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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Girl, Interrupted
    There's too much control in it and not enough danger.
  2. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    As savage and as epic as film gets.
  3. Onegin
    A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.
  4. Bicentennial Man
    Few actors apart from Williams could bring it off.
  5. Stuart Little
    The new Stuart Little is OK, but it's never so charming that you forget you're watching a manufactured object.
  6. Topsy-Turvy
    In the end, it's the snatches of music, mangled as it is, and the mechanics of staging it, in the absence of Leigh's usual raw, urgent psychic collisions, that keep Topsy-Turvy from seeming merely a gorgeous wax museum.
  7. Anna and the King
    A big, handsome throwback to star-powered historical costume movies.
  8. Magnolia
    Magnolia is "Short Cuts" with hope. It's my kind of mess.
  9. The Cider House Rules
    It's filled with vivid characters and action. Beneath its modesty of gesture, it's one of the year's richest, most humane films.
  10. Cradle Will Rock
    Brings the '30s vividly to the screen.
  11. Miss Julie
    Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.
  12. The War Zone
    In all respects, from choice of material to fullness of execution on every level, The War Zone is an extraordinary piece of work.
  13. Diamonds
    Sadly unworthy of Douglas.
  14. Stir of Echoes
    Needs less down-to-earth flavor and more unearthly force.
  15. The Green Mile
    There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.
  16. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Schneider's mild-mannered fish-lover is genuinely likable, and a good-natured foil to the crude jokes.
  17. Agnes Browne
    There's nothing really wrong with Agnes Browne, except a tendency to take a few easy, convenient outs.
  18. Holy Smoke
    In the end, Holy Smoke crashes and burns.
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  19. The End of the Affair
    The immaculately crafted film that just sits there and refuses to come to life.
  20. Sweet and Lowdown
    Agreeable eye candy and ear candy, but it's too slight to reach as deep as it thinks it wants to reach.
  21. A Map of the World
    Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do.
  22. Flawless
    A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
  23. Tumbleweeds
    You'll care what happens in this film with more than enough freshness and originality to avoid succumbing to girls-on-the-run cliches.
  24. End of Days
    It seems endless. It's also unusually crude and stupid, even for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
  25. Ride with the Devil
    It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.
  26. Toy Story 2
    Everything you could want in a sequel. It satisfyingly regenerates the characters and qualities that made the first film so popular. And then it moves them forward into newer, fresher, more elaborate, more involving territory.
  27. The World Is Not Enough
    This 19th Bond installment is passable, but only just.
  28. All About My Mother
    A tender genuflection to the women's energies that keep that spinning world from keeling over.
  29. Sleepy Hollow
    A gorgeous screenful of period eye candy.
  30. 42: Forty Two Up
    A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.
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