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For 7,950 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 1 point 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: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Changing Lanes
    Banek is one of the more complex characters Affleck has attempted, but the performance comes off flat and uninvolving.
  2. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games.
  3. Dancer in the Dark
    Leaves you questioning its intentions.
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  4. Monsters, Inc.
    By any other standard, the creatures in Monsters, Inc. would be impressive. But by the high standard Pixar not only set itself, but invented, they're only ordinary.
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  5. The Last Shot
    Any movie that would think Calista Flockhart to be the sort of high-strung basket case who'd hurl obscenities down at a dog kennel outside her apartment is worth sitting through.
  6. An Everlasting Piece
    A slight but diverting series of set pieces.
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  7. Bandits
    Isn't awful, but neither is it the tangy entertainment it could have been.
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  8. Van Wilder
    Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.
  9. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Most of the expert insights contained in this concise documentary are already available in the door-stopping exposes of other experts, a fact that lends the proceedings a nagging redundancy.
  10. The Sweetest Thing
    This movie is to sweet as a dog is to a hydrant. But it's little things like that that keep someone like Diaz laughing all the way to the urinal.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holes
    Holes functions as a film, but just barely: Readers familiar with the book may negotiate the film's antic crosscutting, but newbies will need to pop a Dramamine before the lights dim.
  12. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    Would have benefited from putting a wider lens on the man and his detractors.
  13. Scream 2
    I'm not sure that I really want to see "Scream 3,'" but Craven, Williamson, and the screamers certainly bring this one off by not only slapping all their cards on the table, but insisting we admire the way they play them.
  14. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    While the story couldn't be simpler and the filmmaking is crude, it forcefully addresses a reality.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Alamo
    The real struggle in The Alamo is between historic revisionism and Hollywood notions of sacrifice, and it's not much of a contest: Hollywood wins, as it did in John Wayne's sprawling, factually spurious 1960 film.
  16. Alias Betty
    Miller is certainly faithful to the spirit of Rendell's psychologically probing, class-dissecting novels, even if his probing doesn't go nearly as deep and his storytelling isn't as compelling.
  17. Fear and Trembling
    As wonderful as Testud is, her character doesn't make much sense.
  18. Something's Gotta Give
    Doesn't America's 50-and-fabulous set deserve better than a movie this superficial and pandering?
  19. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Wolpert and Reynolds seem to be aiming for the ''Titantic'' audience at the expense of sophistication and historical relevance. It's too bad. The able cast, not to mention Alexandre Dumas, deserves better.
  20. Wet Hot American Summer
    The film keeps being yanked back from nothingness by this or that clever sendup, delivered by a small army of invigorated performers who seem to push off from one another's energy levels.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    This is an old-fashioned sports hagiography of the sort that Gary Cooper used to star in while Teresa Wright sat smiling and worried on the sidelines, and, amazingly, it engages your attention and even respect while trotting out every clubhouse cliche in the book.
  22. The Kid
    Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
  23. Save the Last Dance
    The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems.
  24. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East.
  25. Paper Clips
    Inspirational.
  26. Cachorro
    Pedro is what a friend of mine calls a ''macho Iberico," which refers to a certain type of cocky, insensitive Spanish man.
  27. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film's good humor is often betrayed by its low-budget roots, however, as though it couldn't afford to be more original or ambitious than its premise.
  28. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Like watching somebody else's flashback and wondering what you were doing then instead.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stage Beauty
    Yet Crudup does good, mercurial work despite a silly surfer-dude haircut.
  30. Any Given Sunday
    Far too long, but its rambunctiousness is engaging, propelled by Stone's virtuosic quick-cutting.
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