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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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Third World Cop
    Cop is an energetic portrayal of mean-street ghetto life.
  2. American Psycho
    Lacking any equivalent to the Sadean excess of Ellis's prose, it is also further evacuated of purpose.
  3. 28 Days
    Thomas's fleet-footed approach suggests the anxious embarrassment of a director in an awful hurry to get it over with.
  4. Set Me Free
    Karine Vanasse, as the protagonist Hanna, is perfectly cast because she has the body of a woman and the sweet, sexless face of a child.
  5. Restaurant
    Director Eric Bross has a smooth nonstyle that serves him well until the screenplay turns melodramatic at the end.
  6. Return to Me
    First-time director Bonnie Hunt pays slavish adherence to the Nora Ephron rules of assembly for the prefab rom-com.
  7. Southpaw
    Barrett's trajectory is exciting, but his tribe is hilariously, dryly Irish about the experience.
  8. Me Myself I
    A feel-good, fatalist placebo.
  9. Rules of Engagement
    The clichés lap like bay waves, from the salutes to the brotherly brawl to the olive-oil tear streaks semipermanently painted down Jackson's cheeks.
  10. Est - Ouest
    Wargnier has assembled a stellar French and Russian cast, but all that talent can't overcome his heavy-handed screenplay.
  11. The Filth and the Fury
    The filmmaker might be accused of preaching to the choir were the story not so compelling and the performances so strong.
  12. Joe Gould's Secret
    A quietly ambitious, well-wrought, and tastefully poignant treatment of two local literary legends.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Ready to Rumble
    Rumble's aim is low and dirty.
  14. Black and White
    Peaks with its opening scene.
  15. Price of Glory
    Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda.
  16. The Skulls
    Energetic and thoroughly brainless.
  17. High Fidelity
    It may seem perverse to fault a movie for being too accurate, but when surface accuracy is coupled with tunnel vision about self and society the result is a wee bit irritating.
  18. Beau Travail
    A movie so tactile in its cinematography, inventive in its camera placement, and sensuous in its editing that the purposefully oblique and languid narrative is all but eclipsed.
  19. The Color of Paradise
    Like a Hollywood dolt, Majidi strives to overwhelm us with emphasis, but it's the reality he was savvy to load his movie with that's touching.
  20. Buddy Boy
    Mark Hanlon's ridiculous and repellent hash of "Repulsion" and "Psycho," with scenic elements of "Seven" thrown in for good measure.
  21. All I Wanna Do
    A smart, sweet, and altogether smashing evocation of teenage girlhood.
  22. Such a Long Journey
    The filmmaking is fresh and unemphatic, and the acting is generally gripping.
  23. Winter Sleepers
    Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.
  24. Romeo Must Die
    The wall-to-wall rap score is as kinetic as the acrobatic fight choreography, and nothing else matters.
  25. Les convoyeurs attendent
    Mariage takes his time and allows the film to drift in an almost ostentatiously casual manner.
  26. Erin Brockovich
    This is the Julia Roberts performance her fans have been waiting for.
  27. The Disappearance of Finbar
    [Rhys Meyers] remains trapped in an enervating road movie - shelved so long that Rhys Meyers still appears to have baby fat - summed up when Finbar, who turns up in Finland (natch), asks whey-faced Danny, "You couldn't find anything better to do than to come find me?!"
  28. Soft Fruit
    Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations.
  29. Deterrence
    Begins and ends with footage of FDR intoning "I hate war," something the film takes two interminable hours to say.
  30. Mission to Mars
    Halfway through, De Palma literally explodes his narrative to orchestrate a superb deep-space float-opera replete with runaway modules, high-tech lassos, dramatic self-sacrifice, and, in the most surprising maneuver, a montage-driven modicum of actual suspense.
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