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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. Thirteen
    The acting is amateurish at times, but always convincing.
  2. Grass
    A well-researched and well-illustrated, if often facetious, record of the U.S. government's longtime war on cannabis. And while it's a little too single-minded, it's both fun to watch and quite informative.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Big Momma's House
    A bad, bad movie...It's loud and dumb and it wastes a good cast on a ludicrous script.
  4. Shanghai Noon
    The first hit movie western of the new century - wins us with a wink. It leaves you in a bright, happily cross-cultural mood. Adios, amigos. And vaya con Jackie Chan.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Passion of Mind
    It's pretty muddle-headed and confusing.
  6. 8 ½ Women
    Seethes with cruel lust and brainy fancy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Mission: Impossible II
    Blanks, in a sense, are what M:I-2 is firing. You see the flash, you hear the bang, but the impact never comes.
  8. Dinosaur
    Of course, you expect talking animals in a Disney cartoon; you just may not initially realize that Dinosaur is the three-dimensional equivalent of one.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Luminous Motion
    Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Small Time Crooks
    It's a sweet little snack of a movie that leaves the heavier courses for some other outing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Road Trip
    Degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.
  12. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Commits the cardinal sin of all bad IMAX films: It favors visuals over narrative, glitter over substance.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Held Up
    All the principals in this cinematic mess have had moments of glory on stage and screen, and one can only hope they got paid well for participating in this comedic embarrassment.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Kadosh
    A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Center Stage
    Although the film's ending is a little too neat and happy to be realistic, it does leave you with the feeling of young girls taking charge of their lives.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Screwed
    It's just a matter of holding your nose until the whole thing is over.
  17. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Scientology or not, the movie is a battlefield bummer that makes you want to revolt.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Hamlet
    As Almereyda unrolled his modern Gotham version, the story became gripping, the characters fascinating, the events mesmerizing, the resolution shocking and piteous.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Human Traffic
    You may not want to join in their activities but you're happy to have tagged along.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Up at the Villa
    It's a corker of a story - a polished yarn full of desire, desperation and despair.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Dreamed of Africa
    Doesn't have much plot. It just sort of meanders around like a wildebeest playing Blind Man's Bluff.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Michael Jordan to the Max
    For any of you who've ever daydreamed of playing hoops with Jordan, Michael Jordan to the Max is almost certainly the closest you'll ever get.
  23. The Basket
    It gussies up the tale with so many random subplots that by the time we cut through the morass, the film is over.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Gladiator
    Has the kind of super-cinematic qualities and bravura acting that make up for almost anything.
  25. Adorenarin doraibu
    It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. The Big Kahuna
    While it's done well enough here - written smartly, staged crisply and acted to the hilt - it doesn't last, except as a brief virtuoso piece for three players.
  27. Committed
    One more movie comedy about how love can turn you into an idiot. And its major flaw, among many others, is that the idiocy takes over the movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. Frequency
    Corny and far-fetched it may be, but Frequency works - except for some stretches when it doesn't.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Bossa Nova
    A breezy, elegant charmer of a movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. The Idiots
    It's interesting - in its own let-it-all-hang-out, shaky-camera way.
    • Chicago Tribune
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