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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 7.7 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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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    Neither particularly romantic nor especially funny.
  2. Under the Sand
    Rampling has never been as beautiful, not to mention as emotionally naked, nuanced, and affecting as she is here.
  3. Eureka
    A film of rare tenderness and mystery.
  4. Time and Tide
    Jagged and jokey, filled with glam young people, lyrical Canto-Pop, and narrative non sequiturs, Time and Tide is Tsui's version of neo-new wave.
  5. The Mummy Returns
    First and foremost a trial run for a Universal Studios ride.
  6. Deuces Wild
    An endless chain reaction of cartilage-crunching, organ-pulping brawls.
  7. Green Dragon
    Green Dragon's portrait of refugee angst is decidedly glossy; the grief and lostness are glimpsed rather than explored.
  8. Mauvais Sang
    Bittersweet, haunting, and as original and eccentric as homage movies get.
  9. One Night at McCool's
    Oblivious to its own towering obsolescence.
  10. Once Upon a Time in China II (re-release)
    More concentrated and svelte than its precursor, Once Upon a Time II also has the benefit of fights staged by Master Yuen Wo-Ping that show Jet Li -- another camera-age hero -- to even greater advantage.
  11. Once Upon a Time in China (re-release)
    Gets better as it goes along, building up to a prolonged shipboard finale.
  12. The Golden Bowl
    Though it often wallows in louche baroque textures, The Golden Bowl is perhaps the most visually accomplished of the Ivory soaps.
  13. Town & Country
    Limps into theaters at long last, practically begging, with every arthritic pratfall, to be put out of its misery.
  14. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Manages to have its cake and eat it too -- debunking the Berlin image even while reveling in it.
  15. The Luzhin Defence
    John Turturro, who, given the most romantic role of his career, fully inhabits the ungainly Luzhin.
  16. The Charcoal People
    Even at 70 minutes, The Charcoal People becomes repetitive and hopeless.
  17. The Low Down
    Captures the latent anxieties of a hazy, ambling existence with pinpoint accuracy.
  18. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Pegged to the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War victory celebration, a fiesta that lasted nearly three times longer than the fighting itself.
  19. Harry Is Here to Help
    Moll's style is low-key and straightforward.
  20. Freddy Got Fingered
    A frat-boy remake of "Pink Flamingos" which isn't all bad.
  21. The Center of the World
    Hysterical but inorganic, lacking blood, sweat, or tears.
  22. States of Control
    Takes its heroine, Lisa (Van Dyck), to the neurotic brink.
  23. Lakeboat
    Forster not only makes this unlikely story emotionally believable, he moves you to tears. Lakeboat isn't much of a film, but for Forster fans, it's indispensable.
  24. The Body
    Indiana Jones has never been so missed, but instead this shaggy God story hones in on the faith dilemmas of Banderas and a sputtering Derek Jacobi, so Sunday-hammy you want to rivet him with cloves.
  25. The Circle
    Panahi is a maestro of anxiety. Whatever its political significance, this is a dark, sustained, and wrenching film.
  26. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The three-act structure is too predictable, and at 90 minutes, feels both draggy and hacked to the bone.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Josie and the Pussycats
    The excellently irrelevant music is played by excellently irrelevant real-life rockers.
  28. Kingdom Come
    Demands high tolerance for low comedy.
  29. Chopper
    Bana, who appears in nearly every shot, talking all the while, gives a remarkably mercurial performance.
  30. The Girl
    Agathe de la Boulaye, as The Painter, gives off an appealing air of good-natured amusement, which is appropriate given her surroundings.
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