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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Duets
    The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Almost Famous
    I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Way of the Gun
    What pulls us along through the inky shoals of The Way of the Gun? Sheer style, plus the movie's refusal to play nice.
  4. Nurse Betty
    The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.
  5. Solas
    A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
  6. The Watcher
    Sluggish and preposterous, full of violence and cliches.
  7. Whipped
    A decent idea that never goes deep enough for genuine satisfaction.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Titanic Town
    As solid as the earth, rich as a good meal and sometimes funny as hell.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Highlander: Endgame
    Has to explain itself through so much of the film that there's just not much film left.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Dark Days
    There is something inherently dishonest about Dark Days.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. The Art of War
    Too-loud, poorly directed and seriously overedited.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bring It On
    Absurdly unrealistic at times.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Solomon & Gaenor
    Has a melodramatic glow.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Rarely ventures beyond familiar territory.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bittersweet Motel
    A documentary that will likely leave Phish diehards hankering for more, and everybody else still wondering what all the fuss is about.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Orfeu
    A seductive revisiting of an old classic - one that helps us see these lovers and their world with renewed passion.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love & Sex
    What we have here is the cinematic equivalent of a dead shark.
  18. The Crew
    I laughed all the way through it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Place Vendôme
    This is a quiet thriller and a middle-aged romance, and it's full of desperation and oozing anxiety.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    The beauty of The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack lies in its ability to transform itself into a sad tale of loss, regret and missed opportunities while it also remains a solid documentary about a once-influential artist seeking his place in the sun.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. The Original Kings of Comedy
    One funny movie - for at least half the time.
  22. Steal This Movie
    Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man.
  23. The Cell
    Impresses more than it entertains.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Godzilla 2000
    This is camp, pure and simple, and unless the translators have taken far greater liberties than is apparent, the filmmakers know it.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 17 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bless the Child
    Entertaining, but it doesn't add enough to the genre to make it truly blessed.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Cecil B. DeMented
    Weighed down by the presence of Griffith. She plays her satiric part without much gusto or conviction - as if she were afraid we might believe she really is Honey.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Replacements
    This is the laziest kind of filmmaking.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Opportunists
    Contains ample dry humor and its share of surprising turns, but they operate on a human level rather than with the kind of empty flash we've come to expect from the post-Tarantino crime flicks.
  29. An Affair of Love
    Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Autumn in New York
    So laden with forced plot twists that it will never be able to recover.
    • Chicago Tribune
  31. Aimee & Jaguar
    When Aimee and Jaguar gets on one of its frequent rolls, it can evoke memories of Bertolucci or even De Sica.
    • Chicago Tribune
  32. The Tao of Steve
    The problem is that we never see Dex employing the Steve technique to bed a female.
  33. Saving Grace
    Whimsy and wit are the saving graces of much British movie comedy, and Saving Grace has a decent measure of both.
  34. The Tic Code
    Works better as a sociological study than as a gripping drama.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Psycho Beach Party
    There's nothing here that's outrageous, startling or daring enough to give your funny bone a jolt.
  36. Space Cowboys
    Ends up working like a charm.
  37. Coyote Ugly
    Meant to be appreciated solely for its gleaming surfaces.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Hollow Man
    The folks who made this movie apparently had nothing inside their heads, either.
    • Chicago Tribune
  39. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.
  40. Girl on the Bridge
    It's surprising how much of the old mood Leconte manages to recapture, how sumptuous he makes the black-and-white cinematography and timeless Parisian and Mediterranean settings look.
    • Chicago Tribune
  41. Wonderland
    One of the best realistic dramas of the year.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Lo's writing is generally solid, and he creates some genuinely funny and touching moments with his use of dream sequences and flashbacks. He may not have gotten his proportions perfect in this first try, but Catfish in Black Bean Sauce shows that Lo has sharp cinematic instincts.
  43. The Wind Will Carry Us
    A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 19 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Children's films can be thrilling affairs for parents and kids. Unfortunately, this film is not likely to thrill either group.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Loser
    Loser is anemic.
  46. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    If the mark of a successful documentary is its ability to make us examine a tired subject in a fresh way, then Eyes is a rip-roaring success.
    • Chicago Tribune
  47. Alice et Martin
    It's a lovely, terrifying sight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  48. What Lies Beneath
    A classy supernatural lady-in-distress thriller.
  49. Rififi (re-release)
    No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.
  50. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Mind-numbing sequel to "Pokemon the First Movie."
    • 14 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The In Crowd
    Insipid, ineffective, inept and insulting to our intelligence.
    • Chicago Tribune
  52. The Five Senses
    Pseudo art can be fun, though, even if it doesn't quite awaken all your senses.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shadow Hours
    About as interesting as watching paint dry.
    • Chicago Tribune
  54. X-Men
    Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.
  55. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    As much a curiosity piece as anything else.
