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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. Resident Evil
    One of the few video game movies to truly re-create the gaming experience -- from the three-dimensional maps to the structure of encountering increasingly grisly and dangerous foes at higher levels of play.
  2. Festival in Cannes
    Makes compromises itself, but only because of its small budget and its director's mixed dark-and-rosy vision, at once cynical and sentimental. Yet at least it has a vision -- of both life and cinema.
  3. The Time Machine
    It's a movie that robs the story of its politics and point and never really matches the charm of the '60s film.
  4. All About the Benjamins
    Unfortunately, the home-run performances of Cube and Epps are handicapped by inept and illogical action sequences.
  5. We Were Soldiers
    Probably the best thing you can say about We Were Soldiers is that it does justice to an awful conflict.
  6. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    A timeless romantic thriller that steeps us in one of those great artificial movie worlds that become more overpowering than reality itself.
  7. Borstal Boy
    It's really a crock: a coming-of-age boys' prison film that has only a fanciful link with Behan's life. The film is a bastard grandchild of Tony Richardson's 1962 "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
  8. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    This pretty but witless movie is well-produced, slickly directed -- full of jokes about hot dudes and hot babes pitched right at the "American Pie" crowd.
  9. Stolen Summer
    Stolen Summer is no disaster, though. It's merely one more misfire fortunate enough to attract actors like Bonnie Hunt and Aidan Quinn, who almost make it work.
  10. Big Bad Love
    There's a sass and bite to Winger's acting, a grinning intelligence, unabashed sexiness and total immersion that make her one of the movies' few hipster female stars.
  11. The Cherry Orchard
    Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years.
  12. Monsoon Wedding
    Delighted me like few films I've seen recently. It's a sexy, sweet, sumptuously entertaining movie about the huge and wildly eventful wedding reception.
  13. Dragonfly
    A sappy, often absurd disappointment, another would-be inspirational romance that, like Costner's overwrought "Message in a Bottle," is impossible to swallow.
  14. Maryam
    A searing reminder of the relevance of recent history and of the timeless power of fiction to humanize people and crystallize sweeping events into personal drama.
  15. Mean Machine
    Sports movies are never easy to pull off, but Skolnick does a fine job of balancing the drama with the on-field action.
  16. Queen of the Damned
    Leaves us puzzled as to why the term "damned" applies at all, when vampirism is depicted as so cool, fashion-savvy and glamorous.
  17. Hart's War
    Just because a movie was inspired by real life and has good intentions doesn't mean it can't wind up as phony as a three-dollar bill.
  18. Super Troopers
    Manages to leave the impression that it was funny even though most of its jokes don't score.
  19. John Q
    Waste in the health care system is deplorable, but waste on the movie screen isn't so great either.
  20. Umberto D (re-release)
    A film that lets life flood into our souls.
  21. Wendigo
    Fessenden cooks up a likably offbeat horror movie. But somehow, it never jells, never really scares us.
  22. Crossroads
    Spears delivers a performance with the same sincerity she invests into a Pepsi commercial, only this film contains twice the sugary calories.
  23. Scratch
    It lays the groundwork for such collaborations by suggesting that all forms of music must come full circle before evolving into something new.
  24. Return to Never Land
    Takes us to familiar lands but without any of the original's magic.
  25. Collateral Damage
    This is one of those would-be blockbusters that wants to have it both ways: It includes enough political commentary to have pretensions of seriousness, yet it's engineered to satisfy the explosion cravings of Schwarzenegger action fans, if any are left.
  26. Swiri
    A beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism.
  27. Scotland, Pa.
    Think about the worst movie ideas you've had in your life, the ones so embarrassing they make you wince. Now imagine this: a modernized version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" titled Scotland, Pa.
  28. Rollerball
    Some movies should never have been made, and high on that list is the addled new remake of Rollerball.
  29. Big Fat Liar
    Plays so flat, so to close its "movie message" formula, that it seems as if we've seen this movie before.
  30. Birthday Girl
    A paper-thin wish-fulfillment comedy about escaping small-town repressions and blasting conformity.
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