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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. Shadow Boxers
    As smooth and powerfully packed as its protagonist.
  2. Coming Soon
    Refreshingly direct and even courageous in its confrontation of female pleasure -- specifically orgasms and masturbation, the staple of teen-boy comedies, but hitherto off-limits for girls.
  3. Kadosh
    One of Gitaï's greatest assets in Kadosh is such stillness, which leaves facile outsiders' judgment out of the frame and thereby deepens our immersion in the narrative.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Center Stage
    Pays lip service to the seriousness of craft but won't let us watch the dancing.
  5. Hamlet
    Stylish, funny, and smart...but only up to a point.
  6. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The movie's mode is brutal and excremental.
  7. Gladiator
    The digital animation is far more evident here than in "The Phantom Menace."
  8. Luminarias
    Chock-full of feisty-frank go-girl sextalk speculating on white guys' underplayable size.
  9. La Nouvelle Ève
    Takes its shape from (Viard's) performance, which is as big as life.
  10. Dream of Light
    More analytical than contemplative, never less than straightforward, Dream of Light makes no showy bid for the sublime.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Basket
    Combines the wholesomeness of "Old Yeller" with the moral and physical claustrophobia of "The Waltons."
  12. I Dreamed of Africa
    Hudson keeps the movie rambling and episodic, deferring to the imposing backdrop whenever possible.
  13. Up at the Villa
    The Haases, whose previous films ("Angels and Insects," "The Music of Chance") evinced a remote, unfussy sensibility, are a poor fit for the melodramatic contortions that the story demands.
  14. Adorenarin doraibu
    Little more than a cartoon, and not a funny one at that.
  15. Human Traffic
    Sweet, ribald, and even inspired in an off-the-cuff way.
  16. Into My Heart
    Anemic.
  17. Where the Heart Is
    Indulges something of a number obsession, amounting not exactly to a movie but rather a tallying of atrocities.
  18. Timecode
    I suspect that Time Code was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
  19. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    It manages to be both ponderous and silly.
  20. From the Edge of the City
    The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
  21. The Last September
    The film's pathos lies not with people who have justice on their side, but with those who don't know where they belong.
  22. U-571
    It's a simple pleasure watching an American movie that respects genre, knows its limitations, and genuflects at the memory of Don Siegel in the age of Spielberg.
  23. Croupier
    Polished and adroit ado about next to nothing, Hodges's film owes everything to Owen, who nails the vaguely unsavory, unreadable, half-lidded hunks that inhabit every profitable entertainment-industry outpost.
  24. The Virgin Suicides
    Coppola looks beyond the seductive metaphysical puzzle and locates the core of Eugenides's allegory in an obsessive, almost forensic act of remembering, both futile and inexplicably essential.
  25. Love & Basketball
    Prince-Bythewood gives the film a style that's easy on the eye but also has muscle -- on and off the court.
  26. Where the Money Is
    A caper film hardly worthy of his (Newman's) presence.
  27. The Girl Next Door
    Occasionally smirky.
  28. The Specialist
    An austere and fascinating documentary.
  29. Keeping the Faith
    Its exploration of faith and love is skin deep.
  30. East Is East
    Largely a showcase for Puri, and he rises to the occasion with a performance that bursts from the screen and tears into your heart.
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