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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Cell
    The Cell is foremost about singular imagery, a succession of still pictures strung together frame by frame.
  2. Godzilla 2000
    Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.
  3. Steal This Movie
    Scrappy and rambling and overly earnest.
  4. The Original Kings of Comedy
    The routines are charged, even between jokes, with anticipatory hilarity.
  5. The Opportunists
    Skillfully made, yet the film would have been better if it had tapped a bit of that Walken madness.
  6. Aimee & Jaguar
    Färberböck's sensual adaptation is a matter of fact embrace of the unconventional and dangerous during a terrible time.
  7. An Affair of Love
    Fonteyne edges closer than most to capturing the mysterious rhythms of liaisons -- pornographique, romantique, and otherwise.
  8. Autumn in New York
    Tastefully embarrassing.
  9. Bless the Child
    Abysmally stupid drama.
  10. Cecil B. DeMented
    Has a few viciously funny moments.
  11. The Replacements
    The incisive, close up photography by ''The Sixth Sense'''s Tak Fujimoto outclasses the story by yards.
  12. The Tao of Steve
    It's a tiny, sunny character study about a fat guy who's an unlikely chick magnet. And as such it's a pip.
  13. The Tic Code
    Badly lit and at times, awkwardly inspirational, yet there's real feeling in it, especially when the movie suggests that Tourette's syndrome is every bit as pure an expression of the spirit as it is a ''disorder.''
  14. Saving Grace
    Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
  15. Coyote Ugly
    Welcome to the brave new world of slut-chic cosmetic feminism.
  16. Hollow Man
    An eminently watchable B-movie nightmare.
  17. Space Cowboys
    Poorly engineered: lurchingly paced, the dramatic conflicts duct taped together.
  18. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''
  19. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte (''Ridicule'') gives his heart to the luck of romance, to the dream state visual style of Fellini, and, most lyrically, to the passion of the dagger point swoon.
  20. Wonderland
    The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
  21. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Has the look of a great fairy tale -- all that's missing is the tale.
  22. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Does the movie, with its sock-puppet intros and narration by RuPaul Charles, mock Tammy Faye, sanctify her, or turn her into a flamboyant image of distressed womanly martyrdom -- the Judy Garland of televangelism? All of the above.
  23. Les amants criminels
    This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.
  24. Rififi (re-release)
    It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.
  25. Alice et Martin
    It's as if, in exploring the scars that shape these personalities, Téchiné has forgotten to color in the flesh.
  26. Loser
    Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
  27. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Any grown men and women who pay to see the movie face a harrowing ordeal.
  28. What Lies Beneath
    Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time.
  29. The In Crowd
    Isn't a movie, it's Gorgonzola, a crumbly summertime stinker veined with pop-cultural fungus.
  30. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Peculiarly bloodless.
  31. The Five Senses
    Our senses may be the stuff of drama, but not when they're treated as nice and neat as this.
  32. Chuck & Buck
    The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.
  33. X-Men
    When the film version isn't assaulting you with gizmos, it's an awkward, depersonalized piece of hackwork.
  34. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Poisonously smug, one-joke indie comedy.
  35. The Kid
    A parable for adults -- particularly men.
  36. Scary Movie
    The whole thing wobbles, like the garish, trashy, sexy shoes the young folks are wearing this summer on their way (in droves) to movie theaters, intent on abandoning themselves to pleasurable mindlessness.
  37. Shower
    Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy.
  38. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Unlike the first two Decline films, this one is only tangentially concerned with music.
  39. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The problem with the movie isn't that it sells out Rocky and Bullwinkle -- it's that it can't keep up with them.
  40. The Perfect Storm
    Petersen gives us monumental images of waves and rain and wind, but the editing is so choppy that the images don't build and crest.
  41. Trixie
    Torturously whimsical gumshoe caper.
  42. The Patriot
    It's a death-wish revenge thriller posing as a lavishly pastoral historical epic.
  43. Me, Myself & Irene
    Every instance of gleeful bad taste is timed and positioned for maximum, liberating laugh value.
  44. Praise
    Heavier on mood than incident, but its vision of a doomed erotic power war has a lurching authenticity.
  45. Chicken Run
    A delightful, perceptive, funny, detail-perfect fable.
  46. Titan A.E.
    Titan A.E. is ''Star Wars'' pulped and mashed into flavorless kiddie corn.
  47. Shaft
    If nothing else, Shaft is spicy fast food.
  48. Boys and Girls
    This ill-fitting movie was mail-ordered from an out-of-date catalog of teen-com stereotypes.
  49. Butterfly Tongues
    Diverges to become something quite powerfully unnerving and guilt-ridden.
  50. Humanité
    It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.
  51. Jesus' Son
    Another grotty drama about junkie love? Well, yes...I make an exception for Jesus' Son.
  52. Love's Labour's Lost
    Too many moments of evident labor weigh this clever production down. To quote the playwright: ''Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.''
