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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 7.7 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. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    The daring of the conception is matched only by the brilliance of the execution.
  2. Titan A.E.
    Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
  3. Shaft
    As an action flick, Shaft is clumsy out of the gate and overfond of hurtling stuntmen through windows.
  4. Boys and Girls
    A cat-and-dog romantic squabbler so garbled you'd need a centrifuge to sort things out.
  5. Butterfly Tongues
    It's boilerplate Miramax: a sentimental import with lovingly photographed Euro locale.
  6. Humanité
    Confidently absurd.
  7. Jesus' Son
    Though Maclean uses every trick available to make up for the missing inner voice, we never get into Crudup's mellow loser like we should. Maclean's got an incisive eye, but it's poised on the outside of the terrarium looking in.
  8. The Woman Chaser
    The queasiness it makes you feel is more like acid reflux than existential nausea.
  9. Pop & Me
    The most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father.
  10. BookWars
    Artless but seductive.
  11. Love's Labour's Lost
    Hamming shamelessly as Berowne, Branagh is overseasoned for his part ... he's as desperate as a veteran social director at a Catskills hotel about to fold.
  12. Groove
    Groove is less a work of subcultural ethnography than a curiously dorky act of hipster sincerity, less party movie than cheesy valentine
  13. Sunshine
    Despite Sunshine's historical scope and multiplicity of characters, it doesn't shed half as much light on its subject -- identity and anti-Semitism -- as does, for example, Agnieszka Holland's claustrophobic chamber piece "Angry Harvest."
  14. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Doesn't just look and sound like a car commercial. It is a car commercial.
  15. American Pimp
    Alternately mind-expanding and brain-numbing.
  16. Big Momma's House
    Ends up waddling its way toward gentler, mistier climes, stopping just shy of "Doubtfire" country. It doesn't run out of smelly steam so much as downshift and become a different movie.
  17. Grass
    Grass's relentless hard sell ultimately grows wearisome. Although only 80 minutes, it ends, and not a moment too soon, with a pot legalization rally that might well be reproduced outside the theater.
  18. Thirteen
    The movie is as eloquently uninflected and filled with quirks as its star.
  19. Passion of Mind
    An out-of-body experience for its viewers as well as its heroine.
  20. 8 ½ Women
    The deeply ridiculous 8 1/2 Women could have been made only by a cranky dotard.
  21. Shanghai Noon
    Unstintingly funny -- far more so than the wince-worthy trailer -- owing to Chan's pairing with droll indie eccentric Owen Wilson, as his would-be gunslinger sidekick.
  22. Kikujirô no natsu
    An overtly saccharine fairy tale of abandonment that is subverted by its own comic brutality. It's oddly affecting...which is to say, sad in a way that its maker might not have intended.
  23. Mission: Impossible II
    A vaguely absurd epidemiological thriller filled with elaborately superfluous setups and shamelessly stale James Bond riffs.
  24. The Well
    Still most easily defined by its unavoidable parallels to any number of lesbian-overtone psychodramas.
  25. Luminous Motion
    If Lloyd's performance is the film's near-fatal flaw, Unger's is its saving grace.
  26. Small Time Crooks
    Allen's funniest, least sour outing in nearly a decade is a small movie with a tidy payoff. The movie gives vulgarity a good name.
  27. Road Trip
    Gets a lurching spring in its step whenever Tom Green shows up to, say, cram a live mouse in his mouth.
  28. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Cirque du Soleil's campy, crackbrained, and in no way unenjoyable 3-D IMAX pageant Journey of Man might be the oddest movie offering of the year so far.
  29. Dinosaur
    Dinosaur amounts to 80 minutes of discouraged Cretaceous trudging, punctuated by the occasional fight or stampede and one pyrotechnic coup: a truly thrilling meteor shower.
  30. Young Dr. Freud
    Structured to suggest an extended psychoanalytic session or an episode of "The Twilight Zone."
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