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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. Les Destinées
    An impressively coordinated enterprise that lasts three hours, manages a large cast, and covers a period of 30-odd years while successfully unfolding as a series of scenes from the life of a single character.
  2. High Crimes
    Secret trials and buried atrocities are no match for a plucky (and rich, and svelte) young heroine, least of all Ms. Ashley Judd, who eyebrow-cocks her way through Carl Franklin's witless High Crimes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    American Chai
    As earnest as a community-college advertisement, American Chai is enough to make you put away the guitar, sell the amp, and apply to medical school.
  4. Big Trouble
    Cute intentions and shaggy comedy only get you so far when the world is falling down around you.
  5. The Komediant
    A linguistic stew with a zesty, homemade flavor that belies its carefully researched preparation.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Astoria
    It's about following your dreams, no matter what your parents think. Socrates motions for hemlock.
  7. Crush
    Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat.
  8. The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher's study in lurid sexual pathology occasions a tour de force by Isabelle Huppert as the title character.
  9. Time Out
    Recoing's meta-performance is an unemphatic marvel, his placid countenance stretched tight over telltale flickers: a quickly suppressed smirk of incredulous delight, a nervous twitch of chagrin, an abrupt pang of guilt.
  10. Death to Smoochy
    Death to Smoochy is often very funny, but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of DeVito's misanthropic vision.
  11. Panic Room
    Like the shelter for which it is named, Panic Room is an efficiently tooled construction (albeit one whose success is overly predicated on its villains' single-minded idiocy). But unlike the eponymous treasure trove, there's nothing inside.
  12. No Such Thing
    Thematic muddle aside, the film's appeal lies in Burke's ranting charisma, Julie Christie's thankless turn as a sympathetic doctor, and Michael Spiller's radiant cinematography, which frequently captures the mythic grandeur that eludes Hartley's narrative grasp.
  13. Clockstoppers
    If I were 13, I might be sufficiently entranced by the movie's bicycle stunts (down stairs! across countertops!) and wouldn't be wondering why ideas for science fiction films haven't progressed very far from "Star Trek's" first seasons all those decades ago.
  14. Shot in the Heart
    A small-screen aesthetic is evident in the abundant close-ups and tight framing, but Holland makes it work for her.
  15. Margarita Happy Hour
    Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident -- she catches subtler interior strains, too.
  16. Lola
    Like a Hollywood fairy tale, Lola is always threatening to turn into a musical. Its edge as a film comes from the fact that it never quite does.
  17. Very Annie Mary
    Leaks treacle from every pore.
  18. Son of the Bride
    In its details, though, Juan José Campanella's movie works beautifully: The actors are all superb when the florid demands of the story allow them elbowroom.
  19. Jim Brown: All American
    Since Lee is a sentimentalist, the film is more worshipful than your random "E! True Hollywood Story."
  20. Blade II
    Appallingly violent.
  21. Pauline and Paulette
    Without condescension, Debrauwer offers comic glimpses into their separate dreams of grandeur, but he lets Pauline's touching simplicity unite them.
  22. Harrison's Flowers
    A discombobulating mix of blood-and-grit docu-realism and moony multiplex contrivance.
  23. Showtime
    Should come with a disclaimer.
  24. Y Tu Mamá También
    It has the charm of the original American road movies, feasting on the gorgeous, ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland.
  25. Promises
    An earnest, roughshod document, it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history, and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool.
  26. Ice Age
    Has only its stylized designs to recommend it.
  27. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
    Claims to sort the bad guys from the good, which is its essential problem.
  28. Asphalt Zahov
    Dryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs.
  29. All About the Benjamins
    Glitz and speed help alleviate cavernous plot holes and rote gangsta misogyny, while the gleeful violence, pointlessly sappy lulls, and racial sparring are leavened a bit by capricious auto-critique.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Festival in Cannes
    Has shades of such oleaginous insider-treading as "The Player" and "Celebrity," but the mood, like the lighting, is altogether sunnier.
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