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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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  1. Les amants criminels
    May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.
  2. $pent
    So committed to its by-the-numbers banality you wonder why it isn't part of the fall TV lineup.
  3. Rififi (re-release)
    A vivid exercise in hokum that more or less invented the idea of French film noir...and not just for Americans.
  4. Alice et Martin
    Thrives on vivid incidentals and telling details.
  5. Loser
    The most progressive, good-hearted studio film of the summer.
  6. What Lies Beneath
    Suggest a Clintons-at-home scenario for 2001 -- haunted by the ghosts of dalliances past.
  7. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Inoffensively glib and innocuously arty.
  8. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A movie of cutting humor, near-constant talk, and one show-stopping dance routine.
  9. The Five Senses
    Beautifully shot and littered with disquieting character business, the film is hog-tied by its own bad Big Idea.
  10. Chuck & Buck
    Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.
  11. Shadow Hours
    Isaac Eaton wrote and directed; he evidences little talent in either department.
  12. X-Men
    When it comes to stoopid fun, X-Men could be the summer movie to beat.
  13. The Big Blue
    The results are predictably lachrymose, especially with the reinstated "unhappy" ending from the original French version.
  14. The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    Once Drake reaches the candlelight vigil that acts as his penultimate set piece, he sustains an impossible balance between mordant wit and articulate bewilderment.
  15. Fear of Fiction
    Ahearn's maddening game of connect-the-dots is content to collapse inward with honking, preening abandon.
  16. All the Rage
    More commendable as social protest than as filmmaking.
  17. I'm the One That I Want
    The time-outs from wisecracking -- invariably, to impart a simplistic self-esteem lesson or two -- feature the most awkward silences you're likely to endure in a comedy routine.
  18. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Not as skillful, subtle, or hilarious as "Some Like It Hot," but its anti-essentialism vis-à-vis gender roles is just as sharp and exhilarating.
  19. The Kid
    The Kid's denouement resembles the nightmare that would have transpired had execs foisted a toupee and a happy ending on "12 Monkeys."
  20. Scary Movie
    A big, stupid bull with bodacious tits, but that's not to say it doesn't dish out some lite hardy-hars.
  21. Shower
    It's far too soggy a confection for my taste.
  22. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Spheeris gives every indication of having gotten too close to her material, but her film's overall air of discombobulation is poignant in itself.
  23. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Hardly a project worthy of grown men and women.
  24. The Perfect Storm
    Rains on its own parade.
  25. Trixie
    As overlong and undermotivated as it is absentmindedly incoherent.
  26. The Patriot
    A movie of cornball sentiment, humorously anachronistic dialogue, and expensive Colonial Williamsburg sets.
  27. Me, Myself & Irene
    This is the first movie I've ever seen -- porn included -- in which a guy gets coldcocked with a dildo.
  28. Praise
    Projects a confessional frankness about human relationships that has the messy feel of truth.
  29. Chicken Run
    A combination of "Barnyard Follies" and "Schindler's List."
  30. Boricua's Bond
    Despite its incoherence and inaudible dialogue, this slice-of-life film manages to be simultaneously thuggish and platitudinous.
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