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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. The Crimson Rivers
    Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey.
  2. Quadrophenia (re-release)
    It remains one of the most wrenching films about adolescent angst, thanks largely to the performance of Phil Daniels.
  3. Pootie Tang
    Weirdest, funniest studio release of the summer so far and a bona fide cult object in the making.
  4. Crazy/Beautiful
    Overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
  5. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (re-release)
    Too priggish to earn a place alongside its better-known contemporaries "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Last House on the Left," Lemora is nevertheless surprisingly well made.
  6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Less a movie than a seething psychological bonanza.
  7. Come Undone
    Come Undone's true subject is, simply enough, the perspective-warping enormity of first love, as preserved in a scrapbook of before-and-after snapshots.
  8. Lumumba
    As cliché-rich as it is compelling.
  9. Baby Boy
    Pretty much a mess, but it also has a couple of long stretches that are extremely daring in that they reveal black family dynamics we've never seen on screen before.
  10. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    A superbly crafted science-fiction fairy tale that's both Grimm and grim.
  11. The Princess and the Warrior
    Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares.
  12. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's dispiriting to watch him (Murphy) stand patiently by and concoct reaction shots for quipping raccoons and dancing bears.
  13. The Fast and the Furious
    (You) might be charmed by the film's blend of kineticism, car-culture rituals, and hilariously flat-footed dialogue.
  14. Saudate for the Future
    Infectious city symphony.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life and Debt
    Devastating, artful, and intelligent documentary.
  16. Le tombeau d'Alexandre
    The Last Bolshevik, considered by some to be Marker's masterpiece.
  17. The Adventures of Felix
    A wafer-thin, sweetly sentimental picaresque with semiserious overtones.
  18. Auggie Rose
    Amid the awkward pacing and gaping plot holes, the film's chief point of interest is Goldblum's morbidly fascinating performance: equal parts Walter Neff and Captain Kirk.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Dirty Cop No Donut
    Uses brutality, booze, and boobs to sell its social commentary; it's as drunk on fake blood as Friendly is on police power.
  20. Songcatcher
    The commonest sort of cultural pasteurization.
  21. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.
  22. Russian Doll
    The cheesy idiot-twin of Pawel Pawlikowski's superb "Last Resort."
  23. Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
    A brilliant appreciation of the last great Soviet director, Andrei Tarkovsky.
  24. Sexy Beast
    There are long stretches in Sexy Beast that are so exhilarating it feels churlish to dwell on its flaws.
  25. Let It Snow
    An inert and inept romantic comedy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The bulk of the Atlantis scenes in situ are as involving as a chakra workshop.
  27. Evolution
    Sodden mess, a mutation-invasion movie that passes "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!" going south.
  28. Bride of the Wind
    A standard-issue fin de siècle costume parade, simplifying every dramatic transaction to a torpid minimum but never answering its own looming "why": Why Alma?
  29. The Anniversary Party
    The film's greatest failure, however, is the absence of any convincing emotional or sexual relationship between Sally (Leigh) and Joe (Cumming).
  30. Swordfish
    The story -- is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts.
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