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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 7.5 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. Arlington Road
    The mode is hysteric-Hitchcockian, the result mostly devoid of suspense.
  2. American Pie
    Returns the teen movie to the uncomplicated glory days of "Porky's" and "Losin' It."
  3. Summer of Sam
    A film in which many things seem to happen twice and others not at all.
  4. Wild Wild West
    So extremely stupid and incompetent, I doubt that even the most impartial critic could find much to praise.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    The ultimate truth, though, is that certain, probably arrested, personalities (like mine) just find this kind of shit pretty funny and any attempt to talk your way around that is, as Cartman would say, blowing bubbles out your ass.
  6. Big Daddy
    Sandler is less goofy than spitefully self-absorbed, and most of the comedy feels like child abuse.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tarzan
    Visually rich yet numbingly formulaic.
  8. An Ideal Husband
    His film is hardly memorable, but it's amusing enough for two hours, and it never panders or cloys.
  9. Run Lola Run
    An enjoyably glib and refreshingly terse exercise in big beat and constant motion.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The General's Daughter
    Plotwise, Daughter is an "aha!"-intensive but thoroughly random mystery.
  11. The Red Violin
    It sustains its purplish, epic sweep by thrusting broadly etched characters into extravagantly hokey situations, and registers mainly as a flamboyant joke.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buena Vista Social Club
    Feels like a timeless blast from the past.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Instinct
    Instinct moves along at a competent clip, but it's mostly a tease.
  14. The Thirteenth Floor
    It'll make you cyberlaugh, it'll make you cybercry, just like cyberlife -- One thing is certain: your boredom
  15. Notting Hill
    It is not, the filmmakers stress, a sequel to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (which writer Richard Curtis was also responsible for), but it fits the latter-day Hollywood definition of the term -- same movie, only worse.
  16. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The film isn't short on ideas, it's just that those ideas are dumbfoundingly pretentious and trite.
  17. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    The Phantom Menace is simply a billboard for itself. Anyone who sees it will be experiencing it for the second time. The hype was not about the movie, the hype was the movie.
  18. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    The early scenes whir and buzz along to create quite a pleasing clamor.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tea with Mussolini
    Luca's transformation from waif to budding artist may be the thrust of the film, but it's the psyche of the conflicted grandson that you wonder about.
  20. The Mummy
    Crudely remaking the 1932 Universal original.
  21. Pusher
    As botched-drug-deal tales go, Pusher digs surprisingly deep— its surface clichés give way to an existential despair that finally swallows the movie whole.
  22. The Winslow Boy
    This film is solidly built, faithful to its material, and utterly lacking in pretense, but its maker is still running in place.
  23. Pushing Tin
    Pushing Tin pivots on our dubious fascination with professional erection duels, which are a sad substitute for dramatic conflict.
  24. eXistenZ
    Almost buoyant in its creepiness and positively bejeweled in its disgust -- the movie can be enjoyably considered as a self-conscious fiction in the convoluted tradition of Raul Ruiz or Brian De Palma's "Raising Cain."
  25. Election
    The film never finds a confident tone: it's pitched as a satire, but seems to have no real targets.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life
    An uneven but extremely funny throwback.
  27. SLC Punk!
    Merendino's most innovative directorial strategy is to collapse present and past by having Lillard shout Stevo's reflections about his youthful rebellion directly at the camera, while the scene he's describing in the past tense takes place behind him. I know it sounds like a Brechtian affectation, but it works.
  28. Go
    A showy exercise in nervous grit, Go never strays too far from a sense of itself as stunt.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Never Been Kissed
    A lively tribute to the awkwardness and power of adolescent girlhood.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Metroland
    An unflashy tale of memory and desire in suburban London.
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