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For 52 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Essence
Lowest review score: 20 Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 52
  3. Negative: 5 out of 52
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Eminem Show
    We're unlikely to hear another platinum-selling album in 2002 that sounds as tired and thoroughly played out as the fourth offering from the troubled young Marshall Mathers.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Under Rug Swept
    Time and again she comes across as the glum, joyless, self-centered sophomore with the dog-eared copy of "The Bell Jar" in her Hello Kitty backpack.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
    It wants a hit so bad -- wants to be so many things to so many people -- that you can feel the songs audibly buckling from all the promises it doles out.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pop Trash
    A mediocre Britpop album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bloodflowers
    Many of the songs begin promisingly, with glowing guitar figures and plaintive synthesizer cascades, but these hints of beauty get lost in a morass of feedback and ill-defined arrangements.