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For 8,783 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8783
  2. Mixed: 2,558 out of 8783
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8783
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  1. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Just sputters along, albeit pleasantly, while revisiting the realm of the abundantly familiar.
  2. The Crew
    Most folks are just plain bored -- and I mean cross-eyed, wall-climbing, deep-down-to-the-molecular-level bored -- with this ubiquitous Endearing Wiseguys school of movie comedy.
  3. Bittersweet Motel
    Manages to capture the essence of one of the world's most surprising success stories.
  4. Solomon & Gaenor
    The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.
  5. Love & Sex
    The script negates anything heartfelt with its flippant, almost vulgar tone.
  6. Bring It On
    A moderately entertaining, mostly inoffensive piece of filmmaking.
  7. Chalk
    Emerges as an artful, courageous, experimental work that is as compelling as it is impaired.
  8. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    Ms. Elliott's film is, in part, an effort to reverse his slow slide into obscurity. On this level it's an unqualified success.
  9. Place Vendôme
    When Deneuve is not onscreen, the film is never denuff.
  10. The Cell
    It's a pleasure to watch, but I found myself wondering if having a story here even mattered to the director at all.
  11. Godzilla 2000
    It's all pretty goofy, which I assume is the point, but it's also pretty dull.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Steal This Movie
    Too bad the movie about him is just as flawed.
  13. The Original Kings of Comedy
    The most articulate and entertaining commentary on racial differences to have come down the pike in quite a while.
  14. The Opportunists
    Not only are these characters beautifully underplayed, but they're underplayed by two of the most enthusiastic scene-stealers around: Walken & Lauper.
  15. Aimee & Jaguar
    That Aimée & Jaguar manages so well in triple duty as a wartime melodrama with a lesbian twist is remarkable.
  16. Autumn in New York
    Near-unwatchable romantic melodrama.
  17. Bless the Child
    It works not at all.
  18. Cecil B. DeMented
    If this movie does anything to rally crowds against cinema's mass distribution of mediocrity then it has served a noble purse.
  19. The Replacements
    As obvious as they get, and it wears its message on its bloodied jersey.
  20. The Tao of Steve
    It's the kind of film you feel like watching twice -- not because you found it that engaging to begin with, but because you didn't, and everyone else did.
  21. Saving Grace
    A real audience pleaser.
  22. Psycho Beach Party
    Its cheeky, good fun is what makes Psycho Beach Party an enjoyable, if weightless, romp.
  23. Coyote Ugly
    Failed feminist statement or not, Coyote Ugly is a likable, if confused film.
  24. Hollow Man
    A boisterous, gooey miscue.
  25. Space Cowboys
    A lighthearted action adventure starring four of the most likable guys on the planet.
  26. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    There's a nice little story here about the intermingling of cultures, but it rarely gets beyond the obvious clichés.
  27. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Sporadically funny, the film seems weighted down, literally, with bulging, bulbous Murphys flatulating endlessly.
  28. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    A fine example of advocacy filmmaking.
  29. Girl on the Bridge
    New and amazing -- it takes you back to the days when French filmmaking and French filmmakers were the darlings and saviors of the cinematic cutting edge. It's a great film, simply told, and a pleasure to watch.
  30. Wonderland
    So bereft of hope... that it's a chore to withstand.
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