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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. Where the Heart Is
    Home may be where the heart is, but I kept wishing this poor silly girl would up and move.
  2. Timecode
    Both a headache and a marvel, often eliciting simultaneous groans of despair and sheer wonder at the director's nervy chutzpah.
  3. Committed
    Graham maintains a casual charm throughout it all, but she lacks the kind of emotional depth that might have pulled this hodge-podge together.
  4. The Big Kahuna
    Feels more like Barry Levinson's "Tin Men" on Prozac.
  5. The Last September
    Not even the rich and nuanced performances of stage veterans Smith, Gambon, and Birkin can save this British period drama from languishing amid the story's unfocused longings and unrealistic musings.
  6. U-571
    U-571's plot moves like a rocket, never pausing for breath, and this works to a point, but certain events ... are glossed over in favor of more (exceptionally well-done) shots of exploding depth charges and topside battles.
  7. The Virgin Suicides
    In an astonishingly assured film debut, Coppola captures the poetry and sweetness of Eugenides' novel without allowing any of the standard rites of passage -- first dates, high-school dances -- to feel trite.
  8. Love & Basketball
    The fact that the blatantly thumbtacked-on happy ending plays as unvarnished fairy tale adds a definite bittersweet tang of irony.
  9. Where the Money Is
    Ultimately a fluffy bit of caper-noir, the success of Where the Money Is rests heavily with Old Blue Eyes.
  10. Keeping the Faith
    A disarmingly enjoyable film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    East Is East
    A pleasure to watch for the cast alone and their accomplishments should not be obscured by underwritten characters and overwritten jokey set-pieces.
  12. Third World Cop
    A hackneyed police story, rife with clichés, implausibilities, and weak performances.
  13. American Psycho
    Neither bloodthirsty enough to trigger the gag reflex of anyone but the most anemic viewer nor clever enough to yield much in the way of particularly engrossing insights.
  14. 28 Days
    Sympathetic to the core but not to be believed.
  15. Set Me Free
    A challenging concept conveyed here most impressively onscreen.
  16. Restaurant
    Solid performances, capable visuals, and the honesty of the interracial subject matter make Restaurant stand out from the typical "I'm an artist, not really a waiter" pack.
  17. Return to Me
    Infused with enough infectious charm to make us forget how dopey the plot is and become swept up in its breezy countenance.
  18. Rules of Engagement
    It's amazing the filmmakers never really concern themselves with satisfying the audience's rules of engagement.
  19. Est - Ouest
    Although it's interesting and well-performed, East-West never locates its crux: It's all over the map.
  20. The Filth and the Fury
    Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins.
  21. Ready to Rumble
    I'm sorry. I laughed...There's something pleasurable about a comedy that has no pretensions about where it's coming from.
  22. La sindrome di Stendhal
    It's nasty, brutal stuff, but it's also unlike anything else out there.
  23. Black and White
    Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible.
  24. Price of Glory
    The film is a TKO before it even had a chance to get off a decent hook.
  25. The Road to El Dorado
    The DreamWorks team continues to give Disney a run for their money.
  26. The Skulls
    An exercise in unintentional farce.
  27. High Fidelity
    A smart, funny, and youth-savvy relationship film.
  28. Beau Travail
    A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives.
  29. X
    It sounds as ridiculous as a "Pokemon" episode gone horribly awry.
  30. The Color of Paradise
    Less a film than a lyrical, naturalistic tone poem.
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