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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 1.4 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. Cats & Dogs
    Some stunts and jokes are genuinely clever.
  2. Scary Movie 2
    Scary Movie 2 had seven writers. Seven. That's one writer for every big laugh in its stealthy 82 minutes. More frightening: these jokes are worth waiting for.
  3. The Closet
    By the end we are left with a mildly amusing comedy and the lingering memory of a sterling cast that deserved better material.
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  4. Quadrophenia (re-release)
    Plays more like a gritty, episodic British independent film powered by a soundtrack of Who songs that illuminate the main character's turbulent emotions.
  5. Crazy/Beautiful
    Stockwell deserves kudos for working mental illness into a teen story without making it the explicit focus, as in simplistic exercises like "Girl, Interrupted."
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Pure magic, a three-act movie fantasy that transports us -- as the best films do -- to a world of its own, a place of ambiguous joy and delirious terror.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Come Undone
    Turns increasingly interior and emotionally complex. It refuses to connect, putting the pressure entirely on its viewers to reach their own conclusions.
  8. The Crimson Rivers
    A confusing and not entirely believable ending clouds the issue, though, burying some fine performances and cinematography under an avalanche of gore and plot twists.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Pootie Tang
    Slow and dragging, Pootie Tang is worse than a below-average sketch-to-screen Saturday Night Live film.
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  10. Lumumba
    The film does succeed in making the story universal, giving us the drama as well as the history, the fire as well as cool examination. It's a movie that haunts you afterward.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Baby Boy
    A movie that will act like a smack in the face to some audiences, while others may simply laugh in recognition.
  12. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    I liked the idea of the movie more than the movie itself -- though sections of it are mind-blowing.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Chain Camera
    Absorbing in places, but considering the large and diverse pool the filmmakers had to draw from, it's a surprisingly repetitive and predictable collection of big-city sagas.
  14. The Fast and the Furious
    There's some undeniable appeal to watching a well-oiled, built-for-speed machine operating with its pedal to the metal -- even if it's destined to wind up in flames before the finish line.
  15. Dr. Dolittle 2
    There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance.
  16. The Princess and the Warrior
    An unpredictable, mythic tale about haunted outcasts that is both dazzling and disquieting.
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Saudate for the Future
    Completely successful or not, films like Saudade do Futuro are needed. And we need people like the Nordestinos.
  18. A Huey P. Newton Story
    By bringing Newton alive, Smith opens the door for further exploration of this colorful, insightful figure.
  19. Life and Debt
    A searing documentary with an agenda.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Down from the Mountain
    A delightful concert documentary that proves once more what a neglected masterpiece the Coen Brothers gave us last year in their Depression chain-gang odyssey, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    A staggeringly bad picture: a shallow, cliche-ridden mess that keeps blowing up on screen.
  22. Songcatcher
    Any film about the folk tradition is required to have a stellar soundtrack, and Songcatcher does not disappoint.
  23. Sexy Beast
    A noir masterpiece with Oscar-caliber performances, Sexy Beast slowly turns up the heat until we squirm.
  24. Swordfish
    So fast, sleek and riveting it almost makes you expect miracles -- which never materialize.
  25. Dead or Alive
    Ultimately a disappointment because it refuses to take any aspect of itself seriously.
  26. Evolution
    This is "Ghostbusters" meets "Men in Black" meets a whole lot of butt humor.
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  27. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    A well-told, vividly imagined movie that doesn't pretend to be more than it is and doesn't lean on pop-culture references to win over its viewers.
  28. Bride of the Wind
    It's a movie of elegant surfaces, great background music (by both the Mahlers), gossipy underpinnings and pretensions to romantic grandeur.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Divided We Fall
    Has the literary richness, depth of character and tone that such a morally difficult, powerful narrative requires.
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  30. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Packed with gratuitous dumb moments -- which is too bad, given that the premise has promise.
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