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For 8,156 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Falling from Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Jupiter Ascending
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,085 out of 8156
  2. Mixed: 1,243 out of 8156
  3. Negative: 828 out of 8156
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  1. Lost and Delirious
    This is a movie for those who sometimes, in the stillness of the sleepless night, are so filled with hope and longing that they feel like -- well, like uttering wild goat cries to the moon. You know who you are.
  2. Jump Tomorrow
    The plot unfolds with the gradual richness of something by Eric Rohmer, who has the whole canvas in view from the beginning but uncovers it a square inch at a time. By the end of Jump Tomorrow I was awfully fond of the picture.
  3. Cats & Dogs
    One of the movie's most enjoyable in-jokes is the way some of the animals actually look a little like the humans doing their voices.
  4. The Crimson Rivers
    A breathtaking exercise in the macabre, a gruesome thriller with quirky cops and a killer of Lecterian complexity, and even when the movie is perfect nonsense, it's so voluptuous that you're grateful to be watching it anyway.
  5. The Closet
    Passes the time pleasantly and has a few good laughs.
  6. Pootie Tang
    Not bad so much as inexplicable. You watch in puzzlement: How did this train wreck happen?
  7. Crazy/Beautiful
    Tougher, less sentimental mirror version of "Save the Last Dance."
  8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Audacious, technically masterful, challenging, sometimes moving, ceaselessly watchable. What holds it back from greatness is a failure to really engage the ideas that it introduces.
  9. Lumumba
    Although the narration is addressed to his wife, we learn little about her, his family or his personal life; he is used primarily as a guide through the milestones of the Congo's brief two-month experiment with democracy.
  10. Baby Boy
    Now Singleton, too, dares to take a hard look at his community. His characters are a little older, and he is older, too, and less forgiving.
  11. The Princess and the Warrior
    What's special about the film is at a deeper level, down where (Tykwer) engages with the souls of his characters.
  12. The Fast and the Furious
    Not a great movie, but it delivers what it promises to deliver, and knows that a chase scene is supposed to be about something more than special effects.
  13. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Cute, crude and good-hearted movie.
  14. Life and Debt
    If you're curious about why the demonstrators are so angry, this is why they're so angry.
  15. Songcatcher
    Perhaps too laden with messages for its own good, but it has many moments of musical beauty, and it's interesting to watch Janet McTeer.
  16. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    So monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.
  17. Sexy Beast
    These are hard men. They could have the "Sopranos" for dinner, throw up and have them again.
  18. Swordfish
    It's skillfully mounted and fitfully intriguing, but weaves such a tangled web that at the end I defy anyone in the audience to explain the exact loyalties and motives of the leading characters.
  19. Evolution
    It's not good, but it's nowhere near as bad as most recent comedies; it has real laughs, but it misses real opportunities.
  20. The Anniversary Party
    What makes The Anniversary Party intriguing is how close it cuts to the bone of reality--how we're teased to draw parallels between some of the characters and the actors who play them.
  21. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Rousing in an old pulp science fiction sort of way, but the climactic scene transcends the rest, and stands by itself as one of the great animated action sequences.
  22. Bride of the Wind
    The movie has three tones: overwrought, boring, laughable.
  23. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Too many characters, not enough plot, and a disconnect between the two stars' acting styles.
  24. Rape Me
    It alternates between graphic, explicit sex scenes and murder scenes of brutal cruelty. You recoil from what's on the screen.
  25. Big Eden
    Until the plot becomes intolerably cornball, there's charm in the story.
  26. Himalaya
    A film of unusual visual beauty and enormous intrinsic interest.
  27. Pearl Harbor
    Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality.
  28. The Man Who Cried
    This is an amazingly ambitious movie, not so much because of the time and space it covers (a lot), but because Potter trusts us to follow her heroine through one damn thing after another.
  29. Our Song
    Has the courage to work without a net, aware that when you're a teenager, your life is not a story so much as a million possible stories.
  30. Fast Food Fast Women
    There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.
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