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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. The Princess Diaries
    Unfortunately, the filmmakers seem to have forgotten that comedy is a requisite feature in a comedy.
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  2. Rush Hour 2
    It hasn't got a brain in its body, but it's fun to watch.
  3. Apocalypse Now Redux
    The best film of 2001 was made in 1979. [10 Aug 2001, p.D1]
    • Boston Globe
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Greenfingers
    Plants the seeds of comedy that grow into a mild feel-good flick, but it won't reap much viewer satisfaction.
  5. The Monkey's Mask
    Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye.
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  6. Planet of the Apes
    It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp.
    • Boston Globe
  7. Bread and Tulips
    Manages the right balance of fairy tale and joyous self-discovery. And the Venice locations don't hurt.
    • Boston Globe
  8. 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.
  9. Jackpot
    Bummer theater.
  10. America's Sweethearts
    You keep waiting for it to go into orbit, to be really fizzy and outrageous, like the screwball farce it wants to be. Instead, the film settles for the merely serviceable.
  11. Brother
    Cool killers - Kitano's stock in trade - do not necessarily make for cool movies.
  12. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    If you thought ''Moulin Rouge,'' or, for that matter, ''Tommy,'' was trippy, Hedwig, with its glorious convergence of material and performer, will show you what you've been missing.
    • Boston Globe
  13. Ghost World
    Whatever portion of the alienated teen angst championship Thora Birch left unclaimed after ''American Beauty,'' she nails down brilliantly in Ghost World.
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  14. Jurassic Park III
    What makes it worth sitting through is the chance it offers to catch up on the technical advances since the last installment.
  15. Made
    Amusing Made doesn't quite measure up to expectations.
  16. Legally Blonde
    There's always Witherspoon, swimming upstream and never letting it slow her down. Blindingly purposeful, she's a perky blond tornado. Marilyn Monroe would not only have cheered her on. She'd have learned something.
  17. Bully
    Nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.
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  18. The Score
    Nobody's going to think of The Score as trail-blazing, but there's nothing small-time about its dramatic and acting payoff.
  19. Adanggaman
    The film's disturbing images are presented matter-of-factly, which makes them more powerful, not less.
  20. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Despite its conceptual shortfall, is worth seeing, if only to update yourself on what can emerge from a keyboard these days.
  21. Everybody's Famous!
    A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous.
  22. Kiss of the Dragon
    What goes on when Li isn't fighting the bad guys isn't worth discussing; it's that stupid.
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  23. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Made of a serene dynamite that's all but unknown to American film audiences.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jump Tomorrow
    The movie feels padded. And Hopkins's deft touch as a writer and director leaves him when it comes to casting.
  25. Cats & Dogs
    The effects are so showy, and so relentless, that they call attention pretty quickly to the fact that there is not much else to Cats and Dogs.
  26. Scary Movie 2
    Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.
  27. The Closet
    Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same.
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  28. The Crimson Rivers
    The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.
  29. Pootie Tang
    The movie's comic powers are often marred by silliness and stereotypes. Pootie tanks.
  30. Crazy/Beautiful
    To have been the film it could have been, crazy/beautiful needed to be messier.
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