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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. 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.
  2. Made
    Amusing Made doesn't quite measure up to expectations.
  3. 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.
  4. Bully
    Nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.
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  5. 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.
  6. Adanggaman
    The film's disturbing images are presented matter-of-factly, which makes them more powerful, not less.
  7. 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.
  8. Everybody's Famous!
    A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous.
  9. 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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  10. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Scary Movie 2
    Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.
  14. The Closet
    Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same.
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  15. The Crimson Rivers
    The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.
  16. Pootie Tang
    The movie's comic powers are often marred by silliness and stereotypes. Pootie tanks.
  17. Crazy/Beautiful
    To have been the film it could have been, crazy/beautiful needed to be messier.
  18. 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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  19. Come Undone
    Achingly slow, at times bleak and, in the end, frustratingly and regrettably, rather pointless.
  20. Lumumba
    Structural shortcomings and all -- gives a neglected giant of African independence his due.
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  21. 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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  22. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
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  23. 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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  24. 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.
  25. The Adventures of Felix
    In this engaging, understated comedy, it is the journey and not the destination that matters.
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  26. Songcatcher
    Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer.
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  27. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
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  28. 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.
  29. 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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  30. 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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