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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. Undercover Brother
    Has such a cheerfully zingy energy that you keep rooting for it even when its jokes turn flatter than a jump shot at a YMCA pickup game.
  2. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
    Sadly, this noble effort is loving but lame.
  3. The Sleepy Time Gal
    Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity -- a tough, lonely woman dying of cancer as she examines her past -- Bisset is both convincing and radiant.
  4. Enough
    One of those movies that starts like a house afire, catches you firmly in its narrative grip and then suddenly blows itself out, not really going out with a whimper but with a big, bad, ludicrous bang.
  5. Insomnia
    Smart and well-crafted, and it boasts complex characters, effective star turns and evocative photography of a small Alaskan town in summertime, when the sun never sets. It's a solid Hollywood thriller.
  6. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    A welcome family film that extols noble values and offers first-class animation.
  7. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Resonates and inspires rapid-fire bouts of laughter, perhaps even a few giggles from the author himself, whom posterity has rewarded the last laugh.
  8. Late Marriage
    One of those welcome visitors, a movie that turns out to be much more than we expected.
  9. About a Boy
    It's funny, moving and true, and it respects the audience's intelligence as much as the characters'. That combination, no matter the movie's label, deserves to be treasured.
  10. The Believer
    One of the year's most thought-provoking, hard-hitting films, gutsily opening up a subject rarely done with this kind of all-out chutzpah.
  11. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    Attack of the Clones celebrates a certain youthful spirit in both moviemaking and movie watching; because it's as much phenomenon as movie, audiences will either ride with or reject it. I was happy to take the ride.
  12. Unfaithful
    All the accolades Lyne got for "Fatal Attraction" -- and didn't really merit -- he deserves here.
  13. The New Guy
    You have to have faith that kids will recognize a bad movie when it's foisted on them -- and they don't get much worse than The New Guy.
  14. The Lady and the Duke
    A vivifying film, though it's done in such a strange style that it takes a while to get used to it.
  15. Ultimate X: The Movie
    After clawing their way into the Olympics, so-called extreme sports deserve respect, but this is no way to get it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Features colorful song-and-dance numbers that look and sound best in surround sound and on a huge screen.
  17. Home Movie
    In true Chris Smith fashion, he seems far less interested in the homes themselves than in the touching relationship between homeowner and abode.
  18. ABC Africa
    Lovely, heart-stirring film.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Mystic Masseur
    A warm-hearted gem of a film based on the V.S. Naipaul novel of the same name.
  20. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    A movie about love, friendship and finding oneself, and it takes all its subjects very seriously while seeming to treat them with the lightest and most piquant of touches. Like its bizarre heroine, it irrigates our souls.
  21. Hollywood Ending
    Not perfect, and neither are life or the movies. But you'd have to be blind yourself not to relish its qualities or laugh at its barbs.
  22. Spider-Man
    The Spider-Man saga is a classic for a reason, and the filmmakers don't squander the material's strengths.
  23. Grin Without a Cat
    This is a movie about the world at war with itself, and the result is riveting, sublime and unforgettable.
  24. Spiral
    Like many horror films, it loses steam as it gets more graphic.
  25. Rain
    What lingers are the unsettling feelings, inexplicably potent images and realization that some of life's key crossroads are visible only in the rearview mirror.
  26. Life or Something Like It
    It's dispiriting to see Jolie wasting herself (and a good supporting cast) on a story that requires little more than an average pretty actress who can wear clothes well and laugh and cry on cue.
  27. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Few sports films catch their time, place and sport so well. For skateboard fans, this is a must. But it's also a great ride if you know nothing about the sport or what it meant. At the end of this movie, you will.
  28. Some Body
    Bennett also co-wrote the script, based loosely on her own experiences, and is the best thing about the film. A physical cross between Holly Hunter and Christine Lahti, she's quite convincing as she tries to figure out what has gone wrong in her personal life - and how she can fix it before it is too late.
  29. Circuit
    It makes the viewer wonder whether Circuit would have been stronger as a documentary instead of the well-intentioned, overlong, intermittently entertaining but flawed feature that it is.
  30. Sade
    A fine, handsome-looking costume drama that works best as a historical account of a brutal era. But as a portrait of the Marquis de Sade, it is not titillating in the over-the-top manner of "Quills."
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