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For 8,778 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 6.7 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: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. The Sweetest Thing
    Christina Applegate, of Eighties white-trash pinup fame, is a comic foil par excellence, delivering a snazzy, self-assured performance that lands the biggest laughs in a movie made mostly of hollow chuckles. She, in fact, is the sweetest thing in this sour, sucky film.
  2. High Crimes
    Franklin injects life into a flat format and has in the process done something nearly unheard of in Hollywood as of late: He's brought class back to the genre film.
  3. Big Trouble
    A gleefully overplotted crime yarn that channels in sanitized form the perverse subtropical-noir sensibilities of Carl Hiassen.
  4. Van Wilder
    The laugh-out-loud jokery is in short supply, and Reynolds and Reid's kicky charm only goes so far. Bluto Blutarsky, we miss you.
  5. Crush
    The kind of movie that gives "chick flicks" a bad reputation.
  6. The Rookie
    Doesn't break any new ground in the baseball movie playbook. However, it does bring it all back home with the assurance of seasoned pro.
  7. The Piano Teacher
    Although little is ultimately “solved” or demystified in The Piano Teacher, the movie allows a chaperoned peek into the mind of one of civilization's “discontents.”
  8. Time Out
    Faultlessly truthful in its observations.
  9. Death to Smoochy
    It's good -- no, great -- to see Williams as a mean rat bastard.
  10. Panic Room
    Feels like a Fincher film: It possesses the same smarts, the same visual panache, the same violence. But not the same heart.
  11. Clockstoppers
    Pack the kids off to the multiplex with an easy conscience and forgiving critical sensibility.
  12. Margarita Happy Hour
    Square peg, round hole. That's what the twentysomethings who drift through Margarita Happy Hour are like.
  13. Sorority Boys
    The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor.
  14. Son of the Bride
    Winning and emotionally punchy film.
  15. Blade II
    Invades theatres with its fangs bared for action. It's bloody hell and we love every minute.
  16. Pauline and Paulette
    A small-scale pleasure, a movie that truly stops and smells the roses.
  17. Harrison's Flowers
    Doesn't say much of anything at all about the Balkan conflict -- it's more concerned with MacDowell's shattered face and Brody's passionate, paranoid whinny, which, come to think of it, is just good enough.
  18. Showtime
    The collective charisma of Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, and Rene Russo is the only reason to slap down eight bucks for this limp action/comedy, but then, it's difficult not to want to avert your eyes out of embarrassment for the trio.
  19. Resident Evil
    Is this the future of horror or just some bizarre fluke? Don't ask me, I'm having too much fun to care.
  20. Ice Age
    Has a heart bursting with good intentions, something that goes a long way in dimming from memory its inherent routineness.
  21. All About the Benjamins
    The unnecessary nastiness, even sadism, of much of the violence also bears mentioning if you're expecting more of the benignly cartoonish silliness of Cube's lone directing effort, "The Players Club."
  22. Festival in Cannes
    Remains little more than a briefly fascinating curiosity, a travelogue for those of us who can't actually attend.
  23. The Time Machine
    The film's two saving graces are the time machine itself -- a gorgeous, whirling array of burnished copper and blazing light -- and the CGI-created rise and fall of New York City.
  24. We Were Soldiers
    Ultimately, though, We Were Soldiers fails to bring as much to the table as it at first seems it might.
  25. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    Doesn't do much to further distinguish Lehmann's career. As for those of us waiting for the year's first worthwhile date movie, the wait continues.
  26. Big Bad Love
    One glance at the cast should be enough of a recommendation for any film lover -- it's Winger's first time on the screen in seven years, and Howard deserves a nod or two if only for getting his wife back in front of the camera where she so clearly belongs.
  27. Dragonfly
    Very little here begs to be paid attention to.
  28. Queen of the Damned
    The whole film suffers from a serious case of overplotting, perhaps inevitable when trying to cram two largish novels into one smallish film.
  29. Return to Never Land
    It's neither the fulfillment of our worst fears nor the surprise of the week.
  30. Scratch
    So upbeat it might as well arrive on a sunbeam.
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