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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. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    Aspiring to evoke an unreal city stranded in the autumn of the soul, the film succeeds only when it peers up from the intro-philosophy book for the occasional glimpse of everyday beauty.
  2. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Dreary adventure. Parents, be forewarned: No talking equines means more songs, and the viselike soundtrack might be someone's idea of a cruel joke: hoarse whisperer Bryan Adams.
  3. Enough
    Campbell is the movie's primary power source. His steely gaze and overbearing quietude are forever tainted; "Once and Again" doesn't stand a chance in Lifetime reruns.
  4. Insomnia
    Nolan, withholding master of disorientation in his previous non-linear films, allows far too easy access into the psychic tumult of Al Pacino's cop and Robin Williams's prime suspect.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sia, the Dream of the Python
    Sia becomes a bloodbath of Shakespearean proportions as even the good guys kill one another in an effort to preserve illusions.
  6. The Back of the World
    What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera's attention to detail.
  7. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Tonally, however, Earnest boasts perfect pitch, thanks mainly to the blithe, nimble actors.
  8. Late Marriage
    Kosashvili's camera is restrained, the better to render Late Marriage superbly brash, raunchy, and confrontational.
  9. The Believer
    Bean has built a bonfire of contradictions and the ensuing conflagration illuminates a bit of the world.
  10. About a Boy
    Since the central odd couple have no rapport, their bond never seems to progress past mutual usury.
  11. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    There is an odd cognitive dissonance at work between the obvious ingenuity dedicated to the film's visual details -- alien anatomies, industrial machinery, technological minutiae -- and the retarded intelligence quotient evident in its content.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cremaster 3
    Offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment.
  13. Standing by Yourself
    A crystalline curio of dumbshit nihilism shot through with fleeting pathos, Koury's home movie often evokes "The Decline of Western Civilization Part III."
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimate X: The Movie
    Nausea-inducing street luge provides the requisite kinesthetic thrill of this mega-cinematic genre.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Janice Beard
    Playful and sentimental, with comic-book characterization and a half-orphaned, filially righteous head case, Janice Beard resembles a British "Amélie."
  16. The Lady and the Duke
    If you can forget the world-historic significance of the mass revolution that overthrew Europe's oldest absolute monarchy -- or rather, subsume it in the mysteries of personality -- The Lady and the Duke is the stuff of human interest.
  17. Unfaithful
    Casual familiarity with Lyne's oeuvre is all you need to predict the major plot contortion.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Confident and brash, Lagaan may be high-concept New Bollywood, but it plays like well-crafted Old Hollywood.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Man's Gotta Do
    The only thing more inexplicable than the loathsome score is the story's determination to impregnate all its major female characters. Fuggedaboudit.
  20. Home Movie
    The film is slight but sweetly inquisitive, and its participants are endlessly fascinating.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Mystic Masseur
    Ismail Merchant's screen adaptation retains much of the novel's incident, but fumbles both the humor and moral ambivalence.
  22. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable, Warm Water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy.
  23. ABC Africa
    The emphasis in this surprisingly cheerful film is on the resilience of the living.
  24. Hollywood Ending
    The central conceit is Allen's most amusing since "Bullets Over Broadway."
  25. Fleeing by Night
    This dreadfully earnest inversion of the "Concubine" love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension.
  26. Spider-Man
    Mildly cheesy but not overwrought, this long-awaited future franchise is a competent seat-warmer at the box-office table for the two weekends preceding George Lucas's "Attack of the Clones."
  27. Grin Without a Cat
    More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.
  28. Spiral
    With playful, compelling gore having slowed to a near trickle stateside, Uzumaki demands attention.
  29. Circuit
    Even from deep in a K-hole, you'd need about 10 seconds to figure out the remaining plot twists in this jaded muscle-queen morality tale.
  30. Sade
    Too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient, Sade moves along at a reasonable clip, goosed by claps of gothic lighting, solemn chords, and amplified sound effects.
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