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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. Girl on the Bridge
    I'd take a chance on it anyway, even if it stumbles and loses its way.
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  2. Wonderland
    Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
  3. 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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  4. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A train worth catching.
  5. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection.
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  6. Rififi (re-release)
    It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.
  7. Alice et Martin
    Richly compelling.
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  8. Loser
    Doesn't quite rank with the films that bracket Heckerling's pop-culture high priestess status
  9. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games.
  10. What Lies Beneath
    Ford and Pfeiffer deliver craftsmanlike work, but the film steadily unravels as Zemeckis tries to ratchet up the suspense.
  11. 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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  12. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships.
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  13. 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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  14. Chuck & Buck
    It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.
  15. 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.
  16. 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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  17. But I'm a Cheerleader
    It's a lame and painfully overextended satire of homophobia.
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  18. The Kid
    Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
  19. 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.
  20. Shower
    You won't see a more humane and delicately moving riff this year on the theme of getting clean.
  21. 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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  22. The Perfect Storm
    'Titanic'' was a case of a cheeseball story riding terrific effects. The Perfect Storm is in every important way deeper.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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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  26. Chicken Run
    There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
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  27. 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.
  28. Titan A.E.
    A space shot worth taking.
  29. Shaft
    With Jackson leading the way, Shaft has style, punch, and street cred. It's a hot cool update.
  30. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
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