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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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    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cupid's Mistake
    Made with $980 and about as many brain cells, Cupid's Mistake is more cute than clever.
  2. Fighter
    Probably more terse than it needs to be, but the dramatic line has an elegance and drive that reinforces the unexpected turns of the story.
  3. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Comes down to two sorely limited and rapidly tiresome characters.
  4. Brooklyn Babylon
    Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, set during a hot summer in Crown Heights, is an ethnic-strife tract as thuddingly didactic as his previous "Whiteboys."
  5. Innocence
    Something lured Paul Cox down memory lane, but he should have stayed at home.
  6. Blood: The Last Vampire
    This overhyped slashfest fails to rise above the extravagant pointlessness that plagues inferior anime.
  7. American Outlaws
    Les Mayfield's unintentionally wry American Outlaws just smells -- of filmmaking manure as well as yard-sale revisionism.
  8. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Ms. Cruz...once again proves her inability to give a bad performance even under the worst of circumstances.
  9. Rat Race
    Zucker's frenzied trifle is painless, with a few decent running gags -- and an ocean of bad ones.
  10. Aberdeen
    Norway's hallucinatory, edge-of-the-world beauty imbues the story with a woozy, alcoholic haze and a sense of the marginal spaces into which the messiest aspects of private life are shoved.
  11. Hamlet
    An aura of dust and mothballs evidently leaves a capable cast feeling woozy.
  12. An American Rhapsody
    Gardos, an experienced film editor, has little narrative sense, and decent performances (except from Kinski, who just worries and huffs around) are left out to dry.
  13. The New Wizard of Oz
    Majesty's reissue is a delirious and loony surprise in this season of nattier ape-suits.
  14. The Turandot Project
    A must-see for opera lovers and a snappy diversion for cinephiles.
  15. All Over the Guy
    A painfully earnest case of generic romance spiced with queerness.
  16. American Pie 2
    Hardly works up a decent belly laugh before its characters are happily pairing off with whomever they desire most. The film is like skipping the orgasm and going straight for the cigarette.
  17. Session 9
    The script for Session 9 is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded.
  18. The Others
    This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.
  19. Osmosis Jones
    Resuscitates the filmgoing summer with a vital jolt of pure piss and vinegar.
  20. The Deep End
    Swinton provides her own brand of incandescence, doubling as the film's aching heart and its center of gravity.
  21. Audition
    After simmering for an eternity, it derails, with spectacular, psychotic force, bulldozing its way toward an almost unwatchable theater of cruelty.
  22. Original Sin
    Doesn't even have earnestness going for it -- a tepid, blindly assembled post-noir.
  23. Thomas in Love
    It's squeamish about sex but not, unfortunately, sentiment.
  24. Under solen
    The kind of quotidian pastoral -- about a simple, honest peasant who finds the greatest love of all -- that the Academy invariably finds irresistible.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Princess Diaries
    A modest, enjoyable fairy tale that easily outcharms its animated stablemates of the past decade.
  26. Rush Hour 2
    This movie doesn't just kill time but tortures it.
  27. Apocalypse Now Redux
    Nothing can redeem the movie's final 40 minutes. That may not be an ultimate horror, but it is a real one.
  28. Greenfingers
    Owen and Mirren are fun to watch, but the film, despite the many shots of gardens in full bloom, lacks visual distinction.
  29. The Monkey's Mask
    The film seems dimly aware of its own ridiculousness, but it lacks the constitution for self-mockery.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tokyo Eyes
    Doesn't so much titillate as irritate.
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