  53. Groove
    What's infectious about Groove is the friendly, almost innocent way that its brat pack of digital-age bohemians seek liberation in a world where there is nothing left to rebel against.
  54. Sunshine
    While inevitably oversimplified, is never less than engrossing.
  55. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Eventually, the senses jam and a mental lube job is in order.
  56. American Pimp
    Supple and engrossing, a liquid-smooth street-rap testimonial.
  57. Big Momma's House
    Lawrence is so ON that he appears to be gunning for clockwork bursts of audience approval.
  58. Running Free
    This may be the first talking-animal movie in which the critter hero seems to have been body-snatched by a commentator from C-SPAN.
  59. Grass
    This jovial tour through changing attitudes toward cannibis is so plugged into pothead logic that the opening credits are rerun at the end.
  60. American Virgin
    This ''satire'' of triple-X raunch and ''Jerry Springer'' sleaze starts off at a pitch of preening dementia and just grows more hysterical from there.
  61. Better Living Through Circuitry
    It's got a good beat, you can dance to it.
  62. Passion of Mind
    Nobody's got a clue. Enquiring minds don't even want to know.
  63. 8 ½ Women
    Keeps teasing you with intimations of the libidinous animal within.
  64. Shanghai Noon
    Lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story -- an American tale of pageantry and history.
  65. Kikujirô no natsu
    The film isn't just bad; it's a barely coherent, inert mess -- a heart-tugger for voidoids.
  66. Mission: Impossible II
    It's eye candy that detonates.
  67. Luminous Motion
    Its tone is stilted and mannered -- and most of it seems a bit loony.
  68. Small Time Crooks
    For all its wispy fun, Small Time Crooks still tilts, with little-guy stubbornness, at windmills in Allen's mind.
  69. Road Trip
    Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption.
  70. Dinosaur
    Doesn't offer anything to adult viewers as thrilling, as shivery, as satisfyingly primal as Steven Spielberg's intricate predator choreography in the original ''Jurassic Park.''
  71. Held Up
    In the end, even Foxx is drowned out by the parade of one-note supporting characters.
  72. Center Stage
    As a Balanchine-like martinet, Peter Gallagher is a hoot, whispering to his minions about good and bad feet.
  73. Hamlet
    Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
  74. Screwed
    It's a shrill, stupid, brickbat-blatant piece of hackwork that practically sweats to be ''commercial.''
  75. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.
  76. Gladiator
    What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.
  77. I Dreamed of Africa
    A recitation of woes doesn't constitute a plot, and panoramic shots of migrating wildlife don't convey enough African flavor.
  78. Up at the Villa
    Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.
  79. Adorenarin doraibu
    Clever, laid-back.
  80. Human Traffic
    The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
  81. Michael Jordan to the Max
    A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
  82. The Idiots
    A highly calculated act of mischief that sounds like a stunt cooked up for Howard Stern's radio show.
  83. Frequency
    May be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears.
  84. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    With no headliners to raise hopes, this negligible entertainment has its own boneheaded charms.
  85. Bossa Nova
    The air smells sweet and there's a thrumming beat in Bossa Nova.
  86. Where the Heart Is
    Simply put, it may be the lamest movie ever made about poor white... Southern characters.
  87. Timecode
    A voyeur's delight.
  88. Committed
    An inert screwball cartoon, a celebration of monogamy as fashion statement.
  89. The Big Kahuna
    That The Big Kahuna is hardly more than a sketch or curtain-raiser is not the fault of the play in itself -- it's short-film size, not feature-worthy.
  90. The Last September
    There's something Slavic about Warner's storytelling.
  91. Gossip
    Mostly hot air.
  92. U-571
    When the submarine has to dive 400 meters beneath the surface to avoid detection, you can practically feel the water pressure crushing in on the sailors.
  93. Croupier
    So sharp and dryly urbane in its mod-Brit take on the noir, noir, noir, noir world of gambling, dames, and pulp fiction, it makes higher-profile attempts like ''Rounders'' look blah, blah, blah, blah.
  94. The Virgin Suicides
    Glum and preposterous -- an operatically stilted adolescent martyr fantasy -- and yet, as staged by Coppola, it's well worth seeing.
  95. Love & Basketball
    Lathan, charismatic and beautifully strong, holds the screen in every scene.
  96. Where the Money Is
    I don't know that Where the Money Is would work at all were it not for what we, the audience, bring into the theater.
  97. The Specialist
    This lone, fallen Nazi's obsessive distance from his actions is enough to give The Specialist a lingering chill.
  98. Keeping the Faith
    Commits sins of romantic comedy as well as sins of spiritual tragedy.
  99. East Is East
    A movie in which the easy socio-racial paradoxes have been diagrammed with more care than the relationships
  100. Third World Cop
    Ends up about as exotic as a straight-to-cable potboiler.
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