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For 7,603 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: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Place Vendôme
    This is a quiet thriller and a middle-aged romance, and it's full of desperation and oozing anxiety.
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  2. 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
  3. The Original Kings of Comedy
    One funny movie - for at least half the time.
  4. 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.
  5. The Cell
    Impresses more than it entertains.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. 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
  8. 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.
  11. An Affair of Love
    Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Autumn in New York
    So laden with forced plot twists that it will never be able to recover.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. 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
  14. The Tao of Steve
    The problem is that we never see Dex employing the Steve technique to bed a female.
  15. Saving Grace
    Whimsy and wit are the saving graces of much British movie comedy, and Saving Grace has a decent measure of both.
  16. 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.
  18. Space Cowboys
    Ends up working like a charm.
  19. 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
  21. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  28. 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
  29. Alice et Martin
    It's a lovely, terrifying sight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. What Lies Beneath
    A classy supernatural lady-in-distress thriller.
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