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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. American Psycho
    Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.
  2. 28 Days
    Bullock gives it her all; she's bristling and alive on screen in a way that she hasn't been since ''Speed.''
  3. Restaurant
    Tom Cudworth's script nails the ale-drenched details of twentysomething existence.
  4. Return to Me
    Hunt is so vibrant that the movie suffers when she's not around.
  5. Me Myself I
    Rachel Griffiths...is the best reason, nay, the only reason to pay attention to Me Myself I.
  6. Rules of Engagement
    The drama ultimately retreats to safer, duller, more illogical, and more reactionary impulses and stereotypes.
  7. Est - Ouest
    Wargnier directs his French historical drama, a foreign film Oscar nominee, in a way that allows little perspective on the extent of Stalinist cruelty; even when terrible things happen, they do so sedately.
  8. The Filth and the Fury
    A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy.
  9. Joe Gould's Secret
    A delicate yet haunting movie, a meditation on friendship, on the roots of bohemianism, on the sad comedy of madness.
  10. Ready to Rumble
    It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.
  11. Black and White
    A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis.
  12. Price of Glory
    The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns.
  13. The Road to El Dorado
    This trip down The Road to El Dorado proceeds under the speed limit all the way.
  14. The Skulls
    Antielitist, anti-hypocrisy, pro-feel-good entertainment.
  15. High Fidelity
    For all its music-trivia affection, High Fidelity is finally a pretty thin melody.
  16. Beau Travail
    (Denis's) visual style is hypnotic, rapturous, and she makes barren landscapes look gorgeous, hard men look vulnerable.
  17. The Color of Paradise
    While never slow, the film feels quiet and spacious, like a prayer.
  18. Here on Earth
    Love means never having to say you're recycling plot material.
  19. Buddy Boy
    Be wary of any movie in which the hero is monosyllabic and a stutterer at the same time.
  20. Whatever It Takes
    Populated by ersatz versions of stars who, in this case, are fairly vanilla to begin with.
  21. All I Wanna Do
    A knock-kneed but likable just-for-girls drama set in 1963 that promotes single-sex institutions as the best breeding ground for future female senators and filmmakers.
  22. Waking the Dead
    Enough to anesthetize the living.
  23. Winter Sleepers
    It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.
  24. Romeo Must Die
    Doesn't take advantage of its own possibilities, either as a hard-boiled gangland battle or as a soft-boiled, interracial Shakespearean love story.
  25. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.
  26. Final Destination
    An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
  27. Beyond the Mat
    Often has the rambling feeling of a home movie Blaustein made for his buddies.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    The plot twists fall about as weightily as the fake snow.
  29. Mission to Mars
    In the presence of profound questions, the filmmaker goes profoundly shallow.
  30. The Ninth Gate
    A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Condo Painting
    This vision of creativity as blind, instinctive ''process'' is exhilarating.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Next Best Thing
    (Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
  34. Drowning Mona
    The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.
  35. What Planet Are You From?
    Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy.
  36. 3 Strikes
    Empty jokes hang heavy.
  37. Judy Berlin
    Haunting and hopeful.
  38. Mifune's Last Song
    As loose and restful as pajamas.
  39. Reindeer Games
    Displays no ambition to be anything more than a synthetic sense-jolt conveyor of the week.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Closer You Get
    Featherweight tale of Guinness-guzzling bachelors.
  41. Wonder Boys
    Sweet, flaky, and more than a little aimless.
  42. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    A sprightly, lovingly researched, rather misty-eyed sports documentary that's steeped in ethnic pride.
  43. Beautiful People
    There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.
  44. Boiler Room
    Younger, in his debut feature, is as canny as he is derivative.
  45. Hanging Up
    There is not one honest moment, not ONE, in Hanging Up.
  46. The Whole Nine Yards
    A convoluted ''dweeb meets the Mob'' farce in which everyone is trying to kill everyone else, but it's the movie that's the real corpse -- albeit a busy, twitching one.
  47. Pitch Black
    So jaunty, so limber, and so visually self-assured that art peeks through where crap has traditionally made its home.
  48. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Does all it can not to dehumanize Chong.
  49. Snow Day
    Even Snow Day's winter wonderland looks fake.
  50. The Tigger Movie
    A conflicted entertainment, compromised by trying too hard to impress the restless, self-referential adults in the audience.
