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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 6.1 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. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Has the same mixture of dumb puns, corny sight gags and sly, even sophisticated in-jokes. It's a lot of fun.
  2. Trixie
    This is not the sort of movie you make it your business to see in a theater. But if you're ever surfing cable TV and come across it, you'll linger.
  3. The Patriot
    It is rousing and entertaining, and you get your money's worth.
  4. Me, Myself & Irene
    A labored and sour comedy.
  5. Chicken Run
    Not only funny and wicked, clever and visually inventive, but . . . kind and sweet. Tender and touching.
  6. Titan A.E.
    Pure slam-bam space opera.
  7. Shaft
    Is this a good movie? Not exactly; too much of it is on automatic pilot, as it must be, to satisfy the fans of the original Shaft. Is it better than I expected? Yes.
  8. Jesus' Son
    Jesus' Son surprises me with moments of wry humor, poignancy, sorrow and wildness. It has a sequence as funny as any I've seen this year.
  9. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    It is not about memories but memory. Yours, mine, Proust's. Memory makes us human.
  10. Humanité
    Not an easy film and is for those few moviegoers who approach a serious movie almost in the attitude of prayer.
  11. Butterfly Tongues
    Because the film marches so inexorably toward its conclusion, it would be unfair to hint at what happens, except to say that it provides a heartbreaking insight into the way that fear creates cowards.
  12. Boys and Girls
    It's not that I don't like it. It's that I don't care.
  13. Groove
    I liked the music. I would rather have the movie's soundtrack than see Groove again--or at all.
  14. Sunshine
    This is a movie of substance and thrilling historical sweep, and its three hours allow Szabo to show the family's destiny forming and shifting under pressure.
  15. Love's Labour's Lost
    There's not a song I wouldn't hear again with pleasure, or a clip that might not make me smile, but as a whole, it's not much. Like cotton candy, it's better as a concept than as an experience.
  16. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    This is the kind of movie that ends up playing on the TV set over the bar in a better movie.
  17. Running Free
    I seem to be developing a rule about talking animals: They can talk if they're cartoons or Muppets, but not if they're real.
  18. Thirteen
    One of the truest films I've seen about the ebb and flow of a real relationship.
  19. Grass
    Grass is not much as a documentary. It's a cut-and-paste job, assembling clips from old and new anti-drug films and alternating them with pro-drug footage from the Beats, the flower power era and so on.
  20. Big Momma's House
    Any movie that employs an oven mitt and a plumber's friend in a childbirth scene cannot be all bad, and I laughed a lot.
  21. Shanghai Noon
    If you see only one martial arts Western this year (and there is probably an excellent chance of that), this is the one.
  22. Passion of Mind
    By the ending of the film, which is unconvincingly neat, I was distracted by too many questions to care about the answers.
  23. Kikujirô no natsu
    If the movie finally doesn't work as well as it should, it may be because the material isn't a good fit for Kitano's hard-edged underlying style.
  24. 8 ½ Women
    One possible approach to 8 1/2 Women, I think, is to view it as a slowed-down, mannered, tongue-in-cheek silent comedy, skewed by Greenaway's anger and desire to manipulate.
  25. Mission: Impossible II
    More evolved, more confident, more sure-footed in the way it marries minimal character development to seamless action.
  26. Dinosaur
    I was entertained, and yet I felt a little empty-handed at the end, as if an enormous effort had been spent on making these dinosaurs seem real, and then an even greater effort was spent on undermining the illusion.
  27. Small Time Crooks
    Dumb as they (allegedly) are, the characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies.
  28. Road Trip
    It's sweet when it should be raunchy, or vice versa, and the result is a movie that seems uneasy with itself.
  29. Kadosh
    A very angry film.
  30. Center Stage
    The movie uses the materials of melodrama, but is gentle with them; it's oriented more in the real world, and doesn't jack up every conflict and love story into an overwrought crisis.
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