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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. $pent
    So committed to its by-the-numbers banality you wonder why it isn't part of the fall TV lineup.
  2. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis.
  3. Non-Stop
    Exceedingly slow setup and even more tediously static sequence that effectively terminates the movie well before its official running time.
  4. Out of Season
    There are many dramatic possibilities in an interracial lesbian romance set in a provincial town, but Out of Season focuses on the women's fears of commitment, which would be fine - even refreshing - if they seemed to, well, like each other or something.
  5. The Body
    Indiana Jones has never been so missed, but instead this shaggy God story hones in on the faith dilemmas of Banderas and a sputtering Derek Jacobi, so Sunday-hammy you want to rivet him with cloves.
  6. One Night at McCool's
    Oblivious to its own towering obsolescence.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tokyo Eyes
    Doesn't so much titillate as irritate.
  8. Final
    A story that splits at the seams with plot holes and bloat.
  9. Duets
    A road movie, though there's a decided lack of forward motion.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Last Man
    If The Last Man were the last movie left on earth, there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows.
  11. The Five Senses
    Beautifully shot and littered with disquieting character business, the film is hog-tied by its own bad Big Idea.
  12. Big Bad Love
    Brown's saga, like many before his, makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie.
  13. Bounce
    It's been smoothed over plenty, but this is one creaky, rigged contraption.
  14. CQ
    Endearing but pointless, at once cluttered and tinny, this film-dork fantasia suggests a shopping spree at a high-end vintage emporium underwritten by Daddy's blank check.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    20 Dates
    The movie's best observations come from its sinister, unseen producer, who sneers at Berkowitz, "You're making a cartoon piece of shit . . . that ends with you jerking off by yourself."
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Thorns
    Intent on proving that five tough guys in suits walking towards the camera in slow motion really is the coolest thing ever.
  17. XX/XY
    A movie that's two-thirds flashback (and could have been called "Ex, Ex, Ex, Why?").
  18. The Era of Vampires
    The finale is a near-abstract mess (decapitation, impalation, "Alien" birth) -- in an empathic gesture, the filmmakers end it all with a few sticks of TNT.
  19. The Musketeer
    East/West fusion aside, The Musketeer is a stale Euro-pudding.
  20. Naqoyqatsi
    Despite some rocking bombast by Philip Glass and reliably wicked cello saws from Yo-Yo Ma, the whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Backyard
    Though filled with violent smackdowns, slackjawed interviews, and bizarre characters, Hough's doc never rises above the level of first-year student project, hobbled by scattershot editing, badly written intertitles, and useless directorial voice-over.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Half Past Dead
    Morris Chestnut, known for his "Best Man"-style nice-guy roles, is surprisingly effective against type as the evil commando leader, but he's handcuffed by a script that never adequately explains his motivations.
  23. Stuart Little
    The story is little more than overdetermined trials and triumphs. Kids won't care, but they won't fall for it either; unsurprisingly, it doesn't stand a chance of providing them with the memories the book provided their parents.
  24. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Trying to act in this movie is like trying to stand upright in a blizzard.
  25. Fever Pitch
    The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.
  26. The Princess and the Warrior
    Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares.
  27. Maid in Manhattan
    Really, any wit at all would have helped balance the playful but crass butt-seeking money shots.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Gets sucked into a gravitational cesspool of sci-fi clichés.
  29. Confusion of Genders
    The characters exist in single dimensions (trapped in a noxiously misogynist role, even the fearless Richard stands no chance), and in an effort to keep the plates spinning, the movie quickly devolves from risqué to risible.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    A family film that's about as fluffy as fresh powder.
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