  51. The Beach
    As a book, The Beach offers the option of diving deep. As a movie, it sticks too close to the shoreline.
  52. Gun Shy
    A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible.
  53. Scream 3
    About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
  54. The Cup
    Little more than a plodding celebration of global television trumping everything in its midst.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eye of the Beholder
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
  56. Isn't She Great
    As bumbling and mindless, as naively misconceived, as that clapping-through-tears moniker.
  57. The Big Tease
    More a sampling of previous crowd-pleasers...than a fashion statement all its own.
  58. Down to You
    For the audience, it's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as ''Annie Hall.'' La-de-blah.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Supernova
    Director Walter Hill won't take credit for Supernova... Can you blame him?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Dog Skip
    A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.
  61. Next Friday
    Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
  62. Fantasia 2000
    Oh well, back to the drawing board.
  63. The Hurricane
    Washington immerses himself, even more than he did in "Malcolm X," in a stare of unforgiving outrage.
  64. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Fred Leuchter is just one deluded figure, but by the end of this great and chilling sick-joke documentary he stands as a living icon of the banality of evil.
  65. The Third Miracle
    Suggests that finding one good priest is a feasibility, but it takes a miracle to meet one as hubba-hubba as Ed Harris.
  66. Play It to the Bone
    A boxing film with no conflictual punch.
  67. Titus
    Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
  68. Galaxy Quest
    A fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them.
  69. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic.
  70. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel.
  71. Angela's Ashes
    Seems populated yet uninhabited; the only real star is the gloom.
  72. Any Given Sunday
    The film's cumulative effect is as exhausting as it is exciting.
  73. Man on the Moon
    Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
  74. Girl, Interrupted
    Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
  75. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A historical drama as static as it is stately.
  76. Onegin
    Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.
  77. Bicentennial Man
    Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.
  78. Simpatico
    Stumbling adaptation of a Sam Shepard play about men, horses, chance, and lies.
  79. Stuart Little
    A Little goes a long way.
  80. Topsy-Turvy
    Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.
  81. Anna and the King
    It's a painstakingly correct update of what is, let's face it, one of the least culturally correct love stories ever to be mythologized by Hollywood.
  82. Magnolia
    Anderson's big, showy flower of a movie unfurls brilliantly, each plot petal a thing of exquisite design. Then it ripens. Then it disintegrates, leaving a mess of color and a faint whiff of rot.
  83. The Cider House Rules
    Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.
  84. Cradle Will Rock
    Robbins the agitprop celebrity may be blowin' in the wind, but Robbins, the son of a folksinger, knows how to get audiences clapping along.
  85. Miss Julie
    Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen.
  86. The War Zone
    Roth, there's no denying, creates considerable suspense out of our desire to confront the forbidden.
  87. Diamonds
    This condescending story wastes him (Douglas).
  88. Stir of Echoes
    Offers tricky fragmentation without mystery or mood; it's a mosaic of fear that grows less and less unsettling as it comes together.
  89. The Green Mile
    Excessive, but I, like Mr. Jingles, can't resist the Christmas-season cheese.
  90. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Just when you're sure that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo can't get any less funny, the movie douses the trailer's best gag, as that prosthetic leg turns out to be attached to Deuce's true love.
  91. Agnes Browne
    Modest and prosaic, with an unfortunate fairy-tale ending (yes, it features Tom Jones).
  92. Holy Smoke
    Too tightly made not to keep you watching, Holy Smoke is also too hokey and didactic to take seriously.
  93. The End of the Affair
    The affair itself, in its genteel way, does catch fire, but it's the end of the affair that needs to move us to rapture, and the movie, instead, just drifts away.
  94. Sweet and Lowdown
    Allen draws a snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.
  95. A Map of the World
    Director Scott Elliott, in his feature-film debut, is especially perceptive about what goes on at the edges during deepening family crises, literally at the borders of the screen.
  96. Flawless
    It says a lot for Joel Schumacher's Flawless that you can see the picture's high-concept heart a mile away and still be won over by it.
  97. Tumbleweeds
    Rarely have two actresses been so effortless in their intimacy.
  98. End of Days
    Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.''
  99. Ride with the Devil
    Ang Lee's bloody but dramatically anemic depiction of the American Civil War as fought by boys without uniforms.
  100. Toy Story 2
    It's a great, IQ-flattering entertainment both wonderful and wise.
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