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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. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Predictable and dull.
  2. The Triumph of Love
    The artifice may be ancient, but the thought and emotions -- and especially Sorvino -- are beautifully, refreshingly modern.
  3. Human Nature
    Tries for both civilized wit and primitive joy -- and mostly misses both.
  4. Mule Skinner Blues
    There's nothing more uplifting than a documentary that celebrates a man's capacity to dream, and nothing more depressing than one that mocks those dreams. Stephen Earnhart's Mule Skinner Blues walks the razor's edge between these approaches.
  5. Changing Lanes
    A thrilling ride but also a thoughtful one, it's a movie that does manage to do more good than bad by the end of the day.
  6. Frailty
    Most of Frailty is so good -- done in a low-key, realistic mood of genuine creepiness and dread -- that it doesn't need formula shocks.
  7. The Cat's Meow
    The movie leaves us with the image of rich folks frantically dancing the Charleston because if they stop, they'll have nothing. The point is as untrue as it is simplistic.
  8. The Sweetest Thing
    Lacks the meanness of so many recent gross-out comedies. With the sparkling Diaz leading the way, the lame humor is much more palatable.
  9. The Other Side of Heaven
    Captures a breathtaking exotic landscape cluttered only by the smugness of its characters.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Run Ronnie Run
    What began as a sketch movie ended up like a slightly better than average "SNL" flick, though Odenkirk, Cross and a number of famous and semi-famous friends do get some chuckles out of their story of Ronnie Dobbs, compulsive troublemaker. [16 Sep 2003, p.C3]
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  11. High Crimes
    It's still a disappointment: a well-mounted and well-acted suspense movie that, thanks to its illogical script, falls off a cliff midway through.
  12. American Chai
    There are no surprises in this movie -- not even in the Bollywood parodies, when the hero and heroine finally, subversively kiss. There is talent, though.
  13. Van Wilder
    An unabashedly bad movie full of cliches, claptrap, fairly good rock 'n' roll and stomach-turning gross-out gags.
  14. Lucky Break
    The movie moves predictably to its feel-good finale.
  15. The Komediant
    Able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history, spanning from Russia to the New York Catskills.
  16. Big Trouble
    Sonnenfeld mishandles the broad part of the comedic formula, preferring repetition to thematic development.
  17. Crush
    A surprising and delightful romantic take on modern women.
  18. The Rookie
    The Rookie may be pushing buttons, but at least they're the right buttons.
  19. The Piano Teacher
    You will not forget The Piano Teacher. Nor will you forget Isabelle Huppert, a brave, brilliant actress who here plays her masterpiece.
  20. Death to Smoochy
    A dark comedy that blows up like an exploding cigar, leaving nothing much behind but smoke, noise and a bad taste.
  21. Panic Room
    Fincher has a dazzling command of visual storytelling.
  22. Clockstoppers
    With Clockstoppers, Frakes hobbles along with a high-concept film that doesn't live up to its potential.
  23. Son of the Bride
    It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems.
  24. Sorority Boys
    The situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels.
  25. Blade II
    Against the rest of his dramatically flimsy crew, Snipes' sunglasses-at-midnight strut conveys an almost lifelike sheen. Almost. He's more alive than the movie, which is dead on arrival.
  26. Pauline and Paulette
    It's a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places, unexamined lives.
  27. Y Tu Mamá También
    Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out.
  28. Showtime
    A criminal waste of talent.
  29. Ice Age
    It's a fast, funny picture, and the worst thing you can say about it is that it's no "Toy Story," no "Shrek." That may be true, but one thing Ice Age proves is that the new digitized cartoons are a form whose time has come.
  30. Harrison's Flowers
    A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war, with battle scenes that have the immediacy and impact of the famed opening sequence of "Saving Private Ryan."
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