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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. How I Killed My Father
    Cold, nervy and memorable.
  2. Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
    Less a pure documentary than it is a fact-finding mission, with the real story waiting to be presented somewhere down the line.
  3. S1m0ne
    A ravishing crock. Like its title character, a computer-generated movie star programmed to resemble a cross between Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall and Kim Basinger, it's beautiful but empty, gorgeous but spurious.
  4. Red Satin
    A fascinating examination of the joyous, turbulent self-discovery made by a proper, middle-aged woman.
  5. Little Secrets
    One can hardly argue with the desire to make a wholesome movie for families that extols honesty and decency, but it all comes too easily, too superficially.
  6. Serving Sara
    When Serving Sara reaches beyond its grasp and dreams big, Perry and Hurley float the movie on aplomb and wit. When the film gears down for slower-paced set pieces and disposable villains, its stars find themselves knee-deep in a giant comedy cow pie.
  7. Gibel Otrara
    If you are looking for an abundance of eye-gouging, flesh-burning, blood-oozing and head-chopping, not to mention cauldron after cauldron of boiling oil, than THIS is the movie for you. [05 Jul 2002, p.C6]
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  8. One Hour Photo
    One Hour Photo is a piece of often masterly image-making, a half-brilliant film with a revelatory lead performance by Williams. But it's also a thriller that gets trapped in surfaces: shiny, exciting, full of dread but often only tricks of the camera.
  9. Possession
    Possession needs a sharp eye, a wicked tongue, less reverence and much more of its author's voice.
  10. Mostly Martha
    Thanks to Echer, Nettelbeck and this delicious movie, I was able to hear "Country" and the other Jarrett tunes in scene after scene - heightening moods, lyricizing action and making Hamburg seem like a wintry love song. Predictable or not, that's often as good as it gets.
  11. Beauty and the Beast (re-release)
    Beautifully remastered and containing Cocteau's long-unseen special prologue and credits -- is as much a feat of feverish delight as it was in the dark days of Vichy and WWII.
  12. Blue Crush
    If you can simply get lost in the crushing splendor of the waves themselves, the script might not leave you so seasick.
  13. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    Though the result is a distant, hyperstylized exaggeration of form and movement, the film itself turns repetitive and exhaustive.
  14. I'm Going Home
    One of the most beautiful of all recent films on the problems of old age -- and on the interplay of theater and life.
  15. 24 Hour Party People
    Jam-packed mishmash of wall-to-wall music, trenchant character study, slick sociology and sly witty-Brit comedy.
  16. Blood Work
    A violent, improbable movie done in tersely elegant style, and it may be the last action movie for one of the cinema's great action stars, Clint Eastwood.
  17. Secret Ballot
    Reserves its sharpest jabs at the harshly circumscribed lives of women in Iran.
  18. The Château
    Limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very, very slowly.
  19. xXx
    Suit #3: But what will we call the sequel? Suit #1: "XXXX"? Suit #2: Brilliant!
  20. The Good Girl
    There's a shallowness about The Good Girl that can't always be excused as an accurate portrayal of a shallow milieu -- in the end, just like Justine, it's not as good as it could have been.
  21. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    A children's movie done with genuinely youthful spirit and an easy self-kidding mastery of its own high-tech gadgetry.
  22. Full Frontal
    It's a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it, offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern L.A.'s show-biz and media subcultures. But it doesn't leave you with much.
  23. One Last Kiss
    While Last Kiss may strike some as a calculated crowd-pleaser, it's cleverly calculated, perceptive and often quite funny -- and a bit darker than it may first appear.
  24. Signs
    Signs -- though Shyamalan's most visually beautiful work -- seems thinner, barely more than a sketch for a movie, with characters trapped in formulas. Beautifully trapped perhaps -- but paralyzed nonetheless.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Master of Disguise
    A disjointed film that, but for brief flashes of comedic verve, should skip theatrical release and go straight to video.
  26. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    He's endearing and affable when finding humor and even introspective life lessons after arrests, drug use and a near-death experience.
  27. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    It is a movie about the gradual erosion of life's seeming certainties, and it's also about the destructive immorality that may lie beneath the most exquisitely composed veneer. As we watch "Chocolat," this great director and his great actress, Huppert, convince us: Evil is.
  28. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    If Hollywood is really a dream factory, then it's the movie moguls and movie stars who live that dream to the hilt. In the late 1970s few lived quite as large as Robert Evans.
  29. The Country Bears
    Unfortunately, the humans only have scripts to support them. So for every bear triumph, Country Bears also features cliched jokes, corny sentiment, ludicrous shtick and the most flabbergasting set of star cameos since Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson wandered into "Men in Black II."
  30. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil.
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