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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Love & Basketball
    The fact that the blatantly thumbtacked-on happy ending plays as unvarnished fairy tale adds a definite bittersweet tang of irony.
  4. Where the Money Is
    Ultimately a fluffy bit of caper-noir, the success of Where the Money Is rests heavily with Old Blue Eyes.
  5. 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.
  7. Third World Cop
    A hackneyed police story, rife with clichés, implausibilities, and weak performances.
  8. 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.
  9. 28 Days
    Sympathetic to the core but not to be believed.
  10. Set Me Free
    A challenging concept conveyed here most impressively onscreen.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Rules of Engagement
    It's amazing the filmmakers never really concern themselves with satisfying the audience's rules of engagement.
  14. Est - Ouest
    Although it's interesting and well-performed, East-West never locates its crux: It's all over the map.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. La sindrome di Stendhal
    It's nasty, brutal stuff, but it's also unlike anything else out there.
  18. Black and White
    Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible.
  19. Price of Glory
    The film is a TKO before it even had a chance to get off a decent hook.
  20. The Road to El Dorado
    The DreamWorks team continues to give Disney a run for their money.
  21. The Skulls
    An exercise in unintentional farce.
  22. High Fidelity
    A smart, funny, and youth-savvy relationship film.
  23. 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.
  24. X
    It sounds as ridiculous as a "Pokemon" episode gone horribly awry.
  25. The Color of Paradise
    Less a film than a lyrical, naturalistic tone poem.
  26. Here on Earth
    Somewhere along the road to becoming teens idols, these actors got confused between being the bomb -- and getting it.
  27. Whatever It Takes
    Drivel of the purest ray serene.
  28. Waking the Dead
    The film is one of the more adult offerings out there in a spring movie season peppered with martial arts and superheroes. It may be just what you're looking for.
  29. Romeo Must Die
    The fight scenes are splendidly choreographed...but they're shot in that grating, thoroughly American flashcut style that leaves you wondering just who the hell is hitting who.
  30. Erin Brockovich
    The most memorable David vs. Goliath courtroom showdown in recent memory.
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