Dry Cleaning," How I Killed My Father is rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations.
  10. Intact
    It's a shame that, somewhere in his mystagogical handstanding, Fresnadillo forgot the real world.
  11. Adorenarin doraibu
    Little more than a cartoon, and not a funny one at that.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Bread, My Sweet
    There's little meaty -- and nothing glandular -- in the slight weepie The Bread, My Sweet.
  13. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    Star/writer Mike Myers and director Jay Roach struggle visibly with exhausted possibilities and diminishing returns.
  14. Songcatcher
    The commonest sort of cultural pasteurization.
  15. Hotel
    As usual, Figgis coaxes moon-shooting performances, but all the furious improv lacks any sort of map.
  16. The Wedding Planner
    The Wedding Planner achieves the dubious but perversely impressive feat, for its 90-minute duration, of neutering Jennifer Lopez.
  17. Sweet and Lowdown
    It's the prettiest movie of the year, maybe of Allen's career.
  18. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Ms. Cruz...once again proves her inability to give a bad performance even under the worst of circumstances.
  19. Chicken Run
    A combination of "Barnyard Follies" and "Schindler's List."
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mambo italiano
    Old annoying ethnic family stereotypes meet new annoying gay-relationship stereotypes in this candidate for "Kiss Me Guido's" heretofore uncontested niche.
  21. Beloved
    Dutiful as it is, Jonathan Demme's Beloved doesn't succeed so much as it abides…it moves in leisurely fits and--unencumbered by style or narrative complexity--never loses its forward momentum.
  22. The Truth About Charlie
    Gave me a craving for something nouvelle, not a half-hearted Hollywood co-optation.
  23. The City of Lost Souls
    The plot is muddy and quite beside the point. The almost meditative mood takes center stage.
  24. Anything Else
    I have a friend who insists Allen should make a western, if only because the demands of genre might force the birth of new ideas. His movies do create and service an innovation-free comfort zone that makes most TV sitcoms seem adventurous.
  25. The Anniversary Party
    The film's greatest failure, however, is the absence of any convincing emotional or sexual relationship between Sally (Leigh) and Joe (Cumming).
  26. The Safety of Objects
    Though agile edits keep things moving, in braiding several tales into one tight suburban tangle, character development takes more shortcuts than "Short Cuts."
  27. Practical Magic
    The title is, to say the least, an understatement. Witchcraft has rarely looked more prosaic and less sexy than it does in Griffin Dunne's Practical Magic.
  28. The Green Mile
    Irritatingly repetitious and piled high with long-foreseen conclusions.
  29. Deep Blue Sea
    One of those hellishly predictable digital-monster gauntlets that makes you pity the actors.
  30. Kaena: The Prophecy
    No "Triplets of Belleville," this French animated feature was hatched as an idea for a video game, and it shows.
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