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For 7,947 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Crazy/Beautiful
    To have been the film it could have been, crazy/beautiful needed to be messier.
  2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Spielberg has said that in their collaboration, cut short by Kubrick's death, Kubrick had opened his heart as never before. Although the fingerprint of each is upon A.I, there are times when the prints are blurred and merged. And this film will blur the hitherto distinctive profiles of each.
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  3. Come Undone
    Achingly slow, at times bleak and, in the end, frustratingly and regrettably, rather pointless.
  4. Lumumba
    Structural shortcomings and all -- gives a neglected giant of African independence his due.
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  5. The Princess and the Warrior
    Nowhere near as dynamic as the title implies. It's hard not to think of it as ''Sleepwalk Lola Sleepwalk.''
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  6. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
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  7. The Fast and the Furious
    Turbo-charged wallbanger with the IQ of a tire iron. But it jumps off the screen with the mindless panache of a good bad movie.
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  8. Life and Debt
    Employs both eloquent and down-to-earth methods to explain the complex reasons why so many of the world's developing countries remain caught in an economic quagmire that prevents them from becoming self-sufficient.
  9. The Adventures of Felix
    In this engaging, understated comedy, it is the journey and not the destination that matters.
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  10. Songcatcher
    Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer.
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  11. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
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  12. Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
    If there is any message in Tarkovsky's work, although as a poet he would never stoop to anything as banal as a message, it is that life is an internal affair, played out in one's soul, not in public.
  13. Sexy Beast
    Slightly misshapen and unbalanced, with a few loose ends, a few extraneous dream sequences. But there's something going on all the time.
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  14. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    For all its handsomeness, the movie reveals a few cobwebs beginning to gather at the conceptual edges of the Disney animations.
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  15. Evolution
    It's a ponderous but not unenjoyable comedy.
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  16. Bride of the Wind
    Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.
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  17. The Anniversary Party
    Isn't what you'd call a probing film, but it's a slick and savvy one.
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  18. Erleuchtung garantiert
    Likable, go-with-the-flow comedy.
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  19. Swordfish
    A high-impact, high-powered mess that raises the bar for over-the-topness.
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  20. Divided We Fall
    The film's triumph - and it is a triumph - in the end rests on the ability of Hrebejk and his actors to convince us that they never stop being normal people.
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  21. A Love Divided
    Solid, balanced period piece that focuses on a specific place and time yet resonates with universal themes.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Eden
    It's a refreshing alternative to hipper-than-thou moviemaking.
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  23. Rape Me
    You won't feel raped by it, but you well may feel that it's too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Animal
    Through it all, Rob Schneider comes off as a jackass in The Animal.
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  25. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Supposed to be a cheeky little lark but instead runs a narrow gamut from labored to aimless.
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Himalaya
    Valli's touch as an artist is too light, and his dramatic sense too timid, to make the film much more than a collection of pretty pictures.
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  27. The Man Who Cried
    The imagery is lush, but the story is pretty cornball, with an ending that can only be called pure Hollywood. Only the marvelous Cate Blanchett transcends stereotype.
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  28. The Road Home
    As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story.
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  29. Pearl Harbor
    The film never quite hits a sure-footed stride. The fictional love story stays fictional. But ''Pearl Harbor'' delivers the main event.
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  30. Fast Food Fast Women
    A warmhearted, hardworking little comedy that owes a lot of its charm to its modesty.
    • Boston Globe
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