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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. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    The storylines are as confusing (or as simple?) to the uninitiated as they were before, but that doesn't stop them from making sense to the kids.
  2. What Lies Beneath
    It's a kinder, gentler "Tales From the Crypt" that, in the end, is neither kind nor gentle.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The In Crowd
    The In Crowd is nothing but a deadly dull business.
  4. The Five Senses
    The Five Senses, despite its good performances, is like looking through a filmmaker's sketchbook: strong outlines but little substance.
  5. Chuck & Buck
    The kind of movie that gets under your skin and takes root.
  6. X-Men
    The film's greatest strength lies in its ability to view itself as a modern moral fable of sorts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    I'm the One That I Want
    The real joy of watching this movie is seeing a stand-up comedian who is incredibly comfortable with herself, her material, and her audience.
  8. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Rises above its problems to deliver the essential goods.
  9. The Kid
    A lightweight, intermittently engaging comedy.
  10. Scary Movie
    I'd rather have a testicular nail-gun mishap than sit through this migraine-inducing train wreck of a film one more time.
  11. Shower
    Above all, it's a satisfying, almost restful work, as welcome in this less-than-thrilling cinematic summer as a cool soak on a hot summer's day.
  12. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Hit-or-miss comedy at its best and worst: When it connects, the belly laughs are long and loud, but when it misses, the groans you'll be hearing are your own.
  13. The Perfect Storm
    Nearly a perfect film, from its bold and epic man-vs.-nature conflict to the breathless scripting, editing, acting, and direction.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Trixie
    With his new film (which he also wrote), Rudolph seems content to slap a flimsy film-noir plot on an unending stream of malapropisms and word games and call it a "screwball noir."
  15. The Patriot
    "We, the people" have never been big fans of movies about the American Revolutionary War. The Patriot, however, appears to be the movie that will break that historical jinx.
  16. Me, Myself & Irene
    Has those proverbial big laffs in spades.
  17. Chicken Run
    Absolutely delightful filmmaking, chock-full of gorgeously goofy animation and a storyline that cleverly echoes everything from "Stalag 17" to "Cool Hand Luke."
  18. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    This film's intelligence and uncompromising originality commend it to even moviegoers with zero tolerance for top hats, parasols, and crap English accents.
  19. Titan A.E.
    Feels like a been-here-done-that dud.
  20. Shaft
    The storyline goes from bad to worse as one-dimensional characters gradually flatten out into pure stick figures, and the crime plot goes from hokey to implausible.
  21. Boys and Girls
    A paint-by-numbers romantic comedy, but without the heart or laughs to make it work.
  22. Butterfly Tongues
    It's a rare film that can make us look so deeply into the dark soul of the seemingly benign.
  23. Jesus' Son
    The movie will not be for all tastes. Its seedy lifestyles, nonjudgmental attitudes, nonlinear narrative, and central character whose problem is his lack of emotions is definitely nonstandard fare.
  24. The Woman Chaser
    It's a real gone flick, daddy-o.
  25. Pop & Me
    Everybody likes to watch the messy guts-stuff of other peoples' lives, if only because we know then we're not alone in our weird ways.
  26. Love's Labour's Lost
    The effect is weird but it, actually, kind of works, illuminating both Shakespeare and the artifice of musicals.
  27. Groove
    A fun, well-assembled and -performed slice of life that requires no special affinity with the subject matter in order to -- ahem -- get one's groove on.
  28. Sunshine
    Ultimately one of those sprawling epics best suited for a rainy day.
  29. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    A 119-minute trailer.
  30. American Pimp
    Fascinating, partly because of its originality.
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