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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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    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shadow Hours
    About as interesting as watching paint dry.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. X-Men
    Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.
  3. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    As much a curiosity piece as anything else.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Chuck & Buck
    You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. The Kid
    Falls flat on its face.
  6. All the Rage
    The trajectory of the film -- despite its excellent cast and intelligent mounting -- is too preordained.
  7. I'm the One That I Want
    If only the film had been a more visually satisfying experience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Shower
    The beauties of Shower lie in its human observation, in its funny interplay, candor, lusty acting and hearty simplicity - and also in its warm imagery and the fascinating symbolic use it makes of water.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    But I'm a Cheerleader
    Certainly no comedic masterpiece, but it does offer a few fine moments of biting satire.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Scary Movie
    Usually what you're laughing at is ugliness, and that leaves a foul taste long before the 85 minutes have expired.
  11. The Perfect Storm
    Unabashedly designed to blow its audience away.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Stuffed with smart Internet gags, silly movie references and a happy energy that makes you forgive the sequences that don't work.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Trixie
    A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  14. The Patriot
    As a whole, though, the movie is much less magnetic or believable than its star.
  15. Me, Myself & Irene
    The movie is dedicated, in a nice touch, to early Farrelly fan Gene Siskel. And Gene was right: The Farrellys are often very funny filmmakers. .
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Chicken Run
    A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast.
  17. Titan A.E.
    A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
  18. Shaft
    The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
  19. Jesus' Son
    A story of faith and redemption, as viewed through the blurry and bloodshot eyes of a young man.
  20. The Woman Chaser
    If its jolts were as strong as its chuckles, The Woman Chaser might really have turned into the cheap-thrill classic it pretends to be.
  21. Humanité
    A harsh, spellbinding tale.
  22. Butterfly Tongues
    May be a bit sentimental for some, but I found its patient examination of how the forces of optimism can be overwhelmed by a wave of cruelty to be both moving and wise.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Boys and Girls
    Starts with such promising quirkiness that it's easy to forget for the moment that you are watching a teen comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Groove
    If you require fine writing, sharp plotting and consistently good acting, you will be in for a long 86 minutes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Pop & Me
    The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
  26. Sunshine
    An incredibly ambitious film and one of the most highly accomplished of the year.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love's Labour's Lost
    Filling his movie with bright colors and giddy energy, Branagh has made a labor of love in which the labor is all too apparent.
  28. American Pimp
    Eighty-six minutes proves to be more than enough time to spend with these characters, but the Hughes Brothers make the case that this is a subculture as compelling as it is repellent.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    One of the best of its streamlined, over-produced, double-clutch kind: a high-speed, slicker-than-slick car-chase movie with unexpected deposits of character and comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Running Free
    It's probably best to leave talking animal stories in the care of comedic filmmakers.
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