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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. Sex and Lucia
    An adept mood maker, Medem strains madly for cosmic alliances, fairy-tale imagery, and fated coincidences, but he triumphs only with two hot bodies, a cluttered apartment, and a Shower Massage.
  2. Never Again
    A comedic semi-rehash of "An Unmarried Woman" (1978) with older leads, Never Again sports a good-hearted story but doesn't know how to tell it.
  3. Road to Perdition
    Visually more coherent than "American Beauty," but despite the burnished mahogany of Conrad Hall's cinematography, Mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame. Like the Hanks character, he's a slow study: The action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last Dance
    Last Dance is riveting when it focuses on the challenges of crossing a generational divide --The movie loses steam toward the end.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders
    As in most court TV (the film is produced by KQED), the action is faster paced than in reality, and the graphics are cheesy. But the lawyers are far more compelling than David E. Kelley's.
  6. Rocco and His Brothers (re-release)
    Visconti's film remains a Euro-culture touchstone, though not nearly as convincing or visually stunning as its reputation insists.
  7. Me Without You
    Essentially humorless, Me Without You manages some pleasing textures all the same.
  8. Read My Lips
    The action is largely psychological, but it's accelerated by Audiard's nervous camera, chiaroscuro lighting, and jangling montage.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Group
    Though the characters are in fact sustained improvisations, the roles feel inhabited rather than acted -- a quality acutely present in scenes of excruciating awkwardness.
  10. Tattoo Bar
    This tale of a sprung tough looking to go straight is so familiar it's faceless.
  11. Like Mike
    A valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA.
  12. Men in Black II
    However cool, Smith's lovable braggadocio and Lee's practiced deadpan don't exactly make them Laurel and Hardy.
  13. Songs from the Second Floor
    Despite some deadpan, Jacques Tati-like orchestration and occasional sight gags, there's no real pleasure in the game -- Songs From the Second Floor is more absurd than funny.
  14. The Powerpuff Girls
    The rapid-fire satirical sophistication (scatology notwithstanding) and lovingly rendered pulp surrealism of this sequence should delight adults, while kids will get a charge out of the heroines' grown-up-defying chutzpah.
  15. Lovely & Amazing
    Everyone in this chintz-covered world is a little creepy.
  16. The Cockettes
    Fond, funny documentary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Notorious C.H.O.
    All stand-up comedy is oral aggression, but Cho's is an especially fascinating strain.
  18. 3 Women
    Today, the movie doesn't portend Altman's subsequent tailspin into irrelevance as much as it suggests a restlessness with the comic realism he had mastered.
  19. Harvard Man
    Obsessives can be seductive, and Toback is interesting for the same reasons his films are often unendurable: He's not an artist so much as a giant pop-cult testicle pumping absurd energy in a rampaging, self-justifying gout.
  20. Pumpkin
    In its own dimly reckless way, the film is riveting -- not unlike watching a tightrope walker with a bad case of vertigo.
  21. Mr. Deeds
    Stay home. Your entertainment-seeking efforts would be better expended perusing old phone books. The white pages.
  22. Money Buys Happiness
    At best, plays like an attenuated "Seinfeld" episode.
  23. Kiss Me, Stupid (re-release)
    A grimly suggestive and unexpectedly tender bedroom farce, Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid is a true film maudit.
  24. Bobby G. Can't Swim
    Montias's script lacks surprises -- Still, the minor figures surrounding him (Bobby) -- from teenage Puerto Rican beauties to a mobster's middle-aged groupie -- form a gritty urban mosaic, and Bobby's wanton energy is utterly convincing.
  25. Juwanna Mann
    This flat run at a hip-hop "Tootsie" is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines.
  26. Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler
    The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous, the acting is robotically italicized, and truth-in-advertising hounds take note: There's very little hustling on view, though McCrudden does arrange for his lead gym rat to be shirtless as often as possible.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dahmer
    Jacobson has achieved the unthinkable: He humanizes a notoriously brutal psychopath and, in the process, leaves the audience with an unwelcome sense of complicity.
  28. Sunshine State
    The whole of Sunshine State is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often lovely, and always true.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Lilo & Stitch
    But mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic: two parts exhausting "Men in Black" mayhem to one part family values.
  30. Minority Report
    Miscast, misguided, and often nonsensical, Minority Report is nevertheless the most entertaining, least pretentious genre movie Steven Spielberg has made in the decade since "Jurassic Park."
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