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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. Beyond the Clouds
    It's not easy to endure, despite -- or due to the embarrassment of -- an all-star cast.
  2. The Limey
    A jaggedly impressionistic reverie.
  3. Boys Don't Cry
    Scorches the screen like a prairie fire.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Plunkett & Macleane
    The script is as full of holes as some of the highwaymen's bullet-riddled victims -- why not throw a drum-and-bass track over everything?
  5. Love, etc.
    The admirable Gainsbourg refrains from overacting, but her leading men never quite transcend the emptiness and inanity of their characters' dilemma.
  6. Mystery, Alaska
    Slack, saccharine script.
  7. Happy, Texas
    Sputters to a dead halt right out of the gate. One labored scenario follows another.
  8. Bandits
    A confusingly edited music-video hodgepodge.
  9. Three Kings
    Increasingly muddled, cumulatively monotonous, would-be heartwarming, Three Kings becomes its own entertainment allegory -- searching, Hollywood style, for the point at which blatant self-interest can turn humanitarian, while still remaining profitable.
  10. Divorce Iranian Style
    A small, direct, tantalizing documentary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    Burstein and Morgen take all this in from an unobtrusive middle distance, letting the subjects themselves slowly complicate the profusion of athletic and ghetto-real clichés that fly scattershot in the early going.
  12. Out of Season
    There are many dramatic possibilities in an interracial lesbian romance set in a provincial town, but Out of Season focuses on the women's fears of commitment, which would be fine - even refreshing - if they seemed to, well, like each other or something.
  13. Mumford
    Mumford is good for a few chuckles and not nearly as egregious or cloying as it might have been.
  14. Fever Pitch
    The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.
  15. Dog Park
    A series of moments that don't quite add up to a movie...one bland, maundering stroll.
  16. Guinevere
    Except for Polley and Rea, the performances are heavy-handed.
  17. Het ondergrondse orkest
    A world-beat city symphony.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Taxman
    A wintertime crime caper that truly leaves you cold.
  19. Splendor
    Might as well be bad TV...Splendor is what happens when a director whose natural mode is subversion runs out of things to subvert.
  20. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    Even Mastroianni cannot hold our attention for over three hours.
  21. Sugar Town
    Neither as lively nor as tough as the original, and compared to the hardcore punk of "Border Radio," the score for Sugar Town sounds like Muzak.
  22. Breakfast of Champions
    Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
  23. Lucie Aubrac
    This extraordinary story still sparks controversy in France, but in Berri's hands, it never comes alive...a shadow play of historical icons, rather than a portrait of people in love.
  24. Get Bruce
    I'd take the stakes driven right through my platform pumps over listening to Bruce Vilanch jokes, but that's me.
  25. Blue Streak
    The contortional physical shtick familiar from Lawrence's sitcom, laden with a dollop of Three Stooges violence, should keep the boys happy.
  26. For Love of the Game
    Costner himself is the doggedly humorless heart and soul (and brains?) of this monumentally maudlin picture.
  27. Romance
    A dark and unsparing study of female masochism and a brittle sex comedy of manners, Romance is unsettled in tone, to say the least.
  28. American Beauty
    Bland and nasty, American Beauty has the slightly stale feel of a family sitcom conceived under the spell of "Married . . . With Children."
  29. The Minus Man
    Less interesting for what it has to say about evil -- namely, that it's banal/unknowable/random/everywhere -- than for the microsurgical procedures it performs on genre conventions and expectations.
  30. Earth
    Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."
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