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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. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Awful in so many different ways.
  2. Hamlet
    Both a distraction and a revelation.
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  3. Human Traffic
    They are, in fact, likable. That's why their comedy is so sad.
  4. Up at the Villa
    This whole movie is about manners. There is sex and violence, but the movie is not about giving in to them; it's about carrying on as if they didn't exist.
  5. I Dreamed of Africa
    There is a lack of drama and telling detail. When events happen, they seem more like set pieces than part of the flow.
  6. Michael Jordan to the Max
    Essentially just a promotional film for Jordan as a product. It plays like a commercial for itself.
  7. Gladiator
    It employs depression as a substitute for personality, and believes that if the characters are bitter and morose enough, we won't notice how dull they are.
  8. The Big Kahuna
    Sharp-edged, perfectly timed, funny and thoughtful.
  9. Frequency
    Likely to appeal to the fans of "The Sixth Sense," "Ghost" and other movies where the characters find a loophole in reality. What it also has in common with those two movies is warmth and emotion.
  10. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    An ideal first movie for infants, who can enjoy the bright colors on the screen and wave their tiny hands to the music.
  11. Timecode
    I'm glad I saw the film. It challenged me.
  12. Where the Heart Is
    So heavy on incident, contrivance, coincidence, improbability, sudden reversals and dizzying flash-forwards (sometimes years at a time) that it seems a wonder the characters don't crash into each other in the confusion.
  13. Croupier
    The point of the movie is not the plot, but the character and the atmosphere.
  14. Gossip
    Chop off the last two or three minutes, fade to black, and you have a decent film.
  15. The Last September
    I'm not sure the movie should have pumped up the melodrama to get us more interested, but something might have helped.
  16. U-571
    You can enjoy U-571 as a big, dumb war movie without a brain in its head.
  17. The Virgin Suicides
    [Coppola] has the courage to play it in a minor key.
  18. Love & Basketball
    Not as taut as it could have been, but I prefer its emotional perception to the pumped-up sports cliches I was sort of expecting.
  19. Keeping the Faith
    We're swept up in the story's need to find a happy ending.
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  20. Set Me Free
    The movie gets a little confused toward the end, I think, as its writer and director, Lea Pool, tries to settle things that could have been left unresolved.
  21. American Psycho
    Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability.
  22. 28 Days
    Bullock brings a kind of ground-level vulnerability to 28 Days that doesn't make her into a victim but simply into one more suitable case for treatment.
  23. Where the Money Is
    A preposterous plot, but it's not about a plot, it's about acting.
  24. East Is East
    If there is a weakness in East Is East, it's that Om Puri's character is a little too serious for the comedy surrounding him.
  25. Est - Ouest
    The movie as a whole lacks the conviction of a real story. It is more like a lush morality play, too leisurely in its storytelling, too sure of its morality.
  26. The Filth and the Fury
    To see this film's footage from the '70s is to see the beginning of much of pop and fashion iconography for the next two decades.
  27. Joe Gould's Secret
    There is anguish here that makes "American Beauty" pale by comparison.
  28. Rules of Engagement
    Works splendidly as a courtroom thriller about military values as long as you don't expect it to seriously consider those values.
  29. Return to Me
    It is what it is, without apology or compromise. It made me smile a lot.
  30. Ready to Rumble
    The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell."
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