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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. Gossip
    Owes less to any film genre than to TV soap operas offered with far fewer pretensions on any given afternoon.
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  2. U-571
    Never lets down, even if depth of character always takes second place to depth charges.
  3. Croupier
    It's brilliantly precise in its detailing, stylishly jagged and sensual by turns, and utterly unpredictable.
  4. The Virgin Suicides
    From start to finish there's a shimmer of discovery about it - our discovery of it, Coppola's discovery of how much she can do.
  5. Love & Basketball
    The cinematic equivalent of a high, arching rainbow of a three-pointer from midcourt.
  6. Where the Money Is
    The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.
  7. East Is East
    This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
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  8. American Psycho
    In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.
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  9. Return to Me
    If Return to Me is ultimately too bland and safe, it'll nevertheless serve as a calling card for Hunt's future directorial projects.
  10. Southpaw
    There's an engagingly homegrown quality to much of the footage.
  11. Me Myself I
    A comic vehicle for that valuable Australian export, Rachel Griffiths.
  12. Rules of Engagement
    Strenuously as it tries, and pulse-poundingly successful as the embassy rescue scene is, Rules of Engagement never engages us.
  13. Est - Ouest
    Isn't always easy to sit through, but it repays patience. It's an honorable film, and it earns its undertow of poignancy derived from.
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
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  15. Ready to Rumble
    Likable performances from its young cast and a better-than-average script add spark to this formulaic fairy tale and make the wrestling mania watchable.
  16. Price of Glory
    Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.
  17. The Road to El Dorado
    Less than memorable.
  18. The Skulls
    Plummets into the realm of ludicrous failure.
  19. High Fidelity
    Sad, funny, brilliant.
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  20. X
    It doesn't tap deeply enough into any of the characters to compel us to identify with one or another.
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  21. The Color of Paradise
    The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
  22. Here on Earth
    Maudlin script mars teen love.
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  23. Whatever It Takes
    Pretty lame stuff. Already it seems to be passing with the speed of light into the limbo of utterly forgettable "who-will-I-take-to-the-prom?" movies.
  24. Such a Long Journey
    While no individual plot strand is vividly compelling, their interplay makes for a hearty and humanistic mix, carried by the performances.
  25. Waking the Dead
    It's too fragmented and diffuse to ever bring its parts together in any really satisfying manner.
  26. Winter Sleepers
    Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.
  27. Romeo Must Die
    The reason to sit through its uninspired, formulaic moves, however, is its half-dozen spectacular fight sequences.
  28. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts and Erin Brockovich have Oscar contender written all over them.
  29. Final Destination
    Starts by cheating death and ends by cheating us.
  30. Beyond the Mat
    Wrestling gets in America's face and Blaustein gets in wrestling's face. It's a fascinating tango.
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