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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Open Hearts
    It's a soaper with a high grade of imported soap.
  2. Chicken Run
    That rare kids' movie that may be even more entertaining for its intended audience's adult companions.
    • Baltimore Sun
  3. 300
    Cinema has once again proven its ability to incorporate every other mass-media art form. Director Zack Snyder and his computer wizards have made the best example yet of the movie-as-comic-book.
  4. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Fantasy, not honesty, is the point of The Kid Stays in the Picture.
  5. Clockwatchers
    Clockwatchers has a terrific, submerged feel, in keeping with its themes of corporate lassitude, isolation and paranoia. [24 Jul 1998]
    • Baltimore Sun
  6. Ghost World
    In his first fiction feature, Zwigoff doesn't forget to bring the funny. But he doesn't bring enough poetry.
  7. Son of Rambow
    For much of its frolicsome, rambling running-time, Son of Rambow is like a guarana-spiked soft drink: It goes down easy and delivers a kick.
  8. The Italian Job
    Fits squarely into the "exciting" category; it's a white-knuckler of the first order.
  9. The Prince and Me
    It's all done with such good heart, and Stiles is so perfectly appealing as one of cinema's most grounded Cinderellas.
  10. Clerks II
    Yes, the characters in Clerks II hardly qualify as role models, but they can be blisteringly funny in an in-your-face, to-heck-with-taste way.
  11. Failure to Launch
    There's comfort in seeing actors we know doing what we've come to expect them to do. But more important, the film surrounds them with supporting characters who are less familiar to us, who act in ways we don't expect.
  12. Anna and the King
    Will remind filmgoers that one of the chief pleasures of going to the movies is a good old-fashioned swoon
    • Baltimore Sun
  13. Barbershop
    Not everyone is going to appreciate the politics of Barbershop, but you've got to admire it for having a political view at all.
    • Baltimore Sun
  14. The Man Without a Past
    The Man Without a Past has the slenderness of a folk-tale -- also the clarity and charm.
  15. Pieces of April
    The highest compliment I can pay Pieces of April is that it brings to mind a Paul Simon lyric: "the mother and child reunion is only a motion away."
  16. Death of a President
    The excitingly well-made Death of a President imagines the assassination of President Bush as a way of analyzing political violence. And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, sight unseen, has labeled it despicable.
  17. What Happened Was...
    An intense two-character drama that follows as the participants in an office flirtation attempt to go up a notch toward an actual relationship, with disastrously unforeseen consequences. [11 Nov 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
  18. Music and Lyrics
    This movie doesn't pretend to be anything more than a cheerful night out, and on that count it scores.
  19. Outside Providence
    Possesses memorable portrayals of thoroughly original characters and draws a beguilingly bleak portrait of its Rhode Island settings.
  20. DysFunktional Family
    In an age when light-and-easy racial farces have become mainstream hits, he remains a tough-love comedian.
  21. Unfaithful
    American movies are generally so skittish about sexuality that Adrian Lyne's appetite --and aptitude -- for exploring it in Unfaithful is a relief.
    • Baltimore Sun
  22. The Bachelor
    Cheerful and unpretentious.
    • Baltimore Sun
  23. Lord of War
    A bravura, resonant performance by Nicolas Cage, combined with some hard questions raised about American responsibility for the worldwide glut of firearms, make the film close to a must-see, if not a must-love.
  24. Stone Reader
    The film's strengths can't be separated from its shortcomings. Despite its heavyweight supporting cast, Stone Reader mostly pays tribute to the enthusiasm and purity of the amateur.
  25. Peter Pan
    Even at its most hyperactive, Peter Pan has a core of good and bad feeling that will hit home to kids and to adults with honest memories.
  26. Definitely, Maybe
    All three actresses are appealing, but Fisher, proving her scene-stealing turn in Wedding Crashers was no fluke, shines brightest.
  27. Where the Money Is
    It's just another modest, unsurprising little heist flick. So why is it so much fun? Newman.
  28. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Campbell Scott creates a new movie anti-hero -- the weak silent type -- and goes all the way with it in The Secret Lives of Dentists.
  29. The Forgotten
    This is a movie that earns its suspense and validates its emotions, especially its examination of the bond between mother and child.
  30. Timecode
    Once you get the hang of Figgis' own brand of coercion -- one based on an intricate sound design and musical score -- you find yourself happily going along for the ride.
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