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For 7,945 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Duets
    Hits mostly flat notes, then a few really sour ones.
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  2. Urbania
    It plays like Scorsese's ``After Hours,'' but for higher stakes.
  3. Human Resources
    Terrific French film about that most universal of subjects - work.
  4. Goya in Bordeaux
    Rich as it looks, it lacks the feverishness of Goya's art.
  5. Bait
    Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
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  6. Almost Famous
    Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
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  7. The Watcher
    Isn't even worth a glance.
  8. Nurse Betty
    It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
  9. The Way of the Gun
    Sometimes trips over its own contrivance, especially at the ammo-ridden end.
  10. Highlander: Endgame
    Offers some entertaining moments now and then in its relatively short running time.
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  11. Whipped
    A crass, witless knockoff of better films.
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  12. Titanic Town
    Mother's peace crusade ennobles Irish Town.
  13. Dark Days
    Engrossing and eye-opening in several respects and even, when you least expect it, humorous.
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  14. God's Army
    In its zeal to counter the negativity usually found in depictions of Mormons, God's Army eventually succumbs to overearnestness, sentimentality, and cliche.
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    Orfeu
    A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary.
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  16. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks.
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  17. The Crew
    Dogged allegiance to blandness.
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  18. Solomon & Gaenor
    It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.
  19. Love & Sex
    Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.
  20. Bring It On
    She's (Dunst) the big reason the film rises above instantly rejectable formula to campy pop.
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  21. Place Vendôme
    It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered.
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  22. The Cell
    Many of the film's images will prove more than some viewers can take.
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  23. Godzilla 2000
    A ton of fun, and then some.
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  24. Steal This Movie
    An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward.
  25. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
  26. The Opportunists
    Goes soft in the end, but not ruinously so. Meanwhile, its loose cannons bounce off one another deliciously.
  27. An Affair of Love
    A bit of a cop-out, wrapping in wistful sentimentality a failure to acknowledge a connection that is more than epidermal.
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  28. Autumn in New York
    It is all style and no substance.
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  29. Bless the Child
    Causes one to wish... that movies about the supernatural could make contact with supernatural script doctors.
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  30. Cecil B. DeMented
    It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily.
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  31. The Replacements
    Any ESPN commercial at all leaves it in the dust when it comes to imaginative firepower.
  32. The Tao of Steve
    One of the year's most winning performances, Logue's Dex will grow on you as he stumbles toward emotional fullness.
  33. The Tic Code
    Reveals real feelings.
  34. Saving Grace
    It's funny and charming most of the time, thanks to Brenda Blethyn.
  35. Psycho Beach Party
    A little Hitchcock and some good Psycho fun at the beach.
  36. Coyote Ugly
    Such an utter piece of fluff so conceptually barren it might as well be a music video.
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  37. Hollow Man
    Should have been an inaudible man movie. Every time the characters open their mouths, they hammer it deeper into the ground.
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  38. Space Cowboys
    Space Cowboys does achieve liftoff.
  39. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    As engaging as it is ungainly and scattered.
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  40. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on.
  41. Girl on the Bridge
    I'd take a chance on it anyway, even if it stumbles and loses its way.
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  42. Wonderland
    Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
  43. The Wind Will Carry Us
    It's a meditation on life and death, but it's less somber and more light-handed, subtle, and mischievously funny.
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  44. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A train worth catching.
  45. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection.
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  46. Rififi (re-release)
    It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.
  47. Alice et Martin
    Richly compelling.
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  48. Loser
    Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
  49. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games.
  50. What Lies Beneath
    Ford and Pfeiffer deliver craftsmanlike work, but the film steadily unravels as Zemeckis tries to ratchet up the suspense.
  51. The In Crowd
    The moral universe remains unsullied in this lite, lo-cal thriller - the cinematic equivalent of a fizzy summer drink.
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  52. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships.
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  53. The Five Senses
    A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps.
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  54. Chuck & Buck
    It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.
  55. X-Men
    Recedes to a string of mere action exploits. These are proficiently executed but, for all their visual authority, not much more than routine.
  56. I'm the One That I Want
    We're in a golden age of comedy, and one of the reasons is Margaret Cho.
