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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. Sex with Strangers
    Choppy, overlong documentary.
  2. Vulgar
    Sure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse.
  3. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing.
  4. Life or Something Like It
    Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.
  5. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Rifkin milks the generic Bukowski-land setting for all its melodramatic potential, but what little grace his tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics.
  6. Rain
    The visual subtleties don't come to bear on the storytelling, unfortunately -- the dialogue is cumbersome, the simpering soundtrack and editing more so.
  7. The Salton Sea
    Eccentric enough to stave off doldrums, Caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable.
  8. Some Body
    The self-conscious acting and use of direct address bespeak an aesthetic less orthodox Dogme than MTV's Real World, with a nod to Jerry Springer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Facing the Music
    In a meticulous style that often appears offhanded, the directors chronicle Boyd's journey step-by-step, pausing to eavesdrop on the teacher talking to herself.
  10. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Vardalos's parodies of Greek family values are loving and witheringly hilarious.
  11. Murderous Maids
    Genuinely unnerving movie.
  12. Space Station 3D
    You're paying for the view, and it's truly breathtaking.
  13. Murder by Numbers
    But owing no doubt to the requirements of Sandra Bullock, the movie's above-the-line star, executive producer, and worst enemy, this potboiling procedural never stands a chance of disproving its title.
  14. Girls Can't Swim
    Falters when it takes a final, violent turn into melodrama.
  15. Enigma
    Doesn't coddle the audience. But neither does it play fair. The narrative takes several fast turns and stops short with the sudden introduction of new material; the exposition is hurried and lazily predicated on characters' thinking aloud.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Scorpion King
    Director Chuck Russell lacks the visual panache, the comic touch, and perhaps the budget of Sommers's title-bout features, which refined a historically grounded B-movie sensibility into pure, gasp-inducing entertainment.
  17. World Traveler
    The movie's single brilliant invention -- Julianne Moore as a used, contentious, profoundly odd floozy on her own magical mystery tour.
  18. Nine Queens
    Has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness.
  19. Chelsea Walls
    The digital-video results play like a flatulent teenager's first discovery of jazz, cigarettes, and hooch.
  20. The Triumph of Love
    It's a giddy farce worthy of Lucy and Ethel, and Peploe plays up the buffoonery.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mule Skinner Blues
    Earnhart's auteurs are better adjusted, integrating their art into the daily routine of their (equally fucked-up) lives.
  22. The Cat's Meow
    A better-than-competent period evocation that allows the director to flaunt his knowledge (and perhaps vent some of his own bitterness) regarding Hollywood.
  23. Human Nature
    An overemphatic, would-be wacky, ultimately tedious sex farce.
  24. Frailty
    It's a small, unassuming movie grasping at whole-hog homo psychopathicus, with its feet planted squarely in Texan grave dirt and its head lost in the ether of Christian derangement.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Other Side of Heaven
    Strangely coy about its denominational allegiance.
  26. Changing Lanes
    Smitten by the symmetry of his parable, director Roger Michell crosscuts emphatically between the preening leads -- a strategy that only draws attention to the numerous lapses in logic and unpersuasive changes of heart while sidelining the lively supporting cast
  27. New Best Friend
    Clearly the product of an editing-room scramble, New Best Friend is a self-lambasting farce, despite Kirshner's passionate college try at establishing a third dimension in a brain-dead movie flatland.
  28. The Sweetest Thing
    One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.
  29. Echoes
    Funahashi's visual mood-making is an object lesson in how to create a sense of intimate anomie with next to nothing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Lucky Break
    Mike Leigh mainstay Timothy Spall deftly shades in the designated goner, fellow "Still Crazy" alum Bill Nighy is sweetly wispy as the capable fop, and anger-management counselor Olivia Williams trembles pleasantly as usual.
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