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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. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
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  2. Jesus' Son
    It's often a downer, with a sweet but largely passive protagonist.
  3. 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.
  4. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    The flat tire of summer movies.
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  5. 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.
  6. Big Momma's House
    It keeps its promise to throw an hour and a half of lively entertainment at audiences.
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  7. Passion of Mind
    There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
  8. 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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  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Road Trip
    Occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
  14. Dinosaur
    Throughout the history of film, nothing turns campier faster than dinosaur movies. This one will have a much longer shelf life than most.
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  15. Held Up
    Alazy rip-off of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' that is too limp to even offend.
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  16. Center Stage
    Anybody who's ever laced on toe shoes, or wanted to, will find something to take away from Center Stage.
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  17. Hamlet
    This is a sizzling, invigorating Hamlet.
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  18. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    So heavy and lifeless that you keep waiting for those three little front-row kibitzers from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" to appear at the bottom of the screen to start goofing on it.
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  19. Gladiator
    It epitomizes the kind of high-profile bloodshed we now expect to herald the hazy, lazy, blockbuster-fixated days of summer.
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  20. Up at the Villa
    Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings.
  21. Adorenarin doraibu
    A climactic explosion is too obviously a rigged gunpowder charge, and it becomes a metaphor for the film's mistake of diminishing the frantic motion that kept things fizzy and fun.
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  22. Human Traffic
    'Trainspotting'' Lite.
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  23. The Idiots
    Von Trier's The Idiots is both lively and juvenile.
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  24. Frequency
    Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.
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  25. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    If you walk in with your expectations at a suitably low setting, you won't walk away disappointed.
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  26. Bossa Nova
    One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages.
  27. Where the Heart Is
    Never earns the rollicking life affirmation it's after.
  28. Timecode
    Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention.
  29. Committed
    Runs dry amid the cactus and sagebrush, but Graham's cartoony take on angelic unstoppableness makes us not mind so much.
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  30. The Big Kahuna
    It's no meal, but it'll tide you over.
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