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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. 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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  2. Held Up
    Alazy rip-off of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' that is too limp to even offend.
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  3. 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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  4. Hamlet
    This is a sizzling, invigorating Hamlet.
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.
  8. 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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  9. Human Traffic
    'Trainspotting'' Lite.
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  10. The Idiots
    Von Trier's The Idiots is both lively and juvenile.
    • Boston Globe
  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Bossa Nova
    One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages.
  14. Where the Heart Is
    Never earns the rollicking life affirmation it's after.
  15. Timecode
    Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention.
  16. 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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  17. The Big Kahuna
    It's no meal, but it'll tide you over.
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  18. The Last September
    A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920.
  19. 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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  20. U-571
    Never lets down, even if depth of character always takes second place to depth charges.
  21. Croupier
    It's brilliantly precise in its detailing, stylishly jagged and sensual by turns, and utterly unpredictable.
  22. 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.
  23. Love & Basketball
    The cinematic equivalent of a high, arching rainbow of a three-pointer from midcourt.
  24. 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.
  25. East Is East
    This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
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  26. American Psycho
    In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.
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  27. 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.
  28. Southpaw
    There's an engagingly homegrown quality to much of the footage.
  29. Me Myself I
    A comic vehicle for that valuable Australian export, Rachel Griffiths.
  30. Rules of Engagement
    Strenuously as it tries, and pulse-poundingly successful as the embassy rescue scene is, Rules of Engagement never engages us.
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