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For 7,613 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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."
  11. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil.
  12. Happy Times
    Just as Zhao uses his comic gifts to create an affecting human, so Dong's performance as Wu is a triumph of honesty and tact.
  13. Lan Yu
    Wong Kar-wai made a much more dynamic film, "Happy Together," five years ago. Lan Yu suffers by comparison.
  14. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    This is a rare gem tripped over while making a run-of-the-mill rockumentary about a band's new album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stuart Little 2
    A warm, witty, consistently funny family movie with a sweet message about loving yourself, be you a mouse or whatever.
  16. K-19: The Widowmaker
    Bigelow gives this film edge, tension and something you aren't expecting: a woman's touch for teasing out the buried emotion beneath those stoic surfaces.
  17. Tadpole
    But as likable as it is, Tadpole is hardly a maturing woman's revenge movie, but another male fantasy -- that of the sexually nurturing mother figure. If only all coming-of-age sexual experiences could be as healthy and wholesome.
  18. Eight Legged Freaks
    Starts like a house afire and then suffers an imagination burnout.
  19. Sex and Lucia
    The movie is a journey into a land of wonders beneath the surface of consciousness -- but it's also a sexual ride of unabated heat. You may be confused by Sex and Lucia, but you won't be unmoved.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Reign of Fire
    It's a decent, fast-moving and visually powerful summer action romp for the teenage demographic-the dragons are deliciously evil critters, with a nice retro identity.
  21. Road to Perdition
    It's a genteel film with a gun in its pocket, but it's also a film with a universal chord of feeling that keeps welling up from the dark surfaces and violent byways of the plot-and a final confession that both warms the heart and chills the blood.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tosca
    You would be better off investing in the worthy EMI recording that serves as the soundtrack, or the home video of the 1992 Malfitano-Domingo production.
  23. Metropolis (re-release)
    Trashy and glorious, the restored Metropolis is a pop epic for the ages.
  24. Never Again
    A good-natured but trivial Manhattan romantic comedy.
  25. Halloween: Resurrection
    Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest. It can't escape its past, and it doesn't want to.
  26. My Wife Is an Actress
    Despite its many charms, the title of the film -- both complaint and boast -- makes clear whose point of view this is. Gainsbourg is delightful, intelligent and sexy, but this isn't her film.
  27. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    Oscillates between pragmatist genius and B-movie mediocrity.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Me Without You
    The only the bum steer in Me Without You comes in the person of Daniel, played by Kyle MacLachlan of "Twin Peaks" fame. It's hard to tell whether MacLachlan was dealt a bum hand in an otherwise fine screenplay or acted on auto-pilot.
  29. Read My Lips
    A finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.
  30. Men in Black II
    A business-as-usual blockbuster blueprint that rarely surprises you.
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