    • Chicago Tribune
  56. Chuck & Buck
    You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
    • Chicago Tribune
  57. The Kid
    Falls flat on its face.
  58. All the Rage
    The trajectory of the film -- despite its excellent cast and intelligent mounting -- is too preordained.
  59. I'm the One That I Want
    If only the film had been a more visually satisfying experience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  60. Shower
    The beauties of Shower lie in its human observation, in its funny interplay, candor, lusty acting and hearty simplicity - and also in its warm imagery and the fascinating symbolic use it makes of water.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    But I'm a Cheerleader
    Certainly no comedic masterpiece, but it does offer a few fine moments of biting satire.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Scary Movie
    Usually what you're laughing at is ugliness, and that leaves a foul taste long before the 85 minutes have expired.
  63. The Perfect Storm
    Unabashedly designed to blow its audience away.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Stuffed with smart Internet gags, silly movie references and a happy energy that makes you forgive the sequences that don't work.
    • Chicago Tribune
  65. Trixie
    A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  66. The Patriot
    As a whole, though, the movie is much less magnetic or believable than its star.
  67. Me, Myself & Irene
    The movie is dedicated, in a nice touch, to early Farrelly fan Gene Siskel. And Gene was right: The Farrellys are often very funny filmmakers. .
    • Chicago Tribune
  68. Chicken Run
    A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast.
  69. Titan A.E.
    A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
  70. Shaft
    The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
  71. Jesus' Son
    A story of faith and redemption, as viewed through the blurry and bloodshot eyes of a young man.
  72. The Woman Chaser
    If its jolts were as strong as its chuckles, The Woman Chaser might really have turned into the cheap-thrill classic it pretends to be.
  73. Humanité
    A harsh, spellbinding tale.
  74. Butterfly Tongues
    May be a bit sentimental for some, but I found its patient examination of how the forces of optimism can be overwhelmed by a wave of cruelty to be both moving and wise.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Boys and Girls
    Starts with such promising quirkiness that it's easy to forget for the moment that you are watching a teen comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  76. Groove
    If you require fine writing, sharp plotting and consistently good acting, you will be in for a long 86 minutes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  77. Pop & Me
    The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
  78. Sunshine
    An incredibly ambitious film and one of the most highly accomplished of the year.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love's Labour's Lost
    Filling his movie with bright colors and giddy energy, Branagh has made a labor of love in which the labor is all too apparent.
  80. American Pimp
    Eighty-six minutes proves to be more than enough time to spend with these characters, but the Hughes Brothers make the case that this is a subculture as compelling as it is repellent.
    • Chicago Tribune
  81. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    One of the best of its streamlined, over-produced, double-clutch kind: a high-speed, slicker-than-slick car-chase movie with unexpected deposits of character and comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Running Free
    It's probably best to leave talking animal stories in the care of comedic filmmakers.
  83. Thirteen
    The acting is amateurish at times, but always convincing.
  84. Grass
    A well-researched and well-illustrated, if often facetious, record of the U.S. government's longtime war on cannabis. And while it's a little too single-minded, it's both fun to watch and quite informative.
    • Chicago Tribune
  85. Big Momma's House
    A bad, bad movie...It's loud and dumb and it wastes a good cast on a ludicrous script.
  86. Shanghai Noon
    The first hit movie western of the new century - wins us with a wink. It leaves you in a bright, happily cross-cultural mood. Adios, amigos. And vaya con Jackie Chan.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Passion of Mind
    It's pretty muddle-headed and confusing.
  88. 8 ½ Women
    Seethes with cruel lust and brainy fancy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  89. Mission: Impossible II
    Blanks, in a sense, are what M:I-2 is firing. You see the flash, you hear the bang, but the impact never comes.
  90. Dinosaur
    Of course, you expect talking animals in a Disney cartoon; you just may not initially realize that Dinosaur is the three-dimensional equivalent of one.
    • Chicago Tribune
  91. Luminous Motion
    Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Small Time Crooks
    It's a sweet little snack of a movie that leaves the heavier courses for some other outing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Road Trip
    Degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.
  94. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Commits the cardinal sin of all bad IMAX films: It favors visuals over narrative, glitter over substance.
    • Chicago Tribune
  95. Held Up
    All the principals in this cinematic mess have had moments of glory on stage and screen, and one can only hope they got paid well for participating in this comedic embarrassment.
    • Chicago Tribune
  96. Kadosh
    A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Center Stage
    Although the film's ending is a little too neat and happy to be realistic, it does leave you with the feeling of young girls taking charge of their lives.
    • Chicago Tribune
  98. Screwed
    It's just a matter of holding your nose until the whole thing is over.
  99. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Scientology or not, the movie is a battlefield bummer that makes you want to revolt.
    • Chicago Tribune
  100. Hamlet
    As Almereyda unrolled his modern Gotham version, the story became gripping, the characters fascinating, the events mesmerizing, the resolution shocking and piteous.
    • Chicago Tribune
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