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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Goyangileul butaghae
    As rich in incidental detail as it is narratively diffuse.
  2. Auto Focus
    Auto Focus doesn't really go anywhere, but then neither does any form of obsessive-compulsive behavior -- which may be Schrader's point.
  3. The Ring
    Requiring an enormous amount of suspended disbelief, the original Rings may be a culture-specific phenom; despite strenuous efforts to Americanize Nakata's field of bad dreams, the preview audience did a lot of cackling.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Formula 51
    Emily Mortimer and Robert Carlyle generate heat as criminal lovers, but most of the cast just engages in embarrassing scenery-gnawing.
  5. Blink of an Eye
    If you're in prison, it's best to stay there. 'Cause if you don't, as Blink of an Eye makes clear, you're fucked -- Outside the safety of your cell, a vicious world of cliché lies in wait to claim you.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stealing the Fire
    Placing blame sorta misses the point in a world of matrixed self-interest where all is equally just and unjust.
  7. Comedian
    Seinfeld's cool professionalism is almost cruelly juxtaposed with the tortured narcissism of heel-nipping tyro Orny Adams, who illustrates the mirror-image view from below. Comedy is pain, whether you're top- or underdog.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Brown Sugar
    Draws a belabored association between romance and hip-hop, and it's hard not to wish the parallel lines would hurry up and converge.
  9. Family Fundamentals
    Compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative Christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Knockaround Guys
    The only drama is in waiting to hear how John Malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Below
    Though the genre collisions (horror/WWII submarine/undersea Macbeth) are as jarring as the sound design, the cumulative effect is one of claustrophobic creepiness.
  12. The Rules of Attraction
    Roger Avary's crisp adaptation imbues the copious bad sex and general befuddlement of Bret Easton Ellis's solemn, echt '80s Bennington novel with a playfully obnoxious energy that is often funny and -- almost fun.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Transporter
    Kills time between car chases and martial-arts bouts with random scuba-diving footage apparently culled from producer–co-writer Luc Besson's "The Big Blue."
  14. Ash Wednesday
    Russell Fine's kinetic camerawork outperforms the plot.
  15. Punch-Drunk Love
    As elegantly crafted as it often is, Anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that, hampered by an undeveloped script, ultimately pulls up lame.
  16. Safe Conduct
    Safe Conduct -- a rangy, irreverent, episodic odyssey through French filmmaking during the Occupation -- is one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Tuck Everlasting
    Bledel, consigned to corsets and croquet, looks so weepy for much of Tuck Everlasting. The reason might lie in a script that favors the starchy demands of period melodrama over her TV show's fizzy screwball banter -- or maybe it's just William Hurt's embarrassing brogue.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Oleander
    Ultimately sacrifices nuance to tidy epiphanies about personal growth.
  19. Bowling for Columbine
    It's poorly structured, a half-hour too long, and devotedly fixated on the filmmaker's persona.
  20. Swept Away
    Merely an indulgent vehicle for Mrs. Ritchie -- and Madonna is so spectacularly convincing as a hateful, self-absorbed, nouveau riche ogress that her character's third-act transformation is as preposterous as her overmuscled physique.
  21. How to Draw a Bunny
    Absorbing documentary portrait.
  22. Heaven
    An art film without the NYFF imprimatur, Heaven is a peculiar amalgam -- a Miramax package (without the hype), directed by German hotshot Tom Tykwer under the eye of Anthony Minghella, from a script with which the late Krzysztof Kieslowski had planned to inaugurate a new trilogy named for the Divine Comedy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pipe Dream
    The dialogue, by Walsh and Cynthia Kaplan, is sharp and nimble.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Welcome to Collinwood
    An anti-"Rififi" in which nearly everybody loses their cool, not after the big score goes down but repeatedly and neurotically throughout.
  25. Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday doesn't surrender its grip on the viewer even after the action shifts from the streets of Bogside to a local hospital where the weeping masses are still under the guns of the war-painted British soldiers.
  26. Red Dragon
    Red Dragon's formula is so risible and rote by now that the natural reaction to scenes of peril, torture, and suffering is flippant laughter.
  27. Just a Kiss
    A convoluted writing exercise gone horribly wrong.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Tuxedo
    The only possible surprise in The Tuxedo would be an extended demonstration of what was once Chan's trademark, the daffily choreographed kineticism forbidden of late by either his own age or the scruples of story editors.
  29. Skins
    Good intentions or not, ineptitude and cloying sentimentality don't do anybody any favors.
  30. Crazy as Hell
    Uneasy mélange of occult thriller and insane-asylum-as-social-microcosm parable.
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