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  57. But I'm a Cheerleader
    It's a lame and painfully overextended satire of homophobia.
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  58. The Kid
    Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
  59. Scary Movie
    The question facing the target audience for Scary Movie is whether the funny bits will be enough of a payoff for sitting through the tedious stuff between them.
  60. Shower
    You won't see a more humane and delicately moving riff this year on the theme of getting clean.
  61. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    It's a sunny, funny, fittingly cartoony blend of computer-generated 3-D representations of the flying squirrel and his pal the moose with actors.
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  62. The Perfect Storm
    'Titanic'' was a case of a cheeseball story riding terrific effects. The Perfect Storm is in every important way deeper.
  63. Trixie
    There are so many wonderful moments in Trixie and so few films like it that you wish Rudolph had given it a few more rewrites.
  64. The Patriot
    It's often corny, but it's never boring, and it'll sweep you up in its momentum if you give it a chance.
  65. Me, Myself & Irene
    It has a few laughs, but it also has a lot of dead air, and barely any plot at all. In sporting terms, it's no home run.
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  66. Chicken Run
    There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
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  67. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of works in any given year to which one is moved to apply the word ''masterpiece.'' Raul Ruiz's Time Regained is one of them.
  68. Titan A.E.
    A space shot worth taking.
  69. Shaft
    With Jackson leading the way, Shaft has style, punch, and street cred. It's a hot cool update.
  70. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
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  71. Jesus' Son
    It's often a downer, with a sweet but largely passive protagonist.
  72. Love's Labour's Lost
    Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.
  73. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    The flat tire of summer movies.
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  74. American Pimp
    American Pimp, if not quite a self-serving orgy of self-justification, can hardly be thought of as a searching look at the skin trade.
  75. Big Momma's House
    It keeps its promise to throw an hour and a half of lively entertainment at audiences.
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  76. Passion of Mind
    There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
  77. 8 ½ Women
    The problem with 8 1/2 Women isn't that what you see is what you get; it's that what you see is all you get.
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  78. Shanghai Noon
    There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics.
  79. Kikujirô no natsu
    Even allowing for differences in national styles, Kikujiro sprawls and stumbles. It's a road movie that turns into its own detour.
  80. Mission: Impossible II
    Hard-driving and propulsive as it is, the film is unable to hide the fact that Woo seems not only to be repeating himself, but parodying his earlier films on a much bigger scale, more crudely and coarsely.
  81. Small Time Crooks
    It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun.
  82. Road Trip
    Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
  83. Dinosaur
    Throughout the history of film, nothing turns campier faster than dinosaur movies. This one will have a much longer shelf life than most.
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  84. Held Up
    Alazy rip-off of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' that is too limp to even offend.
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  85. Center Stage
    Anybody who's ever laced on toe shoes, or wanted to, will find something to take away from Center Stage.
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  86. Hamlet
    This is a sizzling, invigorating Hamlet.
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  87. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    So heavy and lifeless that you keep waiting for those three little front-row kibitzers from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" to appear at the bottom of the screen to start goofing on it.
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  88. Gladiator
    It epitomizes the kind of high-profile bloodshed we now expect to herald the hazy, lazy, blockbuster-fixated days of summer.
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  89. Up at the Villa
    Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings.
  90. Adorenarin doraibu
    A climactic explosion is too obviously a rigged gunpowder charge, and it becomes a metaphor for the film's mistake of diminishing the frantic motion that kept things fizzy and fun.
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  91. Human Traffic
    'Trainspotting'' Lite.
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  92. The Idiots
    Von Trier's The Idiots is both lively and juvenile.
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  93. Frequency
    Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.
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  94. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    If you walk in with your expectations at a suitably low setting, you won't walk away disappointed.
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  95. Bossa Nova
    One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages.
  96. Where the Heart Is
    Never earns the rollicking life affirmation it's after.
  97. Timecode
    Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention.
  98. Committed
    Runs dry amid the cactus and sagebrush, but Graham's cartoony take on angelic unstoppableness makes us not mind so much.
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  99. The Big Kahuna
    It's no meal, but it'll tide you over.
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  100. The Last September
    A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920.
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