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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. The Ninth Gate
    Never quite becomes unwatchable.
  2. Condo Painting
    This is more than self-amused irony; this is kitsch as religion.
  3. The Next Best Thing
    A vanity project -- hell-bent on playing barely human characters as themselves, they've created something quitebewilderingly ugly in the process.
  4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    A movie as laconic as its hero, Ghost Dog is nonetheless diminished by its most un-Zen-like attachment to this underlying sentimentality.
  5. Drowning Mona
    Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.
  6. What Planet Are You From?
    There's a certain satisfaction in recognizing that Harold -- even when he inevitably starts to feel, just like a human -- remains something of an a--hole.
  7. Judy Berlin
    A bit precious, ultimately wearisome.
  8. Mifune's Last Song
    Grows increasingly slack and silly.
  9. Claire Dolan
    Less awful than inert, Claire Dolan comes across as a willfully bad movie.
  10. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    The movie's bold visual and psychological patterns, as well as its heavy immersion in the natural world, imbue Malli's journey with a folktale quality.
  11. Reindeer Games
    Punishing, visceral violence is the key element.
  12. The Closer You Get
    Clichéd and condescending.
  13. Wonder Boys
    Downey, who radiates more energy doing nothing discernible than most other actors do when they let it all hang out, takes the film to another level.
  14. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    In the absence of any greater cultural context, the ritual reiteration of Greenberg's greatness grows wearisome.
  15. Beautiful People
    It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
  16. Boiler Room
    Takes us inside the consciousness and the coded masculine world of a single character.
  17. Hanging Up
    So hackneyed and so condescending to its potential audience (adult women) that even Lifetime might hesitate before running it.
  18. Not One Less
    The film's occasional dips into sentimental cuteness and its too-pat ending can't cancel the gap that yawns ever wider between rural and urban society.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pitch Black
    (Diesel's) Riddick, a silver-eyed, musclebound escaped killer, is the most sequel-worthy sci-fi creation since the Terminator.
  20. Cotton Mary
    Brought to life by the weirdness of its subject matter and the risks Madhur Jaffrey takes in her brilliant performance.
  21. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Quek is compelling not for her ideas but the tangled path by which she came to them.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    A family film that's about as fluffy as fresh powder.
  23. The Beach
    Barely a movie.
  24. Gun Shy
    It's the casting of Liam Neeson as the nervous breakdown that turns the movie to asphalt -- it's like watching Andre the Giant play Woody Allen.
  25. Scream 3
    Logic, motivation, suspense -- anything that might make the film frightening or resonant -- is buried under Dolby blams, medulla-shaming dialogue, and a rain of overdubbed hunting-knife schwings that grate like a 3 a.m. car alarm.
  26. Beloved/Friend
    More exciting and truthful than most better-looking films dare to be.
  27. The Cup
    The lovability quotient is as high as the altitude.
  28. Eye of the Beholder
    High-buffed, low-rack pulp.
  29. Isn't She Great
    Aspires to be both stylish and coarse, camp and vulgar -- which is pretty much how Bette Midler plays it.
  30. Santitos
    There's no gold dust to be found here, just an awful lot of stick-on glitter.
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