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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. 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.
  2. Lan Yu
    Wong Kar-wai made a much more dynamic film, "Happy Together," five years ago. Lan Yu suffers by comparison.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Eight Legged Freaks
    Starts like a house afire and then suffers an imagination burnout.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  12. Metropolis (re-release)
    Trashy and glorious, the restored Metropolis is a pop epic for the ages.
  13. Never Again
    A good-natured but trivial Manhattan romantic comedy.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  18. Read My Lips
    A finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.
  19. Men in Black II
    A business-as-usual blockbuster blueprint that rarely surprises you.
  20. Songs from the Second Floor
    A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls
    "The Movie" is bigger, brighter and boomier on the big screen than the series is on cable, but is it any better? The short answer is no, but that's not necessarily bad.
  22. Like Mike
    Doesn't win any points for originality. It does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style, and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism.
  23. Mr. Deeds
    Turturro is the one thing that's right with the movie. Perhaps the weakest thing about the new "Deeds" is its utter lack of a strong viewpoint and real emotion.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pumpkin
    Wildly uneven but nonetheless intriguing and funny.
  25. Lovely & Amazing
    Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood.
  26. Harvard Man
    Toback's films deliver a lot of bang for the buck. He's one of the few serious and original directors who can mix group sex and talk of existentialism; a fast-paced basketball sequence cut with scenes of Mafia members plotting a hit; and an in-class philosophy lecture stylishly edited with Alan's memories of a contradictory in-bed discussion.
  27. The Cockettes
    It puts The Cockettes into social, political and popular cultural context and gives the documentary a moving resonance.
  28. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    It's a refreshing theme for a kids' movie, one that incorporates history and urban flavor, not to mention a preservationists' perspective, into the usual mix.
  29. Notorious C.H.O.
    Establishes the comedian as just that: notorious -- in all the best ways outlaw comedy can make you a star.
  30. Sunshine State
    Visually, even compared to Sayles' own best work, it's somewhat prosaic - and dramatically, it suffers from the fact that its two main characters are kept so far apart. But the screenwriting and the cast redeem this film.
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