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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. 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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  2. Chuck & Buck
    It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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  5. But I'm a Cheerleader
    It's a lame and painfully overextended satire of homophobia.
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  6. The Kid
    Too bad The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations. It has more going for it than you might suppose.
  7. 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.
  8. Shower
    You won't see a more humane and delicately moving riff this year on the theme of getting clean.
  9. 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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  10. The Perfect Storm
    'Titanic'' was a case of a cheeseball story riding terrific effects. The Perfect Storm is in every important way deeper.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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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  14. Chicken Run
    There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
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  15. 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.
  16. Titan A.E.
    A space shot worth taking.
  17. Shaft
    With Jackson leading the way, Shaft has style, punch, and street cred. It's a hot cool update.
  18. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
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  19. Jesus' Son
    It's often a downer, with a sweet but largely passive protagonist.
  20. Love's Labour's Lost
    Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.
  21. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    The flat tire of summer movies.
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  22. American Pimp
    American Pimp, if not quite a self-serving orgy of self-justification, can hardly be thought of as a searching look at the skin trade.
  23. Big Momma's House
    It keeps its promise to throw an hour and a half of lively entertainment at audiences.
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  24. Passion of Mind
    There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
  25. 8 ½ Women
    The problem with 8 1/2 Women isn't that what you see is what you get; it's that what you see is all you get.
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  26. Shanghai Noon
    There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics.
  27. Kikujirô no natsu
    Even allowing for differences in national styles, Kikujiro sprawls and stumbles. It's a road movie that turns into its own detour.
  28. Mission: Impossible II
    Hard-driving and propulsive as it is, the film is unable to hide the fact that Woo seems not only to be repeating himself, but parodying his earlier films on a much bigger scale, more crudely and coarsely.
  29. Small Time Crooks
    It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun.
  30. Road Trip
    Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
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